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Back on Christmas Day I wondered openly whether Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home was not the most preachy lib-fest guilt-trip movie ever slapped on the big screen.
Well, we just picked up my kid from Nevada…who, as I mentioned before, shares my fascination with cheeseball 80’s dreck. So we watched it again, and I noticed something new: The repeated guilt-slams that occur throughout the last hour or so are all just dessert. The establishment of the plot line is the main course.
A malevolent entity — the “whale probe” — begins carving a destructive swath through our beloved planet, threatening its destruction. The response is to ponder what we did to piss it off. Not a single instant of footage manifests any curiosity from anyone regarding its origin. With V’Ger, our intrepid crew pondered both of these things…why are you so mean, and from whence did you come. I guess between ST:I and ST:IV a twenty-third-century Obama must have been elected. V’Ger should have been so lucky.
Shouldn’t Star Trek V should have been titled “Find Out What Sonofabitch Sent This Thing To Us And Make Them Into A Glass Parking Lot” or something? That might have worked a lot better than deliberately pissing off Christians yet one more time.
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Ah Christians are fine. Christians are safe. That is until they decide to get medieval on your ass. Could work in Hollywood.
- vanderleun | 01/04/2010 @ 20:50Theoretically, V’Ger and the Whale Probe will be happening again with altered time line event that happened in the Star Trek movie from this last summer.
It wasn’t a re-boot. The timeline was altered.
- Dave C | 01/05/2010 @ 06:35Yeah we were just talking about that very thing. In fact, V’Ger is guaranteed to happen again, since it was launched before 2233.
In fact, here’s a thought. When (spoilers, highlight to read) Spock disables Nero’s ship with the red matter, Kirk offers Nero a choice, Nero says he prefers death, Kirk says you got it. So Kirk orders a spread of weapons fire just to make sure if Nero pops out of the black hole one more time, there won’t be anymore damage, then the black hole swallows up Nero’s ship.
Now, suppose Nero does pop out one more time, doesn’t know where, doesn’t know when, but his ship is incapacitated and cannot fire weapons, cannot drill planets, so it just drifts around……and Nero develops a passionate interest in whales. So he puts some mods in on that gigantic ship of his, and then limps it back to earth to try to communicate with the humpback whales. Hmmm…
That would be a cool timeline wrinkle, and it would also portray this liberal-pansy decision not to pursue the whale probe, as the dangerous sissy-man move that it really is.
- mkfreeberg | 01/05/2010 @ 06:46I think Nero is done for.. the red matter imploded in the middle of his ship.. (or damn close to the middle) .. If he still has a functioning ship.. It seemed to me that the ship was cut in half by the black hole.
I take it the Red Matter didn’t cause the conventional black hole either.. seeing how both Spock and Nero traveled back in time instead of being torn apart inch by inch as they were sucked into the gravitational pull of the black hole.
I did enjoyed the new movie.. One of my favorites from
- Dave C | 01/05/2010 @ 07:47thislast year.But I’m worried about the ease of recycling storylines for the movies. *coff* Space Seed*coff*.
Ah, ST4. Everyone’s favorite. “The one with the whales” is the stock response when you ask someone what his favorite Trek film is. It’s been out for nearly 25 years, released at the height of the 80s sci-fi craze, and everybody has seen it. It wasn’t until years later, when I re-watched the film as an adult, that I realized just how preachy it is. How much it’s filled with, “We’ve GOT to pull together and save the Earth! For the whales!”
All I remember from the theater is the “double dumbass on you” rejoinder from Kirk after he was nearly run over by a taxi in San Francisco. Or how Spock couldn’t get the “colorful metaphors” quite right. Or Scotty speaking into the computer mouse, not seeming to realize that voice-activated computers were a long way off yet. Or Spock nerve-pinching the punk on the city bus. It actually says “Punk on bus……” in the closing credits.
I never even considered the “Let’s go find the whale probe people and annihilate them” angle. It was kind of a given in the movie that “we” couldn’t do that. After all, you notice that any ship approaching it seemed to lose power and was rendered helpless.
- cylarz | 01/06/2010 @ 13:05It may be preachy, but I still like it. “Everybody remember where we parked.” Then again, I haven’t seen it for a while. Watched Star Trek II with my daughter this summer, and it’s still a rollicking good time.
- chunt31854 | 01/06/2010 @ 14:35