The Last (and Most Depressing) STAR TREK Sequel of All Time

[xodlirv1]

I've never been a diehard Trek fan; to this day I haven't seen every episode of the original series. I only just recently watched "Turnabout Intruder", wherein a woman switches minds with Kirk and takes over the Enterprise. Kirk, in the woman's body, convinces Spock of the truth (which he confirms through mind-meld) but has difficulty proving it to anyone else.

Why didn't they just ask "Kirk" a question that the woman couldn't have known the answer to? Something involving a past mission of theirs, for example?

 

[Lee47]

OOOOO I just found a great nit in my favorite Trek film (second only to "Khan")!!!!

While I was having my own private "Movie Psych-Up Event" for the upcomng feature film, watching STAR TREK (2009) for the umpteenth time, I noticed- for the first time!- where the villian Nero screwed up BIG TIME!

In the climactic sequence, Nero is attacking Earth (every Star Trek bad guy attacks Earth eventually, it's just one of those things) with a big plasma drill which is meant to bore down to the planet's core, so he can then drop in his Red Matter Bomb, which will then turn the whole planet into a black hole. OK?

So WHY THE HELL does he choose, out of the 30% of the planet that is covered by land, to start drilling down into- of all places- SAN FRANCISCO BAY?!?!!

I get the San Francisco thing- that's so that Starfleet Command can watch and feel their helplessness, good vilain stuff- but why drill into WATER? Wouldn't that nullify the effect of your drilling beam? Or would it? I don't know much about plasma physics, but I do know something about fluid dynamics, and as soon as you drill some water out, more rushes in to fill the hole. You would have to evaporate all the oceans on the planet before you could start drilling into bedrock, if I am correct.

Then again, Nero is a villian and maybe he doesn't mind taking the time to do it as evilly as possible.

Or, maybe he was just a rotten miner and he did this to every planet he ever came across......

 

[Violetta]

At best he'd only have to rid the bay of water since the bay is a lot shallower than the ocean, and pretty soon it would start draining down the hole he was drilling. Also I think it's likely enough the water just doesn't matter. The red matter bomb, what with its finned casing, could probably cut through the water and then continue down to the core eventually anyway.

 

[Barefoot_Sis]

Yes Rox, I picked up on those things- but I appreciate all beauty even from afar- and who doesn't like a purely friendly kiss on the cheek...

So I just had this thought. You're in jail, probably for something you've actually done but have now been caught for, and your cellmate is a 7 foot tall guy named Bubba. While tickling you on the ribs-- he has already bound your hands behind your back-- he gives you what he calls a purely friendly kiss on the cheek, his thick beard tickling your neck. What's not to love?

 

[TickledToDeath]

One: Why the hell wasn't Q in any of the ST TNG Movies!?
Two: The Borg screwed up when they lost Locutis.
Picard still the best Star Trek Captain! Yeah yeah Kirk was fine but Picard was the best.

 

[xodlirv1]

As I stated before, I haven't seen every episode of the original Star Trek series; so maybe this was answered somewhere I haven't seen.

But why is that, wherever Kirk & Crew went in the entire galaxy, everyone they encountered spoke perfect English?!?!?

 

[Lee47]

As I stated before, I haven't seen every episode of the original Star Trek series; so maybe this was answered somewhere I haven't seen.

But why is that, wherever Kirk & Crew went in the entire galaxy, everyone they encountered spoke perfect English?!?!?

Universal Translator.

In other words- a magic technology device so we don't have to invent alien languages and use subtitles (although the later series and films did get more sophisticated and do both of those things).

 

[xodlirv1]

But....but how could a universal translator translate a language they'd never heard before, as when they 'sought out new life and new civilizations'?

 

[Lee47]

Like I said- "magic." Or, in other words- "Hollywood." We the audience are expected to suspend our disbelief and just go along with it. It is one of those Arthur C. Clarke "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic..." devices.

In all fairness, for its time the classic series was extremely sophisticated and it is only in the light of now, decades later, that it seems pretty hokey. And the best episodes still hold up well, compared to a lot of what passes for "drama" today, if you ask me..... watch "Balance Of Terror" and tell me I'm wrong.