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Where No Man Has Gone Before
>From a San Jose Mercury News Sunday magazine interview
with William Shatner:
...The real kick about directing science fiction is that you can
start from a clean slate. You can invent things to your heart's
content and you don't necessarily have to explain how it works.
For example, in *Star Trek V* we shot a scene -- it doesn't
appear in the finished film; I don't know exactly why we cut it
-- where Kirk and Spock have to make a visit to the men's room.
And the camera angle shows them from the waist up, a frontal
view; they're just standing there, several feet apart. They
don't fuss around with their zippers or anything. There are
none of the sounds you associate with a trip to the men's room;
just Kirk and Spock looking slightly bored. After a half-minute
or so they just walk away -- they're finished. Well, how did
they complete their mission? That's up to the audience to
speculate on.