Star Trek (Spoilers)

[Dracomax]

spoilers....

The only part I really thought was stupid was the very end where [SPOILER] they kept the Enterprise RIGHT NEXT to the black hole forming in the Romulan ship so they could shoot at it pointlessly.

Haha yeah, it was like they got too distracted by the sight to actually realise they were stood next to a goddamn black hole.

Haven't seen the movie yet, but I just know this scene will bug the crap out of me.

It almost certainly will.

But i can see some justification--Nero had already gone through a black hole once, kirk had never been in command, and spock was not on the bridge. Therefore, making sure that Nero's ship got blowed up before leaving could probably be justified. after all, 1 ship versus the planets of the federation isn't all that big a trade.

My problem is the way they got out of it.

[Theamazingsquad]

yeah- shouldnt an explosion powerful enough to counter the pull of a black hole be enough to tear apart a small (relatively) ship.

i really enjoyed it though. you reckon they could spin it into a decent tv show? would thte actors/ producers want to?

[Komiyan]

i really enjoyed it though. you reckon they could spin it into a decent tv show? would thte actors/ producers want to?

I would completely love this, but I see them sticking to blockbuster movies just for the profit, really. I'd love to be wrong though!

I've been watching through Deep Space 9 and I'm at the 6thseason and very much enjoying it, even if I do occasionally fall asleep when there's more than one Bajoran on screen at any time.

[Joel Fagin]

A TV show would be a terrible idea. There's nothing you could do episode in and episode out that would be new. Everything close enough to Federation space in this era is already completely played out.

Although... Kahn would make a good villain for a bit if you let him take over a planet and get some military resources behind him. He's still floating around in this timeline somewhere.

- Joel Fagin

[Numskull]

movie was good will see it again

[Tynan]

This is entirely going to be a movie series, though if a smart producer makes a spinoff then yay we'll see more trek on the teevee.

My fav Deep space nine was with Q, it was fanriffic.
"You hit me!"

[Rkolter]

Ok, just got back from seeing Star Trek: Reboot (or whatever the tag line is)

I give it 4.5 stars out of 5. I did not have the problem some folks had with not being worried for the characters - from the point that the writers had them talking about Alternate Realities, I realized that all bets were off. While I'm glad none of the big characters died, I was at the edge of my seat throughout.

I also have no problem with them turning this into a TV series - as an alternate reality, the only things that are still likely to happen are those things that would occur regardless of the existance or non-existance of the life of Star Trek. Like say, the supernova in 130 years that caused all this trouble. I think you could make an excellent series out of this.

I have several major science rants about the movie, and a particularly bad "Duh...." moment. Yeah yeah, I like my science rants; most of these could have been fixed without hurting the story.

1) If warp drive won't get you away from the black hole and you are tearing your ship apart, creating a detonation strong enough to throw your ship away from the black hole will not help. It will... tear your ship apart.

2) Sitting there shooting at a ship literally embedded in a black hole is dumb. It's in a black hole. What more can you possibly do to it?

3) If I was on Vulcan and someone was cutting a hole in my planet with a giant drill, I might not send a distress message saying that the planet is experiencing seismic vibrations. I might instead logically say something about the attack.

4) It is not, strictly speaking, necessary to cut a hole to the core of a planet to drop a black hole in it. It would be far better to drop the black hole onto the planet, and have it burrow through the planet, oscillating back and forth.

5) If you drill a hole to the core of the planet, the liquid core of the planet, pressurized to a few million atmospheres pressure and superheated to boot, will erupt out of the hole in the largest and most violent volcano you have ever, ever seen. Really, if you want to fuck with Vulcan, that's a much worse way to die.

6) A tiny black hole won't eat a planet that quickly. There's a limit based on the size of the black hole's "mouth" for lack of a better term. Even a ship-sized black hole like later occurs would take years to eat the planet, not minutes.


But, none of these really detracted too much from the movie. I loved it. Go see it. Maybe more than once.

