I so love this list.When I watch watch Star Trek reruns in the 70s, ALL of the technology was fantasy.
Even the automated doors.I can remember asacid most grocery stores had old style hinged doors, but more and more were started to add “futuristic” automatic sliding doors.As kids we loved to play with them, jumping on the pad to get the electronic doors to open ”like on star trek”.
When cell phones arrived in the late 90s, we were like “ we finally have star trek communicators….
Sure, it was alwaysthe tendency of electronics to keep getting smaller and better. Big military and Policeradios were too expensive and too big for regular people. But maybe one day inventors could make “radios” like that available to regular folk.And Star Trek put ideas like that into engineers minds,Star Trek had the idea, not the science, to do it. Engineers could take Star Trek ideas and build the science into it.
Star Trek had desktop computers 30 to 40 years before the real world did.PADD’s….. iPads…
Tablets…
We don’t have replicators but we have the beginnings of 3D printing. We don’t have warp drive but…. well we’re nowhere near THAT, but who knows, maybe some day…
One thing this list forgot to include is that in the sixties, medical technology on Star Trek was pure fantasy. You could see a patients vital signs on computer screens. That didn’t exist then but its common place now.
I learned to love Star Trek The Next Generation! I grew up living the Original Series but didn’t start to love TNG until season 3. That said, one of my favorite episodes of TNG was “ Relics,” the one where Scotty shows up on Picard’s Enterprise. At the end of the episode, Picard “ loans” Scotty a Starfleet shuttle to go where he wants. ( I never got that, Picard was responsible for that ship but it wasn’t his property, wouldn’t Starfleet want it back?)
Anyhoo=- I always wondered where Scotty went- how would he live a century ahead of his time? I had the idea for a sequel episode. The Next Generation went off the air so I could never do it, so I re imagined it as maybe a Deep Space 9 episode but I never got it written or submitted.
I thought maybe it could be a fan film, but who’s got the time and money to recreate all those sets and get lookalike actors ( yes its been done- god bless em…. but I don’t think I could do it)
I often wondered if it would work as just a novel. Then I saw that there WAS a novel that was a sequel to relics, that had some similar ideas to my own.
I just googled “ relics” and while there is a novelization of the episode https://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Next-Generation-Relics/dp/0671851063
I seem to remember a scene (in a novel) where Scotty visits a museum that has the Original Enterprise bridge in it. No I don’t mean the holodeck scene.
So my story idea…. ( I know, you shouldn’t never tell your story ideas to anyone so that they don’t get stolen, but I’m no shakespeare so I’ll take a chance)
For some reason Picard sees a ship approaching his Enterprise D…. his crew can’t scan what it is. They think its Starfleet but it doesn’t give off any current StarFleet signals. They look at the view screen and see…
The Original Series Enterprise?!?!?
They scan the front saucer section and it isn’t the Enterprise, its another ship from that era ( I have a question about that for all of you…. later).
The Enterprise D. sends out a hail, and the Enterprise D’s Screen is filed with the face of… Scotty!
He announces that he is The captain of The “ USS _______” with some guests to bring aboard the Enterprise D.
The reason broo-hahaha about Star Trek fan films from CBS gave me an idea as to WHY there are visitors to the Enterprise.
Theres an intergalactic scandal involving gold pressed latinum. It seems a certain planet has been making copyrighted Golden statues but that people all over the Galaxy have been buying these statues and re melting them and remaking them into new works of art. Theres going to be a conference on the Enterprise as to whether this should be allowed to continue, does the original creator have the right to maintain control of their creations after they’ve been sold? Do consumers have the right to make their own art from art that they’ve bought? ( Uhh gee, what kind of analogy could I possibly be making? tee hee hee).
Scotty has been hired to transport the copyright owners the conference, other ships arrive bringing other litigants to the conference.
One of the other ships has Lwaxanna Troi, her people have been active in remaking the statues. Picard groans in anticipation of the antics he knows she’s going to cause.
Onboard Scotty’s ship, on the bridge a call comes in “shuttle bay Doors have a defect, we’ll have to fix it before our guests can leave”
The first officer then is about to assign an engineering repair crew to the work on the shuttle bay doors.
