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from: Doug Freyburger
date: 2007-11-28 07:34:44
subject: Re: original Star Trek

Joseph DeMartino  wrote:
> Doug Freyburger  wrote:
>
> > Comparing the original sound track
> > with the remastered one in the DVD release to see what Kosh
> > said the first time around ...
>
> Kosh didn't say anything the first time around.

Yup.  I scanned the trial dub last night for quality (I've seen
dropout
in old tapes, luckily this tape survived well and is only lacking
from the SLP quality level) and Kosh scenes.  Sure enough he
says nothing throughout the whole film.

> Technically, he
> didn't *say* anything in the re-edit, either.   The line
"Entil'Zha
> Valen" is what Kosh *thought* to himself upon seeing
"Sinclair" in the
> docking bay in the special edition.  He did not say the words out
> loud.  In the original edit of the film the line didn't exist at all.

With Kosh lines isn't it sometimes ambiguous if we hear it as
a part of the narrator's viewpoint or if the other characters hear
it as a thought broadcast?

> In fact, no actor was hired to voice Kosh.  (Apparently the line was
> in some early drafts of the script - the only line Kosh had - but JMS
> cut it as a possible spoiler well before filming. He added it back in
> when the recut the film for the TNT presentation and had Ardwright
> Chamberlain record it.)
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