"Starboard thruster! Turn her into the wave!" Once a helmsman, always a helmsman...

@neilcarson4511

2 жыл бұрын

Ummm, if the ship needed to turn to starboard into the wave, then you would use Port thrusters, not stbd.

@shift.2238

2 жыл бұрын

@@neilcarson4511 That would be right if they wanted to steer the ship with the two big red glowing Impulse Thruster at the rear of the ship. But I think in this case they were referring to the Reaction Control System (RSC) Thrusters. Various of them are located all over the ship. They are not as powerful as the main impulse engines but they enable the ship to also fly slowly in the other 5 directions. Sideways, upwards, downwards and reverse. And firing up all starboard pointing thrusters in the rear half of the ship would cause the ship to spin clock wise around it's center of mass and therefore moving the bow of the ship towards the wave. Of course someone could argue that using the port facing thruster in the front half of the ship could also archive that maneuver. But normally a ship is steered with the rear thrusters (similar to a rudder). Or perhaps the front thrusters were all inoperative due to the maximum exposure to the shockwave. idk.

@neilcarson4511

2 жыл бұрын

@@shift.2238 ic, thanks

@SSGLGamesVlogs

2 жыл бұрын

And what happened to the "All hands, brace for impact!"

@Rick_Cleland

2 жыл бұрын

@@SSGLGamesVlogs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The "are you kidding?" line is absolutely hilarious, great film and Sulu as captain rocks!

@samsmith2635

11 ай бұрын

"yeah we are going to cover this massive quadrant wide event on the DL"

@kjohn8917

8 ай бұрын

I disagree....for persanal reasons.

@ianfuller3663

8 ай бұрын

I love the "dude chill" (in the captions) Sulu says as the wave is about to hit the ship 🤣

@jaymike3302

7 ай бұрын

Those quotes would never be allowed today. It would be labeled as sexist.

@kjohn8917

7 ай бұрын

Persanal. I said persanal. Get it?

"Radiation levels are only slightly elevated at Chernobyl. we have no need for assistance. "

@DrummingWriterTrekfan84

2 жыл бұрын

I believe the Chernobyl accident was the insperation for the praxis accident in this movie.

@motionpablo

2 жыл бұрын

@@DrummingWriterTrekfan84 I believe that was the intention too

@dormcat

2 жыл бұрын

@@DrummingWriterTrekfan84 That, and the fact of USSR could no longer support the expenses of Cold War, leading to START and other peace talks. Naturally there were hardliners who objected peace talks; fortunately Gorbachev was only house arrested instead of assassinated like Chancellor Gorkon (whose makeup and appearance was intentionally to mimic Abraham Lincoln).

@351linzdoctor

2 жыл бұрын

Help? "Naw We Cool" "On Second Thought You Got Some Ointment For This Heat Rash"?😁😁😁

@drewgehringer7813

Жыл бұрын

"You didn't see dilithium on the ground because its NOT THERE"

I recall how terrifying this scene was when I saw this at the theatre. It still is. George Takei is convincingly shocked, great performance.

@grndiesel

2 жыл бұрын

That scene with Sulu against a wall of fire must have looked impressive on the big screen.

@phillipm9285

2 жыл бұрын

@@grndiesel it was. I went to see it on opening night. Cold and clear night. Easily one of my favorite movies.

@MrWayne1701

2 жыл бұрын

The Klingon dying in a wall of fire was pretty horrifying, too.

@mdd1963

2 жыл бұрын

Anything that resembles a giant Ball (he prefers 2 or 4, however!) thoroughly captivates Sulu...because of the implication! :)

@lpg12338

2 жыл бұрын

Man, you were lucky to watch it at the theater. 👍

"Are you kidding?" Always gets me.

@coppulor6500

2 жыл бұрын

I know lol. me too. I mean come on. Massive explosion rips apart klingon power moon. thinks to herself "hmmm......does this seem important?"

@allanegleston4931

2 жыл бұрын

hear hear.

@jamesmartin9401

2 жыл бұрын

I almost expected, "Oh, honey..."

@mikefarrington7141

2 жыл бұрын

Poor Rand got thrown under the bus for a bit of funny dialog.

@hobomike6935

2 жыл бұрын

2:55 star trek fans after watching discovery and lower decks

You have to give the actor who played the Klingon who told them to obey the treaty borders a lot of credit. He did wonderfully to portray someone who is trying to remain calm who you can see and hear near panic in their voice.

@SJHFoto

5 жыл бұрын

Agreed. It was superb acting-not overdone

@scotthayes4135

2 жыл бұрын

I think the Klingons were building a doomsday weapon on Praxis and it blew up in their faces.

@Nine-Signs

2 жыл бұрын

Yup, very much so. A small but vital roll that needed to be done right. I hope he knows his work was appreciated.

@tomf3150

2 жыл бұрын

@@scotthayes4135 Nope. They were mining dilithium on praxis.

@danielharvison7510

2 жыл бұрын

@@scotthayes4135 Same as the other fellow who responded. The Klingon empire had massive energy requirements, and Praxis remained their only viable source. Went boom, very sad.

