Twelve Reasons I Love Star Trek Into Darkness

[Crazy Eddie]

I agree with BillJ's post, except for one thing. The Spock scream bothers me, and I just realized why.

The build up of the reversed-parallel scene was almost right.

I think it would have worked better if Spock let the tension build in his face exactly like Shatner did in TWOK. But instead of the scream, he should have remained silent and then went on to beat the batcrap out of Khan. After his speech about choosing not to feel, releasing all the pent up emotion at that moment seemed a little soon.

Saving the outburst for later would have made it perfect

I have almost the opposite opinion: it seemed to me like the Spock scream was supposed to meld right into the screaming sound the Vengeance made as it barely missed hitting the Enterprise. If anything, it should have been more abrupt, and should have been almost immediately drowned out by Khan's passing.

Thus the sound of the Vengeance plummeting out of the sky might be confused with the sound of a thousand demons conjured straight out of the pit of hell by Spock's unadulterated rage.

 

[Set Harth]

Mysterious wreckage discovered on mountainous surface of Galorndan (sp) core:

I'm intrigued. Maybe this figures into the plot of STXIII?

 

[M'Sharak]

This link has close ups of the newscasts which played in the background of Pike and Marcus' offices. Here is my nerdy annotated version.

I don't want to seem ungrateful, but I can't figure how to get your annotated version to be big enough to read; it's all pixellated blur. Have you got any suggestions?

Click on the "magnifying glass" at the lower right corner of the image, which will give a slightly larger image in a pop-out. Then click on the "magnifying glass" symbol at the lower right corner of that for the really huge image. (5500 x 2000)

 

[Amaris]

It is an awesome annotation, and like teacake, it makes me want to live in the future.

 

[Nebusj]

This link has close ups of the newscasts which played in the background of Pike and Marcus' offices. Here is my nerdy annotated version.

I don't want to seem ungrateful, but I can't figure how to get your annotated version to be big enough to read; it's all pixellated blur. Have you got any suggestions?

Click on the "magnifying glass" at the lower right corner of the image, which will give a slightly larger image in a pop-out. Then click on the "magnifying glass" symbol at the lower right corner of that for the really huge image. (5500 x 2000)

I'm not seeing any magnifying glass, on either Safari or Firefox (Mac 10.8 here). Is it something I'd need to have a Photobucket account to get?

 

[M'Sharak]

I don't want to seem ungrateful, but I can't figure how to get your annotated version to be big enough to read; it's all pixellated blur. Have you got any suggestions?

Click on the "magnifying glass" at the lower right corner of the image, which will give a slightly larger image in a pop-out. Then click on the "magnifying glass" symbol at the lower right corner of that for the really huge image. (5500 x 2000)

I'm not seeing any magnifying glass, on either Safari or Firefox (Mac 10.8 here). Is it something I'd need to have a Photobucket account to get?

I don't think so - I tried logging out of Photobucket and what I see then can be seen in the attachment below, with magnify button circled.

Or we could try a direct link to the image, instead of to the html page containing the image. See if this works.


.

 

[Jedi_Master]

Kudos to King Daniel for the annotated image. Well done.

I also appreciate the depictions of Future Earth, and how attractive they make our planet look. I would love to live there, minus of course the crashing starships.

 

[Nebusj]

I'm not seeing any magnifying glass, on either Safari or Firefox (Mac 10.8 here). Is it something I'd need to have a Photobucket account to get?

I don't think so - I tried logging out of Photobucket and what I see then can be seen in the attachment below, with magnify button circled.

Or we could try a direct link to the image, instead of to the html page containing the image. See if this works.


.

Well, this is peculiar. I'm just not getting any magnifying glass, and I don't see an obvious cause: Javascript's on, of course, and I'm pretty free and open about network connections. I tried it again with pop-ups allowed, too, and that's produced nothing. (I took a screen shot just to prove I'm not mad.)

I'm disappointed that I somehow can't see it, but, obviously it's some issue Photobucket is having with my system and I can't reasonably expect people to put a real effort in to fixing that for me.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Well, this is peculiar. I'm just not getting any magnifying glass, and I don't see an obvious cause: Javascript's on, of course, and I'm pretty free and open about network connections. I tried it again with pop-ups allowed, too, and that's produced nothing. (I took a screen shot just to prove I'm not mad.)

I'm disappointed that I somehow can't see it, but, obviously it's some issue Photobucket is having with my system and I can't reasonably expect people to put a real effort in to fixing that for me.

Fear not, Nebusj! I uploaded everything to my Imgur account. Let me know if they work.

