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Old 05-10-2009, 09:44 PM   #64
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Originally Posted by innerSpaceman View Post
I guess I had a similar feeling about the 4th Indiana Jones movie that came out last year. Everyone was hailing the nuclear test refrigerator escape as the millennial jump the shark. But the series had jumped that shark so many decades ago, i was no longer bothered by it.
I was bugged by none of the inconsistencies in Star Trek because they are, for the most part, sci-fi mumbo-jumbo, where every futuristic device is more or less a plot device. We just accept that what happens, happens. Star Trek is not about complexity. If you want to see that, watch Battlestar Galactica (the Sci-fi channel series).

Indiana Jones, on the other hand, really bugged me because the real physicality of what they were doing was impossible. Not the alien crystal skull thing (which was pretty lame, admittedly) but the refrigerator, the falling off the waterfall, etc.

It isn't as if they had Kirk get sucked out into space without a suit on, into the black hole, then plummet to the nearest planet and land safely in a feather bed, merely by holding his breath.
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