Star Trek: Retribution: Difference between revisions

** Then there's Ronston's rank insignia. If you look closely, she has four rank pips, three gold, one black, kind of a "captain junior grade." In the Prime timeline, she'd simply have three gold pips.

** Also, the uniforms worn by Operations officers versus Security officers. Operations officers wear the traditional gold, but Security officers have a more orange hue to their uniforms.

** Shots from later in the movie that involve {{spoiler|Kristie}} all had to be rendered at different settings than other shots, so that {{spoiler|her ponytail}} would be seen as it was meant to be seen rather than as a wireframe. In the first film, the discrepancy could be explained away as {{spoiler|the android simply being incomplete; this time Prentice goes out of his way to point out that she's been fully completed.}}

** Midway through production, the producer found a new way to render exterior shots to make the hulls look more metallic and realistic, and give the lights (in particular the warp engines) a "glow halo" like they'd always had on the shows. The new render style first popped up in the second battle sequence.

** The chief of security is usually referred to as "Jennifer."

** Notably averted though, in that '''everyone''' refers to Reyf as "Admiral."

** Implied to be a case of [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul]] thanks to what happened after (before?) the events of ''Specter''.

* [[Genre Savvy]]: Bradley Prentice: "Spare me the villainous '''posturing'''."

** Dr. Garr had this several times in ''Specter'', but curiously when he first appears to Reyf as a hologram, he doesn't. Fans have questioned that, but the creator has pointed out that Garr's [[Sinister Shades]] have changed--they used to be gold with clear lenses, but now they're black with blue lenses.

* [[Glowing Mechanical Eyes]]: {{spoiler|Garr's}} eyes glow red when he gets angry.

** Amazingly, ''fans'' had this reaction to the end of the scene showing Garr's second visit to the ''Fitzgerald'', which showed Reyf observing Prentice's quarters after Garr beamed away.

* [[Ominous Latin Chanting]]: After [[The Reveal]] of Drakus' face, the BGM starts to do this. The effect is very eerie now that we know who Drakus really is.

* [[Pardon My Klingon]]: In one scene, the tactical officer ''swears'' in Klingon. We don't know what it means, but based on Prentice's reaction, it ain't pretty.

* [[Reality Subtext]]: Midway through production, the movie saw the addition of a "For Elaine" title card, nearly identical to the "For Kristie" card at the beginning of ''Specter''.

* [[Scare Chord]]: The sting from "Klingon Attack" that plays right after we get our first glimpse of the villain near the beginning of the film.

* [[Shadow Discretion Shot]]: When Drakus vaporizes an aide bringing news of failure, instead of seeing it actually happen, we get a closeup of his face, with the glow of the phaser energy reflecting off his face.

** In the category of cast members, characters who were named after real people, usually acquaintences (current or former) of the executive producer:

*** Admiral Margaret '''Thornton'''