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OK, Chuck's review of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home is up already:

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I haven't seen the review yet, but I like the opening segment accompanied by the incredibly annoying and dated “Hey Mickey” track.

Best...subtitles....ever!

Great review. Nice change of pace to your usual rants - and you made it excellently.

I like that you didn't rate it quite like the others and pointed out one of the more prominent points. The movie was literally a cobbling of things to get out trouble in a quick fashion. No need to dwell on such nasty thoughts like Enterprise stealing, traversing through space, breaking rules left and right, deaths and all that. We need to save the Federation for the 10,000th time! To the Batcave, Spock!!

In fact it's kinda funny that after STIII, they keep little bits of David's death noted, but it's only until STVI is their some resolution. It's as if they really didn't know what the fuck to do with it.

Ah well, I enjoyed your review as always because it's fun to see someone's perspective of ST: TOS movies.

damn chuck, thats two movie reviews in under a month.

Darth Yan wrote:damn chuck, thats two movie reviews in under a month.

I'm sure he just wants to get to Star Trek 5.

Oh god, I loved the psyche-out with Galvitron!

I look forward to the rest of the films!

"You're trashing my fucking planet! Dude, what the hell?!"

Best subtitles ever indeed.

"I'll be on the bridge, thinking up whole new ways to be awesome our scientists haven't theorized yet"

So sigged. Almost settled for "coming out on the other side sweating pure awesome" though.

ST2 was the most creative of the Trek films as a piece of craftwork. ST4 was the most creative as a piece of improvisation —making the most of the Trek elements left to them after the last film and additionally putting together a plot turning on Kirk and co. solving a problem rather than facing off against another villain. You also had two great comedic teams in the movie: Shatner/Nimoy and Doohan/Kelley. It also seems that everybody involved must have had a lot of fun doing this film. Never once do I get the impression that the actors are just punching in a timeclock but are actually putting out their best efforts and doing so enthusiastically. Not only a fairly good Trek film but an enjoyable movie to watch.

Quick note. Transparent aluminum has been developed. It's Aluminum oxy-nitride. The US Air Force is developing it as transparent armor.

The movie review does hit the nail on the head that Nearly everything about this movie was fantastic, except the premiss.. A random probe ship thingie that transmits a single that devastates everything in its path and seems ot be meant for whales, which have never left Earth? Anyone everyone come up with a more rational excuse to send them back in time?

From what I remember of the novelization that I read when I was a kid the probe was part of a 'society' of races made up of intelligent beings who sang and that somehow this singing was able to travel in subspace. When the probe noticed that humpbacks had dropped out of the 'hamony' it went to investigate. When it got to the Earth and did not get a response from the humpbacks it decided to sterlize the earth to allow evolution to develop a new singing race on that planet.

Total insanity, but that the way the novelization dealt with the probe's motivations.

joyceman wrote:From what I remember of the novelization that I read when I was a kid the probe was part of a 'society' of races made up of intelligent beings who sang and that somehow this singing was able to travel in subspace. When the probe noticed that humpbacks had dropped out of the 'hamony' it went to investigate. When it got to the Earth and did not get a response from the humpbacks it decided to sterlize the earth to allow evolution to develop a new singing race on that planet.

Total insanity, but that the way the novelization dealt with the probe's motivations.

Which plants them in the territory of racist, belligerent assholes.
Funny how that's alright if it's bloody whales doing it.

Since the first time I saw that movie, the inner vindictive child in me wanted Starfleet to show up after the probe put it's ball o' doom away and blast the shit out of it. Ah well.