Yeah, that's the one aspect of those videos I didn't like, but they still summedup the flaws in the movies well.
TMP Appreciation
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I quite like the comm chatter of Epsilon IX. I always wondered what Columbia and Revere would have looked like if they'd been developed for TMP in 1979. Also loved Epsilon IX computer voice.
That's definitely not bad. I was just thinking more of the TMP design aesthetic, like with the TMP nacelles.Something like this I would hope:
Oh. I just checked. That's what it looks like for real. Okay cool! https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/USS_Revere
I really thought they didn't want to use any TOS stuff in TMP.
It was part of a decent sized amount of Star Trek Technical Manual / Star Trek Bluefprints references in the film. (You didn't even mention the Entente.)
They did NOT want any TOS stuff in the film. I gather there was various pushback about even including TOS photos in the promotional material. There is the TOS Enterprise on the rec deck. That's it. The Director's Edition has a little more. Which I object to if your goal is "This is the film we would have finished in 1979 if we had had more time" because they could have gotten another year and they would not have had TOS sound effects or a TOS shuttlecraft. (I don't think they went back to using TOS sound FX until Star Trek FOUR.)
But as for other ships (that we never see)? The refit Enterprise is supposed to be the first ship to have THOSE engines. So if we ever saw another Fed starship it would presumably have had "older" engines. Or at least different ones.
Recently rewatched TMP for the first time in ages. Upon reevaluation, the Slow Motion Picture is an epic film visually and sonically. The story itself and pacing ding it a bit.
During this rewatch I remembered a drinking game we played a couple of times in college in the late 90s. Whenever McCoy walks out of the turbolift onto the bridge and says nothing and turns around to leave, do a shot. If he says anything or does anything to impact the scene, it doesn't count. Did they have to get Deforest contractually agreed upon screen time? It does happen a decent number of times. Ha;
During this rewatch I remembered a drinking game we played a couple of times in college in the late 90s. Whenever McCoy walks out of the turbolift onto the bridge and says nothing and turns around to leave, do a shot. If he says anything or does anything to impact the scene, it doesn't count. Did they have to get Deforest contractually agreed upon screen time? It does happen a decent number of times. Ha;
As an aside, I've always found it interesting that TFF has more than one instance where they use sound effects straight out of 2001: A Space Odyssey. The one that jumps out at me the most is on-board the shuttlecraft as they are going down to Sha-Ka-Rhee when you hear sounds from the Discovery pods.
Saw it seven times in the Theater when it premiered.
I continue to wonder what Star Trek looks like in the alternate timeline where it continued on from TMP in much the same vein as that film, instead of going the TWOK route. (Please don’t bother with the snarky unthinking drive-by variations of “Nothing, ‘cause it was boring and died!”, okay?)
That footage, minus the Trek World framing, has been shared a number of times over the years.
