For non-Christians: What would it take?

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Kichi, are you sure that Spock said that in the motion picture?
I have no memory of him saying that in any of the movies...

OK, kichi, it seems that was in one of the several drafts for the motion picture.
Being a bit un-Spock-like and un-Roddenberry-like, it didn't make it to the final cut...
It seems some people on reddit discussed that at length and some of them claim to have been directly related to one of the writers:
http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments...berry_for/

[–]rprebel 154 points 10 months ago

Not only does it not sound like Spock, but more importantly it doesn't sound like Roddenberry.


[–]spikey666 34 points 10 months ago

Harold Livingston wrote the script for Star Trek: The Motion Picture. And this quotes notes that it's from the original draft. There was apparently a lot of changes.


[–]zaoldyeck 49 points 10 months ago

Yeah, my dad was one of the writers (he only got associate producer credit, didn't fight for a screenplay credit) and remembers telling me how many rushed drafts there were. My mom, Harold's secretary at the time, ran different versions to set sometimes right before shooting.

It was, in many ways, a film doomed to fail. Robert Wise got most of the blame, but it wasn't Roddenberry's fault, nor Wise's fault, it was, by and large, the studio's colossal failure by pre-selling the movie and forcing a release date that should never have been set. Plus the egos on set were impossible apparently, even Shatner tried to send some scripts to set.

Kudos to knowing who Harold Livingston is, though. He used to have a really intimidating great dane, that's about all I remember about visits to his place, haven't seen him since I was like 7, and I'm 24 now.