Star Trek: 765874 - Unification (short film for 30th of "Generations")

[Techwright]

I was unaware of this, possibly because it is an unlisted work on YouTube channel OTOY.

 

For the 30th anniversary of the movie Star Trek: Generations,  William Shatner executive produced this short, joined by Robin Curtis (the 2nd actor to play Lt. Saavik, Spock's half-Romulan protege) and Gary Lockwood ("Lt. Commander Gary Mitchell" from season 1 episode 3: "Where No Man Has Gone Before") to give the movie, and both the passing of Kirk, and later, Spock, an alternate ending and a proper send-off.  There is also a additional surprise in the new work.  Special visual effects were used with legendary voice actor Sam Witwer, better known for his Star Wars characters, providing the body performance for Kirk, and Lawrence Selleck doing the same for Spock.

 

 

If you're saying "what in space did I just see?"  Here's some context:

 

Spoiler

The guy suspended before a star, the one with silver eyes, is Lt. Commander Gary Mitchell, Kirk's previous best friend.  In the original series episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before", Mitchell was transformed by an energy barrier when the Enterprise attempted to leave the galaxy but encountered unexpected resistance.  Mitchell grew in immense power but also became irrational and vicious.  Kirk defeated him by dropping a boulder on him, though there was evidence Mitchell might have survived. Here, the short suggests Mitchell survived, grew in power to rival the Q ( of the Next Generation series)  and apparently stabilized.  He enacts all of what happens next, apparently moving Kirk's departing soul (from Star Trek: Generation) to a location outside of the boundaries of time and space.  Here, among others, he encounters an aged Saavik, and behind her, the son she conceived by Spock when he went through Vulcan Pon Farr in Star Trek III: The Search For Spock.   Kirk progresses in moments reminiscent of 2001: A Space Odyssey until he reaches the side of Spock, now on his death bed in the Kelvin timeline universe. 

 

Spock's son was actually a concept they'd intended to use in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.  Saavik remains behind on Vulcan with Spock's family at the start of the movie, and that was to set up the story line of the child, but the plot was jettisoned from the final work.  As we never see Saavik again, the potential remained, and this work capitalized on it.

 

For additional info, see: https://home.otoy.com/unification/

 

Edited yesterday at 09:21 AM by Techwright
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[Voltor]

An excellent video and a good send off for the characters.

 

That being said, I still want the Return of Kirk and if that TV series or movie must end with his demise that it be a more heroic and pyrotechnic demise then being crushed on a falling scaffold.

 

I saw the alternate footage where he gets shot in the back and that was worse.

 

Would have been better if Picard decloaks the missile, Kirk resets the docking clamps and is grappling with Soran.  Kirk knows it is about to explode and warns Picard to get back, that it is okay etc. and to remember the advice he gave him in the Nexus.  Missile explodes, Kirk and Soran are destroyed and Picard finds Kirk's captain insignia

[ZacKing]

The OTOY work has been exceptionally good.  This is what happens when you have creative people with actual talent and that care about the property. 

[Techwright]

11 hours ago, Voltor said:

An excellent video and a good send off for the characters.

 

That being said, I still want the Return of Kirk and if that TV series or movie must end with his demise that it be a more heroic and pyrotechnic demise then being crushed on a falling scaffold.

 

I saw the alternate footage where he gets shot in the back and that was worse.

 

Would have been better if Picard decloaks the missile, Kirk resets the docking clamps and is grappling with Soran.  Kirk knows it is about to explode and warns Picard to get back, that it is okay etc. and to remember the advice he gave him in the Nexus.  Missile explodes, Kirk and Soran are destroyed and Picard finds Kirk's captain insignia

 

In a sense they gave us that: Kirk running to a key spot on Enterprise B to save the ship, its crew, and the rescued passengers then having his section destroyed and pulled into the Nexus, never to be seen by his friends again.  From the perspective of Scott and Chekov, Kirk died valiantly.  We just know there was a bit more to go.

 

Actually, I've been saying since Generations came out that they made one serious mistake, which, had they corrected, might have given the needed heroic status to Kirk regardless of the method of his send-off.  I'm talking about the civilization he saved.  At no part in the final work did we see the billions of people on the nearby inhabited world.  They were only casually mentioned: a cold statistic, nothing more.  Had they taken even a minute to show us this civilization: children playing, artists creating or performing, lovers strolling in the park...all the best things that connects us emotionally to a civilization, then knowing a legend had to be sacrificed to save them would have seemed a worthy, heroic cause.  We did have the Enterprise crew trapped on the planet during its destruction, but the viewership has seen that go wrong before, multiple times, and the crew escape a permanent death.  The potency was not as great.