IIRC, Hauer re-wrote it one night and showed his work to Scott who liked it and let him use it.
Good thing, too, b/c this was the original monologue:
“I have known adventures, seen places you people will never see, I’ve been Offworld and back...frontiers! I’ve stood on the back deck of a blinker bound for the Plutition Camps with sweat in my eyes watching the stars fight on the shoulder of Orion. I’ve felt wind in my hair, riding test boats off the black galaxies and seen an attack fleet burn like a match and disappear. I’ve seen it...felt it!”
Egad!
Hauer’s rewrite then is far more eloquent.
I can see they were trying for it, but I’d call that original work a swing and a miss.