RE: Fundamentalist Trekkies....
September 19, 2012 at 1:20 pm
(This post was last modified: September 19, 2012 at 1:25 pm by Tea Earl Grey Hot.)
(September 19, 2012 at 8:24 am)Faith No More Wrote: I've never understood the fascination with Star Trek. Some of the movies were good(Star Trek:IV, Generations), TNG was mildly entertaining when I would watch it because my dad was, and the original I just could never figure out exactly what people liked about it, although I admit I have seen very little of it. Perhaps all of this is why I thought the reboot was kick ass, and I am looking forward to the next one.
For me, the appeal has mostly been the characters, the character relationships and the stories as well as the philosophical paradoxes and the moral dilemmas that are presented. And the artistic side of ship design, set design, UI design, costume design, etc, always fascinated me.
What I can't stand is when trekkies start complaining about insignificant things like "the warp nacelles are the wrong color" or "the enterprise is too big" etc.
I mostly liked the new movie. The only thing that bugged me was all the little coincidences. Nero just happened to gone back in time to exactly the point of time Kirk was being born. Kirk just happened to have grown up next to the starfleet shipyards. Spock just happened to have come back in time right when Kirk and the gang were almost through with the academy. Kirk just happened to have found Spock in the cave. Scotty just happened to have been nearby on the same planet.
My ignore list
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