Scotty cuts in” Don’t you dare, Ill go down and fix it myself. I don’t trust any of you! I’ve been working on ships like this a century before you were born”
Dissolve, we see Scotty has fixed the shuttle bay doors, and one of his crew takes his seat to pilot the shuttle to the Enterprise D.
Scotty cuts in with “Get up Laddie, I piloted that shuttle all by myself for years, I know it better than you, I’ll pilot it myself!”
Scotty and his guests flies aboard the Enterprise D in the Shuttle that Picard gave him. He wants to give the shuttle back. “Its a great little shuttle but I’ve got my own ship now”
Scotty talks with Geordi and Picard about his ship. Scotty explains that its an old Federation ship that was badly damaged in battle and was going to be recycled for scrap parts for other ships. Via a bureaucratic foul up Starfleet simply FORGOT the ship was in a Federation scrap yard and it stayed there’d floating in obscurity in the back of a scrap yard for a century. (I’m thinking of the Federation scrap yard seen in “Unification”).
Also, Scotty checked his bank accounts and it turns out that there was one his family didn’t know about and it had a little bit of money that with compound interest over a century now has a fortune. That and his Starfleet retirement back pay he had enough money to just BUY the broken ship and with his peerless skills with ships of that era he pieced it back into working order and now runs a cargo / transport business. he hired some ex- star fleet members to be his crew and help him run the ship and the business.
I plan on touching on the THEORY that Picard expounded on in the film “ First Contact” . I don’t buy Picard’s theory that there is no money in his time. I am sure Picard likes to BELIEVE that, but it just isn’t so. Just look at the Ferengi. I can remember Spock in “Errand of Mercy” babbling on about how much their Starfleet training cost. Just as Vulcans really WANT to believe they have no emotions, but they clearly do… Starfleet, or at least everyone around Starfleet, uses money… I also remember a deep space nine episode where Odo figures out that a Klingon was using money to weaken his enemy.
Scotty asks LaForge and Picard for their help in something. Scotty thinks members of his crew are trying to kill him, or at least sabotage him. Things are breaking all the time on his ship, and he thinks the crew is responsible. Picard assigns Data and security Chief Worf to help look into it.
Lwaxanaa Troi keeps flirting with all the delegates at the Conference. Deanna Troi explains to a female Klingon ambassador about her mother and her ferocious “husband hunt” and how she embarrasses her by approaching men. The Klingon is surprisingly sensitive, saying he understands her mating frustrations, how Klingons mate, how they mate for life in devoted rituals. And how she might admire how strong a man would have to be to be married to a woman like Lwaxanaa. The Klingon points out that Deanna can’t stop every man from getting close with her, and that eventually she will succeed in finding the right man. Doesn’t Deanna want her mother to eventually find a good man.
The conference has a lot of arguing about who has the right to a creative endeavor. Don’t the people who buy it and support have the right to alter it and make something new with it?
Worf and Scotty are aboard Scotty’s ship. Worf is scanning the security camera logs. He is trying to synch up times of repairs with video recordings, but it becomes apparent someone has cut out the video of what happened. Scotty’s ship looks just like the Original series Enterprise but with lots of little modifications. Its got the original square Captains chair and the helmsman desk is the same but the displays are different. The computer screens on the bridge have been replaced with newer ones that look just like the ones on the enterprise D. Its got the base of the old style ships but little upgrades everywhere.
“She may not be a commissioned Starship anymore, but to get Starfleet contracts they keep making me get get new upgrades to meet safety standards. I’ve had to turn this ship inside out, theres no touch of the original guts of this ship left anymore.”
Theres an announcement over the intercom that an engineering team is needed in the mess hall. Scotty Says “ I better see to it myself, these fools don’t know what they’re doing”
Worf Interviews Scotty’s First Officer. He was a star fleet officer who upon retirement took the job running Scotty’s ship. Most of the crew are ex star fleet. The first officer explains that while Scotty is great at keeping a ship running, he doesn’t know how to run a ship. Scotty was the best engineer of his time, but this isn’t his time anymore. He resists upgrades, he’d rather be fixing things than doing administrative tasks that need to be done. he’s a great engineer but not a great captain. Why didn’t Kirk promote him to captain back in the day? He knew he was a great engineer but not Captain material.
