As a new Trekker chatting and understanding some behind-the-scenes and tidbits

Rosario 2021-12-08 08:01:47

I am not an old Star Trek fan. I have only learned about it in recent years, but the feelings and shocks that these old movies and TV series have brought to me are unmatched by any other movies and TV series, so I have always been extremely envious of those who grew up with ST. It’s not that I don’t want to get in touch early, but ST’s popularity in China is really not that high, so it’s too late to know. The early Star Trek AOS restart series relied on Pine, Quinto, Simon Pegg and Karl Urban. The young actors were considered to have brought popularity. , I really like it, but when it comes to the first TOS, TNG, I know or would like to see very few. Even if more people know ST, just like me, they listened to Xie Er in TBBT and a few otakus nagging a lot before they knew its existence. Unexpectedly, since I started to write the Star Trek series, I have also become a three-sentence ST, making everyone around me bothersome. This is my favorite one in the entire Star Trek series (including various dramas as long as I have watched it). I just have to say everything I want to say below this one. Maybe I can take the opportunity to pull a few people into this. The old pit slowly cooling down.

Let's throw a link to the laughing scene first! The tidbits of the year are really super rare! https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Rf4y127Hj/

1) In the second part of the movie, Spock was shot dead. In the third part, Paramount wanted Leonard Nimoy (Spock’s actor) to come back. Grandpa LN thought, if there is any chance that Paramount can consider allowing him to direct, it’s now. Therefore, his condition is: I want to direct the third part. Paramount reluctantly agreed, but the results were surprisingly good. The fourth part was handed over to Grandpa LN, so the screenwriter and director of this part were both LN, so many people (including me) felt that "the style of painting changed suddenly." ". It is indeed very inconsistent with the story style of Star Trek, but it has the core and spirit of Star Trek. I am really happy to see that the protagonist finally stopped moving forward, left their Enterprise, left outer space, and returned to Earth, facing their own history and the mistakes made by their own race. My favorite one.

What’s funny is that later ST actors have become accustomed to directing. The next generation of first mate Jonathan Frakes also directed the eighth film. Many other actors including Patrick Stewart have directed episodes (although Piaget’s ability to direct is affected by his The first officer sneered severely).

2) Pick the bugs...then pick them. Because it is really very difficult to find the only standard answer to careful consideration, it seems that every crossing mentioned in the early days of Star Trek is a different assumption. Even in the original episode, there has been a closed loop traversal (single universe), covering the original universe traversal, not to mention that the restart version also traverses directly to the parallel universe. Any explanation is available.

I recommend another original episode involving time travel, which is also a classic, City On The Edge of Forever. I heard that I won the Hugo Award. The beginning is also funny, although the final ending is much more depressing than this one. Thought-provoking.

Time travel to revolve around the sun is also the setting of the original episode. The theory is to use the stellar gravitational slingshot effect to achieve a sufficiently high speed (about 10?).

3) There are many underwater and underwater scenes in the movie. They were looking for large pools that could be used to shoot this kind of scenes. They found that most of them were not abandoned for a long time, or they could not meet their filming needs. The Klingon spacecraft is stuffed in, and there are whales or something). As a result, when the special effects crew was wandering in a parking lot in Paramount, they found a water pipe next to them. They ran back and looked through the original construction drawings and found that there used to be a large pool here. Then they dug the parking lot and used it for filming. Pool.

4) After confirming that the movie was about whales, LN and others asked many experts and realized that whales could not be so close to people or cameras. They were too shy. Therefore, more than 95% of the humpback whale shots in the film are props. Special effects).

5) The reason why Grandpa LN chose the theme of environmental protection: "In order to write this story, I spent some time with many outstanding scientists, listening to them talk about their prospects and concerns about the future, and I noticed that a common concern is about the ecosystem. Hundreds of species are extinct every year. I realize that the ecosystem is a bit like a house of cards. After you set it up, carefully take away a card. After drawing a certain picture, the whole tower will collapse. I want to create a story about a certain species becoming this irreversible tipping point."

6) When leaving Vulcan at the beginning of the movie, were you curious why Saavik stayed at Vulcan if he didn't leave? The original reason was that Saavik was pregnant with Spock's child. When Saavik and the captain said goodbye to the ship, the captain asked Saavik, "Did you tell him?" Saavik replied that there was no. Later, LN and others felt that the plot was too difficult to handle and Spock's character image was not easy to shape, so they cut it.

7) The original clerks and nurses all appeared at the Star Alliance headquarters.

8) Seeing Old Bones talking to Spock, Spock couldn't understand the slang and had to say a few words. In fact, Spock had served in the fleet for more than ten years. Except for some strange southern dialects spoken by the doctor, it is really impossible to not know such simple slang. At the time of the five-year mission, it can be seen that many places are more like pretending not to understand in order to emphasize that they are Vulcans with "only logic and no emotions", and have not been "contaminated" by humans, or simply for mad doctors. Therefore, one of the original pleasures was to watch Spock quarrel with Old Bones, and suddenly start discussing philosophy anytime and anywhere, causing the captain to sigh and sigh and laugh.