George Takei is not a big man, but his "SHIELDS" yell was absolutely booming. And commanding.

@rartu

2 жыл бұрын

HELLOOO...

@fjccommish

2 жыл бұрын

LOL out loud, no. In the real world, people would laugh at him when he said it like that.

@blppt

2 жыл бұрын

@@fjccommish Its...a movie... What about Kirk in this same movie putting on a dramatic pose before yelling "FIRE!"?

@fjccommish

2 жыл бұрын

@@blppt Still better than Oh My Sulu.

@weneedreagan

2 жыл бұрын

for a po-of. It was thimpley thmashing

Those shockwaves are called "praxis rings" nowadays. You can't have a large space explosion anymore without praxis rings and you have star trek 6 to thank for it.

@ryanhill906

4 жыл бұрын

The more you know.

@TheEmeraldMenOfficial

3 жыл бұрын

And they’re beautiful.

@tomast9034

2 жыл бұрын

2d wave in 3d space :D bit odd...sun exploding in generations was correct.

@FoxyPercival714

2 жыл бұрын

George Lucas was jealous so he wanted them for his special edition. Why the explosion of the death star is meaningless now.

@fuffoon

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting trivia.

This film was ILM at it's finest with practical starship effects. Can't get over how amazing the Excelsior effects looked in the film.

@okankyoto

5 ай бұрын

This was the first Star Trek film to be composited digitally. That helps a ton!

@saindustrian

3 ай бұрын

After the catastrophe that was the special effects in Star Trek V, this was the very best way to open Star Trek VI.

@RedShirtGuy96

9 күн бұрын

This effect is the reason George Lucas added the energy ring in his re-releases of the Star Wars trilogy. It was so well done for it's time that people either know it as the "praxis effect" or Death Star Explosion, its become that ubiquitous.

These are easily the best star trek uniforms. They look sharp, clean, and all the insignia are readable and make sense. You can easily differentiate between officer and enlisted, and they also introduced service stripes for this uniform. Always my favorite.

@unnecessarilyepic1107

2 жыл бұрын

Honestly, I could almost appreciate them, but those collars are disgusting!

@NACLGames

2 жыл бұрын

I think they deliberately made a point of making them more smart, crisp and essentially military, where all of the points you noted are required. But we can also see that it was a reflection towards a more militaristic and less holistic Starfleet. As perhaps impractical as many of the later uniforms were, they were more optimistic and vibrant. The uniforms always make a statement about the current nature of Starfleet, as can be seen when it moves this way again the with grey/black uniforms of the late TNG era.

@purefoldnz3070

2 жыл бұрын

Discovery uniforms are the worst. Hell everything about the show is the worst.

@boscovilante4068

2 жыл бұрын

Roddenberry didn't like them because militaristic uniforms pulls it away from the utopianism. I like them in the sense that it depicts a period of history that's more unstable requiring Starfleet to assume a more militaristic posture than might otherwise be the case.

@madcapmagician3130

2 жыл бұрын

@@purefoldnz3070 Amen.

1:01 Amazing ship design, after years of careful study and planning they managed to finally make a control deck where every single being ends up on the floor. On the old ships there were always a few that managed to find a grip somewhere.

@dray7276

2 жыл бұрын

You do realize they operate under 1.0 gravity on these ships right? That means if they lose their balance from, I don't know an enormous energy wave that throws the ship around you can expect people not to be standing still. Didn't you see the fear in their eyes before it hit? this is not cloud turbulence my guy...

@jfriend2001

2 жыл бұрын

@@dray7276 where are the rocks from The consoles?

@chrissmith7669

2 жыл бұрын

Lol. There’s a humorous ergonomic assessment of the Evolution of the Enterprise bridge on line somewhere. They pointed out how unsafe each bridge was considering in an emergency it’s where you could least tolerate crew members being flung into objects or each other.

@telocity

2 жыл бұрын

@@dray7276 Seatbelts?

@logon235

2 жыл бұрын

@@telocity seatbelts were outlawed after the Seatbelt War of 2101.

3/4s of the moon destroyed, but we still have 1/4, not great, but not terrible

@deepdragon2

2 жыл бұрын

hey if I could reliably bat that, I would be in pro baseball

@logon235

2 жыл бұрын

We have successfully preserved 25% of the moon.

@darrenbootland2316

2 жыл бұрын

A tip of the hat for the Chernobyl reference

@motionpablo

2 жыл бұрын

We are still flying half the ship

@sebastiansmolen1139

2 жыл бұрын

Not to worry, we are still flying half a ship =)

Captain Sulu was the perfect officer for Excelsior, by his professionalism, the way he handled an emergency, and considered all set before him by his crew. He learned from the best. And George Takei again proves what a damned fine actor he is.

@paulwhite6745

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, Takei is a good actor. Shame he apparently can't let go of his feud with Shatner. I don't know all the rights and wrongs of it, maybe Shatner really did treat him badly, or maybe he just perceived it that way, I don't know, but at their ages it's a pity they can't just settle things and let bygones be bygones.

@soylentteal

2 жыл бұрын

He lobbied long and hard for it and (according to his autobiography) it was scuttled in "Star Trek II') by Shatner, who played the scene like he was on drugs.

