Nicholas Meyer
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Sep 30, 2026
David SingerHOST
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David SingerHOST
The Scriptnotes podcast is recording an episode with Nicholas Meyer, who wrote and directed the legendary 1980s nuclear war movie The Day After.
David SingerHOST
And you know us.
David SingerHOST
We are beyond flattered to be included and cannot wait to share the episode we've got cooking.
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I wanted, and I believe rightly, to balance the film.
JohnHOST
And even though The Day After, directed by, uh, Nicholas Meyer, who did the Wrath of Khan Star Trek film, amongst other things, he actually walked off the production, though he won an Emmy for it, I think.
JohnHOST
It's not terrible, The Day After.
NeilHOST
I think what's missing from The Day After is the whole concept of a nuclear winter.
Joel MeadowsGUEST
And so I was a big reader of Holmes stuff and I was a big watcher of different Holmes material.
Joel MeadowsGUEST
I mean, I also watched, you know, young Sherlock Holmes, that amazing film was made in the 1980s, which I feel like, even though I talked to a guy called Nicholas Meyer, who's a screenwriter.
Joel MeadowsGUEST
And he said that according to Canon, you know, Holmes and Watson never met in school.
Joel MeadowsGUEST
So he's kind of horrified at that thing, but I feel like it's a very kind of gentle approach.
Joshua M. PattonGUEST
Those were completely separate operations.
Joshua M. PattonGUEST
The movies were under the auspices of Harv Bennett and sometimes Nicholas Meyer and Ralph Winter.
JayHOST
No, that's not what I mean.
JayHOST
But I think I mean, we're lumping
Bob CeskaHOST
Yes.
Bob CeskaHOST
Did Kirstie Alley veto this makeup effect? Or was this a Nicholas Meyer thing? I don't know.
Bob CeskaHOST
But I always notice how Savick in this movie does not have the Vulcan eyebrows, which I thought was just a thing that's part of Vulcan genetics.
Mary TrumpHOST
The only thing I could think, because this is, as far as I'm aware, Kirstie Alley's first, I mean, it may not have been her very first credit, but it was, you know.
6 MINS LATER
Bob CeskaHOST
No, I don't think so.
Bob CeskaHOST
It's out of character for Scotty, I think.
Bob CeskaHOST
The great Nicholas Meyer also directed the most terrifying TV movie ever made, The Day After.
Bob CeskaHOST
Remember that? I didn't realize that that was a Nicholas Meyer film, that TV movie,
Jon GoodmanHOST
[laughs]
Hannah BlechmanHOST
The novelization of Star Trek IV was written by Vonda N. McIntyre, based on the screenplay by Steve Meerson and Peter Krikes and Harve Bennett and Nicholas Meyer, and a story by Leonard Nimoy and Harve Bennett.
Hannah BlechmanHOST
It was published by Pocket Books New York in 1986.
Andrew OverbyHOST
Our guest today, returning from many episodes, most recently Tomb of Stone, which was a novelization handed to him by the great wheel of novelization randomization.
42 MINS LATER
Mark StayGUEST
... he's thinking, "I'm not gonna be able to fly anymore.
Mark StayGUEST
I'm gonna be grounded.
Mark StayGUEST
I'm, I'm giving everything up." I mean, what's interesting about the screenplay is the, uh, Meerson and Creeks, uh, and Half Bennett essentially did all that Vulcan stuff, and then from, apparently from the line that Spock says about judging by the content of the pollution in the atmosphere, we're in the late 20th century, that's Nicholas Meyer back on board.
Mark StayGUEST
He basically does all of that Earth stuff, and that's why I think the script suddenly goes up a notch, 'cause you've got the guy who wrote Wrath of Khan suddenly stepping in and saying, "Okay, step back.
Joe DoveHOST
It's clear he didn't get Star Trek.
Joe DoveHOST
I spoke with Nicholas Meyer.
Joe DoveHOST
He was in negotiation.
Joe DoveHOST
Nicholas Meyer is infamous for Star Trek 2 and writing Star Trek 4 and directing and writing Star Trek 6.
Joe DoveHOST
I think he would have done this whole series.
Joe DoveHOST
He would have done Discovery 2, whatever, Justice.
Ray MortonGUEST
And except for the visual effects, which were done by ILM, they were both pretty much TV movies.
Ray MortonGUEST
And Star Trek II hid that very well because Nicholas Meyer was a very skilled director, and they managed to make it feel quite a bit like a motion picture, though it was obviously smaller in scale than the first film.
Ray MortonGUEST
Star Trek III kind of looks like a TV movie.
Ray MortonGUEST
The sets aren't really that great, and some of the cinematography and costuming seems a little cheap.
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Ray MortonGUEST
But who they really wanted was Dawn Steele was the head of Paramount at that time.
Ray MortonGUEST
She was the president of production.
Ray MortonGUEST
And she was friends with Nicholas Meyer.
Ray MortonGUEST
Nicholas Meyer, who had directed Star Trek II and had done an uncredited rewrite.
Bob CescaHOST
Yes.
Bob CescaHOST
Did Kirstie Alley veto this makeup effect or was this a Nicholas Meyer thing? I don't know.
Bob CescaHOST
But I always notice how Savick in this movie does not have the Vulcan eyebrows, which I thought was just a thing that's part of Vulcan genetics.
Mary TrumpHOST
the only thing I could think, because this, this is, as far as I'm aware, Kirstie Alley's first, I mean, it may not have been her very first credit, but it was, you know, yeah, it was her first significant role, role of any kind.
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Bob CescaHOST
Wagging his finger at Captain Kirk.
Bob CescaHOST
No, it's out of character for Scotty, I think.
Bob CescaHOST
The great Nicholas Meyer also directed the most terrifying TV movie ever made, The Day After.
Bob CescaHOST
Remember that? I didn't realize that that was a Nicholas Meyer film, that TV movie,
Richie MorganGUEST
Was Harv Bennett still involved at that point? Is it still...
Richie MorganGUEST
So I know it's like, you've got Leonard Nimoy and Nicholas Meyer and all that, but obviously after that, it's all the TV people doing the films as well, whereas it'd be two separate groups of people, I suppose.
Ben VerthHOST
Yeah, there's a specific production team that kind of emerges during the films.
Ben VerthHOST
So Nicholas Meyer, Harv Bennett, Leonard Nimoy.
Ben VerthHOST
Harv Bennett wasn't involved in the sixth one.
Ben VerthHOST
Right.
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