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Spock may not be dead after all. Kirk and the rest of the
crew of the USS Enterprise sets out to search for their Vulcan
friend after they discover that his spirit is alive inside
McCoy - slowly sending him mad. But the crew are sailing into
a deadly encounter with Klingon battle
commander Kruge...
It
only seems like five minutes since Star Trek III: The Search
for Spock was released on DVD for the first time without
any extras... hand on a minute, it was. Any one who spent
£25 on the 2-disc collection of Star Trek II: The
Wrath of Kahn and were disappointed at the poor collection
of extras will no doubt be worried about making the same mistake
again.
However,
where Search for Spock differs is that that the producers
of the disc have actually bothered to go out and interview
cast and crew to provide new material that is both informative
and entertaining.
There
is a new featurette called Captain's Log which interviews,
amongst others, William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy on how they
became involved with the production. What is funny here is
that Nimoy and Shatner's account of how Nimoy became the director
on the movie differ somewhat. Shatner starts off telling us
how the studio were gobsmacked that Nimoy wanted to direct,
while Nimoy tells us the studio were up for the idea from
the start. The way this is edited makes Nimoy look foolish.
Shatner
is frank and honest in his interview and it is difficult to
tell whether he is bitter, or joking. His story about bravely
tackling the fire on the set is fantastically funny (with
the firemen saluting him) and the revelation of what his real
motives were are shocking, yet honest. There
are also brief interviews with Christopher Lloyd and Robin
Curtis (who is even more beautiful now than she was then).
The
other features include an interesting look at the special
effects and model work; the design of costumes and makeup;
creature effects; a feature on Terraforming and another on
how the Klingon language was created.
All
of these are interesting, apart from the Terraforming feature
which is a little dull and the main individual being interviewed
seems to like the sound of his own voice. Why was this feature
included? To fill up space is the simple answer and at 26
mins in length it does just that. Ok, so the movie involves
terraforming so a feature on the realities of this science
may well be of interest. Well, the movie also featured shoes
- could we not have had a feature on the shoes of Star
Trek? No, maybe not!
If
you don't already own this movie on DVD it is well worth purchasing.
If you do own it already the extras are not really worth the
extra money.
Pete
Boomer
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