1) Yeoman Rand
2) duplicate Kirk
3) brig force field
4) argument with computer
5) Vulcan lyre
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at the risk of incurring the wrath of jordan... i'm dying of laughter right now. wrong response?
Moved this. We like to keep the Haiku post on top on Wednesdays.
I think Kristen Bell is playing Yeoman Rand, so 1 is already in.
3 and 5 are excellent.
2 and 4 seemed too old school to me at first, but then I recalled that J.J. Abrams will be handling it, and he could make those cool.
Actually, the more I think about it, the more fun a Chris Pine evil Kirk gets. Yeah, evil Kirk!
Understood about the HHD. I actually figured it would get moved.
If Horrorthon was a town, there would be a huge parade every Wednesday...and I would be the old grouch who was trying to cross Main Street.
Octo, I purposefully went for the most retro, old-school motifs I could think of.
I'd like to see a Horta. I loved the remake but I didn't dig that ice planet creature, something about it made it difficult to "see".
There's something about the sentence "I'd like to see a Horta" I find really charming. And I share your opinion; that monster could have been better.
Ironic since the whole episode exists solely because of that rubber monster costume! True story. The weird-costume guy on Trek had made that for something else (it wasn't used) and he got inside it and crawled into Gene L. Coon's office. Coon (Producer; 2nd in command of the show under Roddenberry; left after the second season) said, "That's great! Can we use that? I'll write a show around it!"
And he did, obviously; the result is "Devil in the Dark," one of the very best Star Trek episodes ever. And it's not even a decent monster! That's Trek for you. I'd also like to see a Horta.
It's amazing that, even for someone as obsessed with special effects as myself, with so many of the best made sci-fi movies amongst my favorites, that I would hold Star Trek in such high regard, since the production values are so low. I'm not kidding, either; I think the only stuff I've got in my television "library" that's worse made than original Star Trek is... I don't even know. Even Twilight Zone, from roughly the same period, has a crisp black-and-white pictorial sophistication and class that eludes Trek. And yet it's still arguably the best sci-fi ever. Go figure.
if horrorthon were a town, what would catfreeek be?
oh right --- the crazy lady with all the cats.
Going back to Octopunk's comment, YES! I concur that J. J. Abrams could absolutely knock "argument with computer" out of the park.
Especially if it was an OLD computer...or a really weird one...or a really crazy one. I must say the mind reels.
Afterwards, I imagine Pine and Quinto repeating the Shatner/Nimoy exchange:
SPOCK: "And, I must say, Captain: that was an impressive exercise in logic with which you engaged the X-5 computer." [or whatever the fuck it is --J]
KIRK: "Didn't think I had it in me, did you, Spock?"
SPOCK: "No, sir."
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