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From: raiche@dartvax.UUCP (George A. Raiche)
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Subject: Re: ST IV
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Date: Sun, 5-May-85 21:29:14 EDT
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Posted: Sun May  5 21:29:14 1985
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> Anyone else think it's time for new blood to carry the ball?

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Here's my ending for STIV.  Kirk gets court-martialled on Vulcan, and
they throw the book at him--toss him right out of the service.  He's
being brought back to Earth, under guard, and as the ship pulls into
Spacedock it passes the former Excelsior renamed--get this--
USS JAMES T. KIRK.  Sulu and Saavik jump aboard and off they go!
We leave the movie with Kirk in tears and McCoy, with his hand on JTK's 
shoulder, saying something comforting.

But seriously:
A story I always liked came out in the first collection of new ST stories
called "Star Trek: The New Voyages".  I forget the name of the story
but it had Kirk kidnapped by the Klingons (who else?), mind-sifted,
brought to the Guardian planet, where he escapes in time looking for Edith
Keeler but winds up in a 1950's mental institution instead.  Spock
eventually takes Enterprise back in time to rescue him.  How about adapting
this story for the movie--while the crew is back in the '50's they can also
knock Khan off and solve everything!  The original story has not only a
love interest for Kirk but also plenty of agitation between Spock and
McCoy, as well as presenting an opportunity for a run-in with the Klingons--
and the basic premise is a little more plausible since the Klingons have
a good reason to want Kirk (the Genesis info).  It would be a good 
character story, instead of hardware, and everything will come out A-OK.

Well, I like it anyway.

				George Raiche
				Dept. of Chemistry
				Dartmouth