I was taken to hear her in a command performance when I was twelve years old, then afterwards to meet her in the artist's room.She is released from her training and given the chance to pursue her happiness: "Now if there is a chance to forget tragedy, my child, take it.The film's plot was taken from Schulberg's own original story - which reworked all the previous material and also dropped the Communists in the plot.The film has been viewed as having a direct parallel o the collapse of Communism in the USSR and the end of the Berlin Wall, and reflected those changes - this was seen most transparently when Spock reminded Kirk of the old Vulcan proverb: "Only Nixon could go to China.