Monday, October 30, 2023

Mystery Star Trek Theater I: The Movie




On the opening, starfield only, overture:
Anabelle- “This is boring. You know what would be better music?”
*Sings Original Series opera part in my face*
 
On the Klingon arrival:
Anabelle- “Ugh, Klingons, still boring.
Oh, they finally have bumpy heads? Yay!”
 
On the space pajamas:
Anabelle- “Who greenlit these uniforms?”
 
On Spock undergoing Kolinahr:
Anabelle- “Hi Spock! Hate the hair.”
Vulcan Master- “Kolinahr, through which all emotions are shed.”
Anabelle- “No he didn’t. Why would he do that?
Is that why his hair is so ugly?”
 
On Starfleet Headquarters:
Anabelle- “Pretty swanky.”
 
On the new Vulcan officer:
Anabelle- “Who’s that?”
Me- “Xon.”
Anabelle- “Ugh! I hate it when I ask you a question and you know the answer.”
 
On the costuming updates (again):
Anabelle- “Those uniforms are criminal.
I hate Scotty’s mustache.
Wait, all three groups wear the same color?
That’s criminal too.”
 
On Kirk and Scotty’s tour around the Enterprise in the pod:
Anabelle- “That thing is so ugly.”
*Sarcastically* “Woo. I’m really getting in the Star Trek mood looking at the ship for so long.”
Me- “It helps if the last time you saw it wasn’t yesterday.”
Anabelle- “There is that.”
*little yellow ship flies by*
Anabelle- “What is that thing?”
Me- “A Worker Bee.”
Anabelle- “Of course you know. It causes pain to my eyes.
Why are they in the pod for ten years?
At least the music is good.
*dances a bit*
Can it back up any slower than that?”
Deck officer- “Cargo Bay to launch crew. Travel pod is now available at dock six."
*the Admiral is “piped aboard” *
Kirk- “Permission to come aboard, sir?”
Anabelle- “What’s with the whistle?”
Me- “They take a lot from the Navy.”
Anabelle- “Boo Hiss the Navy.”
On the “Besties” arriving on screen:
Uhura- “Captain! Starfleet just signaled your transfer-of-command orders, sir.”
Anabelle- *wild cheering*
Sulu *in deep V-neck uniform* - “Captain!”
Anabelle- “What the heck is he wearing?”
Kirk- “I appreciate your welcome. I wish the circumstances were less critical. Epsilon Nine is monitoring the intruder. Keep a channel open.”
Uhura- “Aye sir.”
Kirk- “Where's Captain Decker?”
Sulu- “He's in engineering, sir.
He ...doesn't know.”
Kirk- “Mister Chekov!”
Anabelle- “YAAAY! The Besties represent!”
Chekov- “Aye sir.”
Kirk- “Assemble the crew on the Recreation Deck at oh four hundred hours. 
I want to show them what we're facing.”
Sulu- “He wanted her back. He got her!”
Random Alien- “And Captain Decker? He's been with the ship every minute of her refitting.”
Uhura- “Ensign, the possibilities of our returning from this mission in one piece may have just doubled.”
Anabelle- “Double Snap!! Girl boss!”
 
On the new glowing matter / antimatter mix chamber in engineering:
Anabelle- “That’s the engine?  I miss the big red thing.”
 
On Kirk walking up to his new “First Officer:”
Anabelle- “Ooh, he’s got the saunter again.”
Decker- “With all due respect, sir, I hope this isn't some kind of Starfleet pep talk, 
I'm really too busy.”
Kirk- “I'm taking over the center seat, Will.”
Decker- “You're what?”
Kirk- “I'm replacing you as Captain of the Enterprise. You'll stay on as Executive Officer. Temporary grade reduction to Commander.”
Anabelle- “Ooof.  Who is this guy?”
Me- “Will Decker, the son of Matt Decker. The one who lost his ship to the space cannoli.”
Anabelle- “The crazy one? Who let this happen?”
 
