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Aug. 31st, 2020 11:31 pmWas thinking tonight of the big Epsilon 9 scene from the first Star Trek movie back in '79 - the second scene, actually, with an audience of all those TOS fans dressed up as extras.
One, David Branch (the comm station's commander) has a very odd, stilted way of delivering his lines. I wonder if he'd have done better with the role he was originally supposed to have, Spock's full-Vulcan protege Xon, in Star Trek Phase II.
Second, one of those lines is to order shields raised and announce that they're under attack. Of course, from what we learn later, this is a misconception: it's highly doubtful that V'Ger registered the noisy little thing as a threat, but simply flagged it as "interesting" and proceeded to scan and store it.* For maximum irony, just moments before, the E9 commander expressed concern that their scans might be similarly misinterpreted.
(* what, you don't scan unknown objects by disintegrating and digitizing them? weird.)
One, David Branch (the comm station's commander) has a very odd, stilted way of delivering his lines. I wonder if he'd have done better with the role he was originally supposed to have, Spock's full-Vulcan protege Xon, in Star Trek Phase II.
Second, one of those lines is to order shields raised and announce that they're under attack. Of course, from what we learn later, this is a misconception: it's highly doubtful that V'Ger registered the noisy little thing as a threat, but simply flagged it as "interesting" and proceeded to scan and store it.* For maximum irony, just moments before, the E9 commander expressed concern that their scans might be similarly misinterpreted.
(* what, you don't scan unknown objects by disintegrating and digitizing them? weird.)