@JeanParisot

2 жыл бұрын

@@paulwhite6745 Agreed!

@chrissmith7669

2 жыл бұрын

It’s a shame he never got his own movie arc. He and Michael Dorn should have been given their own worlds to explore.

@AlexanderNixonArtHistory

2 жыл бұрын

@@paulwhite6745 let them feud!;)

Am I the only one who watched this sequence regretting that there never was a TOS era Captain Sulu series?

@eamonnrogan4166

6 жыл бұрын

he should of had a go at it...paramont screwed him...would of been an excellent capt

@fangzea

6 жыл бұрын

More like an excellent butt pirate.

@luckyvet

6 жыл бұрын

I like Sulu, but don't think he has what it takes to be an effective leader / captain.

@bartscanland9415

4 жыл бұрын

I thought there was some talk of creating a series named Excelsior, but I think it got scapped in favor of Voyager.

@Nine-Signs

2 жыл бұрын

no.

I like the way all the actors play the crew in this scene. It's rare and there's something very nice about characters portrayed as "competent" in movies. They just know what they're doing and have common sense! I'm reminded of Nick Fury in the Avengers: "is the sun coming up?" 😂

@Shinzon23

8 ай бұрын

Well except for the officer asking "do we report this?"

@jaxspellinar

7 ай бұрын

@@Shinzon23 and I always thought Sulu asking 'but?" about the existence of Praxis to be flat. He sounds confused rather than annoyed. Like I expect that but to take about a second and a half, like he's trying to get the science officer to continue this sentence. Instead it sounds like he already expects there to be something wrong with Praxis.

@Shinzon23

7 ай бұрын

@jaxspellinar In some of the apocrypha and backstory books, They already knew that something was happening on praxis and that the klingons were recklessly rushing ahead without paying attention to safety issues. A not too subtle reference to the soviets and Chernobyl

I always loved how they had an automated red alert system in case the captain's tea is spilled.

@highlander723

8 ай бұрын

LOL I don't think that's what triggered it... LOL

@sg39g

3 ай бұрын

Yellow Alert can be invoked by the Commanding Officer, Operations Manager, Chief Engineer, Tactical Officer, or by the supervisor of any current primary mission operation. Additionally, the main computer can automatically invoke Yellow Alert status in some cases upon detection of certain types of unknown spacecraft, as well as upon detection of certain types of malfunctions or system failures Red Alert can be invoked by the Commanding Officer, Operations Manager, Chief Engineer, or the Tactical Officer. Additionally, the main computer can automatically invoke Red Alert status in some cases upon detection of certain types of unknown spacecraft, as well as upon detection of certain types of critical malfunctions or system failures. In such cases, the automatic declaration of Red Alert status is subject to review by the Commanding Officer. (Star Trek TNG Technical Manual)

Captain Sulu should have gotten his own show.

@chrislewis8714

2 жыл бұрын

Could still happen, though it would need to be animated owing to age of the actors.

@Agent77X

2 жыл бұрын

There could be a brand new younger Sulu played by someone else!

@extendedepicmusic5017

2 жыл бұрын

@@Agent77X Maybe

This is the way top start a Star Trek film. Have a truly catastrophic incident occur, be "witnessed" by the Federation and have that drive the plot. The Klingons being involved just makes it better. Also, all credit to the Klingon High Council representative: he looked a short second away from total panic even as he stated the Federation needed to stay out of Klingon space, or else. Anyone who has watched the film knows he had good reason...

This effect when Praxis exploded was state of the art CGI at the time in 91' and saying so that it impressed Lucas enough since it was his studio who did the effects for this film that he chose to use a similar one when the Death Star exploded in reissued Star War films .

@hudsonball4702

6 жыл бұрын

and Alderaan.

@Isaac-gh5ku

2 жыл бұрын

And I thought the CGI in Terminator 2: Judgement Day was impressive.

@richardhammer187

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, and the audio was equally impressive, used to demo most AV systems on release.

@SFisher1993

Жыл бұрын

Michael Bay was obviously a huge fan too, since he put it in Armageddon!

@Dr.W.Krueger

3 ай бұрын

I wouldn't call the shockwave itself state of the art. After all it is deformed geometry with procedural textures and we already figured out how to do that in the mid 80s. It's how the effect was worked into the film and into the motion control camera work with the ship. It all comes together nicely. If you want to talk (more) complicated; the CGI blood was more involved. A new metaball renderer had to be written specifically for that. It also involved a lot of hand tracking the emitters to the moving background plates.

0:52 Though he's in the Big Chair now, Sulu is still a helmsman at heart.

I remember seeing this opening day and everyone gasped when Excelsior got hit by the shockwave.

"Do we report this, sir?" "Are you kidding?" "Well, there was that incident with the Tholians the other week..." "I thought I told you that that never happened, Lieutenant." "Yes sir. So that's a yes on the report, sir?" "Yes! Goddamn it, Yes!"

@soylentteal

6 жыл бұрын

"But this time, don't call me 'Captain Tiny.'"

