Star Trek

[innerSpaceman]

I'm really glad you ennumerated the rank stupidiities, and they are indeed doozies. It's a wonder to even me that the nature of Star Trek, as I see it, has allowed for similar and worse stupidities through its long history ... and coupling them with interesting ideas and clever treatments with some regularity.


Reading the list, I can barely believe I was bugged by little or none of it, and that I consider such blatant fallacies of sensibility, believability and, ironically, logic to be part and parcel of perfectly acceptable Star Trek.


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.


So, yeah, completely stupid implausiblities either don't bother me or simply don't occur to me as I'm swept away with the fun space adventure with some of my favorite characters.


That seriously is quite the list. That it doesn't matter a fig to me is oddly more testament to the wonderfulness of this movie.

[Chernabog]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

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.