[Rkolter]

Heh, oh yeah -

If you are embedded in a black hole strong enough to hold the enterprise in place with it's warp engines at full strength, most likely you'll be torn apart by tidal forces, and not able to carry on a communication with Captain Kirk about how you'd rather see Romulus die than be rescued.

And the Enterprise? Yeah, not experiencing any tidal forces until after the ship that was "filling up" the black hole got sucked all the way in? That's not how black holes work.

Mmm... oh, and black holes are spheres, not two dimensional flat disks that you can see half a ship on each side of.

I love Star Trek.

[Komiyan]

"You hit me!"

"Picard never hits me!"

[Guildmaster Van]

I should have liked Wolverine more.

Yes, the Sniktbub movie should have been likeable.
It just shows you how hard they're trying to kill the character.

The Weapon X team (Deadpool) needed more screen time.

Given how they ruined Dudepeel in that movie, I wholeheartedly disagree. More screentime would have resulted in more fail.

The Ugly:
The elongation of eyes to make them seem extraterrestrial *alien doctor at birth*.

I thought she was purdy, and I was overall impressed by the aliens in the film (Who look like aliens, and not humans with chin putty and glitter glue). Then again I tend to think like Lobo: "To explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly stick it where no man has stuck it before!"


Also, lol@everyone in the thread bitching about the black hole in the film when all we know about black holes is pretty speculative anyway.
The Star Trek movie was pretty win - the Kirk character was completely reinvigorated as a bigger and louder asshole (Awesome), McCoy was perfect, and I was out of my seat when Cho's Sulu whipped out a katana. Not so much for the fact Sulu was wielding a katana, but for the fact I can't look at Cho without seeing Harold. The only character I disliked was Quinto's Spock. He played the part well enough, but he doesn't give the same life to Spock that Nimoy does.

[Rkolter]

Also, lol@everyone in the thread bitching about the black hole in the film when all we know about black holes is pretty speculative anyway.

Nah. Not really. We may have never imaged one directly, and the whole question of what a singularity is, and what happens at it, is open for debate. But don't let that fool you into thinking we don't have a pretty solid concept of black holes, certainly enough to do better than a two-dimensional hole you can explode your way away from without injury while talking to someone sitting on a ship literally embedded in the hole. C'mon.

Then again though, that IS the essence of Star Trek - all their episodes had wrong science. The movie felt perfectly in place with the original show in that respect.

The only character I disliked was Quinto's Spock. He played the part well enough, but he doesn't give the same life to Spock that Nimoy does.

Well... Nimoy is the soul of Spock, really. Nimoy is so Spock that he's never really been able to be anyone else. Nimoy = Spock pretty much forever. Given THAT, Quinto did a heck of a job taking ownership of the character.

I liked Quinto's take on young Spock. But I don't see this young Spock evolving into the original spock. Must be that alternate realities thing.

[Guildmaster Van]

Nah. Not really. We may have never imaged one directly, and the whole question of what a singularity is, and what happens at it, is open for debate. But don't let that fool you into thinking we don't have a pretty solid concept of black holes, certainly enough to do better than a two-dimensional hole you can explode your way away from without injury while talking to someone sitting on a ship literally embedded in the hole. C'mon.

Then again though, that IS the essence of Star Trek - all their episodes had wrong science. The movie felt perfectly in place with the original show in that respect.

I'm not going to try to out-science you, Ryan, because I'd never win a million years. My point was more along the lines that the highly speculative nature of quantum physics gives writers free license to come up with the own creative, albeit wrong, interpretations, like your second point. I think that details like that are unimportant when compared to the story itself - like getting caught up on superhero origin stories which are grossly ridiculous (Hulk, Fantastic Four, etc). For all we know Star Trek exists in a parallel universe to our own where black holes work differently than in our own Works of science fiction should be appreciated as such - fictional science.

[Rkolter]

Yeah, I know that in my heart you have to suspend your disbelief for science fiction movies. And I do... that's why I like Star Trek.

