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The Reboot's answer to "Voyage Home"?

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Laura Cynthia Chambers

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Supposing that the new movies made their own "Voyage Home" - I don't mean the whale story, but the general idea of going back in time for some reason and interacting with present day folks (2018/19/20).

(Though I think it would be better to cut (even the tenuous Beyond's Yorktown) ties with Earth for the film and explore a region where nobody can come to their rescue, nor are there any other Humans around but those of the Enterprise-A.)

What kinds of cultural phenomena would they fail to understand? (Selfies, media, art and music - Kirk likes 1980s music after all)

What technology would they have trouble with? (a la Prime Scotty's "Hello computer")

What would people from the 2010s think of them? (spies, freaks, insane, etc)
 
pst said:
they'd see donald trump sitting in the oval office and just let whatever alien threat get us.
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Let's just not go there, shall we?

If some aspect of current politics has some reasonable connection to a Trek story which is already under discussion, then we can entertain that as a part of the conversation. Otherwise, though, let's keep to Trek topics in here and leave political things for forums more appropriate to those topics.
 
To a large extent, things which seemed odd in 1986 (when the "modern day" scenes take place in STIV), such as talking to computers, etc are normal and expected in the 23rd century.
 
M'Sharak said:
Let's just not go there, shall we?

If some aspect of current politics has some reasonable connection to a Trek story which is already under discussion, then we can entertain that as a part of the conversation. Otherwise, though, let's keep to Trek topics in here and leave political things for forums more appropriate to those topics.
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it was a joke.
 
pst said:
it was a joke.
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You know it was a joke. I know it was a joke.

But someone — maybe not today, or tomorrow, or next week, but someday — is going to open the thread, see that, and not find it amusing at all. Because that's the way it always is with political topics. And then things happen. And then I get to be the one who's playing damage control in the midst of an unnecessary and avoidable (not to mention completely off-topic) partisan pissing match, instead of watching over nice, pleasant, non-contentious conversations about Star Trek.*

So... yeah, I'd rather we not do that in this forum. It just works better for everyone.




* What? Those actually happen sometimes. Don't they?
 
I could see them having to go back in time for some reason and when they land and see everybody with their faces glued to their smartphones walking around like zombies, they think the Borg have begun a secret incursion and hilarity ensues.
 
King Daniel Beyond said:
I'd suggest that maybe the modern Trek crews are too contemporary and streetwise for time travel fish-out-of-water stuff to work like it did with the classic crew in the 80's.
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Yeah, you know, they'd probably have to go back to a time we recognize like the 50s or medieval or whatever. It would give us a chance to see what happened to Nu Marla McGivers, ship's historian, since she didn't go with Khan this time around.
 
I think if Star Trek IV had been made today, this is the song they should've played after Kirk said, "Everybody remember where we parked," and they went into the city:

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Nothing screams Ridiculous and Today like "Uptown Funk". Just imagine this Kirk while says, "Double dumbass on you!"

McCoy: "It's a miracle these people ever got out of the 21st Century!" :D
 
They'll just crib lines and unearned emotional beats from the original STIV and puree them into a mishmash of action scenes and lens flare, much like they did with ST:WoK and Into Dorkness.
 
What about a remake of Tomorrow Is Yesterday, then, with a different reason for going back in time than studying 1960s Earth (maybe an accidental time shift)
 
Oops, I confused it with "Assignment:Earth".

Captain Kirk said:
Captain's log. Using the light-speed breakaway factor, the Enterprise has moved back through time to the 20th century. We are now in extended orbit around Earth, using our ship's deflector shields to remain unobserved. Our mission – historical research. We are monitoring Earth communications to find out how our planet survived desperate problems in the year 1968.
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But as far as TIY goes, a different reason than just pure accident.
 
pst said:
they'd see donald trump sitting in the oval office and just let whatever alien threat get us.
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That's an interesting idea, but it's not really Star Trek's MO. Star Trek has attacked many of the ideas of past Presidents (Johnson's Vietnam War, Reagan's anti-environtalism, Bush's War on Terror, Obama's drone warfare), but they've always refrained from attacking the real political figures (or any figures, really) themselves. Except for the time they may have accused Lee Kuan Yew (Prime Minister of Singapore 1959 to 1990) of being a bloodthirsty dictator, but that's one exception.

Discovery has already presented us with several ideological attacks on Trump policies and demeanor. Moreso, it seems, than is historically the norm. I expect the next Star Trek film will be equally filled with ideas taken from the aether of current affairs, but if it is set in the modern day, I don't expect any cameo from the current commander-in-chief.

It would probably date the movie too much, in addition to alienating a small percentage of the audience.
 
If we're doing time travel, and odds of going forward with the Pine/Quinto cast is pretty iffy beyond this point, flip the damn script. Go forward in time - let's meet the Abramsverse version of Picard, Riker and co.

After all, Daniel Craig's going to be needing another job pretty soon...
 
Nightowl1701 said:
If we're doing time travel, and odds of going forward with the Pine/Quinto cast is pretty iffy beyond this point, flip the damn script. Go forward in time - let's meet the Abramsverse version of Picard, Riker and co.

After all, Daniel Craig's going to be needing another job pretty soon...
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Never thought of Daniel Craig as a reboot Picard. I quite like the idea, I think he could pull it off. Not that it will ever happen of course.
 
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