Scotty is Back aboard the Enterprise D and sees that Lwaxaanas shuttle isn’t working right. Scotty offers to look into it. He notices that Bajoran Technology is a lot like the kind he knows. Lwaxaana is impressed. One of Lwaxaana’s crew cuts his hand and Scotty escorts him to sick bay. One of the conference attendees got drunk on illegal ale and is being sexually rude to Dr. Crusher. Scotty decks the man and makes him apologize.
The conference collapses, the Creators of the statues insist they’ll take legal action against anyone who modifies their statues while the other attendees ins is they will continue to make modifications as they like.
Worf has Scotty’s first officer and 2 others from Scotty’s crew in the Enterprise D conference room. They are shown the evidence. They confess that they have been sabotaging the ship but with good reason. Scotty is great at fixing broken things but not interested in running the ship. They try to keep the ship running but Scotty insists its HIS ship and he should be in control. They keep breaking little things to keep him busy so he’ll leave them alone to run the ship. They need to distract him.
Picard says they have no jurisdiction in this matter but even as a retired Starfleet officer he still has an oath to his duty, he is honor bound to confess to Scotty what they’ve been doing.
The group, Picard, Worf, Geordi, Riker, Deanna and Scotty’s crew are in the shuttle bay and see Scotty telling Lwaxnna about the repairs he did. Lwaxaana is clearly smitten with Scotty, he is clearly her next “ target” for a husband.
Deanna says “ Oh no I have to stop this”
Riker grabs her arm “ Why? She has to pick someone eventually. Why not him?”
Geordi says “Even from his day, he was an old school gentleman of the highest order”
Riker “ he had the finest service record in all of star fleet….”
Scotty’s First Officer : “ He believes his ship is his lady, and he always takes care of his lady to the best of his ability”
Scotty’s other crew member: “If he takes an oath to take her as his lady, he’ll be totally devoted to taking care of her”
Riker “ Your mother will be in good hands”
Deanna looks at Picard. He is close mouthed but its written on his face that he thinks this is a good idea.
Deanna “ You just want her married off so she won’t be in the way anymore, and you (to Scotty’s crew) just want Scotty to be distracted!”
Riker: “ It isn’t your decision to make, its hers, but, it would do both!
Deanna “She’ll drive him crazy”
Geordi “ And He’ll drive her crazy”
Scotty’s First Officer : “Yeah like all married couples”
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Uggh! This is the first time I’ve written it all down. I’ve had these scraps of ideas for over a decade. No… since 1992….. Whoah!
I just re read what I wrote, This draft is a mess. It can only get better with re writes.
Here is where I need my fellow Trek fans help. I love Trek but I bet a lot of you know more than me.
Some questions:
Can you name an Original Series ship, or ships, that were damaged beyond repair? I could just make up a name but why not use a ship that was wiped out ( by the doomsday machine or something?).
Hmm google just told me the Doomsday machine damaged the USS Constellation. would that work or is it in trek canon that something else happened to the Constellation. No wait…. the Constellation is blown up at the end of that episode. SLAP! Ok name another ship.
Can you think of a race of people in the Trek universe who might be the ones protecting their gold statues? Any artist class people whose name I should use?
Any star trek characters / races who would be the main alterers of the statues?
OR…. is there something in Trek lore that would be better to use than just gold statues?
Any Canon mention (other novels, shows) of what happened to Scotty after RELICS?
Why should you help me write my fan fiction? Why not? You can if you want…. or not..
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I am also thinking that instead of a fan film…. make it as an audio play. Almost like an old time radio serial. OR…. kind of like those story records from the 1970’s:
Every film fan feels the need to do a “top ten” or “ten best” list for the year.
Well just like the past few years- as much as I LOVE movies I don’t go as often as you might think. If you counted up every NEW movie Ive seen in the theater this year, THAT might be less than ten.
Sure I go to Terror Tuesday every week and Weird Wednesday a lot- those are usually ten to thirty year old movies.
So here I go :
22)JOY – a “just okay” Lifetime TV movie about female empowerment who uses a very sexist thing, kitchen mops, to build a business empire as all the men around her either battle her or belittle her.
