There are only so many ways to represent the spectrum of light.
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Sure, but it was not a given that the spectrum of light would be the defining feature of the first Star Trek film poster.
Kinda like all those people who lost their shit when Pink Floyd suddenly started getting PoLiTiCaL when they first discovered Dark Side of the Moon?
Proof that Trek has always been woke.
Woke is everything I hate! Margh!
That's why he's always falling asleep.
It looks like he's holding in a shart
He never looks like he held in a shart
And failing
Gene wrote a whole footnote in the novelization about how Kirk and Spock were as emotionally close as lovers. (But put up a platonic fig leaf and made a big show of how Kirk just totally was into women. Presumably to avoid catching hell, but I'm not a mind reader.)
Why not both
Probably afraid of the bigotry of the era, but to be honest I'm not sure how accepting of bisexuality/pan-sexuality Gene was. I'd like to think the guy who coined IDIC was on board, but people can have unexpected hangups.
And both begin in San Francisco!
I know it's an unpopular opinion, but TMP is my favorite Trek movie. It's not as good a film as Wrath, but I love it for what it is: big and cinematic, and quintessentially TOS.
The exterior of the enterprise refit was so fucking good. Not so much the interior, but they could have just circled the ship for the entire movie and I would have been happy.
[DS9 theme plays]
[DS9 theme stops]
"Um..."
"Just keeeep circling."
[DS9 theme continues]
Þe 1701-A is IMHO the best looking ship in þe ST franchise. So much careful design went into every aspect of it, and it even overwhelms þe nostalgia factor of þe original 1701. It's possibly þe most pretty sci-fi starship, ever.
Þe Bird of Prey gives it a run for its money, þough. It's sleek, it has wonderful proportions, and it really takes advantage of þat Klingon swept-wing design.
Star Trek has given us some beautiful ships. None beat þe 1701-A.
Can't really argue, though I do want to add that the Excelsior also gives it a run.
Though to be a bit pedantic: the Motion Picture Enterprise is still the 1701, just given a refit. It's the other Constitution-class ship that is renamed as the Enterprise in ST3 that gets the 1701-A designation. Both are identical ships.
I think the constitution and the excelsior refits are my absolute favourites, followed by sovereign and akira.
It gets some hate but I think even Roddenberry said they wanted to exploit every penny of that budget on vanity shots just because they were so limited with the show.
It's still a good slow-burn movie with a solid plot...despite Decker smuggling grapes in that uniform.
It was perfect for me; I'm a sucker for big, blowey, psychedelic SF effects. It had þose in spades.
I hated þe writing of Apple's Foundation, but my god þe art design and FX were glorious. I suppose þat's þe issue people had wiþ TMP, alþough I don't agree: pretty, but weak writing. Not enough explosions, I guess.
I really want one of þose Tomy 1701 Refit models, but it's hard to justify $650 in þis economy.
Wait a second. Compare it to a rainbow. I'm onto something big here! God = gay
God had the rainbow for billions of years, then the gays stole it, but only for like a year, suddenly bam, it's Star Trek's. Luckily the federation shares the rainbow tech so now all three use it.
What does god need with a rainbow?
I WANT TO.....MERGE WITH IT
Well, they're pretty
That one actually has cyan! :D
What is a rainbow
Something the woke left shoves down everyone's throats when they try to force diversity everywhere
That needs a /s the side of the V'Ger cloud.
And yet it's on the most blandly hetero of the TOS movies.
Oh, so it was intentional?
Yes, they both show the color spectrum in order of shortest wavelength at the top to longest at the bottom
Hmm but Trek is so gay... I guess just one of those happy coincidences
Actually the Pride flag has red on top, this image is not accurate.
The first, albeit short lived, pride flag was similar to the colours as above, though reversed with pink at the top (Pink, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Turquoise, Indigo, Violet). It was soon after that the pink was removed due to cost/availability (can't remember exactly off the top of my head).
Pink was removed so that there would be six colors. This was done so that when the flag was hung on lamp-posts as a banner, there would be three colors on each side, iirc
It seems that the turquoise stripe was dropped, ..."to create an even number of stripes for display on each side of the streetlamps on Market Street for the 1979 Gay Freedom Day parade."
https://www.glbthistory.org/rainbow-flag
The pink was due to availability by the Paramount Flag Company when they started being made beyond what could be handmade.
I knew it was one of the colors that was dropped for the street lamps! Thanks for the clarification
I'm kind of dubious that this particular happenstance was intentional, but it's worth noting that Roddenberry was actively queer baiting in the accompanying novelization...
Gotta love kirk’s response “why would i hookup with someone who only wants to bang once every seven years.”
I don't know if it was intentional, but seems like a good possibility