tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9014106.post2532029687253407682..comments2023-09-08T01:35:21.679-07:00Comments on Zaki's Corner / Zaki Hasan: Zaki's Retro Review: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)Zakihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06150118173142516267noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9014106.post-73491515110213190962010-04-04T10:32:10.905-07:002010-04-04T10:32:10.905-07:00You've seen this, right? The complete version ...You've seen this, right? The <i>complete</i> version of the punk song played by that dude on the bus. <br /><br />You'll never hear a better use of the word "eschew" in the English language!<br /><br />Link: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX8kKEh8DGU&feature=player_embedded" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX8kKEh8DGU&feature=player_embedded</a>highway163https://www.blogger.com/profile/09874578884935438341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9014106.post-62396041165723932012009-06-16T10:30:53.042-07:002009-06-16T10:30:53.042-07:00Have to confess that it's one of my favourite ...Have to confess that it's one of my favourite Star Trek movies, but will equally fast also confess that it was the first one with the original crew. At this point in time (read: in the late 90s), I had been converted towards becoming a Trekkie through TNG and DS9 (the latter reamining my favourite Trek) and the turning point towards old material (of which I've admittedly seen very little) was catching this movie on the Sci-Fi Channel. And after that renting most if not all of the movies to date.The Mad Swedehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11909803239199450139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9014106.post-19116944540340529542009-04-26T11:27:00.000-07:002009-04-26T11:27:00.000-07:00HAH! You know, I was rearranging the furniture in...HAH! You know, I was rearranging the furniture in my apartment yesterday, moving my <I>Star Trek Ghetto</I> (the bookshelf that contains my three dozen or so ST novels), and noted that I actually owned a hardcover of <B>Probe</B> but had never read it.<br /><br />Mayhaps I should do that later today...Ian Sokoliwskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02088518873613161316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9014106.post-75555726830396696222009-04-26T11:23:00.000-07:002009-04-26T11:23:00.000-07:00Ha! Great post!
I think I'm more ambivalent towa...Ha! Great post!<br /><br />I think I'm more ambivalent towards TREK IV then anything else. Don't hate, but don't love it either.<br /><br />As far as the Klingon computer having access to the sound of whales, I figured that in the three months the ship was on Vulcan, they probably uploaded a Starfleet or Vulcan database at some point.<br /><br /><br />Your point about the probe is a good one, though. I know there was as novel written back in the late '80s called PROBE that went into more detail about it, so maybe it was addressed there. I tend to treat TREK fiction like poison ivy though, so I wouldn't know. :-)Zakihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14014455379015009582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9014106.post-15464310338572587782009-04-26T10:44:00.000-07:002009-04-26T10:44:00.000-07:00I don't like this movie at all.
Yeah, I know. I'...I don't like this movie at all.<br /><br />Yeah, I know. <I>I'm</I> the only one :)<br /><br />I find nothing appealing about the movie at all. The humour seems forced and out-of-place to me.<br /><br />Before I go any further, I'd just like to point out that I don't like any comedies without the work <B>Airplane</B> in the title. So there is that...<br /><br />I get <I>why</I> they were trying to make the movie so funny - lightening things up after the past really dark tales - but it ends up taking me out of the story too much. Not to mention the logic problems with the script don't really give you any help with staying <I>in</I> the story in the first place.<br /><br />I mean, <B>WHY</B> would a Klingon Bird of Prey have audio recognition files on an extinct species from Earth? How could an engineer from the 23rd century know how to quickly work an original Macintosh? (seriously, all you webmasters and code-monkeys and programmers out there, can any of you use punch or IBM cards? and that computer technology is only a few decades out of date!)<br /><br />...okay, I'm not going to post a list of all the logic problems with this movie...I'd basically have to post the script.<br /><br />Suffice it to say, all the <I>what the?</I> going on kept me from getting into what is basically a pretty...well, kinda boring story, truth be told. <br /><br />Okay, one more <B>MASSIVE</B> logic problem and then I'll end this. This is supposed to be a story about ecology and Man's destruction of native species and harming the environment, right? This is supposed to be all about how we are supposed to be good to the planet around us and much more enlightened in general, right?<br /><br />Okay. In that case, why does this other species, the ones wanting to communicate with the whales, use a means of communication that <B>DESTROYS THE FRAKKING ENVIRONMENT!???!??!?!?!!</B> I mean, seriously, they disable every starship that gets near them with this communications system, then start to <B>EVAPORATE THE FRAKKING OCEANS?!???!??!?</B>Way to be enlightened, guys. <br /><br />So, yeah. The central premise of the movie is...somewhat <I>faulty</I>. IMHO. YMMV. ;)Ian Sokoliwskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02088518873613161316noreply@blogger.com