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Originally Posted by david_blu
He does use the watch when asking Uhuru to punch up the old Nasa transmit code from within Vger. Not sure if that is what you meant by restoring the use of the watch.
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The purpose of this edit was to fix an issue that I felt was introduced when Kirk uses his wrist communicator in both the Special Longer Version and in the Director's Edition. Since the Theatrical Cut did not use the take where Kirk uses his communicator they still needed to have Uhura contact Kirk to convey that the Enterprise was close to the Cloud. So having her use a PA system for the whole room worked for that edit, but not so much in the other versions.
By showing Kirk raising his communicator closer to his head, it visually conveys that he did that so he could hear Uhura more clearly and be ready to respond when she was finished. I felt that if Kirk is focusing on his communicator, than Uhura's dialogue should be coming from that and not the PA system.
And I did try to grab the 'incoming call' buzz that the Director's Edition added during the film's climax, but Jerry Goldsmith's score got in the way so I cobbled up my own.