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'''Nicholas Meyer''' {{born|24|December|1945}} directed {{film|2}} and {{film|6}}. He wrote the screenplays for {{film|4}} and ''Star Trek VI'' and served as consulting producer on the [[DIS Season 1|first season]] of {{s|DIS}}.
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'''Nicholas Meyer''' {{born|24|December|1945}} directed {{film|2}} and {{film|6}}. He wrote the screenplays for {{film|4}} and ''Star Trek VI''. Though never credited for his efforts, Meyer rewrote much of the screenplay for ''The Wrath of Khan'' by combining several elements from earlier drafts. He is also largely responsible for the nautical influence that pervades ''The Wrath of Khan'' and its sequels, from the military essence of the red-jacket uniforms to the more heated and dramatic character of the battle sequences. Prior to his involvement with the ''Trek'' films, Meyer was best known for adapting and directing the 1979 time-travel film, ''Time After Time'' (starring [[Malcolm McDowell]] and [[David Warner]]), and for writing the [[Sherlock Holmes]] pastiche novels ''The Seven-Per-Cent Solution'' and ''The West End Horror'' (in 1993, he wrote a third, ''The Canary Trainer''). He also wrote the adapted screenplay for the film version of ''Solution'' (for which he earned a 1977 Academy Award nomination), whose cast included [[Georgia Brown]], [[Joel Grey]], [[Samantha Eggar]] and [[Jeremy Kemp]].
  
   
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Though not credited for his efforts, Meyer rewrote much of the screenplay for ''The Wrath of Khan'' by combining several elements from earlier drafts. He is also largely responsible for the nautical influence that pervades ''The Wrath of Khan'' and its sequels, from the military essence of the [[Starfleet uniform (late 2270s-2350s)|red-jacket uniforms]] to the more heated and dramatic character of the battle sequences.
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In {{y|2009}}, Meyer was interviewed for the special feature "''Star Trek'': The Three Picture Saga" on the [[DVD|DVD box]] release of [[Star Trek: Original Motion Picture Collection (DVD)|Star Trek: Original Motion Picture Collection]] (alongside [[Garfield Reeves-Stevens|Garfield]] and [[Judith Reeves-Stevens]], [[Peter Krikes]], [[Steve Meerson]], [[Harve Bennett]], and [[Ralph Winter]]), and published his autobiography ''[[The View from the Bridge - Memories of Star Trek and a Life in Hollywood]]''.
  
   
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After ''The Wrath of Khan'', Meyer declined to work upon any of the sequels as he was opposed to notion of resurrecting [[Spock]], having stated, "''I stayed away from [[Star Trek III: The Search for Spock|III]] because I didn't want to resurrect Spock, which somehow in my mind attacked the integrity and authenticity of the feelings provoked by his death.''" {{el|geocities.ws/maitek1/database/moves/mov_st4.htm}}
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Though Meyer is well known to ''Star Trek'' audiences, his most influential work, as far as the general public was concerned, was directing the television movie ''{{w|The Day After}}'' (1983), which stunned contemporary audiences (nearly 100 million of whom watching its first broadcast) for its graphic display of a nuclear holocaust and its aftermath. Meyer embarked upon this project directly after ''The Wrath of Khan''.
  
   
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However, while he could not get along with creator [[Gene Roddenberry]] for reasons stated hereafter, Meyer otherwise enjoyed a good rapport with the studio oversight, especially with Producer [[Harve Bennett]] and Studio Executive [[Dawn Steel]]. And it was Steel who managed to persuade Meyer to come aboard for a sequel after all, "''I got involved in number four because they had another script they were not happy with. Dawn Steel, who [was] the head of [[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]] and has been a friend of mine for many years, called me and said, 'Would you do us an enormous favor?' And I said, 'For Harve and [[Leonard Nimoy|Leonard]]? Yeah, absolutely.' They had a script written. The script, I guess, was for '[[Eddie Murphy]] as a guest star. I never read it, so I don't know...I didn't read the ([[Steve Meerson|Meerson]]/[[Peter Krikes|Krikes]]) script because I just thought it would confuse me and since (Bennett and Nimoy) didn't like it, why bother?[...]They said, 'We're a little bit under the gun now because our production date is closing in. Is that a problem for you?' And I said, 'Hey, c'mon, "Under the Gun" is my middle name! Remember me? I'm the [[Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan#Star Trek II: The Undiscovered Country|twelve day wonder]]! I'm in!''" {{el|geocities.ws/maitek1/database/moves/mov_st4.htm}}
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==''Star Trek'' awards==
  
