At the Hero Complex Film Festival , director Nicholas Meyer revealed a encounter he ’d had with Gene Roddenberry over Star Trek VI : The Undiscovered Country .
Apparently , even before the movie started shooting , Roddenberry had problems with the script , grant to Meyer :
If I ’m understand him correctly and if I ’m believing what he read , Mr. Roddenberry really believed in the perfectability of man , of humans , and I have yet to see the evidence for this . So VI is a film in which the crew of the Enterprise has all kinds of prejudice , racial preconception , vis - a - vis the Klingons . And some of their remarks , including how they all face alike and what they smell like , and all the xenophobic things which we get by with – that was all deeply offensive to him because he think there is n’t go to be that . In fact , in his original Star Trek construct , there was n’t any conflict .
His guys were lined up on one side of the room , and my guys were lined up on the other side of the room , and this was not a confluence in which I felt I ’d behaved very well , very diplomatically . I come out of it feeling not very honorable , and I ’ve not feel good about it ever since . He was not well , and maybe there were more kid-glove ways of dealing with it , because at the end of the day , I was going to go out and make the movie . I did n’t have to take him on . Not my all right hour .
There ’s more from Meyer at the Los Angeles ’ Times’Hero Complex , include his printing of the role player during The Wrath of Khan .
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