Nice metaphor for the Chernobyl "incident"

@speedracer1945

6 жыл бұрын

Nice that you caught that and also it was around the time the Soviet Union fell and the Wall came down in Berlin . It was when we made peace with them in a political way . Trek tried to reflect the times and certain issues with these films .

@fangzea

6 жыл бұрын

Would of been a great time to watch these movies.

@speedracer1945

6 жыл бұрын

fangzea I saw this film in a packed theater during the day . Since it was the last with the entire original film it drew all the core fans. Also nice touch with all the autographs at the end .

@varanid9

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I remember it was actually kind of an emotional experience for us long time fans of the original series. These days, good TV shows are a dime a dozen, and there's so much more going on that the pearls don't stand out and have the same impact, something the current generation will never understand, sadly.

@SJHFoto

5 жыл бұрын

@@speedracer1945 I too saw it in the theater. I was 15. I remember we talked about it in school and how it was an analogy to Chernobyl. My Social Studies teacher thought we were insane until he saw it himself (he had no time for sci-fi) and then apologised for making fun of it

“Nothing to see here, please disperse”, the Klingon version

"you're confused, Klingon mining moons don't explode"

@romulodecastrodasilva5863

3 жыл бұрын

Of course not! Like soviet reactors, don't explode too! You are confused.

@paulmichaelfreedman8334

3 жыл бұрын

Take this man to the infirmary, he's delusional!

@CrniWuk

2 жыл бұрын

Which is funny because that is what they used as inspiration for the movie. The explotion of the reactor in Chernobyl. And the Soviets "dennying" it's effects.

@tal_the_great

2 жыл бұрын

1 Moon. Not great. Not terrible.

@sqwalnoc

2 жыл бұрын

you didn't see dilithium on the ground!

That shockwave on the big screen really blew my mind as a kid in the theatre

I always watch Star Trek VI on sad days. She was the last time the original crew would be together. At the time, we had no idea. We knew they were getting older and there were questions about how profitable the movies were, but we had no idea this would be the last dance.

@akfreed6949

Жыл бұрын

Sad . And it seems like next gens don't get it as much .

@ashleighelizabeth5916

7 ай бұрын

Dude what are you talking about when you say we had no idea? Of course we had an idea, they endlessly talked about how this would be the last movie with the original cast, how they were moving the TNG cast to the big screen and how this would be the last mission of the original cast together.

@hemaccabe4292

7 ай бұрын

@@ashleighelizabeth5916 Basically, you're right. However, they had been saying the same stuff since TMP. If the movie made enough money, then the studio would be greedy enough to make the next one. That was true all the way up to 6. Yes, we all knew it had to end sometime, the cast was getting older all the time, there was always worry that we might have another turkey that lost a ton of money, but hope beats eternal in the breast of the Trekker. We also didn't really have the internet back in those days so one had to go by small scraps of info and personal judgement much more. In the end, VI was the last dance.

@SBaby

6 ай бұрын

@@ashleighelizabeth5916 They had advertised every Star Trek movie as their last. TMP was going to be their last, then Wrath of Khan was going to be their last. Then Voyage Home was going to be their last. It wasn't until we saw the end of this movie that we really knew this was in fact the end.

@ashleighelizabeth5916

6 ай бұрын

@@SBaby no they didn't. Where do you people get this stuff? The only thing that even remotely resembles that kind of talk was Leonard Nimoy wanting to bow out after Star Trek II. VI was the only one of those movies that the definitely advertised as "their final voyage".

Always wanted to see a new series with George Takei's Sulu and the Excelsior. Missed opportunity there.

@levyan4718

2 жыл бұрын

Oh myyyyy

@fjccommish

Жыл бұрын

Any sane person wouldn't want to see such a series.

@richardthomas9484

Жыл бұрын

Even just a limited series would have done! Ah well 😢

And us old folks that remember the original Star Trek recognize Grace Lee Whitney as the communications officer. She was fired from the original Star Trek because the studio wanted Captain Kirk to have more female friends. Gene Roddenberry did say he regretted that decision by the studio and he should have tried harder to keep her. That’s pretty cool they let her have a bit part.

Somewhere in another galaxy… Marvin the Martian jumps for joy. “A KABOOM! Finally, an earth ‘Shatnering’ KABOOM!!”

When I first saw this movie I was surprised that Sulu was made the captain of the Excelsior and Janice Rand was communications officer as the last time I saw Rand she was first a yoeman on the Enterprise during the T.O.S. era and then a transporter operator in the Motion Picture so when I saw this needless to say I was surprised she was now a communications officer like I just mentioned and now had the rank of commander like Uhura so I wonder how many other officers from the Enterprise are now serving on the Excelsior with Sulu as the captain.

Always loved the Excelsior class. So sleek.

'We have monitored a large explosion...' Understatement level: British

@jamesmartin9401

2 жыл бұрын

Oh, this did make me laugh.

George Takei is and was always beyond awesome as Hikaru Sulu, "Starboard thruster turn her into the wave," now that is a helmsman speaking

George Takei as Captain Sulu - missed opportunity there. Takei is great in this scene. Handles the role of starship captain well.

@richardhammer187

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, he was great right the way through the movie, "fly her apart then!!"

