In TOS, the transporter problems were usually (almost always) - “The transporter can’t work today due to plot, so you’re stuck there with the consequences of your actions for a while”; when the holodeck has a problems it’s straight to “Evil holo-Lincoln wants to kill you”
Olivia Newton-John singing “Magic” saved that film for me.
I liked the idea it was caused by tribble allergies.
That was not the message at all.
Living abroad at the time, I missed many episodes of Enterprise (including the entire fourth season). I haven’t seen it on any cable channel since moving to Canada.
Every single war movie of a WW2 or older war that has an entirely male cast will always have at least one scene where the soldiers go on leave and visit a bar/are invited for dinner to someone’s home/go to a USO show and hit on a bunch of women for really no reason as unless there is a major female actress cast everyone will immediately forget about them. The charitable idea is that they’re there to have an excuse to add female characters in an entirely male cast and add some humor or romance from the horrors of war, but almost every time I see one of these scenes it really makes it seem like they’re just there to remind everyone all these dudes “aren’t gay” since they do show interest in women and not just each other.
Well, the topic is evolving cultural mores, so if it’s for that reason, sure…
Like the entire plot of On the Town?
Movies from back then couldn’t go into the real reason, of course.
Hollywood producers are, or at least were, of the opinion that you had to insert a romance into these types of movies to keep women interested. Women aren’t going to be interested in the bombing of Pearl Harbor or the Doolittle Raid, where’s the drama in that? Let’s add a love triangle! I think it’s why they added the romance subplot between Tom Berenger and his ex-wife in Major League(1989). It was just lazy writing having nothing to do with the main plot and it wasn’t even a point of character growth for Berenger. You could cut it from the movie and miss very little.
It would have been better if, when they go back in time to the TOS show, they just put Michael Dorn in the TOS Klingon makeup, and don’t acknowledge the change at all.
The real reason why young servicemen who are straight pursue women while on leave is because they have pockets full of money and are horny as hell. When you know your life might be cut short at any time in combat, pretty much everything else takes a back seat to sex. Whether you’re ever going to see that woman again is entirely immaterial. The important thing is to enjoy life while you can.
Whoa. I forgot about his Muslim line!
Ha, I like that idea.
I haven’t seen or read Old Yeller in a long time, but I think it was the wolf he fought that turned out to be rabid.
Little Buddha, in which they cast Keanu Reeves as Siddhartha/Buddha, was made in 1993. I remain baffled by that casting choice.
Oh nos! Our brave servicemen, fighting for America and God, would never even think about having sex before they are married, or with some woman not their wife!
And even in the heat of battle they’d never say any word stronger than fug either.
Or so Hollywood back then told us.
I thought Norman Mailer told us that.
He was quite good in the role. It was a non speaking part.
Reeves is a very good actor. Most people don’t realize it because they haven’t seen his best, since they weren’t big hits (e.g. Raising Minnesota, I Love You to Death, Tune in Tomorrow.)
Reeves has an expressive face. In the silent film era, he would have been a superstar. It’s just that when we hear his voice, we have flashbacks to Bill and Ted.
I thought he was good in Little Buddha. He is playing an Important Religious Leader, so the odd speech inflections aren’t really out of place.
Keanu Reeves is a very good actor … when he’s cast in the right part. When he’s miscast, he’s awful. I’m thinking of Branagh’s Much Ado About Nothing and Coppola’s Dracula.
Especially when he’s required to attempt any accent other than ‘SoCal Valley Guy’ 
I kid, I kid. I like Keanu too.
On the Town featured 6 characters - three men (sailors) and three women (a dancer, a taxi driver and a heiress/scholar). One of the men is obsessed with finding a (particular) woman - and two of the women are obsessed with finding a guy (without any interest in a long term relationship).