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Peter Krikes is an American screenwriter who contributed to the screenplay for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986). Filmography. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) Anna and the King (1999) Double Impact (1991) Back to the Beach (1987) References
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Peter Krikes (born 22 September 1949; age 74) co-wrote the screenplay for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, along with his writing partner, Steve Meerson. They shared screenwriting credit with Harve Bennett and Nicholas Meyer. This was the first film they wrote together.
Krikes and Meerson later wrote for the films Back to the Beach, Double Impact, and Anna and the King.
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Steve Meerson and Peter Krikes were hired to write a script with Murphy as a college professor who believes in aliens and likes to play whale songs. Murphy disliked the part, and chose to make The Golden Child. The character intended for Murphy was combined with those of a marine biologist and a female reporter to become Gillian Taylor.
Nimoy gave the story to screenwriters Steve Meerson and Peter Krikes. They drafted a 140-page script, which went through two rewrites. But the result still wasn’t very convincing.
Peter Krikes is known for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986), Double Impact (1991) and Anna and the King (1999).
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Nov 26, 2016 · The humorous and environmentally conscious screenplay was penned by the young writing partners Steve Meerson and Peter Krikes — who caught the attention of Paramount and the Star Trek brain ...
for which he and his long-time writing partner, Peter Krikes, were awarded first position screenplay credit by the Writers Guild of America for their majority contribution to the script and subsequently received a Saturn Award nomination honoring the best science fiction work of the year.