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Meyer has earned the following award win and nominations for his work in ''Star Trek'':
  
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Meyer's more militaristic take on the ''[[Star Trek]]'' universe was vehemently opposed by its creator Roddenberry, as it did not correspond with his vision for the ''Star Trek'' universe, but the latter was toothless at the time of ''Wrath of Khan'' due to the stipulations in his {{Star Trek films}} contract with [[Paramount Pictures]], yet it seriously soured the relationship between the two men nonetheless. Roddenberry (since {{film|3}} back "on staff" in the ceremonial figurehead position of "Executive Consultant", still prohibited from having any formal creative input whatsoever, yet now able to make a pervasive nuisance of himself to the production staff, Bennett in particular &ndash; see: ''[[Gene Roddenberry#The Motion Picture and feature films|main article]]'') later expressed concerns about turning [[Saavik]] into a traitor in ''The Undiscovered Country'' as initially intended by Meyer, feeling that she had become a "too beloved" character in his universe. When informed of this, Meyer met his concerns with disdain, derisively remarking, "''I wrote the character of Saavik in ''STAR TREK II''. That wasn't a Gene Roddenberry character. If he doesn't like what I'm doing, maybe he should give the money he's [making off my films] back. Then maybe I'll care what he has to say.''" Without even bothering to get back to Roddenberry, Meyer pushed ahead, though the proposition was later dropped, albeit for reasons entirely unrelated to Roddenberry's concerns. (''[[Cinefantastique]]'', Vol. 22, No. 5, p. 31)
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The situation, however, came to a head with ''The Undiscovered Country'' when Roddenberry was angered by the racism he perceived in the production in regard to the [[Klingon]]s. A charged meeting between the two parties followed: "''His guys ''[Roddenberry's legal staff, headed by the in ''Star Trek''-lore reviled [[Leonard Maizlish]]]'' were lined up on one side of the room, and my guys were lined up on the other side of the room, and this was not a meeting in which I felt I'd behaved very well, very diplomatically. I came out of it feeling not very good, and I've not felt good about it ever since. He was not well ''[an ailing Roddenberry would indeed pass away only a short time later]'', and maybe there were more tactful ways of dealing with it, because at the end of the day, I was going to go out and make the movie. I didn't have to take him on. Not my finest hour,''" Meyer later recounted. {{bl|herocomplex.latimes.com/movies/star-trek-nicholas-meyers-explains-his-roddenberry-regret}} After the avant-premiere screening of the nearly finished movie on 22 October 1991, Roddenberry ordered Maizlish to start legal proceedings against Meyer and Writer/Actor Leonard Nimoy to have fifteen minutes of the more militaristic aspects cut from the movie. This came to naught however, as Roddenberry died two days later. (''[[Star Trek Movie Memories]]'', 1995, p. 394) Meyer remained regretful of his behavior as he reiterated the incident as recent as 2016 when he retold the story in [[Roger Lay, Jr.]]'s [[50th anniversary]] documentary [[Star Trek: The Journey to the Silver Screen#Chapter 5: "End of an Era: Charting the Undiscovered Country"|''Star Trek: The Journey to the Silver Screen'' (Chapter 5: "End of an Era: Charting the Undiscovered Country")]].
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* {{y|1983}} Hugo Award nomination for {{film|2}}, shared with [[Jack B. Sowards]], [[Harve Bennett]], and [[Samuel A. Peeples]]
  
