Talk:Star Trek: Planet of the Titans

Katzenberg?
From the production section "Katzenberg informed the director on 8 May that the film was cancelled..."

Who is Katzenberg? Is this Jeffrey Katzenberg? He doesn't seem to be mentioned elsewhere in the article so it's not clear who this is referring to. 70.91.35.27 (talk) 13:45, 6 August 2013 (UTC)TF
 * Yep, it is - I've clarified and added a link. Miyagawa (talk) 17:24, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

Slightly panders to hardcore Star Trek fans
As with a lot of Star Trek themed articles here there's too much emphasis put within the body of the article on minutia such as study models ending up in later productions. I suggest that such material be relocated to a new section at the end of the article titled "Legacy" or something like that.

Removed Erroneous Material About Spinard
I excised the following:

Norman Spinrad created a treatment, called Star Trek: He Walked Among Us,'' which had been commissioned by the show's creator Gene Roddenberry as a vehicle for Milton Berle. Spinrad had previously written the episode "The Doomsday Machine" for The Original Series. The script for He Walked Among Us was written into a comedy by Gene Coon, and later cancelled.

...because it is dead wrong about Norman Spinrad's "He Walks Among Us" script, which was submitted to the Original series and was not related to the attempts to make a film, and Coon was never involved in the motion picture projects. There are primary source documents which confirm this. It should be deleted, regardless of what the cited source says. It's simply wrong.

Factual Issues and Sources
Toshiro Mifune. While Mifune was someone Kaufman would have liked to have play the Klingon, there's no evidence that he was ever contacted, let alone a sure thing. I have rephrased to reflect such casting was Kaufman's desire.

McQuarrie's Star Warsy Enterprise. Too much is made of McQuarrie's Enterprise renderings. In point of fact, most of the surviving sketches and concepts for the film feature the Ken Adam based version, which featured a much smaller hull which was less Star Destroyer-esque. This McQuarrie/Star Wars design connection has become received knowledge but isn't based on fact, as any thorough review of the production related materials beyond the Star Trek Phase II and Art of Star Trek books make clear. Primary source material from Adam and McQuarrie, in both articles and books of their work, paint a clearer and more accurate picture of the designs and their influences. I have edited the text to clarify this and give more details on Adam's contibutions.

Olaf Stapeldon. In an interview in Mediascene 30, Mar-Apr 1978, McQuarrie mentions that one of his concept drawings is based on a scene in Olaf Stapeldon's "The Star Maker". That book is also mentioned as some of the reading undertaken by screenwriters Scott and Bryant and director Kaufman as reported in the Star Trektennial News Vol. III, No. 19 — January–February 1977, edited by Gene Roddenberry's assistant Susan Sackett, so there was a bigger Stapeldon influence than "First and Last Men" alone. MrNeutronSF (talk) 07:06, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

The Notes
The one note here is inaccurate. Probert's design for the Next Generation Enterprise was not based on Jefferies "Phase II" ship, that was The Motion Picture ship on which he was one of the designers. MrNeutronSF (talk) 05:06, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

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