# Mr Plinkett explains why you DID like Star Trek (in 2009) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 3, 2010, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-plinkett-explains-why-you-did-like-star-trek-in-2009/552520 "2010-09-03T19:05:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-plinkett-explains-why-you-did-like-star-trek-in-2009/552520/1 "2010-09-03T19:05:00Z")
I could boil it down to “Star Trek lite”, but [this](http://redlettermedia.blip.tv/file/4069271/) elaborates a bit more. ---
**Author:** ![Fried\_Dough\_Ho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a88e57/32.png) [@Fried\_Dough\_Ho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fried_Dough_Ho)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-plinkett-explains-why-you-did-like-star-trek-in-2009/552520/2 "2010-09-03T19:20:14Z")
That was just frigg’n brilliant. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-plinkett-explains-why-you-did-like-star-trek-in-2009/552520/3 "2010-09-03T20:02:34Z")
Indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-plinkett-explains-why-you-did-like-star-trek-in-2009/552520/4 "2010-09-03T20:37:26Z")
Funny stuff! “Quit clowning around back there! I’m trying to experience fear!” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-plinkett-explains-why-you-did-like-star-trek-in-2009/552520/5 "2010-09-03T21:30:47Z")
Brilliant stuff. I just wish he’d drop the stupid “I’m a serial killer” shtick. His commentary is clever enough with the jokes about killing whores. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-plinkett-explains-why-you-did-like-star-trek-in-2009/552520/6 "2010-09-03T21:33:07Z")
I hit submit too soon. I particularly liked how he explained the chief problem I had with the film: That the characters were all boiled down to one-note caricatures of their TOS incarnations. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-plinkett-explains-why-you-did-like-star-trek-in-2009/552520/7 "2010-09-03T22:35:12Z")
> [@The\_Hamster\_King](#): > > I particularly liked how he explained the chief problem I had with the film: That the characters were all boiled down to one-note caricatures of their TOS incarnations. Did he explain how it is that Kirk ends up taking an adventure of like 6 different planets, meeting a dream team of people to recruit who all immediately bow to his awesomeness, and ends him up going from a student at the start to the captain of the Federation’s crown vessel in a space of like 24 hours? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-plinkett-explains-why-you-did-like-star-trek-in-2009/552520/8 "2010-09-03T22:48:11Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > Did he explain how it is that Kirk ends up taking an adventure of like 6 different planets, meeting a dream team of people to recruit who all immediately bow to his awesomeness, and ends him up going from a student at the start to the captain of the Federation’s crown vessel in a space of like 24 hours? Yes, yes he does. ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2010, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-plinkett-explains-why-you-did-like-star-trek-in-2009/552520/9 "2010-09-04T00:03:11Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > Did he explain how it is that Kirk ends up taking an adventure of like 6 different planets, meeting a dream team of people to recruit who all immediately bow to his awesomeness, and ends him up going from a student at the start to the captain of the Federation’s crown vessel in a space of like 24 hours? Even further back than that - he points out that Kirk goes from being told to enlist in Starfleet to somehow becoming a student at the Academy (which, to go with the analogy he draws, is like going down to your local army recruitment center and ending up at West Point). I didn’t look too closely, but did he have Star Trek II & IV switched on the good/bad - boring/action continuum? (As I saw it, he put II on the boring side). ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2010, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-plinkett-explains-why-you-did-like-star-trek-in-2009/552520/10 "2010-09-04T01:36:44Z")
> [@The\_Hamster\_King](#): > > > [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > > > Did he explain how it is that Kirk ends up taking an adventure of like 6 different planets, meeting a dream team of people to recruit who all immediately bow to his awesomeness, and ends him up going from a student at the start to the captain of the Federation’s crown vessel in a space of like 24 hours? > > Yes, yes he does. Plus he’s not gay. Like, really not gay. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2010, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-plinkett-explains-why-you-did-like-star-trek-in-2009/552520/11 "2010-09-04T02:05:17Z")
I wonder if he might be related to [Walter A. “The Clam” Plinkett](http://books.google.com/books?id=xM47GawJyOoC&pg=PA93&dq=dave+barry+plinkett&hl=en&ei=CKmBTLboEoPMnAeJ-8ha&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false) of South Fromage, Arkansas. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2010, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-plinkett-explains-why-you-did-like-star-trek-in-2009/552520/12 "2010-09-04T02:13:24Z")
