Star Trek die hards... time to show your knowledge...

[JImmyK]

It actually upsets me now when people write KAHN instead of KHAN. I dont get it, why does everybody make that mistake.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: sao123
one more...

what is a "particle of pre-animate matter caught in the matrix"???

sounds like a plant or a tree to me.... but whats the real answer.

I'd like to know why the sensors on Reliant couldn't pick up Khan and his crew while scanning the planet for life forms but they could detect a "particle of pre-animate matter caught in a matrix?"

Oh, and Saavik was close friends with perhaps even romantically involved with Preston-I can't remember exactly. I don't think they were engaged though.

 

[spikespiegal]

phaser beams disappear in the precense of a warp field making it impossible to fire a PHASER beam.

In most episodes this holds true because they fire Photon Torpedoes during warp, which I believe generate their own warp field via their own internal anti-matter power source.

I preferred Voyager over any of the series, other that perhaps TNG when the writing was good. Voyager had the best consistent writing, and even though I wasn't a big Janeway fan, the rest of the crew seemed more realistic in terms of how they dealt with different situations.

Constant battles with Borg, and Seven of Nine's unconventional tactics made for a lot of fun.

 

[fitzov]

6)My wife suggested to me...after watching demolishan man and i robot... sandra bullock would have made a far better savaak than either kristie alley, or her no-name replacement in the next movie.

Oh yeah, with that perky way about her and all she would of fit in totally. I mean, like, the dynamic between Kirk and Bullock would have been to-die-for!

 

[Erekose-TEC]

I'd like to know why the sensors on Reliant couldn't pick up Khan and his crew while scanning the planet for life forms but they could detect a "particle of pre-animate matter caught in a matrix?"

Oh, and Saavik was close friends with perhaps even romantically involved with Preston-I can't remember exactly. I don't think they were engaged though.

I think the idea is that all of the weather distortion on the planet meant that the lifesigns of Khan and his crew were misinterpreted by the sensors as a "particle of pre-animate matter caught in a matrix".

From the book, Preston is Saavik's student and she was romantically involved with David . . . as well as potentially carrying Spock's baby at the end of STIII. Leonard Nimoy was less than happy about the latter idea but Harve Bennett was quite taken by it . . . possibly why she was left on her "Vulcan assignment" (i.e. to have the baby) in STIV.

 

[Erekose-TEC]

4)when they were in the genesis tunnel inside the asteroid... where did the sunshine come from?

5)Genesis makes a dead planet into a living one... no where does it say it can make a solar system (star and planet) out of a nebula... how does this happen?

4) From the book it's something like a controlled fusion reactor used to simulate daylight

5) Again, from the book it was a partially developed "subroutine" in the Genesis device that was triggered in the nebula.

 

[Erekose-TEC]

Just skip to Star Trek IV. That's the best one.

Interesting - my preference would be II, VI, III and then I, IV and V are much of a muchness.

I know V has little love for it in most circles but Shatner was at least trying to stretch the envelope in terms of who the character are. My biggest gripe with it is the misplaced humour.

 

[Erekose-TEC]

I've just realised how old this thread is! Well who knows, I guess it may pickup again?

 

[JulesMaximus]

I have started my quest to see all 6 original star trek movies in order...

star Trek 1 was ok, but the real plot starts in WOK... and I have some questions so far.

1)Peter Preston (the young engineering cadet who dies) is scotty's nephew... but someone posed to me that he may have been engaged to Saavik, this the look of tear in her eyes (isnt she a vulcan... was that a hint of emotion?) when scotty appears carrying him on the bridge. True? False? Possibly in the novelized version?

They were romantically involved. This is in the book but not in the movie. I don't know if they were engaged though.

2)The reliant helmsmen (after this ship was captures) is that Kahn's son? "I will avenge you..."

Yes

3)I've read both the original and the TNG tech manuals... and i dont understand how the radiation room comes into play in the warp engines... How does simply filling a room with radiation (some type of gas) empower the engines? No other engine room caught on film even has this room (including reliant, enterprise in TV, ST MP, enterprise A, enterprise C, D, E)... what is its purpose? How did they drain all the radiation from the room in the first place, without going in? If there is a manual drain, surely there is a manual fill.... why would a purely radiation room have a computer in it? And why is there a door for just anyone to walk in and flood the entire room with whatever is in that room?

If there was no radiation room, Spock wouldn't have died heroically and if Spock hadn't died there wouldn't have been a 3rd film.

4)when they were in the genesis tunnel inside the asteroid... where did the sunshine come from?

5)Genesis makes a dead planet into a living one... no where does it say it can make a solar system (star and planet) out of a nebula... how does this happen?

You must suspend your natural tendency to ask these kind of questions. Again, it helps move the plot along.

6)My wife suggested to me...after watching demolishan man and i robot... sandra bullock would have made a far better savaak than either kristie alley, or her no-name replacement in the next movie.

Sandra Bullock graduated high school 1982, the year Wrath of Khan came out.

7)When the enterprise is first leavign drydock... there is this lone guy standing there in a spaceship... is he a)waving bye, b)cleaning a window, c) directing traffic... there seems to be no purpose for him here.

The purpose is to give a sense of scale to the ship. Don't over think this...it's a movie.

8)The creature kahn has in the sand... is that a real animal from the desert? is it a mouse in a costume? Or is it some type of animated special effect?

Who cares?

9)When checkov and terrel go into the cargo unit... why does the wind not blow the sand into the room? and how are kahn and his people out in the sand in a planet with limited atmosphere with no air tanks? Just wearing a chain mail outfit...

They are super human. Didn't you see Khan lift Capt Terrel one handed like he was a little school girl? That man must weigh 250lbs at least.

10)what is the primary fermented ingrediant in the romulan aile? beer = hops/rice, whiskey = corn/wheat vodka = potato/rye just curious what makes it blue...

tomorrow more questions to follow after I watch the search for spock and maybe the voyage home.

Um...it's a movie.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Wow, talk about bumping a dead thread. This is from 06.
In the words of William Shatner.
"Get a life"