Star Trek

Mark Harris said:
Ha ha, at least I'm not alone:

Look at #7
http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/09/top-10-unanswered-questions-in-geeky-movies/

7. Star Trek (the 2009 movie): Old Spock biding his time - Kirk gets marooned on the ice planet by Young Spock, and Old Spock saves his life. Then Old Spock tells Kirk that there’s a Starfleet outpost nearby, and they trudge through the snow to get there. Now, Old Spock was marooned there a while before by Nero, and he knew that Nero was going to try to destroy Vulcan. So why didn’t he seek out this Starfleet outpost he knew about until after Kirk arrived? Don’t you think that maybe it would’ve been a smart idea to warn Starfleet that someone was about to try to destroy Vulcan, and, oh, by the way, he’s from the future?
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I just watched this for the second time. Saw it once on release, just watched it on Blu-ray.

Old Spock does the Vulcan mind meld with Kirk before he states his awareness of the Starfleet outpost, which Kirk knew full well of when he was marooned there.

The Vulcan mind meld allows them to exchange thoughts, to become of 'one mind'.

Spock doesn't mention his knowledge of the Starfleet outpost until after this event. So it's quite possible he didn't know of it at all. There is also no mention of how long he was there. Couldn't have been long though as Vulcan was just destroyed shortly before this scene.

Don't forget, due to the alternate universe thing Old Spock never sent Kirk there and had no reason to know about the outpost.
We don't even know if Young Spock knew, he just ordered him off the ship and Kirk was dragged away by officers.

Just food for thought.

Mike
 
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"Time travel plots are the refuge of the unimaginative mind and
the death nell of creativity in episodic films and series television."

- Peter Reynolds (me)
 
Michael Anthony Horrigan said:
We don't even know if Young Spock knew, he just ordered him off the ship and Kirk was dragged away by officers.
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Somehow, I don't see Spock at any age just jettisoning someone off in an escape pod without knowing how he's going to survive.

Actually, I don't see Spock at any age just jettisoning someone off the ship at all, but that's a different matter.
 
I do not know how these results were figured but J.J.'s Star Trek is now officially the most pirated / stolen movie of 2009.
 
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Me Myself & I said:
"Time travel plots are the refuge of the unimaginative mind and
the death nell of creativity in episodic films and series television."

- Peter Reynolds (me)
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Yeah. That was the worst thing about The Terminator. That time-travel business reduced the whole movie to unsalvageable crap. Total lack of imagination on Cameron's part, from start to finish.

Only thing worse than a time-travel plot are people who offer a hopefully-profound statement, then attribute it to themselves as though that lends it weight, or as though others need to know that the person presenting it came up with it - as though that wouldn't be made painfully obvious, by simply omitting the superfluous italicization, quotation marks and attribution line.

Perhaps you should consider allowing others to decide if one or another of your gems are worthy of quotation and attribution. Looks very silly, when you do it yourself. Unless silly is what you were after, and I'm just being too dense to catch on.
 
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Good point. Never know when you may need the good will of a Medical Examiner...

...and btw the word is spelled knell, not nell. If you're going to plumb the depths of pretentiousness you may as well make a minimal effort to spell properly, while you're at it.
 
I just have to say that these blu-rays of Star Trek Season 1 look and sound unbelievably great. It's like watching the shows for the first time again. Even though healthy portions of cheese lurked around every corner in the original series, when it was good it was pretty damn great. And as much as I liked Chris Pine in the role there is only one Captain Kirk, and he is the Shat Man.
 
Michael Anthony Horrigan said:
Spock doesn't mention his knowledge of the Starfleet outpost until after this event. So it's quite possible he didn't know of it at all. There is also no mention of how long he was there. Couldn't have been long though as Vulcan was just destroyed shortly before this scene.
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Counterpoint:

I would think Spock of all people would be aware of a star fleet base on a planet within practically spitting distance from his own (as we can tell from his witnessing Vulcan's destruction).
 
Question:

Did anyone else notice that certain shots of the ST BD look a little distorted? Like they filmed certain shots in a different aspect ration and then "smashed" it to fit the rest of the film? Certain scenes show the actors' faces to be smashed and distorted, and then goes back to normal :-/
 
diego1235467 said:
Question:

Did anyone else notice that certain shots of the ST BD look a little distorted? Like they filmed certain shots in a different aspect ration and then "smashed" it to fit the rest of the film? Certain scenes show the actors' faces to be smashed and distorted, and then goes back to normal :-/
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Yes, I did pick up on that. It's especially noticeable in closeups.
 
I'm not sure if this has been discussed yet (I am much too lazy go through 80 pages of discussion) so my apologies if it has: how is the DVD of Star Trek? I was at Best Buy the other day and I couldn't decide between 500 Days of Summer and Star Trek, and I ended up going with 500 Days of Summer because my family hadn't seen it, and I figured that they probably should. How are the special features and such on the Star Trek DVD?
 
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