The guy sounds like Zoidberg. I keep waiting for him to bust out with a “wooopwooopwoopwoop” or something Zoidbergian. ---
**Author:** ![Todderbob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@Todderbob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Todderbob)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2010, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-plinkett-explains-why-you-did-like-star-trek-in-2009/552520/13 "2010-09-04T05:06:38Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > > [@The\_Hamster\_King](#): > > > > I particularly liked how he explained the chief problem I had with the film: That the characters were all boiled down to one-note caricatures of their TOS incarnations. > > Did he explain how it is that Kirk ends up taking an adventure of like 6 different planets, meeting a dream team of people to recruit who all immediately bow to his awesomeness, and ends him up going from a student at the start to the captain of the Federation’s crown vessel in a space of like 24 hours? You missed the “three years later” caption. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2010, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-plinkett-explains-why-you-did-like-star-trek-in-2009/552520/14 "2010-09-04T05:44:30Z")
> [@Todderbob](#): > > You missed the “three years later” caption. No. I’m counting from the time where klaxons sound and all the students are rounded up and shipped off to battle, to when Kirk has beaten the big baddy. While I can’t say the specific amount of time that this takes, it’s more in the region of a week at most than several years. I think you’re thinking of the 3 year period from when he joins the Academy to the klaxons. It’s after that point where everything goes, “Whee! Who needs to move events on at a practical pace! We have 20 things that need to happen, so let’s just zip through them regardless of how infeasible it would be!” Previous to that, things are fairly reasonable. ---
**Author:** ![FordTaurusSHO94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2010, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-plinkett-explains-why-you-did-like-star-trek-in-2009/552520/15 "2010-09-04T05:49:02Z")
Am I the only one that can’t get the video to load? The stupid circle keeps spinning and once in awhile part of an ad loads, but that’s it. It should be law by now that all videos are hosted by You Tube. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2010, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-plinkett-explains-why-you-did-like-star-trek-in-2009/552520/16 "2010-09-04T07:05:58Z")
Yay, he finally did a _Star Trek_ 2009 review! (His one-act play version wasn’t that satisfying.) I also love that he mixed it up by actually liking it. He was mostly someone who hates everything he reviews. > [@FordTaurusSHO94](#): > > Am I the only one that can’t get the video to load? The stupid circle keeps spinning and once in awhile part of an ad loads, but that’s it. It should be law by now that all videos are hosted by You Tube. Reviews can’t be hosted on YouTube reliably–you never know when a copyright holder is going to see a single frame that belongs them and then gets YouTube to pull it down–despite the fact that clips used in reviews are protected under fair use. Google is just too scared–saving it’s guts for fighting the Chinese government. Every YouTube reviewer, including RedLetterMedia’s Mr Plinket, has moved to [Blip.TV](http://Blip.TV), and they are experiencing some growing pains. (except SFDebris, who says he will move the second one of his videos gets taken down.) ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2010, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-plinkett-explains-why-you-did-like-star-trek-in-2009/552520/17 "2010-09-04T14:18:39Z")
Is this really worth watching for thirty minutes? ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2010, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-plinkett-explains-why-you-did-like-star-trek-in-2009/552520/18 "2010-09-04T14:27:33Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > Is this really worth watching for thirty minutes? Yes. For one thing, the review’s second 20-25 minutes is the strongest. For another, if you sit through the guy’s reviews you realize he’s pretty insightful, through all the whore-killing and blather. He really is able to cut through and analyze movies. Also his sing along at the end of Part 1 is hilarious. “Let’s all go to the lobby…” ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2010, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-plinkett-explains-why-you-did-like-star-trek-in-2009/552520/19 "2010-09-04T15:14:19Z")
**Mr Plinkett explains why you DID like Star Trek (in 2009)**. No, I didn’t. Utter dreck from start to finish. ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2010, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-plinkett-explains-why-you-did-like-star-trek-in-2009/552520/20 "2010-09-04T15:36:15Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > Is this really worth watching for thirty minutes? Part 1 is 30 minutes. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-plinkett-explains-why-you-did-like-star-trek-in-2009/552520.md?page=2)