Y'see, Dayton, that is what makes the difference between a professional who takes the work seriously and a hack who doesn't care and doesn't think the audience either cares or is smart enough to notice.
Who of you the tie-in authors doesn't know Trek down to the tiniest bit of trivia, even the technobabble stuff?
Me.
I don't keep all that crap in my head. I can hold my own so far as TOS and most of TNG is concerned, but not so with all the ridiculous mumbo-jumbo from the latter series. When the need to have such information arises, I consult the proper references to refresh my memory. Unless there's a specific need, I don't spend time obsessing over such things.
Emphasis mine.
Y'see, Dayton, that is what makes the difference between a professional who takes the work seriously and a hack who doesn't care and doesn't think the audience either cares or is smart enough to notice.
Emphasis mine.
Y'see, Dayton, that is what makes the difference between a professional who takes the work seriously and a hack who doesn't care and doesn't think the audience either cares or is smart enough to notice.
Expect a fruit basket at Star Fest.
However, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, oh self-appointed know-it-all of all things Star Trek. Do tell us exactly how this FICTIONAL PIECE OF ENGINEERING is supposed to work, and why the producers of Star Trek '09 are morons for thinking otherwise?
So if there was a reference in The Art of the Film to the Bussard collectors drawing in antimatter from space, that's wrong, but close enough to right to show that whoever said it wasn't completely unfamiliar with what Trek had established in the past. As I said, the passage in the book could've been a misstatement or misquote, and we don't even know who said it. And it's still completely irrelevant to the quality of the film.
But just the fact that they're actually using Bussard collectors on Trek as opposed to, say, a "Q-38 Explosive Space Modulator" shows that they indeed have a good grasp of scientific engineering principles, whether they know all the intricacies of it or not.
Emphasis mine.
Y'see, Dayton, that is what makes the difference between a professional who takes the work seriously and a hack who doesn't care and doesn't think the audience either cares or is smart enough to notice.
Expect a fruit basket at Star Fest.
Or the third option is that the audience is smart enough to notice and be smart enough to not care.
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