Star Trek Director Nicholas Meyer Reveals his Trek Regret

The Klingon have been enemies of the federation for decades, the development of racism against Klingon is just a logical consequence of that.

Racism usually develops out of ignorance for other people and the assumptions made about them. Every time the Klingons ever had contact with the Federation, it was adversarial in nature. The prejudice that grew from that over time would have been perfectly natural on both sides of the fence..er...neutral zone.

WittySupername, actually Roddenberry DID tell Shatner he was unhappy with the script, but they proceeded anyway. At that point Roddenberry was a consultant -- he could consult, but they didn't have to listen to him.

The Federation President in Undiscovered Country reminds me of Dog the Bounty Hunter.

i was never wild about ST6. Now im thrilled to know GR was upset with all these changes. The later movies and tv shows drifted too far away from GRs vision. No wonder i never liked them.

What I get from that is that Roddenberry didn't agree with the extent to which the script took the racism. While Kirk would have legitimately hated Klingons, the comments that Meyer quoted regarding the crew saying things like "they all look alike" or "they all smell" are the ones that set Gene off. Roddenberry was correct. After all, no one knew those characters better than Gene. They were all HIS characters. Those blatant racist remarks would not have fit his characters as humankind had grown beyond that sort of blind, ignorant hatred. This was clearly established in the original series and first few films. In fact it was the MAIN POINT to the original series. Mankind had gotten beyond racial intolerance, greed and the like. That's the one thing that Roddenberry kept hammering home episode after episode.

Gene never should have relinguished the rights to paramount.

Meyer and Shatner could still have told the story regarding Kirks personal hatred without making the rest of the crew look like 1960's rednecks and undoing all that Roddenberry worked so hard for in those early years.

After all that it sounds like his regret is not in that script, but rather in the way he handled the meeting. Sounds like maybe he was a prick to an ailing Roddenberry.

Dipshit better regret it. It was a major F-Up on his part.