Can we throw in something about the founder effect having extremely positive results? New species are good, right?
Book of Mormon?
Where the word “photon” should be used, use “proton”; or vice-versa.
Just name it Unknown World.
We definately need to incorporate computer-game style “rocket-jumping”. That is, the character has a rocket launcher. If he shoots a rocket at his feet, the resulting explosion carries him much farther than he can jump. Of course, he’s a little bit wounded from this–some blackened clothing and a bit of smoke coming from his hair. Then he’s in a perfect sniping location to take out the bad guy’s helicopter with his rocket launcher.
Speaking of video games, we need to have the protagonist in a dirt bike competition where all the jumpers lean forward as much as possible during a jump, which will visibly accelerate them. Make a big deal about this when one of the heroes uses this to get in the same position as the rocket jumper.
Have cars running straight into vertical walls, yet somehow they are turned, catapulted into the air, and turn somersaults. The hero’s car of course will land on it’s wheels and drive on, everyone else’s cars will explode into huge fireballs.
Just plagiarize ST IV: The Voyage Home
Undetected (presumably) probe emits (presumably) EMP because it cannot communicate with whales nor [presumably] with the sentient creatures that dominate the technological development and operation.
Exceed speed of light while whipping around the sun to accomplish time travel
Land something the mass of an aircraft carrier in Golden Gate park undetected
Capture enough mysterious nuclear radiation to fuel escape velocity of said mass in something the size of a gameboy
Practice parapsychology with whales
Manufacture [transparent] aluminum in a facility without high temperature forge, within a day, without AL ore.
Vertical takeoff of the said mass like a harrier jet while doing no thermal damage, then fly to gulf of Alaska and transport whales aboard without any military intervention
Then whip back around the sun at faster than SOL to effect time travel again
Then crash land in SF bay, but not sink
Happily swim in SF Bay without hypothermia
Are we done yet?
Nitpick: As I recall they didn’t use transparent aluminum, they traded the secret of it for conventional materials.
Present day marines fall through a “pan-timespace dimensional vortex” after a terrorist bombing at CERN and land in a world that is the exact one they left - only eeevil and made of antimatter. Their bullets are not made of antimatter, and therefore useless against their antimatter evil twins, but antimatter gravity doesn’t affect normal matter, so the marines can jump great heights and long distances. They use this ability to do sword based aerial combat with evil antimatter fighter planes.
A lot of people seem to believe the tank was made out of transparent aluminum. It was actually made of six-inch plexiglas (which the company had in stock), which Scott and McCoy got in exchange for the formula for transparent aluminum.
Just have all the stuff manufactured by ACME.
I dunno…this could come across as deliberately surrealistic, or post-modern, or allegorical. For it to be truly bad, the story needs to be stupid enough to believe it’s being clever and accurate, and proud enough to show it.
Or, that it holds the audience in enough contempt that as long as it makes a pretense of saying something’s scientific, it doesn’t care how far off it is.
Space ships with doors instead of airlocks would be good.
The bad guy thinks that he’s getting away. He’s driving around in his car, cutting the wheel to the left and to the right (despite the fact that he’s on a completely flat desert.) The camera cuts back and forth from this to our hero, chasing the car on foot. Finally our hero catches up the the bad guy’s car and punches the car in the gas tank cover lid, causing the car to explode.
You could lift a lot of stuff from the old Lost in Space series. Like where they’re in interplanetary space and they encounter a meteor shower consisting of huge flaming rocks.
Or they could land on a rock only a little bigger than the ship, then get out and walk around on it.
“On our planet we have never heard of these…Men. So why do I feel so strange inside when this Earth-Man looks upon me?”
Well, of course we have to make sure the humans and the lumpy aliens can talk to each other in the same language.