All Star Trek

[whiterabbit]

Only 12 minutes in and this is stupid.

[SM]

Yeah the first scene on the desert planet looked nice but my god it was so clunky.

AND THEY WERN"T WEARING SPACE SUITS ZOMGWTFBBQ!!!?!

[whiterabbit]

 

Man I don't think this is going to be my cup of tea. Just not feeling the dialog at all. Going to stop it here and maybe give it a chance later.

[Local Trouble]

Yeah the first scene on the desert planet looked nice but my god it was so clunky.

AND THEY WERN"T WEARING SPACE SUITS ZOMGWTFBBQ!!!?!

Star Trek tradition.  It would almost seem weird if they didn't do that.

[SM]

You mean like in Wrath of Khan, like only the best Trek EVAR!!1!

Another thing that I though was odd-

Spoiler

Burnham goes in check out whatever the hell it was in the asteroids.  a) Major missed opportunity to use one of the jetpacks Spock uses in TMP.  b) Why didn't she use one of them pod thingy we see retrieving the beacon?

[close]

[Local Trouble]

Ceti Alpha VI was so sandstormy though.

[SM]

Ceti Alpha FIVE!!!

[Local Trouble]

True story: I saw TWoK and The Thing for the first time at a drive-in theater in 1982 as a double-feature.  That was some goddamn experience. 

[Vermillion]

Best scene ever. Music FTW.
https://youtu.be/LaVIIoRKBlk

[SM]

True story: I saw TWoK and The Thing for the first time at a drive-in theater in 1982 as a double-feature.  That was some goddamn experience. 

Good double feature.  Usually they had some hit and some mediocre flick.  Though I do recall a Rocky movie on the same bill as Raiders.

Another one I think was Tron and The Watcher In The Woods.  We weren't interested in Watcher, but were pumped for Tron.  Then after watching it we weren't that interested in Tron either.

[Local Trouble]

Did you dig Star Trek The Motion Picture like I did?

[SM]

At the time I thought it was kinda cool.  With repeated viewings it's a couple of hours of the crew watching TV.  Good idea that spends way too long shouting 'LOOK AT THIS COOL EFFECTS SHOT'

[Local Trouble]

Do you still dig it anyway?

[Corporal Hicks]

You mean like in Wrath of Khan, like only the best Trek EVAR!!1!

Another thing that I though was odd-

Spoiler

Burnham goes in check out whatever the hell it was in the asteroids.  a) Major missed opportunity to use one of the jetpacks Spock uses in TMP.  b) Why didn't she use one of them pod thingy we see retrieving the beacon?

[close]

Spoiler

But they did! It was just mega redesigned. They called it a thruster pack didn't they?

In regards to B), could it have been due to the dispersal field? I can't recall seeing anyone actually piloting that workerbee thing at the start...but then doesn't Georgio mention piloting one later. Perhaps it would have been too bulky compared to the thruster suit?

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http://michaelgmunz.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/cetialphafive.jpg

Ceti Alpha FIVE!!!

Yeah the first scene on the desert planet looked nice but my god it was so clunky.

AND THEY WERN"T WEARING SPACE SUITS ZOMGWTFBBQ!!!?!

It reeked of that same mentality behind the stupid water sequence in STID. "It'll look cool!"

[SM]

I barely remember any of that awful TWoK ripoff.

Spoiler

But they did! It was just mega redesigned. They called it a thruster pack didn't they?

[close]

I was just lefting pondering - why didn't it at least look a bit like the one form TMP.

Do you still dig it anyway?

Yeah.  I even dig Final Frontier.