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In {{y|2009}}, Meyer was interviewed for the [[special feature]] "''Star Trek'': The Three Picture Saga" on the [[DVD|DVD box]] release of {{DVD|Star Trek: Original Motion Picture Collection}} (alongside [[Garfield Reeves-Stevens|Garfield]] and [[Judith Reeves-Stevens]], [[Peter Krikes]], [[Steve Meerson]], [[Harve Bennett]], and [[Ralph Winter]]), and published his autobiography ''[[The View from the Bridge]]''. Yet, his most frank and most elaborate ''Star Trek'' interview he has ever given to date, was for [[William Shatner]]'s 1994 memoir ''[[Star Trek Movie Memories]]''.
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==Career outside ''Star Trek''==
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A graduate from the University of Iowa with a degree in theater and filmmaking, Nicholas Meyer, prior to his involvement with the ''Trek'' films, was best known for adapting and directing the 1979 time-travel film, ''Time After Time'' (starring [[Malcolm McDowell]] and [[David Warner]]), and for writing the [[Sherlock Holmes]] pastiche novels ''The Seven-Per-Cent Solution'' and ''The West End Horror'' (he later wrote ''The Canary Trainer'' in 1993 and ''The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols'' in 2019). He also wrote the adapted screenplay for the film version of ''Solution'' (for which he earned a 1977 Academy Award nomination), whose cast included [[Georgia Brown]], [[Joel Grey]], [[Samantha Eggar]], and [[Jeremy Kemp]].
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=== ''The Day After'' ===
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Though Nicholas Meyer is well known to ''Star Trek'' audiences, his most influential work, as far as the general public was concerned, was directing the ABC Cold War television movie {{wt|The Day After}} (1983, and on which [[Michael Westmore]] served as make-up artist, earning him one of his many Emmy Award nominations), which stunned contemporary audiences for its then graphic display of a nuclear holocaust and its aftermath. According the National Geographic series, ''{{imdb|title/tt2801364|The '80s: The Decade That Made Us}}'', nearly one hundred million Americans tuned in for its first broadcast on 20 November 1983. The documentary further postulated that the movie was a co-influence on then President Ronald Reagan to embark upon the "Strategic Defense Initiative" (SDI, or popularly known as "Star Wars"). Meyer, who was featured in the documentary, mentioned that the producers had trouble finding a director due to the controversial nature of the production, and that he ended up being hired as the third or fourth choice of the producers. It nevertheless won Meyer two 1984 Emmy Award nominations in two categories and a German Golden Screen Award in 1985. Meyer embarked upon this project directly after ''The Wrath of Khan''.
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== ''Star Trek'' awards ==
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Meyer has received the following awards and award nominations for his work in ''Star Trek''.
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=== Hugo Awards ===
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In the category Best Dramatic Presentation
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* {{y|1983}} [[Hugo Award]] nomination for {{film|2}}, shared with [[Jack B. Sowards]], [[Harve Bennett]], and [[Samuel A. Peeples]]
 
* {{y|1987}} Hugo Award nomination for {{film|4}}, shared with [[Leonard Nimoy]], [[Steve Meerson]], [[Peter Krikes]], and Harve Bennet
  
* {{y|1987}} Hugo Award nomination for {{film|4}}, shared with [[Leonard Nimoy]], [[Steve Meerson]], [[Peter Krikes]], and Harve Bennet
 
* {{y|1992}} Hugo Award nomination for {{film|6}}, shared with Leonard Nimoy, [[Denny Martin Flinn]], [[Lawrence Konner]], and [[Mark Rosenthal]]
  
* {{y|1992}} Hugo Award nomination for {{film|6}}, shared with Leonard Nimoy, [[Denny Martin Flinn]], [[Lawrence Konner]], and [[Mark Rosenthal]]
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===Saturn Awards===
  
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* {{y|1983}} Saturn Award win for ''The Wrath of Khan'' in the category "Best Director", sole nominee
  
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* {{y|1987}} Saturn Award nomination for ''The Voyage Home'' in the category "Best Writing", shared with Steve Meerson, Peter Krikes, and Harve Bennet
  
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* {{y|1992}} Saturn Award nomination for ''The Undiscovered Country'' in the category "Best Writing", shared with Denny Martin Flinn
  
   
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* {{y|1983}} [[Saturn Award]] win for ''The Wrath of Khan'' in the category Best Director, sole nominee
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*"Nocholas Meyer, Witness at the End of the World", [[Robert Greenberger]], ''[[Starlog (magazine)|Starlog]]'', January 1984, pp. 16-18
  
