Up this week: The last TOS Trek film! Highlights: We discuss the TOS crew’s hard-earned open-mindedness and Kirk’s well-chosen words of diplomacy, note Valeris’ magic pole, wonder if Klingons really expect so little of their freighter captains, ponder the difficulty of getting old and accepting change, suggest that maybe Col. West’s presentation might’ve carried more weight if it wasn’t on a large pad, and generally get a huge kick out of the ultimate handoff from TOS — traveling into the undiscovered country and playing such an important role in creating the TNG-forward universe.
Woot. Or should I say squee.
It’s hard to know the correct word at times.
Valeris’ magic pole?
That should be fun.
“Still on Boomer” and “comes down the pole”…
Damn Sean, You’ve been in the gutter a little too much my friend.
On another note, I want everyone to understand that I didn’t ask if Kirk was always like that in a bad way at all. I loved the thought that Kirk is that type of person. Once the new movie comes out I plan on getting the 1st season of Trek and getting into it.
I can’t wait for the new arc becasue I loved the Transformers that aired on Toonami when I was younger. Can’t wait.
Okay I’m maybe 40 min into the podcast and Chuck is talking about what race the President character is.
Test of my Trek cred here, I’m gonna try to answer this right off the top of my head.
I think he’s Efrosian.
Somebody check and see if I’m correct.
I second that. You are talking about the man with white hair. I have not seen the movie of late.
Didn’t Worfs wife do the death cry?
I’d squee with the occasional woot during the listening:D
Did I miss the hair report? Good podcast as always.
Sean:
There is a company called “Eternal Image” (http://www.eternalimage.net) that offers star trek themed caskets and urns. You should take a look.
I humbly submit the urn detailed in the picture for your “container”.
The podcast is awesome. Keep up the great work.
Cereal Killer
This podcast was definitely replete with advanced grammar. I feel like I’m ready to take my SATs again.
Audra said my name! I’m dancin’ I’m dancin’ I’m dancin’ STOP, Hammer Time. :D:D
So I must say the lack of boob talk in this episode was disappointing. The least you could have said is “You mean to tell me you are a shape shifter and you can’t even make yourself a pair of DD” :p.
I expect to hear “I’d make First Contact with those! IYKWIM” in the next podcast or I am unsubscribing from the Boob Report. :mad:
Statue of Liberty = 93m tall (with the pedastal and foundation). Good estimate.
I had a similar experience to Chuck’s with this one; opening day, theater decked-out in Star Trek stuff, lots of fans, some in uniform, everybody cutting up at the one-liners. Some thoughts; when the Excelsior is “in Beta Quadrant,” I took it as Starfleet shorthand for Beta Quadrant of Federation territory, not the whole galaxy. Also like Chuck, I did not recall that the unmasking of the assassin was not in the theatrical version. Always liked Admiral Cartwright, which made his co-conspiring that much more interesting. Finally, I was always just a smidgen disappointed that the final battle of Enterprise and Excelsior against Bird of Prey featured no phasers, only photon torpedoes, but in hindsight it makes sense; torpedos have greater range and are pack far more punch. They’re not trying to disable the thing, they’re trying to take it out as quickly as possible. Still seems like they’d unload with everything they had once they got a bead on it, but still a great looking battle.
The Federation president was played by Kurtwood Smith, who popped up in different roles in DS9 and Voyager (or so IMDB says).
But perhaps more importantly, he played Eric’s dad in That 70s Show. Once I realized who he was, I kept waiting for him to call the conspirators “dumbasses.”
Kim Catrall!?! I just rewatched that movie (first viewing since I saw it in the theater eons ago.) Boy, did I forget a lot!:rolleyes:
And the DVD has a nice farewell to DeForest Kelly which made me realize why he was my favorite all along. Nice fellow. Looked good as a cowboy.
And…they make reference to a movie starring a younger cast of characters telling the story of how Kirk and Spock first met… hmmmm…Apparently they nixxed that in favor of one more go 'round with the original, if elderly, cast.
And put a foot in their sorryBarbs!
T-shirt opportunity.
Yes, exactly. Much as in TWOK, when Kirk says, “We’re the only ship in the quadrant,” you know he just can’t mean that the big E is the only starship patrolling in Alpha Quadrant. I think talks of “sector” and “quadrant” must be dependent on immediate context, and Starfleet personnel just understand such things. 
They could’ve done like they do on the soap operas when someone takes over a recurring role, just have a sotto voce voiceover going, “Today, the part of Saavik is being played by…” But, as I said on the poll thread, I am glad they didn’t turn Saavik into a traitor. I had not considered her (possible) attachment to David – that theory would especially make sense if you read her character as Vonda McIntyre presents her in her (I never get tired of saying it) top-notch novelization of ST III – but, utlimately, I think it’s best we had a new character. Too bad we never got to see whether Valeris could redeem herself.
No, Cinderella was not originally Russian, to the best of my knowledge. That line is a (fairly dumb) continuation of Chekov’s pride in all things Russian from TOS (which was also pretty overdone, imo). According to “The Annotated Brothers Grimm,” the earliest literary version of the tale was Charles Perrault’s in 1697, which would make it French in its origins – although I suspect, like lots of fairy and folk tales, it has analogues in other culutures, as well. Incidentally, I think Perrault’s original version had Cinderella wearing fur slippers, but this was mistranslated into English as glass, giving us the more familiar (albeit far less practical) shoes that we know from the Disney version.
I could see Nichelle Nichols being resistant to saying the “Guess who’s coming to dinner…” line as it references one of the seminal Hollywood movies on race relations. It would be a bit cheeky and I could imagine she might not see the analogy between made between the struggles of a young interracial couple and the thawing in human-Klingon relations as being entirely appropriate.
Speaking of movie references, no comment on the Christian Slater cameo? It was quite striking back in the day, because he was really big then…