[Music] hi this is jim from weird nashville and today we’re going to take a look at the third in a special series of videos done during our star trek studio model filming series we’re gonna take a look at some footage that just recently cropped up in my research for star trek phase two now for those of you who’ve been around for quite a while you may remember that in the mid 1970s paramount wanted to start a fourth major network does that sound familiar well yes they did and they wanted to use star trek as its anchor tv show so they green lit star trek phase two which was supposed to pick up right after the original series and tell the continuing voyages of the enterprise sets were built actors were hired stories were written and some footage had been taken when paramount suddenly reversed course and decided that they wanted to make money like star wars did so they weren’t going to do star trek phase 2 they were going to do star trek the motion picture now i’ve
collected about oh two minutes eight seconds of footage in this and i believe this probably is the most footage that’s ever been contained in a single video so join me after the break as we take a look at the star trek that never was [Applause] now as you’re watching this i’d like to remind you that we have several videos in our star trek studio model playlist on our channel to cover this kind of topic that you may be interested in we cover the 11 foot shooting model the years that it’s spent at the smithsonian every special effects shot ever filmed with a three-foot shooting model and the mystery of how it disappeared and finally we even talk about how an 18-inch amt shooting model surfaced after 35 years and while you’re here please be sure to subscribe and hit reminders that you’ll be notified of our upcoming videos which will include a video on the shuttlecraft galileo and its miraculous refusal to die as well as an amt model shot library showing you
every shot in star trek that was used with one of the amt models now when they decided to bring back star trek in star trek phase two they were immediately met with a challenge namely that leonard nimoy did not want to come back as spock leonard emory was currently in the midst of a rather heated battle with paramount over the fact that they were licensing his likeness as spock to advertisers without actually paying him any royalties so they wrote a new vulcan character the character’s name was on and he was a young vulcan 100 vulcan not a hybrid this time he would be the science officer and he would be played by an actor by the name of david gatreau we have three clips that we’re going to be taking a look at with david silent one that we just saw on the screen here and two more with vocals now once that david learned that zhan was not actually going to be a television role but was actually going to be transitioned into star trek the motion picture and would have a very small part he asked to be written out of the storyline so they did but they did keep david in for one scene he is commander branch he is the person that
is sending a distress signal to the uss enterprise from the science station epsilon 9 which is about to be destroyed by an immense unknown menace for now let’s just sit back and watch the next two clips complete with audio my readings seem to indicate some sort of sensor unit attached to each device but i don’t feel an attack is the logical approach at this moment if you will allow me to take further readings i could now in these production test scenes on the engineering deck we see a couple of things i need to comment on right up front first is the costumes notice the mail costume and you can see it down in the lower corner here the other inset picture of the man in white william where tice was the costume designer for gene roddenberry from the original star trek television series all the way through the 1970s on all of gene’s other projects as well now the photograph that we just saw was from genesis 2 and in it you saw a very similar toga-like utility vest and i
don’t think they really would have worked out all that well in star trek phase two as time went on and as it is we can be thankful we never saw that style again now what we’re getting ready to see now is the first of two separate takes showing various content differences in this first take he comes over he hands her the book she hands him the engineering device and then we get a shot through the floor showing him walk across the floor against the backdrop of the vertical warp core and then the scene ends now we see the same scene again but with a slight difference instead of it cutting to the below deck shot of the vertical warp core it’s actually going to extend their conversation there’s a slight blip right about here there you go and they continue on talking notice the vertical warp cord would also show up in star trek the next generation now in this clip we see interactivity in the bridge consoles a couple buttons are pushed and things react the original cast mentioned in star trek the motion picture that the bridge consoles were interactive i’m not quite sure who this is it might be joseph jennings he was the art director for star trek phase two herman zimmerman didn’t come along for at least another
like 10 years after that and mickelson was much younger than he was but maybe somebody out there can let me know because this is somewhat of a mini mystery now next up is the late purchase cambada who played alia in star trek the motion picture she also was to play that character in phase two and you’re seeing a couple of makeup tests here first they have her in command gold and notice the headdress on her head the delton’s had ornamental headwear she’s wearing i believe a skull cap here she would actually be shaved for the movie but for the tests obviously not and she’s taking direction from someone off stage she’s basically just asking her to do a runway walk and as you watch her turn and walk down towards the wall you’ll see what i mean you can see why your hands sway and when she turns around they spread out there’s a reason for that at the age of 16 years old purses cambodia was miss india in the 1965 miss universe pageant now as we watch her in this last clip we noticed a few differences one she’s in engineering red instead of command gold and in all honesty i think the lighter color suits her better the dark color does not suit her very well the headdress she’s wearing looks like it could actually be designed to fit inside the other headdress not sure if that was
designed to be that way and her smile looks a little bit sardonic because in this clip she’s not showing her teeth like she was in the other clip so what you see on the right is the final effect two years later from star trek the motion picture i just felt that i needed to show this because those were the earliest costume and makeup tests and this is obviously a publicity shot from the finished product so that you can appreciate the difference in artistry and that’s it we’ve gone through all the footage i want to thank you for the time you spent with us today i also want to point out that coming up in the near future we will have the video package on the star trek shuttlecraft galileo as well as a video package on the d7 klingon battle cruiser and the romulan bird of prey and why we had to wait over 20 years to see another romulan ship after that