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Kirk’s Eyeglasses

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Apr 062011

At the beginning of Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Kahn, McCoy gives Kirk a pair of eyeglasses for his birthday. In Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Kirk sells the gasses to a 20th century pawn shop to come up with some quick cash. Obviously, this wasn’t just another pair of cheap eyeglasses because a pawn broker gave him $100 for them even without the lenses. Walk into a pawn shop with a pair of frames that have no lenses and tell the guy you want $100 for them and see how quickly he throws you out of the place. In the pawn shop, Spock asks Kirk, “Weren’t those a gift from Dr. McCoy?” and Kirk pops off the reply, “That’s the beauty of it. They will be again”.

Unless Spock’s time travel calculations are wrong in getting them back to their own time, and Kirk has the opportunity to relive his most recent birthday, they will not be a gift again.

Also, assuming that the glasses were 300 years old when McCoy gave them to Kirk (the first time), they’d be closer to 600 years old the next time Kirk got them as a gift.

An Open Letter To Leonard Nimoy

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Mar 272011

While reading up on Leonard Nimoy’s career highlights for his celebrity birthday post yesterday I read that he appeared on Saturday Night Live‘s “Weekend Update” skit and commented that any long-time Trek fans who didn’t like the new movie were “dickheads”.

Today I did just a little bit of searching and found this video on NBC’s website showing the skit in question.

*DISCLAIMER* I have had absolutely zero problems with this computer since I got it in November, but after watching this video and reading the comments associated with it, suddenly my computer was infected with a virus that took me 4 hours to contain. I cannot say for sure that this website is where I picked up said virus, but during that session I had only been to 3 websites: Google.com, huffingtonpost.com, and the URL given above. If you have problems after visiting that link, it is in no way my responsibility. You have been warned.

I realize that the comment in question was made almost two years ago, but, since I choose not to watch Saturday Night Live, I only learned about it a couple of days ago. Delayed as it may be, I am writing this letter to Leonard Nimoy in response to that comment.

Klingon security

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Nov 172010

In Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Kirk and McCoy are, at one point, sentenced by a Klingon court of law to spend the rest of their lives mining dilithium on the prison planet of Rura Penthe. They are eventually able to effect an escape courtesy of the transporter and what is essentially an rfid wallet that Spock stuck on Kirk’s shoulder.

One has to wonder if the Klingons are really so incompetent security-wise that they don’t bother to search their prisoners at all before incarcerating them. It’s a shame that Kirk didn’t just show up with a fully charged phaser and have done with it.

Where is the light coming from?

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Sep 012010

There is one thing about every Star Trek series and movie ever made that has always bothered us. It has to do with the outdoor lighting in any of the exterior shots of the Enterprise (ANY Enterprise). It isn’t as obvious in the original series, but anything made afterward shows the ship passing by with a light source illuminating the ship’s exterior.

What we want to know is WHERE is the light source, because you never get a clue where the light is coming from, but in deep space with no nearby stars or planets the exterior shots should be black as midnight, maybe blacker.

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J. J. Abrams’s mistake

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Aug 102010

It’s no big secret that we have a big problem with J. J.’s rip-off of Star Trek. Here is just one example of a MAJOR mistake in that movie, and it has nothing to do with what we, or anyone else, thinks a given character would or would not do in a given situation. This is just a blatant error made because Mr. Abrams, who admitted he wasn’t a fan of Star Trek, didn’t know enough about the show to avoid doing something so stupid.