Star Trek (1966)
Space. The Final Frontier. The U.S.S. Enterprise embarks on a five year mission to explore the galaxy. The Enterprise is under the command of Captain James T. Kirk with First Officer Mr. Spock, from the planet Vulcan. With a determined crew, the Enterprise encounters Klingons, Romulans, time paradoxes, tribbles and genetic supermen led by Khan Noonian Singh. Their mission is to explore strange new worlds, to seek new life and new civilizations, and to boldly go where no man has gone before.
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The Vasquez Rocks, featured in several "Star Trek" episodes, make a cameo appearance.
At one point they buy a Gorn mask so they can recreate a scene from "Star Trek" when they visit Vazquez rock.
Besides the work of Steven Spielberg there's also, of course, rather a lot of Star Trek and Star Wars, including a particularly witty use of the Cantina Bar theme.
Even though it’s usually spoken of in the same breath as Star Wars and Star Trek, it’s a fraction as popular as either.
…several gags along the way referencing everything from Star Trek (the design of the ship’s bridge, especially the viewscreen, and the navigator with an artificial-eyesight device on his face)…
He emphasises an Ice Warrior obsession with honour, akin to Star Trek‘s Klingons…
Unfortunately, their presentation here is rather too derivative of the Borg from Star Trek, with their “cyber-mites” causing eruptions of metallic appliances on the faces of their victims, and their ability to instantly adapt to any tactic used against them.
The main premise of the film (both its plot and characters) is mostly influenced by George Lucas’s sci-fi trilogy “Star Wars,” but Brooks borrows from the likes of nearly every popular sci-fi franchise, including “Star Trek,” “Aliens,” “Planet of the Apes,” and even the not-so-science-fiction tale “The Wizard of Oz.” Brooks includes a good collection of quality gags throughout, but it’s Moranis’ crowd-pleasing re-creation of Darth Vader that ultimately wins in the film’s internal battle for absolute absurdity.
A pr�cis of the film's plot is not necessary: Suffice it to say that there are a passel of jokes -- one coming roughly every 20 seconds -- made at the expense of "Alien," the "Star Trek" movies and the "Star Wars" films, with the latter taking the brunt of the attack.
Then rewind a little to Brooks' Spaceballs, and see how all the signs were there: the strained humor, the lame Star Trek references, the downright painful puns.
In addition to Star Wars, Brooks and company take potshots at Star Trek, Transformers (as in Howard Korder's 1985 off-Broadway space spoof "Episode 26," there's a kind of "Heavenly Hoover" involved in the climax), Alien, Max Headroom, and The Wizard of Oz.
Their interaction takes on a preening quality, reminiscent of the interaction of the "Star Trek" characters four or five movies down the line.
Audiences still warmed-up from the summer's pulpier swashbuckler, "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl," will respond most warmly, as will fans of the Horatio Hornblower books and their many film and television descendents, including "Star Trek."
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Star Trek (especially The Next Generation) frequently addressed this question as did the reboot of Battlestar Galactica.
By contrast, a film like “Prometheus” – or other sci-fi masterpieces like “Star Trek,” “Star Wars” and “Alien” – inspires you to question deeply controversial curiosities about science, god, religion, faith and other lifelong debates.
McBride is heard in voice-over, describing his voyage in a terse, matter of fact fashion which can’t help but evoke memories of Captain Kirk’s log in Star Trek .
But while the themes are weighty, the canvas sometimes breathtaking and the special-effects top-notch, this seems more like an elevated version of some of the original Star Trek movies.
It’s not the fancy, high tech world of Star Trek , but it’s clear significant strides have been made toward humanity’s presence in space, so much so that if this was Star Trek , the world is on the cusp of discovering warp speed .
As Star Trek has inspired generations of astronauts, astrophysicists, and insufferable Comic-Communists, so might The Martian move kids to study science, math, and even botany.
It’s a Star Trek utopia.
It’s on Earth, around the one-third mark of the film, where Larson really takes over the role because while the Hala sequences visually recall Blade Runner and Star Trek , C-57 is a Top Gun homage.
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What Gene Roddenberry’s Federation was to American culture (and for all its diversity Star Trek was always deeply culturally American), Wakanda might be to Africa, or for Afrocentrists: a futuristic aspirational ideal; an alternate cultural identity of the imagination; a way of taking pride in the best of what we are and thinking about what we could become.
It’s got a smashing design, full of color and spectacle, a mix of vibrant African culture and mythos intermeshed with brainy, comic-book sci-fi—like Tarzan meets Star Trek .
The all-black attire for Wells may as well have been a red shirt from Star Trek, as he is sent in for the slaughter.
The Alexandrians may as well be wearing red shirts borrowed from Star Trek…