Admiral Cartwright's Lines?

StarshipTitanic · Post by **StarshipTitanic** » 2004-02-20 09:26pm

According to Nicholas Meyer, Brock Peters found Admiral Cartwright's words during the briefing scene to be so offensive he needed several takes to get them all out. In a similar vein, Nichelle Nichols refused to utter the joke line "Guess who's coming to dinner?" - an intentional reference to the famous film about racism which is heard prior to the Klingons' visit to Enterprise. The line was instead given to Chekov.

Despite just rewatching The Undiscovered Country, I cannot remember what he said during the briefing. Could someone explain?

Atavarius · Post by **Atavarius** » 2004-02-20 09:55pm

Admiral Cartwright wrote: I must protest. To offer the
Klingons a safe haven within
Federation space is suicide.
Klingons would become the alien
trash of the galaxy. And if we
dismantle the fleet, we'd be
defenseless before a bellicose
people with a foothold on our
territory. The opportunity which
presents itself here is to embargo
trading, force them to run through
their own resources faster, and
bring them to their knees. Then
we'll be in a far better position
to dictate terms.

Roughly it, movie I believe made a slight change. Apologize for the formatting but i took it off a script online and didn't feel like fixing it.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2004-02-20 11:01pm

What film about racism would that be?

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2004-02-20 11:03pm

Uraniun235 wrote:What film about racism would that be?

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), starring Sidney Poitier.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061735/