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* [[Credits Pushback]]: The signatures at the end generally get [[Edited for Syndication|clipped]] thanks to this practice. |
* [[Credits Pushback]]: The signatures at the end generally get [[Edited for Syndication|clipped]] thanks to this practice. |
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* [[Description Cut]] |
* [[Description Cut]] |
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* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: {{spoiler|The ''Enterprise'' is getting owned by the cloaked Bird of Prey, and then suddenly the crew realizes the ship just happens to have some never-before-mentioned equipment to catalog gaseous anomalies that can be used to totally obliterate the enemy ship}} |
* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: {{spoiler|The ''Enterprise'' is getting owned by the cloaked Bird of Prey, and then suddenly the crew realizes the ship just happens to have some never-before-mentioned equipment to catalog gaseous anomalies that can be used to totally obliterate the enemy ship. What makes this particularly bad is that '''Sulu''' is the one performing this task at the beginning of the film. The true explanation is a combination of executive and cast meddling (see the reference to Shatner insisting that the ''Enterprise'' save itself, above). This is also explained in the novelization as being Starfleet's current ongoing giant research project of the past few years, so most ships were carrying equipment for gaseous anomalies, not just the ''Excelsior''. Admittedly this could have been somewhat fixed by modifying Sulu's opening narration to something like "for the past three years ''we have been leading the fleet'' in cataloguing gaseous anomalies in planetary atmospheres", but alas, l'esprit de l'escalier...}} |
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** {{spoiler|Worse. I seem to recall that at the start of the film, SULU mentions they've been on a three-year mission "charting gaseous anomalies", so the Excelsior would have the equipment. Script-writer confusion abounds!}} |
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*** {{spoiler|Not so, more a case of a combination of executive and cast meddling (see the reference to Shatner insisting that the ''Enterprise'' save itself, above). This is also explained in the novelization as being Starfleet's current ongoing giant research project of the past few years, so most ships were carrying equipment for gaseous anomalies, not just the ''Excelsior''. Admittedly this could have been somewhat fixed by modifying Sulu's opening narration to something like "for the past three years ''we have been leading the fleet'' in cataloguing gaseous anomalies in planetary atmospheres", but alas, l'esprit de l'escalier...}} |
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* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: the whole film is an allegory about the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. It was released less than a few weeks before the Soviet Union actually fell. |
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: the whole film is an allegory about the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. It was released less than a few weeks before the Soviet Union actually fell. |
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** In addition, Praxis exploding and contaminating the Klingon homeworld is a clear reference to Chernobyl. |
** In addition, Praxis exploding and contaminating the Klingon homeworld is a clear reference to Chernobyl. |
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