Star Trek XI's inconsistences
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Over time I have seen lots of people mentioning inconsistencies that are not really inconsistencies at all.
And that goes for other onscreen Trek too, not just XI.
I must admit i've not read the EAS list (and can't say i intend to really).
The general feeling I have though after all this time is that XI doesn't have any more inconsistencies than your average movie and is hardly the worst Trek in that department.
And that goes for other onscreen Trek too, not just XI.
I must admit i've not read the EAS list (and can't say i intend to really).
The general feeling I have though after all this time is that XI doesn't have any more inconsistencies than your average movie and is hardly the worst Trek in that department.
As with any movie or TV show, I can forgive any inconsistencies/plot holes/whatever if I like the damn thing. And in the case of the new movie, I most certainly do.
Now if I hated it (which I don't), then I could really sink my teeth into the iffy bits. Not that it'd make a blind bit of difference either way, of course. But it can be fun.
Now if I hated it (which I don't), then I could really sink my teeth into the iffy bits. Not that it'd make a blind bit of difference either way, of course. But it can be fun.
I did a quick scan of the EAS list. It's pretty silly, complaining about registry numbers and the colour of Vulcan's sky. Yeah, being a reboot this film would have more of these inconsistencies than most, but who cares? It's just a side effect of getting the new blood the franchise needed. Not even an unpleasant one, since it helps make the product feel fresh.
Skimming that list, I'd have to say that many of the items on it aren't even really inconsistencies -- they're just nitpicks of minor details (most of which have already been kicked around here to the point of being threadbare) having nothing whatsoever to do with consistency.
"The region of the real Riverside, Iowa, is not as flat as in the movie"? Give me a break. That's like complaining about how many times we've seen Vasquez Rocks.
"The crevice that becomes the grave of the classic Corvette is definitely man-made." Duh. It's a quarry; they have lots of those in eastern Iowa (though the one we see in the movie is actually located in Vermont and was digitally inserted into the too-flat
Iowa landscape near Bakersfield.)These are large errors? The list has been padded with "errors" equally glaring.
"What are several Academy cadets doing there, in the middle of nowhere in Iowa?" Dozens of plausible explanations have been offered in this forum alone for something which really doesn't require an explanation at all. They're there to get into a bar fight with James T. Kirk (attitude case) and set up his meeting with (Starfleet Chief of Recruiting) Pike and get him on the shuttle to the Academy by morning -- seriously, what more do you really need?
Do I think this film contains larger errors than all of the other movies and shows? Nope.
Yes it does -- a single page, covering all of the movies from TWoK to Nemesis, none of them addressed as extensively as is the current movie. ENT and VOY get a page each, as well, and there are others addressing specific issues in this or that.
If you want to see a movie filled with Trek inconsistencies, watch TWOK.
Now before you burn me in effigy, I LOVE TWOK, as do many Trek fans. I'm just saying the inconsistencies of TWOK never mattered to many except the most hardcore (or perhaps more amply put "hard-headed") Trek fans. I think the same is true of ST09.
Now before you burn me in effigy, I LOVE TWOK, as do many Trek fans. I'm just saying the inconsistencies of TWOK never mattered to many except the most hardcore (or perhaps more amply put "hard-headed") Trek fans. I think the same is true of ST09.
I skimmed a few pages. I shook my head. I'd nitpick the nitpicking but I don't have that much free time.
If the Enterprise looks beautiful, there ARE no inconsistencies.
Bottom line.
Bottom line.
I think I agree with what was mentioned before. Only the stuff aboard the kelvin should fall into the inconsistences thing. After that this new timeline has been altered to the point where from a writer's point of view 'anything can happen'.
Up to the viewer to accept or not to accept this new world after that
Vons
Up to the viewer to accept or not to accept this new world after that
Vons
If the Enterprise looks beautiful, there ARE no inconsistencies.
Bottom line.
Well, based on that criteria, then the entire movie is one big inconsistency.
Have you raised your shields?If the Enterprise looks beautiful, there ARE no inconsistencies.
Bottom line.
Well, based on that criteria, then the entire movie is one big inconsistency.
Have you raised your shields?If the Enterprise looks beautiful, there ARE no inconsistencies.
Bottom line.
Well, based on that criteria, then the entire movie is one big inconsistency.
"Criterion".
Either way, my phasers are fired.
I belong to the Church Of Ryan, and no one can stop me from my jihad against them that spit upon the NuE!!!
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