Movie Plot
In the original treatment by Chris Bryant and Allan Scott, the USS Enterprise investigates the disappearance of the USS DaVinci. Upon arriving at the last known location, they find no other ship, but Captain James T. Kirk is struck by electromagnetic waves and leaves the Enterprise in a shuttlecraft. He pilots it out into space and disappears. Three years pass and the Enterprise returns to the area under Captain Gregory Westlake, after picking up Spock, who had retired from Starfleet and returned to Vulcan. The crew discovers a previously hidden planet at the location where Kirk vanished. They believe it to be the planet of the Titans, a mythical and powerful alien race. However, the planet is being drawn into a black hole. The Klingons also want to claim the planet. Spock travels to the surface and finds Kirk, who has been living on the planet for three years. Together, they discover the planet is inhabited by the Cygnans, who destroyed the Titans. The planet and the Enterprise enter the black hole, with the Cygnans being destroyed in the process. The ship emerges in orbit of Earth during the Paleolithic era, and the crew teach early man to make fire, in effect becoming the Titans themselves.
After Bryant and Scott departed the project, director Philip Kaufman tried to re-write the script. He later described this version as being "less 'cult-ish' and more of an adult movie, dealing with sexuality and wonders rather than oddness". He intended this version to feature Spock face off against his Klingon nemesis, played by Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune. Kaufman explained that it would have featured the two undergoing a psychedelic experience and summed it up by saying that "I'm sure the fans would have been upset, but I felt it could really open up a new type of science fiction." Kaufman had said that he had based some of the ideas on Olaf Stapledon's 1930 novel Last and First Men.
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After Bryant and Scott departed the project, director Philip Kaufman tried to re-write the script. He later described this version as being "less 'cult-ish' and more of an adult movie, dealing with sexuality and wonders rather than oddness". He intended this version to feature Spock face off against his Klingon nemesis, played by Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune. Kaufman explained that it would have featured the two undergoing a psychedelic experience and summed it up by saying that "I'm sure the fans would have been upset, but I felt it could really open up a new type of science fiction." Kaufman had said that he had based some of the ideas on Olaf Stapledon's 1930 novel Last and First Men.
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