The way this ship was hammered by that shockwave would surely destroy it if not by the fact that Sulu was inside it.

@hudsonball4702

6 жыл бұрын

The Excelsior class was a very rugged and sturdily designed ship. It's why it was still used 100 years after it was first launched.

@sirlythan

2 жыл бұрын

A few years later, I see the comments... The excelsior turned into the energy wave, similar to what modern ships to when facing rogue waves. Ships are stronger at the ends, like an egg. allows the impact to ripple down the hull and dissipate easier. Hitting that full broadside would crush the ship like a soda can.

@leftcoaster67

2 жыл бұрын

When Sulu demands to raise the shields. YOU DAMN WELL RAISE THE SHIELDS!

@roceye

2 жыл бұрын

Did the shields go up in time?

@enterprisethesylveon5787

2 жыл бұрын

@@sirlythan as well as it provides the path of least resistance since the ship's aerodynamics or similar designs allow it to help mitigate the forces by reducing resistance, surface area and drag, as well as slicing through...

“Are you kidding?” 😂😂😂😅😅 one of my favorite lines in the whole franchise!

Praxis behaves like my 2 year-old at 2am everyday.

The USS Excelsior had a streak of no adventure and no incident for 3 years under Hikaru Sulu's command until the Klingon Moon was destroyed.

@jerobriggs6861

6 жыл бұрын

As far as we know.

@i.cabrera7971

2 жыл бұрын

Being a state of the art ship i assume it did more of a role like the naval submarines…on the borders beyond territory quietly on patrol. The cataloging of “gaseous anomalies “ was just the cover.

Always remember this moment as me and my wife sat waiting for the film to start at the Cinema she said Ohhh I just need to pop to the toilet nooooooooooo she missed the blast waves scene and came back and said what have I missed.I could have killed her 🥰

Can we all appreciate that the alarm didn’t start until the class hit the floor

Probably my favorite “Trek” of all. Can you believe we went from this in 1991 to ST:D now? The drop in quality is unfathomable.

@develynseether4426

Жыл бұрын

I disagree. Whilst Discovery failed to grip many of the die-hard Trek fans it has still created its own fan-base. Not to mention many of those who complain about it still watched every episode. There is no 'drop' in quality, it's just in an entirely different league. As you say this was '91 and we are now in '22, 31 years later, whole generations have been born, grown up and had kids. Society has changed, media has changed and as such spin-offs from an idea originally created 56 years ago are going to change over time.

@strikerdelta

Жыл бұрын

I refuse to recognize anything Star Trek past Star Trek :Enterprise. No Kelvin timeline horseshit, no woke remakes of pre TOS history. NOPE.

OMG that coffee cup has got to be valuable collectable by now :)

"Are you kidding?" I love George Takei so much. I got to meet him in 2013 after a music show he hosted. Such a nice guy, very genuine. Everyone he meets, it's as if he's known them for years. But at the same time, he doesn't come on too strong or with too much familiarity. If he wasn't an actor he'd have made an excellent Ambassador or some sort.

The most politically relevant Star Trek movie ever made, and it came out right at the end of 1991.

@kurtb8474

2 жыл бұрын

After the wall fell.

@smadaf

2 жыл бұрын

Two years after the reunification of Germany and in the same year when the Soviet Union collapsed.

@TommygunNG

2 жыл бұрын

@@kurtb8474 Yes, Shaka... Oh, wait. You mean THAT wall! Never mind.

@Mustang-bk4ns

2 жыл бұрын

@@smadaf Special Treasury Agent Leo Wanta had a lot to do with that. On assignment from his boss, then president Ronald Reagan.

@LighterBen

2 жыл бұрын

Praxis is chernobil

Industrial Light and Magic purposely designed the Excelsior to look like a Japanese interpretation of the Enterprise. Fitting that Excelsior became Sulu's ship.

Kudos to the person that said "checking all systems captain" cool as ice... I've always loved that specific moment for some reason after all these years and viewings of this movie...

Imagine seeing this in the movie theater when Praxis blows up. I was there and it was glorious.

@mattiabracali1356

2 жыл бұрын

What a lucky boy! 😀 I am too young for that, still amazed when I watched that!

@tommyt1971

2 жыл бұрын

Yup, it was LOUD. Back then I think they only had 2 channel sound but it was still state/art. We were all biting our nails!

@thebangles

2 жыл бұрын

I was in the front row. Last time I ever sat that close.

@leegibson5469

2 жыл бұрын

@@thebangles I was dead center with the THX sound system. "Shields, SHIELDS!.." lol, loved it.

@CarlosAvilaArquin

Жыл бұрын

I was there my first movie without my parents and it was unforgettable such a great movie to start my years as teeneger!!!

Sulu’s reaction is perfect... George Takei is one heck of an actor.

The Excelsior was struck by the Praxis energy wave, and while she's 'shaken up', by it, she comes through like a lady! Reminds me of a "Certain Monarch!" GSTQ! LMSR!

@colinmontgomery1956

Жыл бұрын

We will never forget Elizabeth, or Excelsior...

