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Space may be the final frontier in the "Star Trek" world, but apparently, earthbound grudges can still travel quite keenly through the vastness of space. "Icons Unearthed" director Brian Volk-Weiss knows that firsthand, as an interview he conducted for another project involving Gene Roddenberry’s “Wagon Train to the stars” saw "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan’s" Kirstie Alley tell a story about how William Shatner allegedly blocked her from returning for the next film in the series that gave us some of the best sci-fi movies.
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00:00And then the other thing is, and it's, again, I've never looked at the movie again the same way.
00:06Rathacon, other than Star Wars, is the most important movie of my entire life.
00:12Conservatively, I've seen it two or three hundred times.
00:15So I'm interviewing Kirstie Alley, and we're going back and forth, going back and forth.
00:21And she was like, yeah, you know, I, the whole movie, if you watch the film carefully, you'll notice in
00:31the opening shot, I'm like, hair's back, you know, very, very serious, you know, bulking.
00:38And by, you know, the end of the movie, I'm like wearing eyeshadow and my hair's down.
00:42And I'm like, you know, I got to be honest with you.
00:45I never noticed that before.
00:46She's like, yeah, I was this beautiful young girl.
00:50I had just gotten to L.A.
00:52I was like 20 years old, and I was playing this character that, like, all you can see are her
00:58hands and from her neck up.
01:00And she was like, I had this great body, and I was like a model, and I was just playing
01:05this character.
01:06So every day I was trying to push the line further.
01:10And I'm like, Kirstie, I am blown away.
01:12I never noticed that.
01:13She's like, you never noticed the scene where I'm in the bathroom, where I'm in a bathrobe in the elevator?
01:20And I'm like, I got to be honest with you, Kirstie, I've never thought of that before.
01:24That blows my mind.
01:26You're absolutely right.
01:27Why were you in a bathrobe?
01:29And she basically said she had been, like, charming hair and makeup, charming the wardrobe department, kind of implied there
01:40was something going on with Nicholas Myers, which I asked him about.
01:44And he denied completely.
01:48But basically, that's the reason why she's not in Star Trek III.
01:53Because William Shatner was so mad about the whole thing, the bathrobe, everything, that he made such a to-do
02:02about hiring her again, that they gave her an absolutely ludicrous financial offer designed to get her to say no.
02:10So that's why she's not.
02:12So it's the first interview, to the best of our knowledge, I always have to say, I believe it to
02:17be her first interview ever about Star Trek.
02:23I believe it to be her first interview.
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