Dear fieldmarshaldj,
We have reached a point of equal agreement.
“The Guardian of Forever” -is- the stuff for movies, even with today’s ‘cg’ additions.
Do you think with today’s ST cast, they could pull it off? It was hard for me to get around the bald evil guy, consideriong he was ‘Hector’, ‘Hulk’, and in ‘Munich’. Who would fill the shoes of a young Joan Collins?
Harlan’s lecture/speeches are on CD, as well as his movie, “Dreams with Sharp Teeth”.
HNY!!
I’ve not been much of a fan of the reboot, to be honest. I wish they had jumped ahead a century and covered new ground with new characters instead of rewriting history with actors that don’t much resemble the original folks.
As for Eric Bana, the antagonist of the first reboot, I was “meh” about it. The villain reminded me of the previous one in the last “Next Generation” movie. Of course, that wasn’t nearly as bad as the gross miscasting of Khan with a very Caucasian Englishman in the second film (that may have been worse than the casting of Ming the Merciless in a Sci-Fi remake for “Flash Gordon”). Benicio del Toro had been cast for Khan but became unavailable. Surely there could’ve been any number of Latino (or correctly cast, Middle Eastern-Indian) actors for the part. Javier Bardem comes to mind.
As for a “City on the Edge of Forever” remake, for the Joan Collins role, the up-and-coming English actress Holliday Grainger seems like a potential choice (so long as she dyes her hair brunette as she did for the “Bonnie & Clyde” remake of late. I didn’t see that, yet, but she had such a strikingly beautiful look in the promos).
Happy New Year to you as well.