The folks over at the TNMC managed to get themselves a draft of a shooting script for this summer's hugely successful STAR TREK reboot and there were some interesting things left on the cutting room floor. Here's a taste:
Right off the bat, we have a scene where Spock is born. The thrust of the scene is Spock's mother Amanda expressing her displeasure with Sarek when he isn't present for the birth and then doesn't understand the emotional implications of this. One gets the feeling that this probably happened an awful lot in this relationship. The script then jumps to the scene where Kirk is born, which is where the movie opened.
There's a lot more SPOILERIFIC stuff you can check out by clicking HERE. It gives you good insight into how filmmakers craft a finished product, what they think can work, what they think can't work and what could have worked but they still decided to cut.
Extra Tidbit:
Alex Kurtzman and Robert Orci, who wrote STAR TREK, will apparently deliver a draft of the sequel by this Christmas.
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3:55AM on 06/30/2009
That contrived plot (I use the term loosely when speaking of Abrahms' Star Trek) device (along with quite a few others) is why anyone that bothered to look past the lens flares, explosions, and shaky cam, would see that the movie was lacking in the story department. It was like a three year old with severe A.D.D. trying to tell a Star Trek story.