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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Center Seat has been a great documentary to watch for any Trek fan. Alley left over money, though she'd been an unknown actress cast in her first real role, when it came time for her to come back for III, she basically wanted to be paid more then all the cast members except for Nimoy and Shatner, and she wanted the same money as them as she was a popular character. Nimoy even called her agent with a "I'm sorry I think your message got garbled approach you want what?" message. She also claimed that Shatner didn't like her because he felt she upstaged her which could be likely because Shatner always wanted to be in the spot light.
I don't think Robin Curtis was bad as her replacement, of course Kim Catrell made them both look like amateurs when it came to playing Vulcans.
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Alley has a different interpretation to these events from the interviews she has given. If I remember it was something like she was offered less money for the sequel and then according to Leonard Nimoy, she wanted more than DeForest Kelley. A lot of he said/she said.
Robin Curtis ruined the film for me, she shouldn't have been recast as it breaks immersion. They should have just created a new character like they did for ST VI - funny enough they originally intended for Saavik to return and become the traitor.