On the transporter accident:
*Both people beaming die horribly in an “inside out…and exploded” way*
Kirk- “Starfleet, ...Kirk.
Please...
express my condolences to their families. Commander Sonak's can be reached through the Vulcan Embassy.
There was nothing you could have done, Rand. It wasn't your fault.”
Anabelle- “That’s not the name you said.”
Me- “Sorry, Xon was going to be the name in the new show that never happened.
That actor is in this one.”
Anabelle- “Ha! You got it wrong. I know more about Star Trek than you…
That is a lie.”
 
On uniforms… yet again:
Anabelle- “Why are all pants in Star Trek heinous?”
 
On the turbolift redesign:
Anabelle- “There’s no little holdy bits in the elevator.
How do they steer it?”
 
On the new arrival hating the transporter:
Kirk- “What was the problem down there?”
Other Beamer- “He insisted we go first, sir. Said something about first seeing how it scrambled our molecules.”
Kirk- “That has a familiar ring, doesn't it? Starfleet, this is Captain Kirk. Beam that officer up now!”
Rosa- “Oh, him!”
*McCoy beams up bearded with hippie beads and another Seventies outfit*
Anabelle- “It’s Doctor Bones!
What in the hell is he wearing?”
Rosa- “He’s livin’ la vida loca.”
Kirk- “Well, for a man who swore he'd never return to Starfleet.”
McCoy- “Just a moment, Captain, sir. 
I'll explain what happened. Your revered Admiral Nogura invoked a little known, and seldom used, reserve activation clause,
in simpler language, Captain, they drafted me!”
Anabelle- “I love this man.”
 
On the Enterprise launch:
Anabelle- “Come on Sulu, step on the gas. This is taking forever.”
Me- “A lot of Galaxy Quest is making fun of this film.”
*Ilia is shown*
Anabelle- “I remember the bald woman.”
Kirk- “Captain's log, Stardate 7412.6. one point eight hours from launch…”
Anabelle- “Dear diary, what am I wearing?
Wait, where’s Sulu’s poppy uppy thing?
Oh, its recessed. How dull.”
 
On the engineering protective outfits:
Anabelle- “Why don’t they just wear their red jumpsuits?”
 
On Kirk saying “Warp 2” instead of “Warp Factor 2” in the movies:
*There was a long discussion walking the entire Atlantic City Boardwalk
about how much she hated that they stopped saying “Warp Factor” and how wrong it was. *
 
On the ship creating a wormhole and getting sucked in:
Anabelle- “McCoy is like, ‘This is fine.’”
Kirk- “Mister Chekov, stand by on phasers.”
Decker- “No! 
Belay that phaser order!
Arm photon torpedoes.”
Anabelle- “Shut up, nobody likes you.”
Rosa- “They all sound like Daleks.”
Chekov- “Tor      pe     does      a       way.”
Anabelle- “Why is he way over there?”
Me- “That’s the new weapons station.”
Anabelle- “That’s wrong, he should be next to Sulu.
This has been going on forever
This movie should have been one hour, a slightly extended episode.”
Me- “Yes, they combined a couple of ideas for what was going to be the new series.”
 
On the altercation on the Bridge and beyond between Kirk and Decker after the wormhole:
McCoy- “Mind if I tag along, Captain?”
Anabelle “Bones came to the bridge just to be a pest, anyway.
The new quarters are so ugly.”
Kirk- “All right, explanation? Why was my phaser order countermanded?”
Decker- “Sir, the Enterprise redesign increases phaser power by channeling it through the main engines. When they went into anti-matter imbalance, the phasers were automatically cut off.”
Anabelle- “Shouldn’t they have told him?
Even if they didn’t, Captain Kirk would look at at least one blueprint. 
I’m not loving the ‘Captain Kirk sucks’ thing.”
 
