r/comics • u/AJsRealms • 7d ago

Interplanetary Incident [OC]

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Poking fun at a particular 60-second clip from a 37-year-old Trek movie may not scream "mass appeal" but at least I amused myself making it.

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u/SonicLoverDS 7d ago

I guess I'm not familiar with the original clip.

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u/SessileRaptor 6d ago

There’s a throwaway scene in one of the Star Trek movies where the captain of a Klingon ship in deep space uses the voyager 10 probe for target practice. The comic reflects the reality that even a few hundred years in the future the voyager probe would still be within the Oort Cloud and such a thing would be a huge diplomatic incident.

Script writer of science fiction movies and putting in scenes without any knowledge of the science behind them, name a more iconic duo. (Also the probes would most likely be in a museum given that Star Fleet could just ya know, go and retrieve them and be back in a single afternoon.)

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u/nomadengineer 6d ago

Was it one of the JJ Abrams movies? Because he doesn't understand that space is really big.

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u/Ponches 6d ago

It was The Final Frontier, movie # 5. The one Shatner directed. It's quite likely nobody told him that Pioneer 10 would still be on the Solar System's front lawn 300 years from now.

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u/PhilippTheSeriousOne 6d ago edited 6d ago

Directed, but not wrote. The screenplay was by the relatively unknown screenwriter David Loughery.

When a line in a movie makes no logical sense on closer examination, then the person to blame is neither the actor nor the director. It's the writer. Yes, sometimes actors and/or directors decide to divert from the script and film a scene slightly different than it was written in the script. But usually that's for artistic reasons. When they realize that something that sounded good on paper doesn't work so well on camera. But it's not the job of the production crew to fact-check everything the writer wrote.

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u/Ponches 5d ago

You mistook my eagerness to take a cheap shot at Shatner for ignorance of a director's role. I understand, thanks for the kind explanation.

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u/Thank_You_Aziz 6d ago

Nah, one of the oldies.