The Klingons in this movie really made it, fantastic acting and Cold War atmosphere.

Sulu was awesome....very expressive captain....would love to have seen more of him

@roceye

2 жыл бұрын

I think "shields" is the answer for pretty much any problem theses days.

@Mustang-bk4ns

2 жыл бұрын

Go to a gay bar then

@Felamine

2 жыл бұрын

​@@Mustang-bk4ns Hmm, you sound like you speak from experience.

Praxis man, we here talkin bout praxis, not the game, man, we here talkin bout praxis man.

You have to give it to the Excelsior; at least the consoles weren’t made of explodium! 😆

@firebird6522

2 жыл бұрын

LOL! True!

@darrellcook8253

2 жыл бұрын

And wired with spark'um'noodles. Lousy wiring that goes Poof! Overloaded circuitry on everything. The overhead panels still fall off or dump unknown dust and dirt or squirting cheese whizz and other strange liquids out of dangling plumbing. I'd like to see a SNL parody of that. Exaggerate the squirty and sparky stuff

The ship is shaking and none of the crew was looking at the displays at their stations. Think Sulu needs to whip his crew into shape!

If Captain Hikaru Sulu's predecessor,Captain Styles was still in command of the U.S.S. Excelsior when the Klingon Moon exploded,he'd feel shaken up along with the ship,those the Excelsior's shields held up during the shock waves.

That was funny what Sulu's reaction was to Rand's question 'Do We Report This Sir' and Sulu's response 'Are You Kidding' I actually laughed a bit at Sulu's remark when he said it it sounded like he answered her with a bit of sarcasm in his voice.

@Obliteradon

2 жыл бұрын

I know, right ? Almost like it was some kind of humouristic moment in a movie or something

I always thought it would have been great if he got his own show or movie. Sulu is a great character.

@fjccommish

Жыл бұрын

Nope.

After watching this, I love how they got it down beat for beat in Voyager.

I like how the one guy was standing with Sulu and the next scene he's up against the computer looking up at the ceiling. 😂

Honestly my favorite part of the whole movie. I could have continued with Sulu and the Excelsior crew being the protagonist for the rest of the film.

1:39 Commander Rand looks so calm after the explosion/shockwave/etc. lol

@WalterDWormack214

2 жыл бұрын

Hey, remember Cmdr. Rand served on USS Enterprise, during James T. Kirk's first 5 year deployment. Something like an exploding Klingon moon, will barely wake her up.

@sblagg527

2 жыл бұрын

@@WalterDWormack214 She's still smoking hot

@WalterDWormack214

2 жыл бұрын

@@sblagg527 Oooh YEAH! That She WAS! Yes Sirreee, BOBBY! That She Was! It's really too bad, That wall posters didn't "become a thing", when Star Trek TOS was on the air. Miss Whitney, Miss, Nichols, & Miss Barret(Roddenberry), would've been the Farrah Fawcett of the 60s! Add Miss JoAnne Linville's 'sultry' Romulan Commander, from "The Enterprise Incident", and Star Trek could've practically paid for itself, in wall posters ALONE.

Sulu is a damn good Captain by turning the ship into the wave.. I like what he said after it are we going to report this.. he says are you kidding

2:24 It would have been hilarious if a musak version of “The Girl from Impanema” in Klingon starts playing while a message says “we are currently experiencing technical difficulties. Please stand by”

The Klingon version of Chernobyl. The events even (broadly) follow Gorbachev's attempt at peace, albeit with a few creative liberties. Leonard Nimoy and Nicholas Meyer had discussed the idea of a "Berlin Wall in space" coming down as the movie's plot. 🖖😎👍

I don't know why Sulu didn't get his own movie or tv series. Excellent scene.

@fjccommish

Жыл бұрын

The character was a side character. - a dud Takei has the charisma of stepped on gum.

@darthnowlan

11 ай бұрын

Studios didn't like the idea of such a series. Bunch of idiot higher ups.

Dammit, Sulu, you had like an hour to grab that tea cup/coaster before they shattered all over the bridge room floor! Now some lowly yeoman with bare alien feet is gonna have to beg permission to come on the bridge just to clean it up!!

This was the first Star Trek movie I got to see in the cinema. I was almost twelve. What fun, to see them all on the big screen, in wide screen, in 35-millimeter detail! As an adult, I cringe a little at the planar shape of a shockwave that should be spherical. Then the graphic on one of the small bridge screens shows it shaped more like an ancient shield, with a hill in the middle. One of the downsides of ALL the Star Trek movies is that they give too much concern to being like movies, trying to justify their budgets with tickets sold, and too little to satisfying the fans who appreciate the relatively big dose of logic and consistency that the TV series offered. On the other hand, it's a nice, spacey omage to all the seafaring movies with storm scenes. "Bring her into the wave!"

@derek96720

3 ай бұрын

I don't know if you're considered that perhaps the explosion was based off the EM polarity of the planet. In real life, electrical and magnetic waves propagate on perpendicular planes, so that if you only saw one of them, it would look similar to a horizontal shockwave.

@smadaf

3 ай бұрын

@@derek96720 , interesting point. But _is_ it an electromagnetic wave? What if it also contains whole atoms and molecules and larger particles?

