# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2010, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-plinkett-explains-why-you-did-like-star-trek-in-2009/552520/21 "2010-09-04T15:54:24Z")
> [@Bearflag70](#): > > > [@DigitalC](#): > > > > Is this really worth watching for thirty minutes? > > Part 1 is 30 minutes. For some reason, my mind just flashed to "_The Never-Ending Sacrifice_šŸ˜ƒ ---
**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, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-plinkett-explains-why-you-did-like-star-trek-in-2009/552520/22 "2010-09-04T16:06:38Z")
Part 1 is 29 minutes Part 2 is 38 minutes Total: 67 minutes Running time of Star Trek 2009 is 127 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2010, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-plinkett-explains-why-you-did-like-star-trek-in-2009/552520/23 "2010-09-04T18:11:01Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > **Mr Plinkett explains why you DID like Star Trek (in 2009)**. > > No, I didnā€™t. Utter dreck from start to finish. Now _this_ is a review I can get behind! ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2010, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-plinkett-explains-why-you-did-like-star-trek-in-2009/552520/24 "2010-09-04T18:14:38Z")
The Star Wars review was great and insightful - this was just awfully, awfully padded. I didnā€™t finish it. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2010, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-plinkett-explains-why-you-did-like-star-trek-in-2009/552520/25 "2010-09-04T19:09:28Z")
> [@panamajack](#): > > 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). Actually it would be like ending up at West Point if your dad was a famous general/war hero. And there is some reason to believe you are smart. Happens all the time. Finished part one, need to do part 2 later. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2010, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-plinkett-explains-why-you-did-like-star-trek-in-2009/552520/26 "2010-09-04T19:17:03Z")
Also, in times of war, young officers occasionally found themselves promoted much faster than usual. George Custer was a Major General at 23, I think, and Douglas MacArthurā€™s father was a Colonel in command of a brigade at 18. Neither of them, incidentally, saved the entire planet. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2010, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-plinkett-explains-why-you-did-like-star-trek-in-2009/552520/27 "2010-09-04T20:03:38Z")
> [@The\_Hamster\_King](#): > > I just wish heā€™d drop the stupid ā€œIā€™m a serial killerā€ shtick. His commentary is clever enough with the jokes about killing whores. How easy is it to dodge on this one? On the last Star Wars review (Ep 2), the serial killer schtick was always conveniently placed at the end of the video segments, so you could skip it pretty easily. I donā€™t know if I can handle one of his reviews of a movie I actually liked if I have to put up with the tedious ā€œwhores in the basementā€ segments. ---
**Author:** ![Headrush042](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a5b964/32.png) [@Headrush042](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Headrush042)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2010, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-plinkett-explains-why-you-did-like-star-trek-in-2009/552520/28 "2010-09-04T20:19:19Z")
> [@LawMonkey](#): > > How easy is it to dodge on this one? On the last Star Wars review (Ep 2), the serial killer schtick was always conveniently placed at the end of the video segments, so you could skip it pretty easily. I donā€™t know if I can handle one of his reviews of a movie I actually liked if I have to put up with the tedious ā€œwhores in the basementā€ segments. I donā€™t recall them being quite as intrusive and annoying as in the Star Wars review ā€“ mostly just a brief flash here and there (like a ~1 second allusion type of deal). In fact, I thought the Star Trek review spent a lot more time actually reviewing the movie (with the odd side-rant here and there, though still tangentially related to the subject matter) than the Star Wars one, so I actually have the opposite feeling of what **Zsofia** stated (I had a difficult time sitting through the entire Star Wars one, whereas this Star Trek review kept me interested the entire time, precisely because so much time was devoted to the prostitute in his cellar during the _Clones_ review). ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2010, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-plinkett-explains-why-you-did-like-star-trek-in-2009/552520/29 "2010-09-04T23:09:01Z")
> [@LawMonkey](#): > > > [@The\_Hamster\_King](#): > > > > I just wish heā€™d drop the stupid ā€œIā€™m a serial killerā€ shtick. His commentary is clever enough with the jokes about killing whores. > > How easy is it to dodge on this one? On the last Star Wars review (Ep 2), the serial killer schtick was always conveniently placed at the end of the video segments, so you could skip it pretty easily. I donā€™t know if I can handle one of his reviews of a movie I actually liked if I have to put up with the tedious ā€œwhores in the basementā€ segments. Thereā€™s the odd mention here and there, nothing drawn out like the Ep2 review. Mostly heā€™s worried about his first cat coming back from the dead. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2010, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-plinkett-explains-why-you-did-like-star-trek-in-2009/552520/30 "2010-09-04T23:40:09Z")