On Spock’s arrival on the Enterprise in his robe:
Anabelle- “What is he wearing? Well, it’s better than everyone else.”
Spock- “Permission to come aboard, sir?”
Chekov- “Granted, sir! Granted!”
Anabelle- “Awww, look at Chekov, he’s so excited.”
Spock- “I have been monitoring your communications with Starfleet Command, Captain, I'm aware of your engine design difficulties.
I offer my services as Science Officer.
*To Decker at Science Station* With all due respect, Commander.”
Anabelle- “Get outta my seat.”
Kirk- “Mister Chekov, log Mister Spock's Starfleet commission reactivated, list him as Science Officer,
both effective immediately.”
Chapel- “Mister Spock!!!”
McCoy- “Well, so help me, I'm actually pleased to see you.”
Uhura- “It's how we all feel, Mister Spock.”
Spock- *coldly, ignoring everyone* “Captain, with your permission, I will now discuss these fuel equations with the Engineer.”
Kirk- “Mister Spock, welcome aboard.”
*Spock leaves without acknowledging him*
Rosa- “What the hell?”
Anabelle- “Who wrote this? I hate Gene Roddenberry.”
Kirk- “Captain's log, Stardate 7413.4. Thanks to Mister Spock's timely arrival…”
Anabelle- “Dear diary, Today, Spock was mean to me. 'Frowny face'” 
Me- *Falls off couch*
 
On using names:
Kirk- “Navigator, lay in a conic section flight path into the Cloud center. Bring us parallel to whatever we find in there.”
Anabelle- “Jim, stop calling her ‘navigator!’”
*After the energy bolt hits the Enterprise, injuring (of course) Chekov, medical is called for*
Me- “In the original draft, Chekov died.”
Anabelle- “WHAT! I hate Gene Roddenberry.”
Uhura- “Oh good, Christine. It's Chekov.”
Anabelle- “Look, Uhura calls her ‘Christine’ like I do.
It’s a thing the girlies do.”
 
On hoping the pace will pick up:
Anabelle- “There are so many uncomfortable silences.  
It gives me time to say things. 
C’mon Chekov, give us a scream for old times’ sake.”
 
On Spock reaching out to whatever is transmitting to them:
Decker- “They may have attacked only as a warning to us, Captain, to keep away.”
Spock- “That would presuppose a feeling, Commander, 
compassion.
I sensed no emotion, only *thinks* 
pure logic.”
Anabelle- “Yeah Spock… isn’t that annoying?”
 
On Decker’s thoughts about entering the cloud:
Decker- “That's precisely the point. We don't know what it will do. Moving into that Cloud, at this time, is an unwarranted gamble.”
Anabelle- “They’ve flown into so many clouds. It’s probably fine.
You’re just mad cause your dad flew into a space cannoli and blew up.”
 
On Spock’s rank on his uniform:
Anabelle- “Spock still has two stripes ‘cause he left Starfleet.
Like a loser.”
 
On them slowly flying along V’Ger:
Anabelle- “Sulu can you go a little faster, please?”
*sighs frequently*
“So…When are they gonna fix Spock?”
 
On the probe beam thing:
Anabelle- “Does it zap the bald girl? I think I remember that.”
*Ilia is vaporized, Spock gets knocked down*
Anabelle- “I was right!
 Spock!
Did he get the emotions zapped back into him?”
 
On Uhura addressed as “Commander:”
Anabelle- “Woooo!  I’m excited.
She moved up two stripey levels.”
 
ON V’Ger being able to scan them:
Anabelle- “You would think they’d have a cloaking device after that whole kerfuffle they went through in that steamy episode to get one.”
 
On the arrival of the Ilia probe:
Ilia- “...To find the creator.”
Anabelle- “It’s friggin’ Nomad again.”
*Decker arrives in her quarters*
Anabelle- “Barf, I hate that guy*
Spock- Fascinating. Not 'Decker-unit'?
Gentlemen.”
Anabelle- “That was sassy! It did zap the emotions back into him.”
Spock- “You did have a 'relationship' with Lieutenant Ilia, Commander.”
Decker- “That probe in there, in a different form now, is what killed Ilia!”
Kirk- “Commander! 
Will, we're locked in an alien vessel, six hours from Earth orbit, our only contact with our captor is that probe. If we could control it, persuade it, use it in some way.”
Anabelle- [As Kirk] “Flirting with a robot is not hard. I have done it so many times.”
*Later, Decker is showing her schematics*
Anabelle- “I guess there’s been no change in Starfleet security procedures.
'Here, have a blueprint.'
Why do they always do that?”
 
