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crazy how much the 2009 Star Trek movie took from this

posted 4 years ago by bozo_500 (13376)
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is like ST09 was Galaxy Quest played 'straight'

The botched leaving blue lit spacedock scene

Neros ship was very much like Sarris' ship even firing similar missiles (and Nero's character was similar to Sarris)

Kirk in the Kobashi Maru - similar to way Tim Allen dealt with Sarris during their 1st encounter

"there's always a bigger fish"-monster-on-planet moment

Beaming Kirk & Sulu up from Vulcan / beaming tim alien up from the rock planet

Pikes torture scene was similar to the head alien

the scotty in the pipes scene / the wacky chompers inside the ship,

Quintos Spock was constantly pissed off like Rickman lol (and is affected by an emotional death)

the sliver phaser handguns

the doomed redshirt trope

the magic time mcguffin orb being stored inside the ship

the phaser-fights-in-corridors were more like GQ than Trek

And just the overall hyper feel was abit similar

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Good observation. Personally, I like this one better.

[–] mikethemartian (6986) 2 years ago

The 2009 Trek film always seemed like a parody film to me.

[–] vilafire (660) a year ago

Probably is. Abrams is the single most unoriginal person in Hollywood, ever.

[–] bozo_500 (13376) a year ago

24 Reasons Galaxy Quest & Star Trek Are The Same Movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vYnNY47gY8

[–] rateater (10237) 2 months ago

this and police academy

[–] AmeriGirl26 (15089) 2 months ago

Actually, "The Orville" has a stronger "Galaxy Quest" flavor to it than JJ Abrams' 2009 Star Trek ever did.

[–] Syb (21) 2 months ago

What is even this thread? Galaxy Quest is a clear send-up of Star Trek, of course future Trek will have similarities. Star Trek copied "doomed red shirt trope"? Haha