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* {{y|1987}} Saturn Award nomination for ''The Voyage Home'' in the category Best Writing, shared with Steve Meerson, Peter Krikes, and Harve Bennet
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* {{y|1992}} Saturn Award nomination for ''The Undiscovered Country'' in the category Best Writing, shared with Denny Martin Flinn
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==''Star Trek'' interviews==
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*''Star Trek'' [[DVD]] and [[Blu-ray]] special features:
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**{{DVD|Star Trek: Original Motion Picture Collection}} (DVD)-special feature, "''Star Trek'': The Three Picture Saga" (2009)
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**{{BD|Star Trek: Original Motion Picture Collection}} (Blu-ray)-special feature, (2009)
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***"Conversations with Nicholas Meyer"
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***"1991 Convention Presentation by Nicholas Meyer"
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**{{BD|Star Trek 50th Anniversary TV and Movie Collection}} (Blu-ray)
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***''[[Star Trek: The Journey to the Silver Screen]]''
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*Print publications:
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** "Nicholas Meyer, Witness at the End of the World", [[Robert Greenberger]], ''{{dis|Starlog|magazine}}'', January 1984, pp. 16-18
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** "Nicholas Meyer, The Man Who Saved Star Trek", Dennis Fischer, ''[[Cinefantastique]]'', Vol 17 #3/4, 1987, pp. 35-39
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** "Nicholas Meyer Franchise Mr. Fix-It", Sheldon Teitelbaum, ''Cinefantastique'', Vol 22 #3, 1991, pp. 24-26
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** ''[[Star Trek Movie Memories]]'', 1994
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*[[Star Trek documentaries|''Star Trek'' documentaries]]:
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**''[[Star Trek 25th Anniversary Special]]'' (1991)
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* [http://nmeyer.pxl.net NMeyer.plx.net] - official site
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* {{bl|nmeyer.pxl.net|NMeyer.plx.net}} &ndash; archived official site
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* [http://trekmovie.com/2007/07/14/interview-with-nicholas-meyer/ Nick Meyer Discusses ''The Wrath of Khan'' and J.J. Abrams with TrekMovie.com]
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* {{TrekMovie.com|2007/07/14/interview-with-nicholas-meyer|2007 Nicholas Meyer interview|external}}
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* {{el|herocomplex.latimes.com/movies/star-trek-nicholas-meyers-explains-his-roddenberry-regret|2011 Nicholas Meyer interview}} at {{el|latimes.com/|LATIMES.com}}
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* {{startrek.com|database_article/meyer-nicholas|Nicholas Meyer|external}}
   
 
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Nicholas Meyer (born 24 December 1945; age 78) directed Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. He wrote the screenplays for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and Star Trek VI and served as consulting producer on the first season of Star Trek: Discovery.

Though not credited for his efforts, Meyer rewrote much of the screenplay for The Wrath of Khan by combining several elements from earlier drafts. He is also largely responsible for the nautical influence that pervades The Wrath of Khan and its sequels, from the military essence of the red-jacket uniforms to the more heated and dramatic character of the battle sequences.

After The Wrath of Khan, Meyer declined to work upon any of the sequels as he was opposed to notion of resurrecting Spock, having stated, "I stayed away from III because I didn't want to resurrect Spock, which somehow in my mind attacked the integrity and authenticity of the feelings provoked by his death." [1]

However, while he could not get along with creator Gene Roddenberry for reasons stated hereafter, Meyer otherwise enjoyed a good rapport with the studio oversight, especially with Producer Harve Bennett and Studio Executive Dawn Steel. And it was Steel who managed to persuade Meyer to come aboard for a sequel after all, "I got involved in number four because they had another script they were not happy with. Dawn Steel, who [was] the head of Paramount and has been a friend of mine for many years, called me and said, 'Would you do us an enormous favor?' And I said, 'For Harve and Leonard? Yeah, absolutely.' They had a script written. The script, I guess, was for 'Eddie Murphy as a guest star. I never read it, so I don't know...I didn't read the (Meerson/Krikes) script because I just thought it would confuse me and since (Bennett and Nimoy) didn't like it, why bother?[...]They said, 'We're a little bit under the gun now because our production date is closing in. Is that a problem for you?' And I said, 'Hey, c'mon, "Under the Gun" is my middle name! Remember me? I'm the twelve day wonder! I'm in!" [2]

Meyer's more militaristic take on the Star Trek universe was vehemently opposed by its creator Roddenberry, as it did not correspond with his vision for the Star Trek universe, but the latter was toothless at the time of Wrath of Khan due to the stipulations in his Star Trek films contract with Paramount Pictures, yet it seriously soured the relationship between the two men nonetheless. Roddenberry (since Star Trek III: The Search for Spock back "on staff" in the ceremonial figurehead position of "Executive Consultant", still prohibited from having any formal creative input whatsoever, yet now able to make a pervasive nuisance of himself to the production staff, Bennett in particular – see: main article) later expressed concerns about turning Saavik into a traitor in The Undiscovered Country as initially intended by Meyer, feeling that she had become a "too beloved" character in his universe. When informed of this, Meyer met his concerns with disdain, derisively remarking, "I wrote the character of Saavik in STAR TREK II. That wasn't a Gene Roddenberry character. If he doesn't like what I'm doing, maybe he should give the money he's [making off my films] back. Then maybe I'll care what he has to say." Without even bothering to get back to Roddenberry, Meyer pushed ahead, though the proposition was later dropped, albeit for reasons entirely unrelated to Roddenberry's concerns. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 22, No. 5, p. 31)

