Steve Meerson and Peter Krikes were responsible for the first draft of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, the one that featured Eddie Murphy’s oddball scientist character. In 1991′s unauthorized The Making of the Trek Films, they spoke frankly about the frustrations they experienced, and mentioned a scene that many fans would have really enjoyed seeing:
“We were told to only worry about Kirk, Spock, and Bones, said Meerson. “In their minds, those are the only people that matter.”
Added Krikes, “They also took out a scene we wrote which deals with the people’s mortality and age.”
“My favorite scene we wrote was between Bones and Scotty, where they talk about the fact that they’re getting too old to be doing this. I personally think they would have loved to play it. It was two guys sitting on a park bench in Union Square, completely out of time and space, saying, ‘We’re officially getting too old. If we ever do make it back, maybe we ought to give it all up and retire.’ Then, they both decide that they’ll never retire, because there’s more to life than sitting on your duff.”
Nicholas Meyer was vehemently against the idea of Gillian Taylor ending up in the late 23rd century at the end of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. In an interview featured in The Making of the Trek Films, he said:
“In my version of the script, originally, when they all leave to go back, she didn’t leave. She said if anyone’s going to make sure this kind of disaster doesn’t happen, somebody’s going to have to stay behind, which I still think is the ‘righter’ ending. The end in the movie detracts from the importance of people in the present taking responsibility for the ecology and preventing problems of the future by doing something about them today, rather than catering to the fantasy desires of being able to be transported ahead in time to the near-utopian future society of the Star Trek era.”
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