21)THE MARTIAN.Reminded too much of recent similar films like GRAVITYand the ending had the same structure as ARMAGEDDON… “ he’s about to get his ship to take off…. but no- wait he gets it work- he gets into space.. then another setback, then another…..
20) BRIDGE OF SPIES.Cold War thriller…. reminded me of “13 Days” good but not great.
19) CHAPPIE – a blatantly plagiaristic mash up of “ Short Circuit” “ Robo Cop” and “District 13” That goofy guys bad haircut and scrawny attempts to sound “ gangsta”Bad but it stuck in my mind.One of thosemovies I SAY I hate but I could watch it again just to be aggravated by the weird accents.
18) 50 SHADES OF GREY I’m almost embarrassed to say I went to see this. My (then) girlfriend wanted to see it…. Dakota Johnson is gorgeous and the photography conveys a sense of dark mystery. But this is teenybopper fan fix slash… Pretty college grad gets a billionaire boyfriend who’s got a dark secret that only a good woman can heal….. GAG!
17) MAGGIE.I love “The Walking Dead” comic book and TV show, as well as Romero’s DEAD films.This is pretty much a standalone episode of “The Walking Dead”shot in the style of last years “ The road”.I was excited to see it because my old pal JD Evermoore is seen shoving Arnold Schwarzenegger around in the trailer! WHO shoves Arnold and lives?
16) POLTERGEIST. Un necessary remake.I saw it on dvd not in the theater so i can’t say if the 3D footage of “the other side” was any good.Putting a camera drone into another dimension was a clever idea! Why not a sequel instead of a remake?ANOTHER family moves in and meets the same ghost wall.
15) COP CAR. Got it from RedBox….Pretty good…..not amazing….
14) JUPITER ASCENDING – everyone hated it. I saw it at the discount theater and thought it was… OK. The ending reminded me of “Flash Gordon” in a bad way. Flash Gordon meets the Transformers meets… Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe. Visually great though.
13) BLACK MASS.I’d seen TV documentaries on the real Whitey Bulger and “The Departed” was almost the same story.. so this didn’t really do it for me.Boston accented movies have been in vogue lately, Benedict Cumberbatch was cast for his name value not because he’s right for the part.I just didn’t care about this character, theres nothing in this that explains why he was the way he was.
12) CHAPPIE – a blatantly plagiaristic mash up of “ Short Circuit” “ Robo Cop” and “District 13” That goofy guys bad haircut and scrawny attempts to sound “ gangsta”Bad but it stuck in my mind.One of thosemovies I SAY I hate but I could watch it again just to be aggravated by the weird accents.
11) TERMINATOR GENISYS. Arnie! You’ve been Governor and legally CAN’T be President so why not play a bad guy again?!? This is a reboot like the “ Nu Trek” and a lot like JURASSIC WORLD. This is nice clean professional filmmaking and lacks the dirt B Movie energy of the first. And setting a key scene on the Golden Gate Bridge make it all the more reminiscent of yet another reboot “ Rise of the Planet of the Apes”.
10) JURASSIC WORLD.Ho Hum. They re opened Jurassic Park even bigger and better than the old one. Gee I wonder if the monsters are gonna get out?!?!The good- seeing Chris Pratt’s training of the raptors… Bryce Howard’s gratuitous cleavage, the rolling ball ride, that whale thing……the bad? It seemed like a remake of the first one. And I’m the ONEperson who really liked Jurassic Park 3!
09) IT FOLLOWS.Partway through I realized I’d seen it before at a film festival. A blatant STD analogy… very good direction and atmosphere.Cheap looking in a VERY good way- that adds to the atmosphere. I stopped thinking about how they made it ( for once) and got lost in the story.
08) SICARIO. Stylistically cribs from “Clear and Present Danger” and “ Traffic” but still pretty good. Benicio is great as someone who doesn’t want to be evil but wants to do evil things.That final staredown in the apartment parking lot!
07) MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: ROGUE NATION (2015) I have completely lost track of how many of these there have been or really what they’re about. Tom Cruise is some sort of James Bond guy doing…. impossible things…..That opening stunt with Cruise REALLY hanging from the outside of a plane was great but it never got that good again for the rest of the movie.At this point the movies have absolutely NO connection to the TV show I so loved in re runs!
