That's the gist of it, yes.
Trek cliches that annoy you
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"We're the only ship within range."
Right. I was always like, just how many ships are in the fleet? But the shows are about the USS Enterprise, not the USS Can't-get-there-in-time.
Weapons that never work around radiation, alien mind spells, etc....
The 'only ship in range' thing. If you aren't on the Enterprise, the Defiant, or Voyager, don't ever expect to get there in time.
I wonder if Cpt. Joe Bloggs aboard the USS Rustbucket ever meets the Q, or a Greek God, encounters a Guardian of Forever, or does any interesting activity at all?
I wonder if Cpt. Joe Bloggs aboard the USS Rustbucket ever meets the Q, or a Greek God, encounters a Guardian of Forever, or does any interesting activity at all?
The bolded part. Why is it "bad writing" and what cult are you refering to.
Not THAT part. I mean the "warp drive" expression. I know I can say it and not even get a weird look from non-Trekkies.
Captain Robau is bald and he wears any damned thing he wants.
Captain Robau love doing morning talk shows in San Diego
Romulan ale is probably much like absinthe, it's illegal but it's not.
Ever notice that after saucer seperation ... where's the battle bridge?
It's on the very top of the neck, right out in the open. Just like the main bridge!
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I wouldn't call it crap, though.
"It was just a dream (alien test, anomaly-induced halucination, a bad trip)" type of story. Come on, it sucks, it double sucks, it triple sucks.
A prime example: "Oh look, we hit an anomaly and it got us to collectively experience the Bajoran holocaust and to meet Kira's mom. Isn't it awesome?" Whoever wrote that story needs to be kicked in the arse on a daily basis.
A prime example: "Oh look, we hit an anomaly and it got us to collectively experience the Bajoran holocaust and to meet Kira's mom. Isn't it awesome?" Whoever wrote that story needs to be kicked in the arse on a daily basis.
You mean like The Inner Light and The Visitor?
Actually, the one with Kira's mother was the result of an orb experiance.
Well, we are, but it didn't need to be the theme so often.
And I'd like to add, fans who use canon (or its often misspelled counterpart, cannon) and "Roddenberry's Vision" as the end all be all to an argument, and treat Star Trek pre-Abrams as something sacrosanct.
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You know, TPTB don't mention football or basketball either, not even soccer the most popular team sport on earth (not here). The only team sports we know survive are water polo and bowling.
Because the characters killed off are totally hollow, hence their death has no impact. Then they are always killed in the most stupid ways. The new movie was no exception.
It has already been made fun of a dozen times, most notably in Galaxy Quest because of that.
And the cult... all those Trekkies who get a hard on every time a redshirt dies. There are many of them. Probably the same people who prefer that god-awful "fight" between Shatner and the Gorn over a good, fast, well choreographed fight scene.
And on the flip-side, all those who have somehow lost all sense of objectivity and treat any criticism of the new movie as an insult to their first born.
Red Shirts are fun. People who complain about them need to lighten up and remember that it is just a TV show.
Arena is a Trek classic, and Kirk vs the Gorn is one of my all-time favourite fights. You want something awful, what about the CG Gorn we saw in Enterprise? Seriously, were I directing that episode, I would have used the very same lizard costume from the 60s as opposed to that monstrosity.
Football survives in Enterprise. One of the emotional Vulcans in "Fusion" asks Trip about a football game that a colleague has seen. (He believed that the opposing team was literally trying to "kill the quarterback.")
And in "Fortunate Son" the freighter captain and a member of his crew are tossing a football back and forth in the cargo hold.
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