Amph [NERRRD] Observations, rhetorical questions, comments & 55 Years of Star Trek (General Thread)

Happy now?

 

Wasn't long enough, they just flashed it for like a second and they had Marcus standing there forever

Edit: Maybe it just seemed like forever since I don't dig chicks.

 

Well there was also that scene in Star Trek where Kirk creeps on Uhura.

 

Yeah that was okay, but that wasn't Into Darkness, I was talking about the Into Darkness movie. And we still have Three nekid women to two nekid Kirk scenes. Not sure I'd want to see young Spock naked unless Quinto buffs up.

Plus I'd was thinking more about THIS type of pic when I said topless, no other woman hanging off


Edit:Also not sure I'd call that Kirk creeping on Uhura, Gaila's the one who told him to hide under the bed and anyone would admire a hottie if you're forced to be there.

 

Wow it's dangerous to search for Kirk's Shatner pics topless. Some of the images they throw in Ick!

 

This series needs more Gaila because the world in general needs more Rachel Nichols in everything. Especially when she's green!

 

That's assuming that the AU is going to follow exactly the same timeline as the prime universe.

 

Chekhov was born very early for no good reason. People mention this and then handwave it with "butterfly effect"

 

I buy the Kelvin destruction butterfly effecting when Checkov was born, especially if you wanna no-prize his folks meeting had something to do with the Kelvin in the Prime timeline. Besides, I kinda dig "Wiz kid" Chekhov in the JJ-verse, gives him a bit of a character quirk and we get Bones' great line of "Oh. He's 17." Worth it just for that.

 

Simple solution: have Dorn play Worf's great-grandfather.

 

Or just some other Klingon.

 

Life sucks.

http://deadline.com/2015/03/harve-bennett-dies-star-trek-movie-producer-1201387026/

 

Damn. that man SAVED Star Trek. I forget the specifics but it went mostly that Bennett was dragged into Paramount after "Motion Picture" cost a jillion dollars to make and (Bennet said he think he fell asleep when he saw it), I think, Michael Esiner said "can you make a Star Trek movie for less than 70 Million %$^&ing dollars?" Bennett then sits down, watches every damn TOS episode ever, and gabs upon the idea to make a Khan flick. If that doesn't work, Trek might have stopped after TPM. But it did. So Bennett is huge to Star Trek.

 

If I remember Bennett's recounting of the story from Shatner's Star Trek Movie Memories, it was Charles Bludhorn, the president of Gulf & Western, who asked if he could make a "Star Trek" movie for less than 45 effing million dollars. Bennett answered that he could make five movies for that much. Then, Bludhorn told him, "Do it." And the rest is history.

I agree that Bennett deserves a great deal of credit for truly reviving "Star Trek". Sad loss.

 

Really ironic that he and Nimoy died so close together. They had a major falling out eventually, although they made a couple terrific films along the way. Bennett was wrongly tossed aside after Star Trek V, which he didn't really want to make. His idea for another film was to have the three major characters in Starfleet Academy, and we know what eventually happened to that idea. Bennett received no credit or public hat tip that I'm aware of.

I said it elsewhere, but anyone interested in either one of them should definitely read Nicholas Meyer's "View from the Bridge" memoir.

 

For some reason I thought Bennett had passed away a few years ago. Definitely a 1-2 punch for the Trek world this past week or so.

He was certainly the right man at the right time for Star Trek and his role and importance of pulling it back from the edge and charting a new course can't be overstated.

 

I'm almost afraid to say it, but isn't the saying that things like this normally come in groups of three? Hopefully not!

 

I'ma gonna totally Spock the next fiver I get.

 

Maurice Hurley, Leonard Nimoy, Harve Bennett...

 

Darn, Maurice Hurley, the creator of The Borg died? Yet another guy in the Trek universe who came up with the right idea at the right time. (Introducing The Borg gives TNG focus - and a main baddie. The OG TNG Big Bad woulda been those slugs from "Conspiracy". The Borg, suffice it to say, where a much better idea. So with the Borg being what kicks TNG up another notch for an original identity, Trek keeps on going into years instead of riding the TOS coattails.)

The thing is, there were a whole lot of automaton societies in TOS but The Borg just *worked* better than most had. Maybe it's the design. Well, probably a lot of it is the design. And the fact that nobody can beat them. TOS eventually beat the faceless automatons they ran into but Picard and Co really didn't. Q saved them the first time. BoBW Part 1 is a giant loss. BoBW part 2 is really a fluke (and the remaining 3 TNG Borg episodes aren't really tied to the collective at all). That's why The Borg were able to be the ultimate Trek bad for the new era - also they subliminally play on our fears of technology overriding humannity. Voyager sort of coasted on those coattails for awhile but, honestly, even Voyager's Borg episode victories were reasonably slim enough to keep The Borg menacing.