hey rockman didn't look too bad!

[RAMA]

In the immortal words of the Seinfeld Bubble Boy: Not too good

 

[Kryton]

If only we could have cobbled together some sort of rudimentary lathe....

 

[Maurice]

A rock lobster would have been better. The B-52s could have done the theme song.

Perhaps, but if they did use the B52s the Enterprise would have had to "Roam" to "Planet Clair" before singing that "Song for a Future Generation".

 

[Kirk1980]

As long as there was no 'Love Shack'.

 

[cardinal biggles]

^That was Kirk's quarters.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

^

 

[Data Holmes]

The problem with the Rockman is that from a narrative standpoint he's an anticlimax. I mean, the Enterprise blows up this God thing that zaps Kirk and Spock and Sybok sacrifices himself to, so you go from the big powerful looking thing to one or more gargoyles to chase Kirk around until the Klingons save him? Think of it from an audience POV. You blow up the glowing God and then there's a rock guy chasing Kirk. What does one have to do with the other? Sure, if you change the script to reveal that THIS is the true form of the God-pretender, or that a bunch of them together created the image of God as a ruse, then you've got some reason for them, but as is they're pointless tack-ons. At least the glowing head chasing Kirk is clearly the same entity, stupid looking as it is.

Well said!
If the main antagonist has been stopped then this Rockman is just something to shoot phasers at before the audience goes home. Though it did look a heck of a lot better than I'd heard the last 15 years or so!
Sort of like the idea that at the end of TMP the three Klingon ships were supposed to reemerge from V'Ger and attack the Enterprise...it may have looked sort of neat, but the story was over.

Ah, but while the story was over, the human adventure was just beginning...

 

[RoJoHen]

Ah, but while the story was over, the human adventure was just beginning...

I've been human my whole life, and I have never once done battle with a Rock Monster.

 

[trevanian]

How about a Blue Meanie? (no, not a sadistic andorian!)

 

[QuasarVM]

There ya go, Trev...being all condescending and stuff...

Kidding!