Maybe we can do a “What Star Trek plagarized from (fill in the blank with any movie)”
I know they ripped off the scene with the green girl from “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” except in the older movie the girl wasn’t green, and no one hid under a bed.
Not sure why I had to know this was coming (unless you are well know as a ST geek among these parts).
I think a mistake many make is thinking the first time they saw something in their generation, or when they were coming of age, is the first time “it” took place. There is an adage that there is no such thing as an original thought. Might be some truth to that.
Ever hear of the movie Titanic? Came out in 1997. Or 1958, or 1953 or 1943.
Just about any movie with a Marine in it.
Most Navy films, have some guy coming up the ladder, just in time to eat a shell. Ditto Army flicks with bunkers and trenches
Not sure this is something good. I had serious heart ache with a senior in college getting command of Star Fleet’s flagship, but I digress. The junior guy getting command and getting test is also very old. 12 O’clock High form 1958 is one version. A classic film btw, viewed by most (US) military academy students
Missed the first Star Trek movie in '79, didn’t ya?
I thought Starship Troopers plagerised this from Star Trek I: the transporter was out of commission, so Kirk has to go up to the new Enterprise the old fashioned way, by shuttle, and takes a leisurely tour of inspection.
And in Star Trek I it wasn’t only for “marveling at the grandness of it and their own comparative insignificance.” It was a way to say “We finally got a big budget - In your face NBC!” So it was much more meaningful.
I’ll give you this much. Starfleet and the military from starship troopers are both run by complete morons.
Though at least the military from starship troopers acknowledges the existence of enlisted people and NCO’s, one thing star trek has failed utterly at in almost every incarnation.
In the pilot episode Deep Space 9 Sisko and others escape after Borg ship critically hits a Star Fleet vessel, and, though I might be mistaken, First Contact had people being in outer space without suits.
That seems rather generic.
Does it have to be the top? Because in TNG there was one episode where the Enterprise was hit several times while caught in a time loop.
This is a bit generic, is it not?
The same thing happens in Star Trek the Motion Picture when we see the Enterprise for the first time.
Which was an official way to move up the ranks on an Imperial starship. It’s how Kirk got the chair, though he was a lot more subtle about it than Chekov was being. (Then again, Pike hadn’t committed a crime, so he had to be.)
Field promotions, which were what was done in the movie, are more akin to what happened on Voyager, when most of the ranking crewmembers were killed, and the Maquis crew were enlisted, and given field commissions.
