My inner nerd is not happy with this commercial.
Well, my inner nerd is not happy with the Star Trek stuff. My inner nerd can't get over it.
It's 2020 and it's easy as cake to find Star Trek info'. And the fans are everywhere, yet this commercial got nearly everything about the two elements scene -- the pre-refit Enterprise and the transporter effect, WRONG. My inner nerd is raging.
So, the commercial opens up with the TOS Enterprise coming out of warp.
Mistake #1: The TOS Enterprise DOES NOT drop suddenly out of warp speed. The half-asers who put this together are confusing this with other properties where a vessel drops out of faster-than-light speed suddenly, like Star Wars and "The Orville". Maybe that's how the Federal ships work in the J.J. films, but not the Enterprise in TOS; it decelerates and you can hear the noise; even a hundred years later in-verse on TNG, the Enterprise D didn't suddenly stop either, it decelerated, too, albeit as a faster rate.
Mistake #2: It's too maneuverable.
Mistake #3: It's metallic and reflective. Anybody who watched the original TOS series (and don't even hand me any of those re-mastered effects shots) know it was white in appearance and kind of glowed in a way (due to shooting no doubt).
Then there's the transporter effect at the end, which is meant for the Enterprise in orbit above (which you can see overhead when the effect occurs). The only thing they got right was that the original series had transporters -- that's it. The color is wrong, the speed is wrong, the effect is wrong, the sound is wrong, and the two people beamed are moving; while I cannot account for the possibility of people moving while being beamed in all of the TOS, all fans know you came to a bizarre stand-still while transport occurred. The moving element occurred later in the films and spin-off's. For goodness sakes -- the effect looks like a bizarre "If They Mated" off spring of the TNG effect and the V'ger/Ilia combining weird thing from ST: TMP.
The lazy writers that apparently threw a quick and easy nostalgia trip idea together, need their nerd licenses revoked. And then tarred and feathered.
