Thursday, June 23, 2022
One-Panel Treks
Monday, June 20, 2022
Star Trek FAQ 2.0 – Book Review
STAR TREK FAQ 2.0, by Mark Clark.
This is a laudable effort to "learn all that is learnable," as someone said. It's interesting to browse through, but as a picky kind of feller, I must point out these goofs:·
Page 9, in
discussing Star Trek: The Motion Picture, mistakenly attributes
the film’s sfx woes to Howard Anderson Company.
No, it was the incompetent-for-the-job Robert Abel and Associates who
bit off more starship than they could chew. Howard Anderson did fx for the 1960s series.
·
Page 30 – in his
survey of Star Trek III, Clark calls the Klingon bad guy “Kluge,”
not Kruge. It’s funny because on page
34, Clark gets the name right.
·
In talking about Star
Trek: The Next Generation’s staff, Clark gets Tracy Tormé’s name
correct early on. But in talking about
“The Royale,” Clark gets Tormé
incorrect FOUR times, as “Tomé.” On pages 110-111, he does it twice in his
coverage of “Manhunt.”
·
On page 232, there’s a slip of the tongue when
discussing Jeri Ryan’s Borg character Seven of Nine. For some Clark gives the actress’s name as
Jeri Taylor, the prolific Trek writer and producer.
·
On page 399, in comments about the 2009 film,
Clark gives the last name of Captain Pike’s actor Bruce Greenwood, as
“Greenwell.”
It's not a goof, but most photos have captions whose words are nearly identical to a nearby bit of text. How hard would it have been to reword the dang captions a little?
Have fun with this brisk survey of Trekitude. However, don't forget to check things out from multiple sources!
See you Thursday!
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