This thread delivers.

Samwise Gamgee: Your_Huckleberry: Mugato: Tat'dGreaser: That doesn't matter. That last Star Trek was the best because it wasn't made by a stupid fanboy.

Wrath of Khan was the best and none of them were made by fanboys. It made the most money because it did everything it could to look like Star Wars. Even bigger space and blaster battles, ice monsters and goofy aliens, chicks in skimpy clothes, there was even a retractable sword fight with Sulu doing faaaabulous Jedi acrobatics.

Indeed.
On point there.

And BSG did have sound effects for the space battles, especially those high pitched missle whines and sounds of the Viper thrusters that they steered with.

BSG had a nice compromise - all the space sound effects were muffled, as if underwater, or from a great distance. It was a nice way to have sound effects, but let on that they were more implied than real.

BSG's sound effects were from the perspective of people inside an atmosphere. Examples: The sounds of one's own plane's engines & impacts on the plane, as transmitted through the plane's body; the sound of the air escaping from Apollo's pressure suit as heard within the pressure suit; the sounds of the ship's turrets moving and impacts on the ship, as transmitted through the hull; the sounds of the ship jumping out of New Caprica's atmosphere and the wind rushing in to fill the vacuum, as heard from the ground.

As long as they don't do something stupid and recycle an old plot. I want new stories dammit!

/misses having a weekly show.
//settling for DVR'd Next Gen, Voyager, SG1 and SG Atlantis.
///Sorry I just can't get into a show where everyone and their dog can fit in a phone booth.

fusillade762: FunkOut: Isn't that Sherlock guy the villain for this one? Cucumber whatever his name is?

Cummerbund.


Orci also answered a fan's follow-up question to his previously reported comment about how we will be seeing "cool improvements" to the engineering section of the USS Enterprise.

I'm good with that. More engine room means more screen time for Mr Pegg.

And weren't we supposed to get some of this in the last one?

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Sadly, she was in a deleted scene where Kirk establishes he is completely unable to tell stacked green babes apart. Personally, I think she should just produce an IMAX 3D movie of her eating Eskimo pies, naked, in a kiddie pool filled with baby oil with cinematography by John Woo.

cmunic8r99: Maybe now they can afford someone to hit the mute button on the exterior shots of vehicles in space.

Wasn't there a scene in the new Star Trek where a crewman gets blown into space and everything goes silent, implying that the sounds are faked by computer for the benefit/situational awareness of the humans or something?

Mugato: cmunic8r99: Maybe now they can afford someone to hit the mute button on the exterior shots of vehicles in space.

Good idea, that would make for a riveting film.

Not sure if serious, Mugato.

Battlestar Galactica's space battles were quite riveting sans sound effects in the vacuum of space. Bear McCreary's score, along with the cutaways to on-board scenes with sound effects and dialogue were more than enough sound.