Prolly cuz everyone on Earth got tired of their BS…like when they had to flee the US to Mexico. Hell, even one of Abe Lincolns campaign posters promised to eliminate the “twin relics of Barbarism” - slavery and polygamy.
Related: I just spent 2 weeks doing a fanedit of STV. I will die on the hill that the plot is good if you can get around most of the silly humor of Shatner (which obviously I removed), as well as most of the weird shit between Scotty and Uhura.
At the core, it is a sweeping critique of religion and charlatanism. Larry Luckenbill as Sybok is one of the great performances in all of Trekdom.
I haven’t figured out distribution yet but you can bet I’ll be sharing with the community here (even if only for discussion).
Some of my favorite edits are actually in discussions between Kirk, Spock, and Bones. In one scene Bones has weird jokes that don’t really fit the tone of Spock’s exposition. It was a challenge to get around them, but I think I did it quite successfully, and it adds some needed gravitas to those portions.
I would love to see what the fan edit looks like. I (re)watched it just last week and the theatrical cut is… a mess, to put it gently. There’s almost too much going on, with not enough focus on the elements that make the story tick. But there’s lots to work with here that would make a very high-production-value 50 minute Trek episode.
Scotty and Uhura’s flirting was cute, but it doesn’t go anywhere so it’s dead weight film-wise. But without it, the characters have even less to say in an already crowded story. It’s just sad.
One moment that stuck out to me was the bar fight. Kirk just tosses a Catian stripper, over his head, into a literal “pool” table and she’s rendered dead/unconscious floating face down in the water. Either she has bones like a baby bird or Kirk is on 'roids. I can’t make sense of that edit unless there was a longer fight that got chopped down somehow. It makes zero sense.
They’ve got bugs that can shoot spaceships out of orbit with their butts. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to think they could knock an asteroid out of orbit.
Though considering your username it might be you dropping the rocks.
They have almost zero space presence, they only attack the ships from the ground. The only thing they can do with space is sending eggs away. (And those asteroids weren’t knocked out of orbit, they were sent though hyperspace.)
Besides, the movie makes it pretty clear they just discovered they are in a war a few weeks prior.
(And now I’m wondering how the fuck do I remember that well a movie I’ve seen once, a long time ago… Is it actually good and I didn’t notice at the time?)
Hum… Either the brain bugs that started being created weeks prior discovered some mechanism they have been using to bombard the Earth for decades… Or the military speakerheads and the news that lie about literally every single thing we see happening lied about something else.
That was the point. In the books, the bugs had been flinging rocks towards the outer colonies for years, but the attack on Buenos Aires is heavily implied to be an inside job to rally support for an invasion, since they did not have hyperspace tech and no attack had reached the inner worlds, let alone Earth.
I’m finding it very funny, because I though it was incredibly obvious on the movie, and nobody would ever disagree.
Indeed, the movie is way too busy, so it’s easy to miss that there are no insects on space, or that the bugs weren’t even aware they were been systematically attacked until “now”. But it’s one of those things that I expected to be completely obvious once pointed out. It’s even more obvious than what you are narrating from the book, because on the movie Earth has been receiving those rocks for decades.
I imagine people missing the point is part of the point of it. It’s like that gorilla video.
Been playing X3TC again and I’m noticing how this ship looks a lot like the Argon Trading Stations (or rather the other way around). Now I wonder if this was the actual inspiration for 'em.
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