On more costuming choices as security arrives in their new helmets:
Anabelle- “The security guards look so stupid.
Hey, why isn’t she wearing pants?”
 
On Spock using a neck pinch to access the extra vehicular suit and go out an airlock:
Anabelle- “I love it how Spock just takes out crewmen.”
*Spock flies through V’Ger for a long time*
Anabelle- “I kinda zoned out did I miss anything. Why did he just go in?”
*Spock mind melds with the giant Ilia probe he finds.”
Anabelle- “Oh my bestie.
Slow down. You’re not supposed to die till the next movie.”
*Captain Kirk goes out to rescue Spock*
Anabelle- “As usual, the Captain and the other person who’s the most important are outside the ship…
Because Will sucks.”
 
On Spock in sick bay while the medical team figures out how to help him recover and deal with V’Ger:
Anabelle- “It’s Spock’s brain!
They’re gonna take it out!”
Spock- “Jim,
I should have known.”
Anabelle- “Awwww! He’s back!!! The mind meld fixed Spock?
He’s much more interesting.”
Spock *Grabs Jim’s hand* “This simple feeling
is beyond V’Ger's comprehension. No meaning,
no hope,
and, Jim, no answers. It's asking questions. 'Is this
all I am? Is there nothing more?'”
Anabelle- “Why are they holding hands?”
*The hand hold continues, like most things in this film, for a long time*
Anabelle- “This is so uncomfortable.
Why is McCoy just standing there?”
*It finally ends, Chapel stares at McCoy*
Anabelle- “Christine is like, ‘What the F was that?’” 
 
On the old-style signal coming out of V’Ger:
Anabelle- “It’s a radio?  
This is so stupid. 
I am so confused.  
But I’m sure it will be explained…
In like in twenty business days.”
 
On Spock’s analogy for V’Ger and reactions:
Spock- “Yes, captain, a child. Evolving, learning, searching, instinctively needing.”
Decker- “Needing what?”
McCoy- “Spock! This thing is about to wipe out every living thing on Earth Now what do you suggest we do? Spank it?” 
Anabelle- “I love him. He’s so funny.”
 
On the Junior Officers evacuating the bridge together:
Anabelle- “YES! The Besties in the turbo lift.”
 
On Spock crying for V’Ger:
Spock- “No, Captain, not for us,
for V’Ger.
I weep for V’Ger, as I would for a brother. As I was when I came aboard, so is V’Ger now, empty, incomplete,
searching.
Logic and knowledge are not enough.”
Anabelle- “I’m a little uncomfortable.”
Decker- “What would V’Ger need to fulfil itself?”
Anabelle- “Matt. Go away this doesn’t concern you.”
Spock- “Each of us, at some time in our life, turns to someone, a father, a brother, a god and asks, 'Why am I here?' 'What was I meant to be?'
V'Ger hopes to touch its Creator to find its answers."
Anabelle- “That’s why you were annoying earlier in this movie.”
 
On learning the time frame of “The Creator:”
Spock- “The machine inhabiters found it to be one of their own kind, primitive yet kindred. They discovered its simple twentieth-century programming.”
Anabelle- “Twentieth Century? Who is its creator. A fridge?
This IS just like Nomad…
But long and boring.”
 
On Decker and the Ilia probe joining together with V’Ger:
Anabelle- “I am not liking this music.  
Good riddance. Send him away.
Better than being eaten by a spacecannoli anyway.
I was not romantically invested in the two of them at all.
They could have easily cut a half hour out of this movie.”
*They “transcend” in twinkly lights*
“That looks like Cinderella.”
 
On Kirk’s final heading of, “Out there… Thataway!:”
Me- *cheers*
Anabelle- *rolls eyes* “Really?
Anyway…
Well, that stunk.”

On a later discussion with my sister:
Anabelle- "The first Star Trek film was sooooo boring."
Auntie Kim- "I was only five when I saw it in the theater. I fell asleep the first time the Enterprise went to warp, and woke up the last time. So I thought it was a very short film."
Anabelle- "You are soooooo lucky."


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