Here's the big annotated version: http://imgur.com/DVLLGdw
Here's the big plain version: http://imgur.com/K9IKFEj
Here's a low-def early prototype version plain: http://imgur.com/TsedjCH
Low-def prototype annotated: http://imgur.com/FJc9Wll

And since I'm here, here's my cutaway of the new Enterprise: http://imgur.com/twIAdWc

 

[F. King Daniel]

Where was this?

This link has close ups of the newscasts which played in the background of Pike and Marcus' offices. Here is my nerdy annotated version.

That is totally cool!!

Great details

Thanks!

This is the newsfeed at the bottom, did you add that as what was being spoken or was it there originally KingDaniel?

Organian peace treaty disputed on eve of founding of Sherman's Planet:Mysterious wreckage discovered on mountainous surface of Galorndan (sp) core:Magustan Pachangara elected Chancellor of Coridan system: Khtitomer discove:

It says "Unrest on Andoria Prime" at the very bottom in white with "status update" under it.

That was the news ticker running along the bottom of the screen. There was no audio, sadly.

Looking at this makes me want to live in the future.

Me too!

Mysterious wreckage discovered on mountainous surface of Galorndan (sp) core:

I'm intrigued. Maybe this figures into the plot of STXIII?

Galorndon Core was where Geordi and that Romulan were forced to work together in "The Enemy". In that episode, it was wreckage of a Romulan ship. I guess they've been crashing ships there for awhile!

It is an awesome annotation, and like teacake, it makes me want to live in the future.

Thank you both!

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Why oh why will I be dead before the future happens
So depressing to think about missing everything.

 

[M'Sharak]

I'm not seeing any magnifying glass, on either Safari or Firefox (Mac 10.8 here). Is it something I'd need to have a Photobucket account to get?

I don't think so - I tried logging out of Photobucket and what I see then can be seen in the attachment below, with magnify button circled.

Or we could try a direct link to the image, instead of to the html page containing the image. See if this works.


.

Well, this is peculiar. I'm just not getting any magnifying glass, and I don't see an obvious cause: Javascript's on, of course, and I'm pretty free and open about network connections. I tried it again with pop-ups allowed, too, and that's produced nothing. (I took a screen shot just to prove I'm not mad.)

I'm disappointed that I somehow can't see it, but, obviously it's some issue Photobucket is having with my system and I can't reasonably expect people to put a real effort in to fixing that for me.

Heh, this is a bit upside-down. I use Opera 12, and if a feature is going to work with all browsers except one, Opera 12 is more often than not the one which isn't supported. Looks like Daniel has provided a set of alternate links, though, so you should be able to see it all now, one way or another.

 

[Nebusj]

Fear not, Nebusj! I uploaded everything to my Imgur account. Let me know if they work.

Here's the big annotated version: http://imgur.com/DVLLGdw
Here's the big plain version: http://imgur.com/K9IKFEj
Here's a low-def early prototype version plain: http://imgur.com/TsedjCH
Low-def prototype annotated: http://imgur.com/FJc9Wll

And since I'm here, here's my cutaway of the new Enterprise: http://imgur.com/twIAdWc

Oh, excellent. The imgur pictures all work perfectly on my system. Thanks for going to the effort.

I'm also mightily impressed by the production team to cram so much stuff, and so much continuity-relevant stuff, into the margins. The selection of stuff is interesting too, considering that, like, the Menk? Granting that they have a good, meaty story behind them, they're not exactly the aliens who come up if you ask someone to name the top … 75 … species in Trek.

 

[BillJ]

I'm also mightily impressed by the production team to cram so much stuff, and so much continuity-relevant stuff, into the margins. The selection of stuff is interesting too, considering that, like, the Menk? Granting that they have a good, meaty story behind them, they're not exactly the aliens who come up if you ask someone to name the top … 75 … species in Trek.

Definitely much love went into creating the universe the characters inhabit. Another thing to love!

 

[Set Harth]

Why oh why will I be dead before the future happens

Even in the future they're saying the same thing.

"Why oh why will I be dead before the Federation gets cloaking devices?"

 

[HIjol]

I loved this movie, and I LOVE this Thread...read it all at work, instead of actually doing my work...

"Damn it, Jim...I'm Fired!"

Great stuff, All, but can we, pretty please, get back to Teacake slapping the shit out of Nerys Myk, for whatever reason...

...was kinda diggin' it!... :0

...seriously, one of the best Threads, thus far...

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

No no that was J.Allen doing the slapping. He's good at that, it's one of his things. In love of course.

 

[HIjol]

No no that was J.Allen doing the slapping. He's good at that, it's one of his things. In love of course.

ah...see!...I was blinded by all that slapping...in Love...of course!...

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Lots of things make a person go blind..

 

[Amaris]

Only if you forget to moisturize regularly.