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I would be really surprised if it is very actiony. I have a feeling it will have a couple of "big" moments but I certainly don't see it being like Discovery or any of the TNG films.
Enterprise wasn't really actiony from my recollection. Nemesis definitely was though.
Enterprise's first episode involved Archer duel wielding phasers and Reed on a pretty constant pursuit of developing better weapons, including his own version of a phase cannon. It definitely had its actiony moments.
Though, I would put that more on First Contact, INS, and Nemesis for "actioning up" Star Trek than anything else.
Star Trek has had "actiony" episodes and movies goint all the way back to the beginning. TOS had stuff like Arena, Gamesters of Triskelion, and the Spock/Kirk fight in Amok Time, and TNG had Starship Mine. DS9, Voyager, and Enterprise also had quite a few action episodes throughout there runs too.
It gets tedious if there is too much of it. Like in almost all big blockbusters these days.
Oh, I totally agree. It's nauseating and headache-inducing when there's too much of it. Aside from Star Trek Into Darkness, I've never seen Trek cross that line, though.
But it seems like a lot of people think Star Trek is immediately TEH STOOPID the minute there's an action scene. It seems a little reactionary and unfair. Like the show should just be briefing room contemplations and thoughtful negotiations every week.
Something...something...not real Star Trek
I honestly never understood it either. Like, I can appreciate a boardroom scene but I also get those in my own real life. Star Trek is a little more escapist for me and action is a big part of that. I think ST 09 had a pretty good balance of the two, and seemed to employ action far more as a service to the story, rather than Nemesis or even Into Darkness which seemed to ramp it up for little reason.
I don't watch Big Action Hollywood Blockbusters anymore. I haven't in about five years, with very few exceptions (i.e. Wonder Woman or the NuTrek Movies). So I'm not as tired of action as everyone else is.
By the way, yeah, Star Trek never, ever, ever had action in it before. Nope. Never. Definitely not.
Cue "Amok Time".
Lorraine (in 1985): "I think it's terrible! Girls chasing boys. When I was your age I never chased a boy or called a boy or sat in a parked car with a boy."
Lorraine (in 1955): "Marty, I'm almost 18 years old. It's not like I never parked before."
By the way, yeah, Star Trek never, ever, ever had action in it before. Nope. Never. Definitely not.
Cue "Amok Time".
Lorraine (in 1985): "I think it's terrible! Girls chasing boys. When I was your age I never chased a boy or called a boy or sat in a parked car with a boy."
Lorraine (in 1955): "Marty, I'm almost 18 years old. It's not like I never parked before."
My problem with it is ACTION TREK was always more of a movie thing than anything. And honestly, it was always something I associated more with Star Wars anyway. Still, I'm fine with it being one weapon in the arsenal, so long as "Kurtzman Trek" carves out space for episodes like The City on the Edge of Forever, The Inner Light, Duet, The Visitor, Far Beyond the Stars, etc. That's far and away my favorite kind of Star Trek.
Don't try convincing the people who don't like it of that fact, though.
Listening to some of them, you'd think every DSC episode was either the Kronos / Khan scene or the last 20 minutes of Into Darkness.
Every Star Trek episode ever...when it was GOOD and didn't have all that annoying action stuff....damn kids these days!!!:
I guess they use it to get new dishes and dispose of the remains.
Your first martini after centuries will probably be the best you ever had.
I would say Decker, Kirk, and Spock were all vital to the mission's success. Decker stopped the Enterprise from being destroyed by an asteroid. Kirk, being smart enough not to raise shields, bought the Enterprise a little more time. Then he requested friendship messages be sent to V'Ger. Spock was vital in figuring out how to transmit a message at a frequency V'Ger would understand.
- If Kirk were in command without Decker around, the Enterprise is destroyed before it encounters V'Ger.
- If Decker were in command without Kirk around, the Enterprise would've been destroyed just like Epsilon IX and the Amar.
- If Kirk and Decker were both there but Spock never arrived, the Enterprise would've been destroyed because Kirk wouldn't have figured out how to communicate with V'Ger.
"James T. Kirk! Renegade and Terrorist!"
Pretty sure that's the same map that was at NYCC, minus some colour:
The onscreen wall art seems to be directly lifted from the Star Charts/Stellar Cartography books, with all the original colors and all - only with an eraser applied on the amber formerly denoting the Cardassian Union. The density of labels is about the same, too.
The art above is a custom job, with the DSC style UFP/FPU logo, even if without the DSC use of red and blue text exclusively; quite possibly churned out by the same folks that did all the DSC maps, but obviously with PIC-specific astropolitics actually worked in.
It sorta seems somebody cares...
Timo Saloniemi
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