06) LISTEN TO ME MARLON a documentary on an acclaimed actor who is alleged to have been an egotistical weirdo who treated his directors like shit.Brando was a fascinating bastard and this is a fascinating look at him. It opens on a CGI Brando but NOT the one from Superman Returns.
05) INSIDE OUT. After CARS I no longer said “ Pixar can do no wrong”.This took awhile to start to work on me, but the unusual story point that sadness is just as valuable as joy saved it for .
04) THE HATEFUL 8.This is both on my best of and WORST of movies of 2015.A friend of mine got me a ticket as a Christmas present and getting to see 70mm on a big screen is always a good thing!And it was the first really cold night of the year here in Austin Texas so I still had a chill over me when I sat down in the theater.This doesn’t seem like typical Tarantino- a bunch of surrogates for QT himself spouting ceaseless pop culture references that don’t seem to have anything to do with the scene they’re in. The big gorgeous snowy Colorado mountains looked great in wide screen.Characters DO talk too much andcharacters stuck out in the middle of no where amazingly know each other, COINCIDENTALLY are somehow connected….Once the characters get into a horse drawn stage coach its an interior character study.The camera just stays in them- it may as well have been inside.Then they get to “Minnie’s Haberdashery” an odd combination of the general store we see in every westernand some sort of lounge / coffee shoppe ( is this historically accurate?) theres a bit of outdoor action in the barn and when they plunk down a guideline to the outhouse.
Theres a running gag about how the door has to be hammered shut every time its opened. This doesn’t seem to make any sense- which is actually GOOD writing because it gets you thinking WHY the door is like that- and eventually they DO explain it.I’m no expert on racial history but I always thought there was formal segregation everywhere until the late 1950’s / 60s…. I didn’t get how Samuel Jacksons character was allowed into the same carriage as Kurt Russell’s character, not why he was allowed into the “haberdashery” Actually several characters ask “ Why is HE here?” ( They explain later that Minnie was a black who apparently had no issues with the mixed race clientele.I guess in the old west- or at least in THIS MOVIE’s old west no one has a problem with patronizing a black business. I am assuming there were dozens of references to old western movies that I haven’t seen.The Alamo Drafthouse sort of spelled jot out with their video pre-show- they showed charlie Chaplin’s short “The Gold Rush” ( where he’s trapped in a snowbound cabin) John Carpenters THE THING ( a bunch of men trapped in a snowbound building trying to figure outwho is the bad guy) and some odd foreign western I knew nothing about .The second half is all inside the cabin so why make it a 70mm epic?This part reminded of a Woody Allen film, QT’s own Reservoir Dogs ( the men trapped inroom arguing about who’s the bad guy/ who’s the impostor ) or… a stage play. AND.. having QT use his own voice to suddenly narrate about the poisoned coffee was so amateurish, so “film school” so old hack I couldn’t stand it. Theres a dozen different ways I could think of to show the audience that information- extreme EXTREME close ups of the bottle of poison going into the coffee pot so that we can’t see WHO poured, but not have the directors voice come and just TELL us! QT did the same thing in “Inglorious Basterds” where Samuel Jacksons came from out of nowhere to tell us about combustible nitrate film.An enjoyable film as I watched it but frustrating as I think about it afterwards.
4) ANT MAN
03) GOING CLEAR- SCIENTOLOGY AND THE PRISON OF BELIEF.An HBO documentary that got played in theaters, does that count?I’ve been a big Scientology buff for the last couple of years( watching EVERYTHING on youtube about Scientology) so much of this was old hat to me ( but It would be news to most other people!) Gorgeously shot, eerie music….. anything that sticks it to the national Church of Scientology con artists gets a thumbs up from me!
