Soooo, what you’re saying is that it is a Star Wars parody?
Many flaws, too many lens flares, a few really bad lines of dialogue, some junk science, but when hasn’t that been an issue in Star Trek? The difference between this and a Star Wars prequel is that this was entertaining. Hence most people liking it.
Quinto seemed too emotional. And he totally has a creepy face.
Ive been mulling over the movie and Im still not happy. It has the same terrible plot, poor villians of TOS, but it still wasnt good. Why? I expected something with some deeper meaning. TOS had some of that, it also featured racial issues not prevalent in today’s entertainment world. This new movie seemed like it was trying to be entertaining to everyone as opposed to being a quality film that all people could like, but the fans would really love. It was clear they, IMO, that new Trek is only around to make money.
Strik: Yeah, they made a lot of comparisons too, but I listed some they didn’t. And how about this one: “protagonist crash lands on deserted planet, and finds some old green-skinned guy with pointy ears who has knowledge of his past and future, and teaches him what he needs to know to take charge and save the galaxy from Big Bad” :rolleyes:
I watched two episodes of the animated series last night, and in the second episode, Yesteryears, was the exact same scene of young Spock getting bullied. I mean exact, too. Keep in mind that script is 36+ years old!!
Whoa /Neo
I watched that this weekend as well. I’ve had the Animated Series for a while but haven’t opened it yet. I finally got around to watching most of it this past holiday weekend.
While watching ‘Yesteryear’ I thot the exact same thing you mentioned. I also noticed that the Animated series really tackled the ‘strange new worlds and new civilizations’ aspect of Star Trek. I’ve been mulling over what the next movie plot might be. There were a bunch of good ideas in the Animated Series.
As I remember, the behind the scenes part had a lot of good background. I plan on re-watching the 22 episodes over the next few weeks and may comment if I see other familiar bits.
That episode is the most ‘canonical’ of TAS. They mined that one for details for “Enterprise” as well (wild Selats, the city shapes, etc.)
I thought that selat’s were from Journey to Babel where Amanda mentions the animal, Bones calls it a “teddy Bear” and Spock describes it in detail.
True, but we didn’t see one until Yesteryear.
Both episodes were written by D.C. Fontana.
speaking of DC Fontana, I jsut watched an episode of Land of the lost writen by her. The one where Holly’s future self helps her out in the cave.
Oh crap, I forgot about that. Gerrold also did one, IIRC.
Loved that show, but only own the pilot.
DAvid Gerrold was the Head writer and script supervisor. He’s the “Gene Coon” of Land of the lost. They let him write 5 scripts in season 1… but he oversaw them all. He even wrote the series bible.
Here’s his interview.
http://personal.linkline.com/enik1138/html/dginterview.html
Sci-fi did the entire series as a marathon yesterday. I dvd’rd the lot. Its for kids… but, the second season has episodes that are the equal to any old Dr. Who episodes.
Good sci-fi woven into a kids show. Walter Koenig wrote the episode that introduced Enik ( the brown, advanced Slleestack).
and I tell you what, a novel or comic of LoL would actually hold up to the test of time. My only real problem with the show are some of the “captain Kangaroo” stlye acting amongst the kids. But whenever dad or the villian of the week are interacting… it’s good sci-fi.
I have to say this as well. I liked it when I was 6 and liked the new LoL in high school. After review… this is better than the 90’s version. ( you just have to watch epiodeds dealing with the pylons, sleestacks, Enik, villians and what not- I guess anything not about Chakka)
That’s it in a nutshell. Frat boys steal some nerd’s fanfiction and have their way with it.
Amen. “Hey, Kirk. You did pretty well hitting on Uhura and getting beat up in that bar fight. Therefore I think you should be a captain of one of the Federation’s most powerfull vessels. No, I’m serious.”
Hrm. Pretty telling that the hard-TOS-core-Trekkies are all in line here.
I wonder if the Deep Space Nine episode where Molly O’Brien’s future self helps her in the cave ripped off that Land of the Lost episode.