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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00:00 And then the other thing is, and it's again, I've never looked at the movie again the same way.
00:06 Rathakhan, other than Star Wars, is the most important movie of my entire life.
00:11 Conservatively seen it two or three hundred times.
00:15 So I'm interviewing Kirstie Alley and we're going back and forth, going back and forth.
00:21 And she was like, yeah, you know, I the whole movie, if you watch the film carefully,
00:29 you'll notice in the opening shot, I'm like, hair's back, you know, very, very serious, you know, balking.
00:38 And by, you know, the end of the movie, I'm like, where an eye shadow and my hair's down.
00:42 And I'm like, you know, I got to be honest with you. I never noticed that before.
00:46 She's like, yeah, I was this beautiful young girl.
00:51 I had just gotten to L.A. I was like 20 years old and I was playing this character that like all you can see are her hands.
00:59 And from her neck up and she was like, I had this great body and I was like a model and I was just playing this character that.
01:06 So every day I was trying to push the line further.
01:10 And I'm like, Kirstie, I am blown away. I never noticed that.
01:13 She's like, you never noticed the scene where I'm in the bathroom, where I'm in a bathrobe in the elevator.
01:20 And I'm like, I got to be honest with you, Kirstie, I've never thought of that before.
01:25 That blows my mind. You're absolutely right.
01:27 Why were you in a bathrobe?
01:29 And she basically said she had been like charming hair and makeup, charming the wardrobe department,
01:38 kind of implied there was something going on with Nicholas Myers, which I asked him about and he denied completely.
01:48 But basically, that's the reason why she's not in Star Trek three,
01:53 because William Shatner was so mad about the whole thing, the bathrobe, everything,
02:00 that he made such a to do about hiring her again, that they gave her an absolutely ludicrous financial offer designed to get her to say no.
02:10 So that's why she's not. So it's the first interview, to the best of our knowledge, I always have to say,
02:16 I believe it to be her first interview ever about Star Trek.
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