Well that's the great part for me because I can only afford SW props right now!
If I won the lottery, I'd have SW, ST, B5, etc. I did technically have an Enterprise model as a kid that my dad just threw together.
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Well that's the great part for me because I can only afford SW props right now!
If I won the lottery, I'd have SW, ST, B5, etc. I did technically have an Enterprise model as a kid that my dad just threw together.
I do admit it does have kind of an 80's tv miniseries special presentation intro feel to it.
Also the only Trek film to have "moments from the movie" behind the end credits.
I need to stop bashing Trek IV. Despite the nitpicks, it’s still great Trek.
Riceball
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Speaking of winning the Lotto and Star Trek, some guy over on the Starship Modelers group on Facebook actually bought the replica Voyager that used to hang from the ceiling at the old Star Trek experience in Vegas. The model is something like 20+ feet long, larger than the actual model used for filming.Well that's the great part for me because I can only afford SW props right now!
Cephus
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Star Trek IV is actually fun, unlike virtually everything that Trek is doing today.
Never watch Aliens and TWOK back to back. Or Empire and Raiders. Or Jurassic Park, Hook, and AOTC.
It is! It's also light years better than the current WokeTrek pablum we have now.
Not to mention: you just can't beat this part from the movie:
The look on Kirk's face at 0:44 is just priceless!!!
robn1
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bUt sTaR tRaCk WaS aLwAyS wOkEd
What's wrong with the Orville?
Cephus
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I mean official Trek.What's wrong with the Orville?
somerset fox
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In ST:TWOK, why weren’t Khans crew older? theyd been marooned in Ceti Alpha 5 for 15 years and prior to that, his followers who would have at least been adults, were in cryo, so why in the movie do they all look to be in their 30s, with some of the women even younger?
The kids of his original followers, who all fell victim to the Ceti eels. Remember the kids of the Darwin Genetic Research Station in TNG's "Unnatural Selection"? The twelve-year-old who looked twice that? They all got busy on Ceti Alpha V when they got dropped off, and there were a lot of pregnant women when Ceti Alpha VI blew up and somehow managed to alter the orbit and climate of a planet millions of miles away (asteroidal impact?). The genetically-enhanced children matured fast, and, somehow, only Khan and the kids survived to the Reliant's visit.
Oh, no, wait -- Khan said they were sworn to live and die by his command centuries before Captain Terrell was born. Okay. Just bad writing.
Oh, no, wait -- Khan said they were sworn to live and die by his command centuries before Captain Terrell was born. Okay. Just bad writing.
It really felt like an elaborate TV miniseries movie.
I’m now convinced that STAR TREK has gone down pretty much the same path as the comic book industry. It was originally created by people Just Doing A Job. Then, as time went on, you got Fans Turned Pro taking over. People who still cared, but began pushing the material in different and more fannish directions. And now, it’s Activists Who Have No Love For It. A slow, generational decay, as we move further and further away from the source material and the people who built it.
Meanwhile, you have the lunatic fringe of cat ladies/weirdos who wrote slashfic in the 70s, worshiped “Gene’s Vision”, and felt a sense of ownership over the franchise. They and their spawn are running things, now, along with the above-mentioned Activists Who Have No Love For It.
I was watching the TNG DVD special features awhile back, and seeing LeVar Burton and Whoopi Goldberg talking about “representation” in 2002 was clearly a clue to where things would go after the old guard was phased out. A constant stream of divisive and obnoxious identity politics hiding behind the shield of “Gene’s Vision”.
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