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Things you love about Star Trek

I've been reading F. Scott Fitzgerald short stories and re-re-re-rewatching TOS episodes lately and the short stories have really made me appreciate the suspension of disbelief to appreciate an episode in 'Trek. The time travel one with the jet pilot, where they go to all these efforts to protect the timeline and then it turns out all they have to do is briefly travel back in time while they're going back to the future and it will erase everyone's memory and undo things like the jet being destroyed by the tractor beam.

Mirror, Mirror the other night. Fun episode. Very enjoyable. But first off, how is it that the humans were transported from their respective realities but their clothes were not? Somehow the clothes was transported to the right reality and the landing party just happened to be in the right position to be wearing them? Rather than manage a whole elaborate ploy to get back, why not just come clean? Yes, it would've been risky because maybe some people would've decided they liked being rid of Mirror Kirk, but not much more risky than sneaking around to fix things. More importantly back in the regular universe why is Spock just sitting on his ass? They pretty quickly figured out what happened. Why didn't they just figure out how to get the captain back. They probably could've banged it out in 20 minutes. Kirk's about to get killed by Checkov and his henchmen and they all beam back to their reality. Instead Spock just farts around and waits for Kirk to fix things.
 
So, if you ever feel like you might have a problem with internet porn, just remember: Spock was once so horny he actually beat his computer monitor to pieces.

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I came up with the first part of this, but I feel like someone else figured out the second part, but I can't remember who. Anyway, the song "Sabotage" features prominently in Abrams Trek, so obviously the Beastie Boys exist in that reality. Around the same time as "Sabotage" they also released "Intergalactic Planetary," which features the lyric "like a pinch on the neck from Mr. Spock," which begs the question how a 20th century punk rap band could know about an alien from the 23rd century. And the answer is obviously that the punk on the San Francisco bus in the 1980s later met one or more of the Beasties and told them the story, causing them to write the lyric.
 
Volpone said:
I came up with the first part of this, but I feel like someone else figured out the second part, but I can't remember who. Anyway, the song "Sabotage" features prominently in Abrams Trek, so obviously the Beastie Boys exist in that reality. Around the same time as "Sabotage" they also released "Intergalactic Planetary," which features the lyric "like a pinch on the neck from Mr. Spock," which begs the question how a 20th century punk rap band could know about an alien from the 23rd century. And the answer is obviously that the punk on the San Francisco bus in the 1980s later met one or more of the Beasties and told them the story, causing them to write the lyric.
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After receiving his nerve pinch, the punk realized that San Fran was too bohemian for his tastes, so he moved to Brooklyn and opened a bakery there. Occasionally he would see the Boys trying out new material in the local bars, and one night he got up the courage to tell them his story. Later they would thank him in the liner notes of their Hello Nasty album, but in order to mask his identity, their thank-you note was the 7th letter of every other sentence in the jacket booklet. Some say he never decoded it.

Unfortunately he wasn't much of a baker either (nor was he Italian), so his bakery folded. He found that he also wasn't hipster enough to convert it to a coffee house. Eventually he got a civil service job, and deliberately slipped on the ice one winter so that he could collect disability pay for life.
 
Eggs Mayonnaise said:
After receiving his nerve pinch, the punk realized that San Fran was too bohemian for his tastes, so he moved to Brooklyn and opened a bakery there. Occasionally he would see the Boys trying out new material in the local bars, and one night he got up the courage to tell them his story. Later they would thank him in the liner notes of their Hello Nasty album, but in order to mask his identity, their thank-you note was the 7th letter of every other sentence in the jacket booklet. Some say he never decoded it.

Unfortunately he wasn't much of a baker either (nor was he Italian), so his bakery folded. He found that he also wasn't hipster enough to convert it to a coffee house. Eventually he got a civil service job, and deliberately slipped on the ice one winter so that he could collect disability pay for life.
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And then at some point he made his way back to California to relive his misspent youth, this time in the Los Angeles metro era. But he never forgot his encounter with a man in a robe on a bus in 1986.

 
Since it's absolutely relevant to the topic, some ST IV trivia. (This is just from memory, so take it with a grain of salt.) The punk on the bus got cast in part because he was someone's friend/relative. But he was worried that Paramount would use some stupid lame music for the scene so he actually recorded the song used. And in the scene where Chekov and Uhura are trying to figure out how to get to Alameda they used locals for the extras and explicitly told them not to talk--because that would make them "actors." The "Uh, I'm not sure I know that, I think it's across the bay, in Alameda" lady didn't listen, but they liked the take enough that, instead of cutting it, they got her a SAG card so they could use the take.
 
Volpone said:
Since it's absolutely relevant to the topic, some ST IV trivia. (This is just from memory, so take it with a grain of salt.) The punk on the bus got cast in part because he was someone's friend/relative. But he was worried that Paramount would use some stupid lame music for the scene so he actually recorded the song used.
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Kirk Thatcher was a visual effects producer on the movie, and was worried that they would use a lame song, so yes he recorded the song "I Hate You!" for the scene. The whole song is on one of the soundtracks. He even reprised the character outside of Star Trek in Spiderman: Homecoming. He's standing next to a hot dog vendor holding a Boom Box.

And in the scene where Chekov and Uhura are trying to figure out how to get to Alameda they used locals for the extras and explicitly told them not to talk--because that would make them "actors." The "Uh, I'm not sure I know that, I think it's across the bay, in Alameda" lady didn't listen, but they liked the take enough that, instead of cutting it, they got her a SAG card so they could use the take.
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I've heard that version as well, but according to IMDB, she was offered to be an extra after her car was towed off the area for the scene, and needed to earn money to get it back. She wasn't supposed to talk much, but was told to act naturally and she improvised the line. Leonard Nimoy kept it in, because he liked the spontaneity of the whole scene.
 
Lettuce never forget this one.

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