02) STAR WARS : THE FORCE AWAKENS.What can I say?!?!?I’m in the minority in that I really liked the second and third prequels – ( “Phantom Menace”?!?!? GAG!!). A lot of old school fans SAY that they hated the prequels that George Lucas had lost whatever it was he had to make the first ones. Yeah right, thats why all of them were box office hits and everyone who says they hate them has them on DVD!Roger Ebert said of “The Phantom Menace” in May 1999 :
If it were the first “Star Wars” movie, “The Phantom Menace” would be hailed as a visionary breakthrough. But this is the fourth movie of the famous series, and we think we know the territory;
There are new places here–new kinds of places. Consider the underwater cities, floating in their transparent membranes. The Senate chamber, a vast sphere with senators arrayed along the inside walls, and speakers floating on pods in the center. And other places: the cityscape with the waterfall that has a dizzying descent through space. And the other cities: one city Venetian, with canals, another looking like a hothouse version of imperial Rome, and a third that seems to have grown out of desert sands.
Set against awesome backdrops, the characters in “The Phantom Menace” inhabit a plot that is little more complex than the stories I grew up on in science-fiction magazines. The whole series sometimes feel like a cover from Thrilling Wonder Stories, come to life.
Anyhoo- JJ Abrams breathed life back into Star Trek ( in ways I strongly disagree with but SOMETHING had to be done to resurrect Trek so OK….) and fans eagerly awaited how he would rejuvenate Star Wars.They tried to keep a lid on spoilers but we saw on posters that there was SOME kind of masked Darth Vadery character, some kind of new Death Star, some new young actors and…… THE ORIGINAL CAST!
Back in 1983 I can remember hearing that Harrison Ford wanted Han Solo to die. I thought we’d see him die in “JEDI” but we didn’t….He said it was right for the character but I think he didn’t want to be typecast in sci fi movies ( like what happened to George “Superman” Reeves in the 1950s and …. what happened to Mark Hamill!) George Lucas said he didn’t want to be cruel to the audience by killing off a beloved character, but I believe the rumor that the toy merchandisers advised him that kids won’t buy a toy of a dead character.Note – Harrison Ford DIDNT contract to do the first 3 movies, he could renegotiate each time and said he didn’t want to come back. I think thats why he was “killed” in EMPIRE STRIKES BACK in a manner that left the door open to him being revived IF Ford agreed to come back.
I liked RETURN OF THE JEDI but I didn’t love it as much as the first 2.Another Death Star- ANOTHER fatal point that could take it down, they went back to Tatooine, they went back to Dagobah, and the one new place was just a forest.A big forest but it was so bright and happy looking it lacked the mystery and atmosphere of the planets they went to in the first 2.
Disney has become the evil empire. They bought up Marvel Comics, bought up the Muppets, and…. bought up Lucasfilm! Then again- Disney has been smart about their subsidiaries, keeping the “Disney” name off them and taking an honest look at what makes them work. The new Muppets movie has that irreverent sarcasm that the old Muppets had but would never fly in an actual branded Disney film.The Marvel comics films are NOT afraid to dive into full fandom, no scenes of “why are you dressed like that”never being embarrassed of their source.And…. I’m assuming when they were about to give George Lucas FIVE BILLION DOLLARS they put a LOT of thought into how they were going to get their money back. Not just JJ Abrams but I bet every Disney accountant, VP, writer, marketing person was in on meetings to make sure they came up with something worth 5 billion!
The fans said they hated Jar Jar, they hated Midi Chlorians, they hated so much CGI….. they hated that it wasn’t the originals.
So I had a feeling that this new one, the Force Awakens would be good but would be like JEDI….. playing it safe.
By the way, I thought “Guardians of The Galaxy” felt more like an original trilogy film than a Marvel comics film, and I mean that as a compliment. “ Star Lord “ seemed like an amalgam of Han and Luke…..
The original 1977 STAR WARS was released to a world that had never seen anything on its technical scale before! THE FORCE AWAKENS came out in a world that has Star Wars calibre effects on every show on TV!
Personal backstory. I couldn’t get IMAX tickets for opening night ( tho I wanted to- they were sold out ) so I settled for 2 days later. Sunday 10 o clock. Not bad right? All hell broke loose at the house Im living at- so I was a nervous wreck as I went to get in line. An hour early and there already was a long line at the Bob Bullock. Not to worry I got a good seat anyway. IMAX 3D!
The opening scrawl! The yellow letters in IMAX 3D! Awwwwwesome!The backstory…. the expanded Universe of Star Wars guessed that some remnants of The Evil Empire would remain to cause trouble for Luke, Han and Leia and their children. They threw all that out in favor of…. almost the same thing.
