The Pitch: Star Trek meets Star Trek
Influence: Alien vs. Predator, Freddy vs. Jason
Price of Admission: $3.50
When: November 25th, 1994 at 4:20 pm
My Age: 13
Quote: Who am I to argue with the captain of the Enterprise? - Capt. Kirk
Influence: Alien vs. Predator, Freddy vs. Jason
Price of Admission: $3.50
When: November 25th, 1994 at 4:20 pm
My Age: 13
Quote: Who am I to argue with the captain of the Enterprise? - Capt. Kirk
The passing of the torch. The original Star Trekkers hand over the movie sequel reigns to the Next Generation crew. This is the 4th and final Star Trek film I actually saw in the theaters. The first of which was Star Trek IV back when I was just 5 years old. (I liked the part where Spock gave a New York thug blasting his boombox the Vulcan neck pinch.) I was also a fairly regular watcher of The Next Generation TV show.
The Star Trek vs. Star Wars debate reminds me of how I used to debate The Rolling Stones vs. Aerosmith. The Stones and Star Wars are unanimously the better of their counterparts. But Aerosmith and Star Trek have this strange knack of going in and out of style over the course of many years. JJ Abrams is rebooting the Star Trek franchise with Simon Pegg as Scotty. Sidenote: I've never heard Mick Jagger actually acknowledge Aerosmith or Steven Tyler other than saying to the mother of Liv Tyler's mom, "What do you want with the fake Mick when you've got the real one?"
Synopsis: Capt. Kirk is on the maiden voyage of the Enterprise, but gets called in for one last job. As he's getting too old for this shit, he messes up and gets cast into an energy ribbon and maybe dies. Flash forward to decades later as The Next Generation Malcolm McDowell is obsessed with finding the Nexus, which wraps you up in happiness. He wants to destroy an entire solar system in hopes of steering the Nexus back towards him. Capt. Picard finds Capt. Kirk in this net of happiness. Kirk dies trying to save Picard.
Up next: It's the last film of 1994 and we finally land on the moon.