In the first few parts of the movie, Spock’s fateful relationship with the captain has been preserved and sublimated, but I don’t know why the relationship with McCoy is completely lost, so that many people don’t know what McCoy’s role is after watching the movie. The old man ran towards the bridge. After LN took the helm, the relationship and the image of the two people were back on the right track, and Spock was a little unconscious after his resurrection, which made him start to feel a little bit ignorant of these human customs, so this movie made a big laugh. Many and the two of them are talking again.

The old people have the impression that Spock in Star Trek represents reason, and Kirk represents emotion (of course, it may be affected by the restarted version of the captain), but the original Kirk was actually very shrewd and considerate when he was the captain. , Is not an impulsive and arrogant kid. The old bone is the emotional one. He has the frankness of sunny Georgia and the hobby and ability to satirize everything around him (especially a certain green-blooded-eared goblin). He and Spock provided Kirk, a relatively neutral final decision maker, with two perspectives, and they are an indispensable member of the Iron Triangle. Personally, my favorite role in the trio is the doctor.

9) Spock smiles every time he covers his ears. I remembered that the captain’s explanation was “my friend is obviously Chinese (Spock set the skin to be yellow-green, but it’s hard to see the difference in the movie). When I was young, there was an accident and my head got stuck in the rice milling machine (so my ears changed like this).

10) Every time I hear Old Bones feeling "I don't know how these people lived through the 20th century", I think that DeForest Kelley (the doctor's actor) died in 1999.

11) In the movie, McCoy, Sulu and Scotty walked to a yellow door and came out a few Asians. Later, Sulu was going to talk to one of the children, and then discovered that the kid was his great-grandfather. As a result, the child cried for a day and didn't cooperate during the filming. The scene was cut off before it was filmed.

12) Chekov asked that the section of the nuclear submarine was really shot on the streets of San Francisco. LN took the photographer and hid away, asked Walter Koenig (Chekov actor) and Nichelle Nichols (Uhura actor) to play their roles in costumes, and asked passers-by. The only requirement was that Chekov repeated his Russian accent several times." Nuclear Wessels (nuclear submarine)". The policeman is really a policeman. He was sent to help them film the movie to maintain order. The kind brown-haired girl is also a kind brown-haired girl, and after LN thought that period was very good and decided to keep it, they had to chase it. The girl who went to talk to her about paying her a salary because she said a few lines in the movie.

13) Spock once again showed his telepathy. After a series of weird creatures such as mind meld with computers and rocks, he harassed whales in the diving again this time. Is it dangerous to start saying that good mind meld is dangerous?

14) Doctor is finally a doctor in this episode! No need to emphasize "I`ma doctor, not a..."! And he just saved a 21st century old lady like this, and he naturally patted others' faces and said, "If there is any problem, just call me." Is this self-confidence that there is absolutely no problem with your medical skills, or are you going to just plug her a communicator?

15) In the end, Spock laughed and cracked. LN really couldn't hold it anymore. It was William Shatner (Kirk actor) who forcibly pulled him into the water. LN later joked in the meeting and mentioned several times that WS tried to drown him when he was shooting the fourth film.

16) Grandpa De likes to write poems. His later poem about Star Trek 6 mentioned Spock director 4, and he became a producer of 5. He has a very old-fashioned style, and my translation level is too poor. Don't turn over:

Remember that Alien with the pointed ears Who gave me trouble for 25 years? Who wanted to die in Star Trek 2 And gave the impression he was through? …REMEMBER? (Finger nodded his head) But boy - did he do a turnaround When he heard that money sound. He not only decided he would not defect, But wanted to act - and direct. He just went crazy wanting more. He directed 3 and also 4. Now he's back as Producer/Actor, That's a very , very important factor. For I never thought that I'd see the day When Spock would control my movie pay.

And what happened, as you may have heard

So I am still driving that 68 Bird (Even so - I'll never get rich - Because of that green-blooded son-of-a-bitch!)

(The poem I picked was something he would read when he met, and the brackets were changed to these two sentences when it was published later) (I guess because I have already changed cars hahaha) But I can`t kick about my life. I`m happy in the Valley - with the very same wife.

17) When dubbing the whale detector, the sound effects staff Mark A Mangini tried several sounds, but Nimoy didn't like it. Mark couldn't help saying, "Then what do you think it sounds like?" LN imitated his imagination and made some "wub-wub-wub-wub" sounds. Mark decided to use this, so he asked LN to record the sound in the studio, mixing whale song writing with other electronic sound effects.

18) The scene of Vulcan pinching a punk boy comes from LN's own experience. Once when he was in New York, he was walking down the street when a punk boy walked out of a store carrying a large speaker, disturbing everyone around him. He thought at the time: If I really were Spock, I would stun him severely!

19) When Spock answered the question in Vulcan, there was a question "What are the major events of the earth in 1987?" The answer was not read out, but you can see that Spock typed in and answered "The computer cloned by carrots" and "The New York Times was the last one to close down." Magazine company", and then the computer judged it correctly.

20) Some high-blended studio photos collected from unknown sources

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Extended Reading

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home quotes

  • Spock: To hunt a species to extinction is not logical.

    Dr. Gillian Taylor: Whoever said the human race was logical?

  • Vulcan Computer: What was Kiri-Kin-Tha's first law of metaphysics?

    Spock: Nothing unreal exists.