Jakku looks a LOT like Tatooine, but less bright and even more dismal. All that destroyed star destroyer wreckage! Love it- its like a star wars calendar painting come to life! Luke, I mean Rey, finds R2D2 I mean BB8, who has a special message for the resistance which leads her to true Millennium Falcon and off the planet…Rey has a makeshift Luke Skywalker doll in her room and at one point wears a Luke Skywalker helmet. Is she Lukes daughter?
The Falcon being scooped by that enormous ship- reminded me of “ The Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy”. When the door got pried open and its the big reveal of Han and Chewie- no cheering from the crowd? You guys suck!
Those evil weird monsters on Hans ship. LOVE it! ( but if Lucas did that, the fan boys would have said it was stupid)!This little gal knows the Falcon almost as well as Han. Is this his daughter? He DID do a lot of roguish things before he met Leia.
The cantina scene- a much more “rained on” looking location than the Mos Eisley cantina. The creatures in THIS cantina look more like they’re from a Terry Gilliam film not a Lucas or JJ film.
The original trilogy was a bunch of white males battling the “ black” Vader. In a nod to political correctness the two new leads are a smart resourceful woman and a sincere honest black man.Well the old one had Leia, in fact Rey reminds me a lot of Leia now that I think about it.
As soon as we learn about the new Death Star planet I knew Han would lead a raid on the shield generator and SOMEONE would know the magic spot to blow it up.I don’t know if I read this or just imagined it, but I alway thought that the old Death Star was one huge light saber and that while technicians could build it it would take the Emperors and Vaders knowledge of the Force to make it work.You would think the Empire/New Order would put a LOT of thought into making sure there was no magic weak spot that could take it down after the rebels found weak spots TWICE before.
I didn’t get too much into the old Star Wars Expanded Universe but I read part of the “ Death Star” novel and picked up pieces of the EU from magazines and the internet. In the novels Luke started a new Jedi academy despite fears of a new Darth Vader. Presumably in the world of this new movie something similar happened, and Lukes nephew was tempted to the Dark side. Someone went and got Vaders burnt helmet from Endor and somehow someone else got Annakin/Lukes original lightsaber from the bottom of Landos sky city? Ok…( By the way- even in the original continuity- why wouldn’t Vader have said to Luke “ You’ve got MY lightsaber!”)
Was it Coruscant that the New Order blew up?Say what you want about THE PHANTOM MENACE, Lucas knew better than to give us a THIRD death star, little Annie made the magic shot that took down the Federation control ship, which looked a little bit like the later Death Star (s)and it didn’t go up all at once , it had a fatal big explosion but pieces of it were intact.I thought about this later, wouldn’t it hav been better that the New Order was TRYING to build a new Death Star and needed Rey or Luke to give up the secrets of the Force to make it really work?
It really really bothered me that this new film gave us the same ending as Jedi. Playing it far too safe. I still loved it though. Seen it twice and will probably see it again.
01) MAD MAX FURY ROAD.Mel Gibson isn’t THAT old- he should have played the lead! To me this is Max Jr, maybe the Feral Kid who took Max’s clothes and cars and adopted his moniker!I had forgotten how awesome George Miller is!I loved the heck out of the first two Max films, but was disappointed at how “conventional” the third one was, how the intensity of the second film just wasn’t there. This one captured that mad cap feel of the first two!In this day and age of unconvincing unexciting digital effects this film is full of REAL stunts, crashes and explosions! ( Shhh! Yeah I know theres a lot of CGI in this but its done so well you can barely tell its CGI! It still feels real!)The stunning shot of Max seeing the angelic women in the middle of a dirt apocalypse- that evil mask on the bad guy- the intensity of the car scenes!Usually action movies like this are geared towards men but this has a refreshing amount of strong women in most of the supporting roles.The collapsing satellite described as a relic of the past! I want FURY ROAD 2 right now!
I still want to see Anomalisa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT6QJaS2a-U
” Los Angeles, California, has the largest concentration of Scientologists and Scientology-related organizations in the world, with the church’s most visible presence being in the Hollywood district of the city. The organization owns a former hospital on Fountain Avenue which houses Scientology’s West Coast headquarters, the Pacific Area Command Base — often referred to as “PAC Base” or “Big Blue”, after its blue paint job. Adjacent buildings include headquarters of several internal Scientology divisions, including the American Saint Hill Organization, the Advanced Organization of Los Angeles, and the Church of Scientology of Los Angeles. All these organizations are integrated within the corporation Church of Scientology Western United States.
