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It's a "mystery box" - it might be Khan, it might not! Who knows? Only JJ Abrams knows and you can pay $10 to find out! Sorry, I can and will prejudge this based on the previous work by this producer on the series and the previous work of the director and Simon Pegg's Marxist viewpoints and that he's never done any serious…
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The reviewers who gave positive reviews are reviewing it within the context of the genre which is a genre of pointless action sequences for mindless entertainment. Almost none of them talk about character development or themes or anything else - they talk about it like it's a drug: "aw TRIBBLE, this movie will get you high…
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As you wish. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k98tBkRsGl4
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So, as a Trekkie, Paramount saying "Star Trek Beyond is like Fast & Furious - IN SPACE!" Is a selling point to you? My point is that if you keep giving hacks money they'll keep putting out the worst poo poo imaginable. I mean it, I honestly don't understand how JJTrek fans could have sat through any other Star Trek series…
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^^^ This poster pays money to have Paramount lay one out in his head. I honestly had no idea there were so many Star Trek fans that really just wanted to watch a stupid action movie. I have absolutely no idea how they managed to watch Star Trek in the first place given that the vast majority of Star Trek - even in TOS -…
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When did I say that? I said just because everyone says it's good doesn't make that true. By contrast, there's a pretty good chance that when everyone says it's bad, it's actually bad. Regardless - I'm not getting drawn into that discussion again. For example, one of the "good" reviews of Star Trek 2009 on Rotten Tomatoes…
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No, he directed the one with 28%. Regardless, the entire series is beyond stupid so if Paramount considers "omg Fast & Furious is so coolz I bet Star Trek fans will be attracted by the director omgrd!" is a way to sell Star Trek - then it must be, like Fast & Furious - Star Trek Beyond Stupid. To Lin's credit, even Kubrick…
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I'm relatively certain this movie will destroy itself. Apparently JJ Abrams had the gravitas to pull in some people in the past and make his name good enough for people to go out of their way to see it. I never liked Alias, Lost, Fringe or any of that stuff he put out because it was all plot twists and slick one-liners and…
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That was super confusing (the plot arc wherein the Empress somehow assumes after everyone has died except you and that one guy that you must be a hero)...
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That's really something we don't necessarily know. Anesthetic "severs" most of the neurons of higher brain functions from one another. Much of your brain ceases to be able to communicate with itself for a period of time. I don't feel like I might have been a different person before anesthetic. If consciousness is an…
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Yeah yeah, but I wanted to take a stab at Star Wars which JJ really likes and which is very hand-wavy for most of it because it simply wasn't made to even resemble sci-fi. One way to make fun of Star Wars is to point out that Jedi are actually wizards in space which makes it seem a whole lot more juvenile. Most of my flak…
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Think so? With them pushing the Bajoran Magic People thing so much I felt it fit nicely enough in it. It was certainly better than "the fire caves." But I agree I hope they stay away from mysticism - even explained away by some quasi scientific phenomenon - in any new series. No more visits to Klingon Afterlives or…
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CBS should bleed him for whatever they can considering the absolute lack of respect he had for the source material. And next time... sell the rights to Mutant Enemy.
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Really? Cause I remember Spock trying to choke Kirk in the first one - Kirk mocking Spock in both the first and second. McCoy occasionally showing up and saying nothing of any importance for comedic purposes. And Uhura spending 90% of her onscreen time utterly shocked that her Vulcan boyfriend doesn't show his emotions…
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I don't think the other characters were underutilized in the films. The show is about Kirk, Spock, and McCoy - one of the reasons the new movies are so atrocious is they decided to throw out that dynamic. I understand the frustrations of the actors who weren't in the star trio - but it makes about as much sense as me…
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The fact that they did as ensemble as they did with TOS is actually pretty unusual. Watch the Galileo 7 - Kirk is hardly in it. Almost all cowboy shows at the time - very popular trash - had one "lone wolf" hero who was the absolute star and nobody else on the show ever got to do anything impressive except him - think of…
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That's absolute TRIBBLE. There are tons and tons of things that have been invented and discovered out of no conflict but simply curiosity on the part of a scientist/inventor. Please tell me what major conflict led Mendel to grow his peas... Some people actually like learning and working and discovering things out of…
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Personally I'd just assume they didn't - it's bad enough CBS/Cryptic apparently letting Orci blow up Romulus as this is actually somewhat diminishing the quality of intellectual assets they possess by forcing the entire Romulan time-line into a specific narrative which may not be particularly beneficial to CBS if it wants…
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It's not giant ball of red matter, I'll give you that. Yeah, ST has never been all that internally consistent (why wouldn't they have non-sentient robots doing this stuff? At least they tried putting some holograms on mining duty once as if these people had never heard of machines. I imagine earth will have fully automated…
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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a completely ad-hoc plot device." - David Langford https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU :D Seriously though... replicators seem to reside on the principle that matter and energy are interchangable and likely actually convert energy into matter. However,…
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That's just wrong. After "Maslow's hierarchy of needs" is met - all bets are off to what a species might evolve towards. It could evolve to be extremely pro-social unlike anything we've ever seen - almost borg-like in conformity. Or it could evolve heightened senses of empathy because ultimately, once all your physical…
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No, you missed his point... you expect the professor not to steal the ball for the same reason you don't steal the flies the spiders on your porch have caught even though they would render you some nutrition - because he doesn't want it - it's far more trouble than it could possibly be worth. Ever used Celestia? Download…
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It was also completely insane if not an outright con for money on Tesla's part. At least someone gets how insignificant Earth is... But, like I said, if the light speed barrier can't be crossed - the odds of Earth maybe being an attractive prospect to, for example, any life from the nearest couple dozen stars can't be…
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I said nothing about "enlightenment." I'm only talking economics (Even the Feringi remove people from command for engaging in "unprofitable" ventures). I said Earth is a sub-par resource if you're capable of interstellar flight. Assuming any interstellar alien species is going to give a single TRIBBLE about Earth excepting…
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Not a particularly realistic movie - actually intended to parody old sci-fi movies. Any interstellar ships don't run on Iron or Petrol. Any fuel they use for such a ship isn't going to be the mass of the entire solar system such that they have to loot entire planets every stop off - even if that were the case, there's…
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If there's a roving band of nomads out there - a vast fleet of alien ships moving as a "flotilla" which is sub-light speed capable (one of the most skeptical things about Trek is the idea that it is possible to exceed light speed). Under only such circumstances would Earth really present an attractive prospect to an alien…
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What you're talking about is a comic book Martian - as in - from Mars? An inter-stellar and inter-solar species are two completely different monsters. I've already explained why there's very few reasons an interstellar alien species would have much exceptional interest in Earth for any self-serving purpose because there's…
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It has nothing to do with "humaneness." It has everything to do with reason. Any species intelligent enough to be interstellar in nature is likely not going to find Earth the "last best hope" for their species and therefore ever come to the conclusion that they need to wipe us out or enslave us or something to use Earth…
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Except it's not merely that chimps lack the knowledge to use advanced tools - they lack language which makes them fundamentally different in a way that is absolutely biologically significant. Language is the single most important factor in the development of the human brain to its present capacity. Language is abstraction…
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What environmental conditions do you propose that would evolve such a overcapacious mind? Genetic engineering or thousands of generations of artificial selection is the only thing I could think. Such an engineered species may be able to think faster through some means or have evolved special parts of the brain to, for…