Yet, I really think that sci-fi movies should hire a scientist to advise them. It wouldn't be expensive - scientists come awfully cheap and are often looking for extra income. Ten grand? Twenty? That's nothing in a hundred million dollar movie.

The reason being that the same cool movie could have had more scientifically realistic effects, and people would unbeknownst to them, come out of the theater knowing more than when they went in. Right now, there are a hundred thousand people who "know" black holes are two dimensional disks because of this movie. And that galls me.

They could have done the whole clearly as a sphere, and it'd have looked JUST AS COOL. If they'd known. They could have had the bad guy ripped apart in the end by tidal forces. That'd have been AWESOME. If they'd known. A sudden molten iron volcano erupting from Vulcan would have been KICK ASS, and the black hole would have made an awesome effect falling through a fountain of molten iron. If they'd known.

*sigh*

It was still a great flick. Best Star Trek in a long, long while. I'd almost given up on the franchise.

[Heart]

Yet, I really think that sci-fi movies should hire a scientist to advise them. It wouldn't be expensive - scientists come awfully cheap and are often looking for extra income.

Don't forget that scientists would love to have their names in the end credits of a Star Trek movie.

[IVstudios]

Ok, just got back from seeing Star Trek: Reboot (or whatever the tag line is)

4) It is not, strictly speaking, necessary to cut a hole to the core of a planet to drop a black hole in it. It would be far better to drop the black hole onto the planet, and have it burrow through the planet, oscillating back and forth.

Another thing I wondered about: I think it's safe to assume Vulcan is roughly Earth-sized, so wouldn't it have taken the better part of 2 days for the red matter to reach the planets core in free-fall instead of the few seconds it took in the movie?

[Nanda]

Just got back from seeing it. Didn't care for it. Pretty much for all of the reasons I thought I might not - though I really did try to go into it with an open mind, especially since so many people I trust the opinions of really seemed to like it - but ultimately, that's not my Kirk, and that's not my Spock. Not saying it was a bad movie, but it didn't really impress me as far as action/scifi films go in general, and I simply wasn't buying it as an actual Star Trek movie. I don't see why this needed to be done in the first place, honestly. I hate this whole remake trend (because that's what it was, a remake. I don't want to hear about "alternate universes," it's a complete cop out.)

[Rkolter]

Another thing I wondered about: I think it's safe to assume Vulcan is roughly Earth-sized, so wouldn't it have taken the better part of 2 days for the red matter to reach the planets core in free-fall instead of the few seconds it took in the movie?

You're thinking of a human's terminal velocity.

For something with a 100 square foot cross section, falling from about 300 miles up all the way down to the core, and assuming Vulcan is like Earth, terminal velocity would be about 1/2 mile a second. That's (give or take) 3 and a half hours.

Of course, something that dense would simply keep falling, passing through the planet, blowing out the other side, zooming out several thousand miles, before finally coming to a stop, and falling back towards the planet again.

Repeat lots and lots. And lots. And lots.

[Dracomax]

Just got back from seeing it. Didn't care for it. Pretty much for all of the reasons I thought I might not - though I really did try to go into it with an open mind, especially since so many people I trust the opinions of really seemed to like it - but ultimately, that's not my Kirk, and that's not my Spock. Not saying it was a bad movie, but it didn't really impress me as far as action/scifi films go in general, and I simply wasn't buying it as an actual Star Trek movie. I don't see why this needed to be done in the first place, honestly. I hate this whole remake trend (because that's what it was, a remake. I don't want to hear about "alternate universes," it's a complete cop out.)

Um, no. it wasn't a remake. A remake implies that another movie with the same plot more or less exactly, or the same name, was produced at one point. King kong was a remake. THis was a prequel. much like producing the Hobbit would be a prequel to the lord of the rings.

[Killbert-Robby]

Also, I think anyone who's such a big fan of Star Trek, you know, should be more supportive of the alternate universe copout.

[Dracomax]

There's at least 4 alternate universes in canon now.