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It's the oblivious nature of all other personnel to a general quarters alarm. There is a group standing in formation on the flight deck, even after the alarm has sounded. That's painfully nonsensical.
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Does anyone else laugh when Chekov falls (ST IV)??
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It's the oblivious nature of all other personnel to a general quarters alarm. There is a group standing in formation on the flight deck, even after the alarm has sounded. That's painfully nonsensical.
That punk was actually played by Kirk Thatcher, one of the film's producers. He wrote the song, then put together a band and recorded it in the hallway, so it would sound like legitimate garage band punk music. And he got a mohawk haircut so he could play the punk, too.
Something I've often wondered about that scene, why was Chekov questioned by the FBI? Since he was found aboard an aircraft carrier, shouldn't he have been handled by NCIS, or NIS as it would have been known as at the time? Or was this just for the benefit of the audience, as NCIS/NIS wasn't as known among the general public as it is today?
The latter most likely. I know I'd never heard of it back then or even when NCIS first aired.
No. It was one of the few 'action' scenes in the movie. I saw it, I was on the edge of my seat. Having suffered a few falls myself and seen a few, falls are no joke, either.
Re: his looks - Chekov looked like a typical dude from the time. I knew dudes in the 00s still rocking that look, albiet in black.
And anyone with any inkling of the times also knew a oblivious Russian like Chekov snooping around a carrier and being interrogated by the navy was not something to be trifled with. It both showcased how different the 23rd century was and framed it in the context of the 20th.
Overall its one of my 'favorite' or more 'highly regarded' scenes of a great film. I can't get any comedic aspect out of it other than the quips and verbal dueling during the interrogation (thought here's plenty of comedy before as Chekov, oblivious to the cold war, fumbles around San Fran).
And the guy is out for the rest of the movie too, basically, until the last flight?, it really made me pine for him.
Re: his looks - Chekov looked like a typical dude from the time. I knew dudes in the 00s still rocking that look, albiet in black.
And anyone with any inkling of the times also knew a oblivious Russian like Chekov snooping around a carrier and being interrogated by the navy was not something to be trifled with. It both showcased how different the 23rd century was and framed it in the context of the 20th.
Overall its one of my 'favorite' or more 'highly regarded' scenes of a great film. I can't get any comedic aspect out of it other than the quips and verbal dueling during the interrogation (thought here's plenty of comedy before as Chekov, oblivious to the cold war, fumbles around San Fran).
And the guy is out for the rest of the movie too, basically, until the last flight?, it really made me pine for him.
The verbal dueling was funny. The fall was not.
No.
Federal jurisdiction, especially for possible espionage. NIS would be handing it off.
We can't castigate a 1960's show for featuring music that catered to 1960's viewers. Sexism and racism I can stand against, because they were wrong in any time frame. But not music.
Indeed.
Music is one of those things that I go "Wow, that's the breaking point?" I don't find soundtracks to be particularly noteworthy things, either good or ill. It has to stand out particularly horrendously bad, as in poor tonal match, not just because it dates to a particular time.
Yeahhhhhhhh, I will never agree with you there. Some episodes have music I don't like (I, Mudd for example), but it's mostly excellent and some of the best TV scoring of the era.
A brief musical cue and it has to be muted?
More interesting in that clip is that Spock is introduced as "Lieutenant Commander Spock." I wouldn't want to miss that.
More interesting in that clip is that Spock is introduced as "Lieutenant Commander Spock." I wouldn't want to miss that.
When it’s cheesier than a block of Stilton, yes.
I really wish I could understand the reticence to cheesiness. It's such a bandied about term that I don't even understand the meaning of it. People fling it around like it's a universally accepted term, but man does it feel like I don't get it sometimes.
TOS had the most artistically mature, theatrical scores of any ST series. The other series had the equivalent of Muzak or early 80's video game soundtracks.
I'll be a bit more charitable. The first season of TNG, which synthy, was still allowed to have thematic and bold scoring - thanks to Bob Justman. Dennis McCarthy reused a couple of licks from V - The Series (the series was the reason he even got this gig). Once Justman left, then the Muzak began to creep in but didn't become the true norm until Ron Jones was shown the door in the 4th season.
Then McCarthy did Generations and practically needle dropped his "Outgunned" cue into "The Die Is Cast" and suddenly bold scoring was allowed back in Berman Trek. DS9, Voyager and ENT had some lovely scores. ENT suffered in the 4th year when the lower budget made them resort to synths again, but the ideas were still there.
However, because Berman didn't like recurring themes and motifs, and since tracking was no longer permitted, it didn't lodge in the memory like TOS did - and TOS was much more explosive with themes and the space opera. Which is my jam.
Sorry we're dragging this off topic but the OP posed a "yes or no" question and most of us voted "no."
Well, it is a question about humor. And humor is not logical.Sorry we're dragging this off topic but the OP posed a "yes or no" question and most of us voted "no."
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