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* RoleReprise: Creator/MarkLenard returns as Sarek 11 years after last voicing him in ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries''.
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* TheOtherDarrin: Creator/KirstieAlley loved playing Saavik (she apparently wore the ears home a number of times) and wanted to return, but apparently failed to communicate this clearly to her agent, who demanded a higher fee for her to play Saavik than Paramount was willing to pay. Paramount switched in Robin Curtis instead.
** As of 2023, it's been revealed that the high fee that the agent requrested was instigated by Creator/WilliamShatner, who [[https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/kirstie-alley-star-trek-khan.html was determined to keep Alley from reprising her role]].
** As of 2023, it's been revealed that the high fee that the agent requrested was instigated by Creator/WilliamShatner, who [[https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/kirstie-alley-star-trek-khan.html was determined to keep Alley from reprising her role]].
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* TheOtherDarrin: Creator/KirstieAlley loved playing Saavik (she apparently wore the ears home a number of times) and wanted to return, but apparently failed to communicate this clearly to her agent, who demanded a higher fee for her to play Saavik than Paramount was willing to pay. Paramount switched in Robin Curtis instead.
**instead. As of 2023, it's been revealed that the high fee that the agent requrested requested was instigated by Creator/WilliamShatner, who [[https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/kirstie-alley-star-trek-khan.html was determined to keep Alley from reprising her role]].
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* DirectedByCastMember: Creator/LeonardNimoy, marking the first time a cast member directed a ''Franchise/StarTrek'' production, paving the way for future cast members like Creator/JonathanFrakes (who directed ''[[Film/StarTrekFirstContact First Contact]]'' and ''[[Film/StarTrekInsurrection Insurrection]]''). Same can be said for Creator/WilliamShatner (''Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier''), but people tend to ignore that one.[[note]]Shatner was, according to "Star Trek Lives," scheduled to direct the penultimate episode of the Original Series in 1969. Unfortunately, that would have been Episode 80, and NBC sent the word down during the filming of "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E24TurnaboutIntruder Turnabout Intruder]]" that that episode, #79, would be the last.[[/note]] In his book ''I Am Spock'', Nimoy mentions that Creator/DeForestKelley kept swearing up and down that, in the scenes where [=McCoy=] converses with an unconscious Spock, Nimoy was trying to direct him through the movement and flutter of his eyelids.
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* DirectedByCastMember: Creator/LeonardNimoy, marking the first time a cast member directed a ''Franchise/StarTrek'' production, paving the way for future cast members like Creator/JonathanFrakes (who directed ''[[Film/StarTrekFirstContact First Contact]]'' and ''[[Film/StarTrekInsurrection Insurrection]]'').Insurrection]]'') and Creator/LeVarBurton (who became one of the most prolific directors of ST episodes across multiple series). Same can be said for Creator/WilliamShatner (''Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier''), but people tend to ignore that one.[[note]]Shatner was, according to "Star Trek Lives," scheduled to direct the penultimate episode of the Original Series in 1969. Unfortunately, that would have been Episode 80, and NBC sent the word down during the filming of "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E24TurnaboutIntruder Turnabout Intruder]]" that that episode, #79, would be the last.[[/note]] In his book ''I Am Spock'', Nimoy mentions that Creator/DeForestKelley kept swearing up and down that, in the scenes where [=McCoy=] converses with an unconscious Spock, Nimoy was trying to direct him through the movement and flutter of his eyelids.
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Shatner was going to direct the second-last episode; John Meredyth Lucas was the one assigned direct what was supposed to be the last episode
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* DirectedByCastMember: Creator/LeonardNimoy, marking the first time a cast member directed a ''Franchise/StarTrek'' production, paving the way for future cast members like Creator/JonathanFrakes (who directed ''[[Film/StarTrekFirstContact First Contact]]'' and ''[[Film/StarTrekInsurrection Insurrection]]''). Same can be said for Creator/WilliamShatner (''Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier''), but people tend to ignore that one.[[note]]Shatner was, according to "Star Trek Lives," scheduled to direct the final episode of the Original Series in 1969. Unfortunately, that would have been Episode 81, and NBC sent the word down during the filming of "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E24TurnaboutIntruder Turnabout Intruder]]" that that episode, #79, would be the last.[[/note]] In his book ''I Am Spock'', Nimoy mentions that Creator/DeForestKelley kept swearing up and down that, in the scenes where [=McCoy=] converses with an unconscious Spock, Nimoy was trying to direct him through the movement and flutter of his eyelids.