@derek96720

3 ай бұрын

@@smadaf my point is that it's not much of a logical leap to imagine a moon made of some fictional energy mineral exploding in a horizontal wave, when such waves can exist in real life.

@smadaf

3 ай бұрын

@@derek96720 , I think it's a nifty coincidence to get replies from you about this topic, because just the other day I was watching a computer simulation of a wave as it bounced between two parabolic reflectors and interfered with itself through several passes-and I was wondering, while watching it, whether this wave occupied only a plane or was spherical (but I wasn't thinking anything about this _Star Trek VI_ scene at the time). Watching the _Star Trek_ scene again, in the light of your comment, I'm thinking about the fact that the visible part of the wave seems to move much slower than light (look at its size in relation to that of the _Excelsior_ and consider how long they take to meet and the speed of the ship's deflection from her course). I'm also thinking about the fact that the wave seems to have two properties: it emits radiation that moves about the speed of light, so that we can see the wave's approach before it reaches us; the other is . . . well, what I said earlier, that it has a slower component, too.

Someone better get a wet floor sign for that spilt tea/coffee.

@TaxiHack39

6 жыл бұрын

Why? It Cleaned Itself Up Including Removing The Cup And Broken Saucer

@speedracer1945

6 жыл бұрын

Sure it was Tuvak, since he was on that ship then that's why we didn't see him since he was on his hands and knees cleaning it up . LoL

It's amazing. The 1996 Voyager episode was made only 5 years later yet it seems like there was an entire generation between the two productions. They did a great job recreating it too. Would have been so much easier to just insert stuff from the movie in and around the specially filmed Voyager bits but I guess one or two of the actors had aged slightly too much.

When I'm told that a cold front or snow storm is coming, I think of this scene.

The thing is, if that shockwave was big enough to do that to the Excelsior at that range, it should have utterly ravaged the Klingon empire. Forget losing their key energy supply. The nation itself should be a blasted wasteland.

@mikegallant811

3 жыл бұрын

Never mind that, I'm surprised Qonos didn't wind up like Romulus (after Hobus Supernova)

@roberthaworth8991

2 жыл бұрын

Except the blast wave appears to have had a vector. Only about 45% of the moon was immed. destroyed, so the half that disintegrated did so in about a 60-degree cone. Empire planets on the intact side would have been initially OK.

@Wayoutthere

2 жыл бұрын

@@roberthaworth8991 Well not for long, the partial moon would be adrift charging trough the system, let alone debri, radiation etc.

@Isaac-gh5ku

2 жыл бұрын

2:04 I just notice something. If Praxis was supposed to be a moon of the Klingon's home planet, Qo'nos, then where the heck is Qo'nos? That planet cannot be that far from its moon, can it?

@martianbuilder5945

2 жыл бұрын

@@Isaac-gh5ku Notice how the moon was always on the left side of the screen even as they were zooming in - and the left side is the part of the moon that is still intact. My only guess after reading this thread was that Qo'nos was further to the left and subsequently received less damage as it was not in front of the part that exploded.

"Do we report this, sir?" "Are you kidding??" lol. It makes you wonder why Rand even asked lol.

@stargazer7644

2 жыл бұрын

A lot of the dialog in this scene was very stiff.

In the spring of 1992, this opening scene was amazing in the theatres. So awesome! This is my favourite Star Trek movie of all time. ♥

You'd think he would have ordered the shields up as soon as the entire ship started vibrating... hah

How could anyone still be alive on that moon to send out a distress call. More than half of it was gone.

@romulodecastrodasilva5863

3 жыл бұрын

I think the same, all this energy kill everything live in another side of the moom. Its too much energy!

@stargazer7644

2 жыл бұрын

That's how it was written in the script.

@Isaac-gh5ku

2 жыл бұрын

@@romulodecastrodasilva5863 Not only that, I'm surprised that Qo'nos is still in one piece after that huge explosion. A shock wave that huge could have reduce the Klingon's home planet into space dust within seconds.

@smadaf

2 жыл бұрын

Is there a distress call?

@mikegallant811

2 жыл бұрын

@@Isaac-gh5ku yes you are right on that one friend Kronos was lucky it did not wind up the same way that Romulus and Remus did after the Hobus Supernova of 2387!

Imagine if the ship was capable of moving up or down - they could've dodged the blast wave completely.

@Ama-hi5kn

9 ай бұрын

Reminds me of an episode of Enterprise. "The Catwalk". They run into an neutronic ion storm wave (Trek tech talk for "we are in trouble") and instead of going around it, they fly the ship right into it, lol

In case your wondering, that Klingon calling from praxis said "not great, not terrible."

I love that..."Shields...SHIELDS!!!"

You'd think with all the shit Sulu has seen, nothing would take him aback.

Awesome Scene ! ST at it's Best !!

Ah the day this came out god the memories lived a good few eras and lived to tell about it!

Wow. I've seen this move like a zillion times since it came out. I was today years old when I realized officer said energy wave port. It's starboard. Not port. 😅

0:22 I like how instead of them faking the turbulence by shaking themselves on the bridge, we actually see the interior is actually shaking.