The Church of Scientology successfully campaigned to have the city of Los Angeles rename one block of a street running through this complex “L. Ron Hubbard Way.” The street has been paved in brick. ”
I’ve never been a Scientologist, but I’ve been long fascinated by the stories, good and bad, about this group!
For years, Hallmark has capture those precious moments in its cards, figurines and Christmas ornaments. Those tender memories like baby’s first steps and a Vulcan dying from intense radiation in a Starfleet engine room. Yes, Trekkies, you can now officially preorder a holiday tree decoration that depicts that classic moment from the end of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. The ornament is available for $29.95. Hang it as you sing, “Here comes Santa KHAAAAAAAAAN!”
An 11-foot (3.4 m) model donated by Paramount to the Smithsonian in 1974[4]
Star Trek art director Matt Jefferies was the primary designer of the original Enterprise, which was originally namedYorktown in series creator Gene Roddenberry‘s first outline drafts of the series.[5] Jefferies’ experience with aviationled to his Enterprise designs being imbued with what he called “aircraft logic”. However, Jefferies years later confessed to have taken some inspiration and artistic license from electric stove coils.[6]
The ship’s “NCC-1701” registry number stemmed from “NC” being one of the international aircraft registration codes assigned to the United States; the second “C” was added for differentiation.[citation needed] According to The Making of Star Trek, “NCC” is the Starfleet abbreviation for “Naval Construction Contract”, comparable to what the U.S. Navy would call a hull number.[7] The “1701” was chosen to avoid any possible ambiguity; according to Jefferies, the numbers 3, 6, 8, and 9 are “too easily confused”.[8] Other sources cite it as a reference to the house across the street from where Roddenberry grew up,[9] while another account gives it as the street address of Linwood Dunn.[10] Jefferies’ own sketches provide the explanation that it was his 17th cruiser design with the first serial number of that series: 1701.[11]The Making of Star Trek explains that “USS” should mean “United Space Ship” and that “the Enterprise is a member of the Starship Class”.[7]
The first miniature built for the pilot episode “The Cage” (1965) was unlit and approximately 3 feet (0.9 m) long. It was modified during the course of the series to match the changes eventually made to the larger miniature, and appears on-set in “Requiem for Methuselah” (1969). The second miniature built for the original pilot measures 11 feet 2 inches (3.4 m) long and was built by a small crew of model makers (Volmer Jensen, Mel Keys, and Vernon Sion) supervised by Richard Datin, working out of Jensen’s model shop in Burbank, California. It was initially filmed by both Howard A. Anderson and Linwood G. Dunn at Dunn’s Film Effects of Hollywood facility, who also re-filmed later more-elaborate models of the ship, generating a variety of stock footage that could be used in later episodes.[citation needed]
Initially, the model was static and had no electronics. For the second pilot, “Where No Man Has Gone Before” (1966), various details were altered, and the starboard window ports and running lights were internally illuminated. When the series was picked up and went into production, the model was altered yet again. These alterations included the addition of translucent domes and blinking lights at the forward ends of the engine nacelles, smaller domes at the stern end of the engine nacelles, a shorter bridge dome, and a smaller deflector/sensor dish. Save for re-used footage from the two pilot episodes, this was the appearance of the ship throughout the series. The 11 feet (3.4 m) model is undergoing restoration,[12] having previously been displayed in the Gift Shop downstairs at the Smithsonian Institution‘s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.[13]
Greg Jein created a model of the original Enterprise for the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “Trials and Tribble-ations” (1996). Jein’s model was built to be exactly half the size of the larger of the two original models, and later appeared in the 1998 Star Trek wall calendar. In addition, a CGI model of the ship makes a brief cameo appearance at the end of the final episode of Star Trek: Enterprise, “These Are the Voyages…” (2005), and another CGI version was created for remastered episodes of the original Star Trek, based on the model in the Smithsonian.[citation needed]
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