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* DirectedByCastMember: Creator/LeonardNimoy, marking the first time a cast member directed a ''Franchise/StarTrek'' production, paving the way for future cast members like Creator/JonathanFrakes (who directed ''[[Film/StarTrekFirstContact First Contact]]'' and ''[[Film/StarTrekInsurrection Insurrection]]''). Same can be said for Creator/WilliamShatner (''Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier''), but people tend to ignore that one.[[note]]Shatner was, according to "Star Trek Lives," scheduled to direct the final penultimate episode of the Original Series in 1969. Unfortunately, that would have been Episode 81, 80, and NBC sent the word down during the filming of "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E24TurnaboutIntruder Turnabout Intruder]]" that that episode, #79, would be the last.[[/note]] In his book ''I Am Spock'', Nimoy mentions that Creator/DeForestKelley kept swearing up and down that, in the scenes where [=McCoy=] converses with an unconscious Spock, Nimoy was trying to direct him through the movement and flutter of his eyelids.
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* BTeamSequel: Creator/NicholasMeyer didn't return for this film, believing that Spock should stay dead and confessing that he had no idea how to do a resurrection story. However, Meyer did come back for ''Film/StarTrekVI'', by which point Spock's return was a ''fait accompli''.
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* BTeamSequel: Creator/NicholasMeyer didn't return for this film, believing that Spock should stay dead and confessing that he had no idea how to do a resurrection story. However, Meyer did come back for ''Film/StarTrekVI'', ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'', by which point Spock's return was a ''fait accompli''.
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** Writer-producer Harve Bennett provides the voice of the flight recorder log that Kirk and Sarek review.
** Cinematographer Charles Correll plays the spacedock worker who watches the ''Enterprise'' being stolen.
** Writer-producer Harve Bennett provides the voice of the flight recorder log that Kirk and Sarek review.
** Cinematographer Charles Correll plays the spacedock worker who watches the ''Enterprise'' being stolen.
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** As of 2023, it's been revealed that the high fee that the agent requrested was instigated by Creator/WilliamShatner, who [[https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/kirstie-alley-star-trek-khan.html was determined to keep Alley from reprising her role]].
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Wrong movie
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* BTeamSequel: Creator/NicholasMeyer didn't return for this film, believing that Spock should stay dead and confessing that he had no idea how to do a resurrection story. However, Meyer did come back for ''Film/StarTrekIV'', by which point Spock's return was a ''fait accompli''.
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* BTeamSequel: Creator/NicholasMeyer didn't return for this film, believing that Spock should stay dead and confessing that he had no idea how to do a resurrection story. However, Meyer did come back for ''Film/StarTrekIV'', ''Film/StarTrekVI'', by which point Spock's return was a ''fait accompli''.
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* ActingInTheDark: Enforced. Robin Curtis’s performance as Saavik is nothing like Kirstie Alley’s in ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan''. She had not seen the previous film, and Director Creator/LeonardNimoy told her not to, because he did not want a similar performance.
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* ActingForTwo: In addition to once again playing Spock, Creator/LeonardNimoy also does the voice for the ''Excelsior'' elevator under the pseudonym "Frank Force".
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Creator Chosen Casting is when the casting of an adaptation is influenced by the creator of the work being adapted. If the choice was made by the adaptation's creators, it doesn't count.
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* CreatorChosenCasting: Creator/LeonardNimoy cast Creator/ChristopherLloyd based on his performance in ''Film/OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest''.
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T Hat's not a difference between cuts, that's a what-might-have-been
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* SparedByTheCut: There was some debate as to who would get killed off at the end, Saavik or David Marcus. Ultimately they chose to have David make a HeroicSacrifice to atone for the damage he had done with the Genesis Project and also to balance out the return of Spock.
