Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

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Name:	Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Abbreviation(s):	ST:SFS, ST III, ST:III
Creator:	Gene Roddenberry
Date(s):	June 1, 1984
Medium:	film
Country of Origin:	United States
External Links:	IMDb, Memory Alpha, Wikipdia
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Released in 1984, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock is the third movie in the original Star Trek franchise.

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Fan Comments

I just finished reading the fans’ reactions to STS in the October "Starlog." I am frankly shocked! This was the best of the three ST movies. How anyone can condemn Leonard Nimoy for this wonder is beyond me.

I remember the endless letters to Paramount for any consideration of reviving the show; all my heart, apprehension when news leaks showed us what ST-TMP might be like; joy at the fact that someone listened to fen and that ST-TMP could be a reality; and then something akin to apologetic shame that the movie was less than it should have been. (Just recently I saw the special longer TV version of ST-TMP. What a crime they committed on us by editing out those twelve minutes!

Waiting in line to see "The Wrath of Khan," I met a friend coming out of the theater. He looked at all of waiting expectantly and gave a huge, meaningful smile, "It was really STAR TREK." The whole group cheered. We knew what he meant. ST3 was also REALLY STAR TREK.

As for David, I’m glad I do not have to watch William Shatner’s excellent acting abilities use Merritt Butrick to wipe us the stage. (I'd love to know whose quote that was in the September issue of Epsilon Nine.) At Atlanta Fantasy Fair, Howard Weinstein gave a talk during which he asked everyone to raise their hands if they were upset by David's death. Not a soul did.

As for my Enterprise, it was destroyed on June 3, 1969; but it will live forever. The "new" Enterprise was dark and colorless on the inside, full of flaws corrected early in the first movie, and it gave me claustrophobia. From the outside it was just as bad. It was pudgy at best, and it had Klingon engines.

The Excelsior does look like a "Pregnant Duck" from the outside, but the ship breathes with space and light, and the bridge is alive with color.

I swore before I saw ST3 that it would take some convincing to make me approve the destruction of the Enterprise. But when it happened, I felt that the ship was being granted a death with dignity so that Kirk and crew might have ship the way the Enterprise should have been refitted in the first place... and so that those who "love to change things" would not violate what the Enterprise had been.

Does anybody know the TRUE story of why we now have a Klingon Bird of Prey? Is this an allusion to a new set of alliances, or did someone just make a mistake? And just for the record — where have all the Romulans gone?