Reddit reviews The View from the Bridge: Memories of Star Trek and a Life in Hollywood

A few years ago I read a fun and fascinating book, Nicholas Meyer's The View from the Bridge: Memories of Star Trek and a Life in Hollywood. Meyer directed Wrath of Khan, and something which caught my eye was a chapter about having to do reshoots of some scenes because some producer or other didn't like the original footage.

Meyer talks about what a nightmare it was to reshoot, and how noticeable the reshoots were in the final cut. Part of the problem was that in movies, sets and props rapidly get decommissioned, boxed up, moved around, repurposed etc. And that's in an ongoing film under production, much less a TV show that ended almost a decade ago.

Then there's the "Enterprise effect," where Star Trek Enterprise was set in the past from TOS, but ended up looking more... futuristic. It's just part of prequel production hell.

While I agree that it can be done, this is the thing. I wonder how many potential viewers are interested in the Dharma Initiative as a historical artifact - a research program which took place in a particular time, place and context - and are instead interested in the minutiae of stations, retro jumpsuits, and pseudo-science.

Many of the details will vary, and that niche of the audience probably won't be happy.