Insurrection has plenty to cuss about, but the joystick for manual control?
I really don't get the whining.
As someone who loves flight sims and space sims, it really is a more ergonomically sound and precise control scheme for something that maneuvers in 3D than tapping commands into an LCARS display. Plenty of harder sci-fi than Star Trek uses it (Honor Harrington for one).
I would rather have Riker use a joystick to control the ship rather than him tapping the arrow keys on a keyboard to steer and pushing the space bar to fire a torpedo.
As for episodes I would have to say TMP which I mentioned earlier and Insurrection. Insurrection explored the idea of Picard stepping up for what was right as opposed to doing nothing and letting a people die for the good of the Federation. And for the T.V episodes I would have to say "All Good Things".
Insurrection has plenty to cuss about, but the joystick for manual control?
I really don't get the whining.
As someone who loves flight sims and space sims, it really is a more ergonomically sound and precise control scheme for something that maneuvers in 3D than tapping commands into an LCARS display. Plenty of harder sci-fi than Star Trek uses it (Honor Harrington for one).
True, but the thing is. A joystick works for fighters e.d. not for big size starships which are more like cruiseships then actual high maneuverable fighters. This idea works for me like in the Delta Flyer, and I would accepted it if it was indeed located at the helm control or a popup from the command chair console like this; http://static2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120322154361/memoryalpha/en/images/thumb/b/bc/Manual_steering_column%2C_Kelvin_type.jpg/180px-Manual_steering_column%2C_Kelvin_type.jpg
but a black cheap looking stick with a big red firebutton coming out of the ground on a pole is just ridiculous and wonders me, if this was the best way for navigating instead of LCARS, why helm control doesn`t has this standard.
True, but the thing is. A joystick works for fighters e.d. not for big size starships which are more like cruiseships then actual high maneuverable fighters. This idea works for me like in the Delta Flyer, and I would accepted it if it was indeed located at the helm control or a popup from the command chair console like this; http://static2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120322154361/memoryalpha/en/images/thumb/b/bc/Manual_steering_column%2C_Kelvin_type.jpg/180px-Manual_steering_column%2C_Kelvin_type.jpg
but a black cheap looking stick with a big red firebutton coming out of the ground on a pole is just ridiculous and wonders me, if this was the best way for navigating instead of LCARS, why helm control doesn`t has this standard.
Well, Helm has a D-pad, which works well for most maneuvers. :P
TSFS might be guilty of pushing the reset button as far as Spock's death goes, but one of the things I liked about it was that David's death was the price Kirk paid for saving his friend. That to me echoes the whole sacrifice theme TWoK did. Not to mention, the Enterprise dying. Kirk goes through hell, loses not only his son - who he had only just now become acquainted with - but also his one true love, his ship. And why? Because there's a remote, slim, infinitely tiny possibility that Spock might be brought back to life. Looking at it rationally, like Admiral Morrow did, there's no chance something like this would be a reasonable thing to believe. But Kirk does so, out of loyalty.
And the way the film concludes just reinforces that. After the ceremony Sarek comes to Kirk and humbly thanks him, acknowledging just what it was Kirk had lost for his benefit. Kirk loses his son and his career just so that Sarek could have his son returned to him. And when Spock asks why they did what they did for him, Kirk replies that sometimes the needs of the one outweigh the needs of the many - which is a fantastic way of echoing Spock's logic from the end of TWoK, and both are kind of like Trek's version of the 'all for one and one for all' mantra. Really this film is a lot better than fans give it credit for, and deserves a better reputation as a result. .
All this and Christopher Lloyd getting kicked in the face.
Agreed, Search for Spock is highly underrated.
...Oh, baby, you know, I've really got to leave you / Oh, I can hear it callin 'me / I said don't you hear it callin' me the way it used to do?...
- Anne Bredon
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I would rather have Riker use a joystick to control the ship rather than him tapping the arrow keys on a keyboard to steer and pushing the space bar to fire a torpedo.
As for episodes I would have to say TMP which I mentioned earlier and Insurrection. Insurrection explored the idea of Picard stepping up for what was right as opposed to doing nothing and letting a people die for the good of the Federation. And for the T.V episodes I would have to say "All Good Things".
True, but the thing is. A joystick works for fighters e.d. not for big size starships which are more like cruiseships then actual high maneuverable fighters. This idea works for me like in the Delta Flyer, and I would accepted it if it was indeed located at the helm control or a popup from the command chair console like this; http://static2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120322154361/memoryalpha/en/images/thumb/b/bc/Manual_steering_column%2C_Kelvin_type.jpg/180px-Manual_steering_column%2C_Kelvin_type.jpg
but a black cheap looking stick with a big red firebutton coming out of the ground on a pole is just ridiculous and wonders me, if this was the best way for navigating instead of LCARS, why helm control doesn`t has this standard.
In the end.... we`re all Ferengi!
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All this and Christopher Lloyd getting kicked in the face.
Agreed, Search for Spock is highly underrated.
...Oh, baby, you know, I've really got to leave you / Oh, I can hear it callin 'me / I said don't you hear it callin' me the way it used to do?...
- Anne Bredon