Subj : Re: Deep Space Nine
To   : Skip Thompson
From : Drew Klenotic
Date : Thu Jul 06 2017 18:54:36

On 04 Jul 17  17:16:32 Skip Thompson wrote...

ST> 
ST> DK> As a sci-fi movie, the JJ ones could be ok.. as Trek films... I
ST> DK> just can't.
ST> DK> 
ST> DK> They're just too silly.  Scotty swirling around in the big water
ST> DK> tubes  just the tip of it for me.  Everything seemed to be way
ST> DK> over the top exagerated to the point of being silly. 
ST> 
ST> I agree. Didn't they "jump" from one ship to another (or possibly to
ST> a planets surface) in one of the recent ones? No equipment or special
ST> tractor beams or anything to explain it, they just jumped.
ST> 
ST> I think a good story sets up the enviroment for the plot, than stays
ST> true to the environment. Otherwise the suspension of disbelief just
ST> doesn't work for me.

To which Drew Klenotic replies...

Yep... Pretty much.  Jumped onto the drilling rig suspended from the
massive totally un-utilitarian looking bad guy star ship.

First "JJ" Movie.

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