"He's intelligent, but not experiences. His pattern indicates two-dimensional thinking."
Fantastic how the battle in the Mutara Nebula plays out like submarine warfare
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I once got to ask Walter Koenig at DragonCon if he ever got tired of Chekov getting "whumped" all the time.
"I love it," he deadpanned. "It gives me a sexual thrill."
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I love this score so much.
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"I'll say this for him, he's consistent."

Did I miss something? Why does Kirk's communicator look so cheap? Did they rig a special get-through-the-interference model?
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"You lied!"
"I exaggerated."

Everyone was very cool at the conventions. Nimoy, Doohan, Takei, Nichols, all of them. Except Shatner. Who did not appear back then, to be sure.

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I would practice opening my flip phone Star Trek style.
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Shatner is the most Shatner who has ever Shatnered.

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The effects team for this film, Ken Ralston and Jim Veilleux were relegated to a corner of ILM's building. Most of it was given over to "E.T. The Extra Terrestrial."

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You have seen where Douglas Trumbull and John Dykstra's visual effects from the first film were repurposed for this second film. That was because of the lower budget.

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Spock: "Jim, be careful."
Bones: "*We* will."
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Ah! "At the Movies," the series that single-handedly ended the movie review TV series. I still call Ben Mankiewicz "Ben of The Two Bens."

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You know we're all just waiting to post that meme. So, fuck it, I'll just do it now. 😂

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The Genesis Project video is an example of some of the first CGI effects used in film. The star field effects you saw in the Main Titles were also CGI.

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The great battle between William Shatner and Ricardo Montalbán...to see who at times can chew the hell out of the scenery the most. 😂

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Doohan was great! I got to meet him and get his autograph at at least two "Trek" conventions.

Also...Wow! They're actually letting you watch "Star Trek II" with us? 😀

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"I don't know you. But, you, I never forget a face. I have seen every episode of the Original Series."

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Naturally, Chekov and Turrell just stand there outside the remnants of the Botany Bay to get taken instead of beaming up...

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To me, the action and violence packed second film was for movie fans who wanted that in a "Star Trek" movie. The philosophical elements were in very short supply after the first film. And it stayed that way through the final "Next Generation" film.

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