'Triumph of the Will' was better in the original Klingon:

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I've watched it a couple dozen times already - creepily, when I was watching it with Saba he gave a little Nazi salute. Proof that this shit still works on a subtextual level, but as Saba is basically still pre-verbal I couldn't do much about it aside from push his arm down and say 'NO

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i am so glad that not-gaila scene was cut. the wank, i can't even begin. and very underwhelmed with the extra vulcan scenes. i only saw journey to babel recently and wow, do i prefer mark lenard over ben cross.

i am kinda glad that the farm scene was cut. besides the pacing issue; there's the threat of violence that i wasn't entirely comfortable with, with how kirk takes a step back and how sam steps forward, even if it's never apparent frank actually hits the kids. it was unnerving.

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Well, I don't have a problem with saying Uncle Frank hits the kids - unpleasant, but I don't mind a bit of unpleasantness in the course of fiction. (Though if it's triggery for you, I'm sorry.) It's good they establish him as an Uncle, not her boyfriend/husband, however.

I don't really understand how the not!Gaila scene made it to filming. It's so obviously weak and out of place for that moment. The only thing we get out of it is that Kirk is willing to apologize, but it actually makes him seem FAR RUDER because he can't tell the difference between the Orion girl he was seeing regularly and some random Orion officer. I mean! He had to know she was in Engineering not Sciences, right? That was the whole point of him dating her.

AND TO TOP IT OFF: unless the film establishes that Gaila is aboard the Enterprise, it's not even funny because the audience assumes she's dead.

I think I like Ben Cross a lot. His is a very different portrayal of Sarek. Mark Lenard is better, but I think Ben Cross's Sarek is far more competent as a father.