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How A Highly-Unpopular Star Trek Movie Shaped The Entire MCU
By WITNEY SEIBOLD
At the beginning of the 1989 film "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier," the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise-A is on shore leave while their ship undergoes extensive repairs.
At night, Dr. McCoy and Captain Kirk try to introduce Spock to Earth's camping traditions of cooking beans, roasting marshmallows, and singing songs around the campfire.
They teach him the lyrics to "Row, Row, Row Your Boat," but Spock is baffled as he says life is not a dream. A shuttlecraft then arrives to transport them back to the Enterprise.
According to the book "MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios," the scene was among the most inspirational for Marvel head honcho Kevin Feige.
Screenwriter C. Robert Cargill recalls that Feige liked the moments when legendary characters paused to converse and displayed their humanity.
Cargill says Feige tried to put the basis of that campfire scene into every MCU movie, like when heroes hang out and chat or when Tony Stark shares a popsicle with his daughter.