The situation, however, came to a head with The Undiscovered Country when Roddenberry was angered by the racism he perceived in the production in regard to the Klingons. A charged meeting between the two parties followed: "His guys [Roddenberry's legal staff, headed by the in Star Trek-lore reviled Leonard Maizlish] were lined up on one side of the room, and my guys were lined up on the other side of the room, and this was not a meeting in which I felt I'd behaved very well, very diplomatically. I came out of it feeling not very good, and I've not felt good about it ever since. He was not well [an ailing Roddenberry would indeed pass away only a short time later], and maybe there were more tactful ways of dealing with it, because at the end of the day, I was going to go out and make the movie. I didn't have to take him on. Not my finest hour," Meyer later recounted. [3](X) After the avant-premiere screening of the nearly finished movie on 22 October 1991, Roddenberry ordered Maizlish to start legal proceedings against Meyer and Writer/Actor Leonard Nimoy to have fifteen minutes of the more militaristic aspects cut from the movie. This came to naught however, as Roddenberry died two days later. (Star Trek Movie Memories, 1995, p. 394) Meyer remained regretful of his behavior as he reiterated the incident as recent as 2016 when he retold the story in Roger Lay, Jr.'s 50th anniversary documentary Star Trek: The Journey to the Silver Screen (Chapter 5: "End of an Era: Charting the Undiscovered Country").

In 2009, Meyer was interviewed for the special feature "Star Trek: The Three Picture Saga" on the DVD box release of Star Trek: Original Motion Picture Collection (alongside Garfield and Judith Reeves-Stevens, Peter Krikes, Steve Meerson, Harve Bennett, and Ralph Winter), and published his autobiography The View from the Bridge. Yet, his most frank and most elaborate Star Trek interview he has ever given to date, was for William Shatner's 1994 memoir Star Trek Movie Memories.

Career outside Star Trek

A graduate from the University of Iowa with a degree in theater and filmmaking, Nicholas Meyer, prior to his involvement with the Trek films, was best known for adapting and directing the 1979 time-travel film, Time After Time (starring Malcolm McDowell and David Warner), and for writing the Sherlock Holmes pastiche novels The Seven-Per-Cent Solution and The West End Horror (he later wrote The Canary Trainer in 1993 and The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols in 2019). He also wrote the adapted screenplay for the film version of Solution (for which he earned a 1977 Academy Award nomination), whose cast included Georgia Brown, Joel Grey, Samantha Eggar, and Jeremy Kemp.

The Day After

Though Nicholas Meyer is well known to Star Trek audiences, his most influential work, as far as the general public was concerned, was directing the ABC Cold War television movie The Day After (1983, and on which Michael Westmore served as make-up artist, earning him one of his many Emmy Award nominations), which stunned contemporary audiences for its then graphic display of a nuclear holocaust and its aftermath. According the National Geographic series, The '80s: The Decade That Made Us, nearly one hundred million Americans tuned in for its first broadcast on 20 November 1983. The documentary further postulated that the movie was a co-influence on then President Ronald Reagan to embark upon the "Strategic Defense Initiative" (SDI, or popularly known as "Star Wars"). Meyer, who was featured in the documentary, mentioned that the producers had trouble finding a director due to the controversial nature of the production, and that he ended up being hired as the third or fourth choice of the producers. It nevertheless won Meyer two 1984 Emmy Award nominations in two categories and a German Golden Screen Award in 1985. Meyer embarked upon this project directly after The Wrath of Khan.

Star Trek awards

Meyer has received the following awards and award nominations for his work in Star Trek.

Hugo Awards

In the category Best Dramatic Presentation

Saturn Awards

  • 1983 Saturn Award win for The Wrath of Khan in the category Best Director, sole nominee
  • 1987 Saturn Award nomination for The Voyage Home in the category Best Writing, shared with Steve Meerson, Peter Krikes, and Harve Bennet
  • 1992 Saturn Award nomination for The Undiscovered Country in the category Best Writing, shared with Denny Martin Flinn

Star Trek interviews

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