> [@Headrush042](#): > > > [@LawMonkey](#): > > > > How easy is it to dodge on this one? On the last Star Wars review (Ep 2), the serial killer schtick was always conveniently placed at the end of the video segments, so you could skip it pretty easily. I donā€™t know if I can handle one of his reviews of a movie I actually liked if I have to put up with the tedious ā€œwhores in the basementā€ segments. > > I donā€™t recall them being quite as intrusive and annoying as in the Star Wars review ā€“ mostly just a brief flash here and there (like a ~1 second allusion type of deal). In fact, I thought the Star Trek review spent a lot more time actually reviewing the movie (with the odd side-rant here and there, though still tangentially related to the subject matter) than the Star Wars one, so I actually have the opposite feeling of what **Zsofia** stated (I had a difficult time sitting through the entire Star Wars one, whereas this Star Trek review kept me interested the entire time, precisely because so much time was devoted to the prostitute in his cellar during the _Clones_ review). So, you didnā€™t get up and get a sandwich while he was tediously explaining the entertainment options we now have, or how many remakes there are these days, or why a movie has to make a lot of money in a hurry? Because, yaaaawn. ---
**Author:** ![cckerberos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@cckerberos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cckerberos)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2010, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-plinkett-explains-why-you-did-like-star-trek-in-2009/552520/31 "2010-09-04T23:58:21Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Also, in times of war, young officers occasionally found themselves promoted much faster than usual. Sure, but in this case, isnā€™t Kirk promoted _after_ the crisis has passed? ---
**Author:** ![Headrush042](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a5b964/32.png) [@Headrush042](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Headrush042)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2010, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-plinkett-explains-why-you-did-like-star-trek-in-2009/552520/32 "2010-09-05T00:57:39Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > So, you didnā€™t get up and get a sandwich while he was tediously explaining the entertainment options we now have, or how many remakes there are these days, or why a movie has to make a lot of money in a hurry? Because, yaaaawn. I guess thatā€™s where we differ. I found those bits amusing and relevant in the discussion ā€“ and the side commentary of the industry as a whole is why I preferred it to picking apart Ep 2 in relative isolation. Not that those bits were terribly original criticisms or that it hasnā€™t all been said already, but I think it bears repeating. Your mileage obviously did vary though šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2010, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-plinkett-explains-why-you-did-like-star-trek-in-2009/552520/33 "2010-09-05T01:03:31Z")
Hey, wait a minuteā€¦ It doesnā€™t say ā€˜I will not rest until I see you prosecuted for my murder.ā€™ Itā€™s a bunch of penguins! Bloody liar! ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2010, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-plinkett-explains-why-you-did-like-star-trek-in-2009/552520/34 "2010-09-05T01:06:46Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > So, you didnā€™t get up and get a sandwich while he was tediously explaining the entertainment options we now have . . . O.K., that incredibly long list ended on what was for me the best laugh of the entire 67 minutes. To have such a long ridiculous list building and building culminating with . . . the zoo. Not being sarcastic here, that was a really good laugh. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2010, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-plinkett-explains-why-you-did-like-star-trek-in-2009/552520/35 "2010-09-05T02:31:41Z")
Mmm, different strokes, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2010, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-plinkett-explains-why-you-did-like-star-trek-in-2009/552520/36 "2010-09-05T03:14:06Z")
I found the review more entertaining than the film. I liked the film. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2010, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-plinkett-explains-why-you-did-like-star-trek-in-2009/552520/37 "2010-09-05T04:51:44Z")
I hate that guy. That voice is not funny, it is just annoying. ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2010, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-plinkett-explains-why-you-did-like-star-trek-in-2009/552520/38 "2010-09-05T09:19:07Z")
Another one who loved it, but who did despair slightly of the length of the review (as pointed out, about half the length of the actual film). ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2010, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-plinkett-explains-why-you-did-like-star-trek-in-2009/552520/39 "2010-09-05T11:12:30Z")
> [@Illuminatiprimus](#): > > Another one who loved it, but who did despair slightly of the length of the review (as pointed out, about half the length of the actual film). I liked both and found that the time just flew past watching either. ---
**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 5, 2010, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-plinkett-explains-why-you-did-like-star-trek-in-2009/552520/40 "2010-09-05T13:51:53Z")
> [@Illuminatiprimus](#): > > Another one who loved it, but who did despair slightly of the length of the review (as pointed out, about half the length of the actual film). Consider yourself lucky, his Phantom Menace review IS the same length as the film (and pretty awesome, too) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-plinkett-explains-why-you-did-like-star-trek-in-2009/552520.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-plinkett-explains-why-you-did-like-star-trek-in-2009/552520.md?page=3)