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Secret Deleted Scene

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skinofevil

Ensign
Skin has recently "acquired" certain items belonging to an individual he will call "John Jacob Anderson." Among these items were several (dozen) parabolic mirrors, one and one half kilograms of high-test Peruvian "marching powder", four gerbils in a Zip-Loc bag (taped to a plastic funnel) and a solid state hard drive.

On the solid state drive, Skin found an amazing piece of video footage from Star Trek XI. For legal reasons, Skin was unable to upload the video footage for posting here. Instead, Skin has transcribed the scene verbatim for the entertainment and education of you, his most devoted confidantes.

Kirk enters the Engineering section at a run.

KIRK
Scotty! Scotty, are you all right!

Kirk looks around anxiously. He is approached by a cadet with a large object in both hands. He addresses the cadet.

KIRK
Cadet, have you seen a goofy, balding dork who thinks this ship is exciting?!

CADET RODDENBERRY
I don't think anyone in their right mind would find this ship exciting, sir.

KIRK
Hey, what's that you've got there?

Cadet Roddenberry favors the object in his hands with an affectionate look.

CADET RODDENBERRY
It's hope, sir.

KIRK
Hope?! Hope for what?! Where are the glowing blue lights?

Cadet Roddenberry flashes a look of confusion.

CADET RODDENBERRY
It... doesn't need them. It's hope for a brighter future for mankind, sir.

Kirk slaps it out of the Cadet's hands and it shatters on the floor.

KIRK
The hell with hope! Hope isn't cool! Rebuild it with glowing blue lights!

Kirk storms into a lens flare and EXITS.
 
Skin is surprised that you would think a find of such amazing illumination of the Star Trek universe trivial. This is truly an inspiring look into the behind-the-scenes process that led to a theatrical masterpiece!
 
skinofevil said:
Skin has recently "acquired" certain items belonging to an individual he will call "John Jacob Anderson." Among these items were several (dozen) parabolic mirrors, one and one half kilograms of high-test Peruvian "marching powder", four gerbils in a Zip-Loc bag (taped to a plastic funnel) and a solid state hard drive.

On the solid state drive, Skin found an amazing piece of video footage from Star Trek XI. For legal reasons, Skin was unable to upload the video footage for posting here. Instead, Skin has transcribed the scene verbatim for the entertainment and education of you, his most devoted confidantes.

Kirk enters the Engineering section at a run.

KIRK
Scotty! Scotty, are you all right!

Kirk looks around anxiously. He is approached by a cadet with a large object in both hands. He addresses the cadet.

KIRK
Cadet, have you seen a goofy, balding dork who thinks this ship is exciting?!

CADET RODDENBERRY
I don't think anyone in their right mind would find this ship exciting, sir.

KIRK
Hey, what's that you've got there?

Cadet Roddenberry favors the object in his hands with an affectionate look.

CADET RODDENBERRY
It's hope, sir.

KIRK
Hope?! Hope for what?! Where are the glowing blue lights?

Cadet Roddenberry flashes a look of confusion.

CADET RODDENBERRY
It... doesn't need them. It's hope for a brighter future for mankind, sir.

Kirk slaps it out of the Cadet's hands and it shatters on the floor.

KIRK
The hell with hope! Hope isn't cool! Rebuild it with glowing blue lights!

Kirk storms into a lens flare and EXITS.
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:lol:That's pretty funny!

Hey! Whatcha gonna do with those gerbils?
 
Skin is pleased to relate that the gerbils, funnel and Zip-Loc bag already sold on Ebay for a tidy sum to a Mr. M. Bay.
 
The best thing about XI was how it rightfully ignored all the preechy, pretentious, and so utterly boring utopian messages that he plagued us with in TMP and TNG in favor of something actual people would want to watch and enjoy.
 
What's wrong with a utopian society? That is one of the things I liked most about Star Trek. It's one of the reasons I've been a fan for more than half my life. The message that in the future, humans had overcome all the vices our current society is plagued with and eliminated sickness, war, poverty, all the things that make our planet's situation so unbearable for so many people. There's nothing wrong with that. One of the many things I disliked about TrekXI is that it eschewed that utopian future for one that, for all intents and purposes, is exactly the same as our present just with more technology.
 
In other words, XI was more like TOS then the spin off shows. Despite revisionist history, TOS was NOT a utopia. TOS depicted humans largely like they are today except they didn't descriminate against one another. There were still prejudices however. Humans used money, sometimes swore, disagreed, and could have actual issues. Please provide proof that XIs future was so much worse off than TOS.
 
Starfleet cadets picking bar fights and beating the crap out poor farm boys, yet apparently receiving no disciplinary action whatsoever and being assigned to the Federation flagship for their actions. Quite respectable. Dr. McCoy having no place to go except to Starfleet after his divorce even though he has a fear of space and flying. Starfleet officers being "banished" to God-forsaken ice worlds with no real food for months at a time as punishment. For either of those things to happen, there must be something seriously wrong with society. Just as there is today. Yet this movie is supposed to depict the future of "enlightened" humans. Those are just a couple of examples that I can think of off the top of my head having not seen the movie in quite some time. Then there's the overall look and mostly the "feel" of the movie that is just not Star Trek-ish. At least to me. Nothing about that movie seemed like Star Trek. It's difficult to quantify. It's subjective.
 
Char Aznable said:
The best thing about XI was how it rightfully ignored all the preechy, pretentious, and so utterly boring utopian messages that he plagued us with in TMP and TNG in favor of something actual people would want to watch and enjoy.
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"We're human beings with the blood of a million savage years on our hands, but we can stop it. We can admit that we're killers, but we're not going to kill today. That's all it takes. Knowing that we won't kill today."
Kirk - A Taste of Armageddon

Yeah, so much better to have Kirk & Spock get so much joy out of killing someone.
 
I-Am-Zim said:
Starfleet cadets picking bar fights and beating the crap out poor farm boys, yet apparently receiving no disciplinary action whatsoever and being assigned to the Federation flagship for their actions.
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You're forgetting that we time skip from Kirk and McCoy joining Starfleet to three years after those events happened. Any disciplinary action would've happened early on in the skipped portion and isn't really relevant to the story.

Dr. McCoy having no place to go except to Starfleet after his divorce even though he has a fear of space and flying. Starfleet officers being "banished" to God-forsaken ice worlds with no real food for months at a time as punishment. For either of those things to happen, there must be something seriously wrong with society. Just as there is today. Yet this movie is supposed to depict the future of "enlightened" humans.
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Enlightenment does not mean that all the ills of human society have been eradicated. It's possible that as a whole, the people of AbramsTrek's future are better than us when it comes to prejudice and other social ills, but just as vindictive as we are on a personal level. McCoy's case certainly sounds like he was involved in a particularly nasty divorce, while Scotty apparently killed an Admiral's dog, something that would really a head on a platter.
 
Just an observation: TOS was not very Utopian, Star Trek didn't become all about humans living in a constant bliss until TNG came around.
 
A lot of GR's Utopic rhetoric came out on the early 70's convention circuit, not during the time of TOS. At the time of TOS he was too busy trying to meet production deadlines and banging guest stars to worry about Trek's "vision."
 
number6 said:
A lot of GR's Utopic rhetoric came out on the early 70's convention circuit, not during the time of TOS. At the time of TOS he was too busy trying to meet production deadlines and banging guest stars to worry about Trek's "vision."
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Exactly. Whenever someone goes on about Gene's glorious vision I also wonder if they believe in the tooth fairy and unicorns.
 
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