Colorful Metaphors
Star trek never had this same appeal to me like star wars did, though both film franchise are hollywood science fiction space movies with aliens, spaceships, warp drives and big cult followings in real life, but I think its because I watched star trek IV first and it was a very bad start if you were to introduce yourself to the star trek universe.
The story goes something like this:
Humpback whales were hunted to extinction during the 20th century but unknown to humans, whale songs humpbacks whine while underwater was actually some sort of an alien language they use to communicate with some aliens a couple of million light years away. After all the humpbacks went extinct, the aliens were wondering why they haven’t heard from their whale friends so they sent some spaceship to earth to check on them, since they were millions of light years away, it took them til the 23rd century to get to the future earth. They weren’t the creative kind of aliens because their ship just looked like a lead cylinder with a little light on the tip, but the problem was it gave off some kind of electromagnetic pulse that disrupts anything mechanical thus leaving the space ships around earth like flying scraps and it went on thrashing the earth’s ocean looking for its whales.
This is where the star trek heroes come in, their plan was to go back in time to the 1980s and get some humpback whales and bring them to the future to make those aliens happy. Their iconic saucer-looking uss enterprise was blown to bits at the start that they had to use a klingon warbird ship to get back in time, since it was my first star trek movie, I thought that the warbird was their star trek flagship, and I didn't even know spock was an alien, I thought he had that beatle hairstyle because it was probably back in fashion in the 23rd century. Most of the movie was focused on the star trek crew running and figuring things around in our time period, it was the typical case of future people going back in time and getting lost in the culture but seriously the script was great, I liked the humor but then it seemed more of a comedy movie rather than science fiction to me because I found myself laughing most of the time.
I was just reminded of some lines in the movie because I was writing a month ago about the word hell being in my vocabulary all the time, and I think kirk has a good explanation to it.
(kirk and spock are the two lead star trek characters)
Spock: Admiral, your use of language has altered since our arrival. It is currently laced with, shall I say, more colorful metaphors "double dumb-ass on you" and so forth.
Kirk: You mean the profanity?
Spock: Yes.
Kirk: That's simply the way they talk here. Nobody pays any attention to you unless you swear every other word. You'll find it in all the literature of the period.
(kirk and spock learning to talk with colorful metaphors)
Dr. gillian taylor: You're not one of those guys from the military trying to teach whales to retrieve torpedoes, or some deep shit like that?
Kirk: No ma'am, no deep shit.
The story goes something like this:
Humpback whales were hunted to extinction during the 20th century but unknown to humans, whale songs humpbacks whine while underwater was actually some sort of an alien language they use to communicate with some aliens a couple of million light years away. After all the humpbacks went extinct, the aliens were wondering why they haven’t heard from their whale friends so they sent some spaceship to earth to check on them, since they were millions of light years away, it took them til the 23rd century to get to the future earth. They weren’t the creative kind of aliens because their ship just looked like a lead cylinder with a little light on the tip, but the problem was it gave off some kind of electromagnetic pulse that disrupts anything mechanical thus leaving the space ships around earth like flying scraps and it went on thrashing the earth’s ocean looking for its whales.
This is where the star trek heroes come in, their plan was to go back in time to the 1980s and get some humpback whales and bring them to the future to make those aliens happy. Their iconic saucer-looking uss enterprise was blown to bits at the start that they had to use a klingon warbird ship to get back in time, since it was my first star trek movie, I thought that the warbird was their star trek flagship, and I didn't even know spock was an alien, I thought he had that beatle hairstyle because it was probably back in fashion in the 23rd century. Most of the movie was focused on the star trek crew running and figuring things around in our time period, it was the typical case of future people going back in time and getting lost in the culture but seriously the script was great, I liked the humor but then it seemed more of a comedy movie rather than science fiction to me because I found myself laughing most of the time.
I was just reminded of some lines in the movie because I was writing a month ago about the word hell being in my vocabulary all the time, and I think kirk has a good explanation to it.
(kirk and spock are the two lead star trek characters)
Spock: Admiral, your use of language has altered since our arrival. It is currently laced with, shall I say, more colorful metaphors "double dumb-ass on you" and so forth.
Kirk: You mean the profanity?
Spock: Yes.
Kirk: That's simply the way they talk here. Nobody pays any attention to you unless you swear every other word. You'll find it in all the literature of the period.
(kirk and spock learning to talk with colorful metaphors)
Dr. gillian taylor: You're not one of those guys from the military trying to teach whales to retrieve torpedoes, or some deep shit like that?
Kirk: No ma'am, no deep shit.
Spock: They like you very much, but they're not the hell your whales.
Dr. gillian taylor: I suppose they told you that?
Spock: The hell they did.
(kirk looks at spock)
Spock: Are you sure it isn't time for a colorful metaphor?
(kirk and spock on their way out of the 20th century with whales and full of colorful metaphors)
Kirk: Spock, where the hell is that power you promised me?
Spock: One damn minute admiral!
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