@nattieCSH

2 жыл бұрын

The tng era Bridges all moved as well 😁

@MagicAl5F4781

2 жыл бұрын

@@nattieCSH Only in Nemesis IIRC. In the vast majority of Trek only the camera is shaking and the actors are faking.

Had Captain Styles still been in command of the Excelsior when that ship was shaken up by the explosion of Praxis,he would've been frightened out of his wits.

@smadaf

2 жыл бұрын

He would have beaten the wave into submission with his little high-tech baton and then tucked it back under his arm.

I love that the credits roll off the screen, the music stops and then *BOOM*

Gotta love the auto captions just before the shockwave hits…”dude chill” 😂😂😂

this star trek clip shows why you shouldn't sleep in bunk beds on ships lol. My fav part is when Sulu Says Shields.

Do we report this? Are you kidding? Of _course_ we report it!!

I love how helm stayed in station, just lije the mad sailor on the wheel of old sailing ships

it's a feckin crime we didn't get a Sulu series!

Energy wave to Port, but the visual shows the wave striking the Starboard side. Starboard thruster turns the ship to . . . Starboard? Edit: Sarcasm, people. According to this visual, Sulu should have called for PORT thrusters, not starboard thrusters.

@anthonyhargis6855

6 жыл бұрын

Andrew, you missed my sarcastic point. The VISUAL shows the wave to the Starboard of the ship, meaning they needed PORT thrusters. The visual display contradicts the verbal commands. An editing error. According to the visual, starboard thrusters are NOT going to turn the ship INTO the wave.

@CaptainM792

6 жыл бұрын

The wave approaches from the Starboard side, Starboard thrusters turn the ship to Port, so the front of the ship faces the wave as visual shown . Port thrusters turn the ship to starboard, if they used port thrusters , the wave will hit the starboard side which is going to cause serious damage to the ship.

@anthonyhargis6855

6 жыл бұрын

+M Lau What planet do you live on? The wave approaches from starboard -- the right hand side of the ship -- starboard thrusters turn the ship to port -- to the left. Such a move would point the REAR END of the ship at the wave, not the front of the ship. If this visual is correct, then Sulu should have called for PORT thrusters, not starboard.

@CaptainM792

6 жыл бұрын

To turn the ship to the wave, they should use both starboard aft thruster and port forward thruster.

@vassilizaitzev1

6 жыл бұрын

Is it because the video has been flipped to avoid copyright?

You've got to love how when a Klingon moon explodes, it generates a 2D pure-energy shockwave that travels at FTL speeds and just happens to hit the nearest Federation starship. Its so unlikely, you've got to assume they built in some sort of doomsday protocol in the hope that if this ever occurred, they might manage to, at least, take out a Starfleet Captain's cuppa in their last stand. You got to give it to the Klingons, they're committed to pissing off their enemies!

@jfxamilton

6 жыл бұрын

Discovery is garbage long before you get to the bad science and plots. That's how opinions about television shows work; they're subjective and not everyone will have the same opinions. George Takei is a better actor (that's also subjective, by the way, which means that your opinion might not be the same as mine) than anyone on Discovery.

@romulodecastrodasilva5863

3 жыл бұрын

You need a nap sir! 😴 After this came here again to play with other kids!

@nkgoodal

2 жыл бұрын

Praxis was harvesting "Plotonium", which has all the necessary characteristics to generate these unlikely events and drive the plot.

@jamesbutke1438

2 жыл бұрын

The 2D was only the visual spectrum, and in real space. The shockwave was also in subspace and all over the EM spectrum. Hollywood coincidence that Excelsior was hit by the visual effects part of the wave

@stargazer7644

2 жыл бұрын

All star systems in the Star Trek Universe apparently have up in the same direction, and the orbital planes of all star systems align, and that's the same plane the spaceships travel in. So not so surprising the explosion would intersect with ships. When's the last time you saw two Star Trek spaceships approach each other and they weren't in the same orientation? Why isn't one of them ever randomly upside down?

1:02 Someone forgot to tell Janice Rand NOT TO GET UP. Everyone else is writhing on the floor and she's already on her feet.

This scene really shows just how beautiful the Excelsior call is.

Anyone notice how the crewman beside Sulu for the first two shots is way behind him and behind two other crew members in the 3rd shot then back by him in the fourth?

Oh my

A shame that it won't be known how Captain Styles felt when Hikaru Sulu earned command of the Excelsior because Sulu helped James T. Kirk steal the old Enterprise to rescue Spock from Genesis and take him back to Vulcan to get his spirit out of Dr. McCoy and that Scotty sabotaged the Excelsior to stop Styles from capturing Kirk and his 5 officers. Styles wouldn't care if he caused an interstellar incident because Spock's father is the Vulcan Ambassador, who asked Kirk to save his son in the first place.

Every time I see the klingon text pop up after the message, I always get the impression the translation would be "Fuck you". 🤣

@strikerdelta

Жыл бұрын

Maybe not so harsh. More along the lines of an officious version of "piss off" was my takeaway.

You would think by the 23 or 24 century that star ships would be at least as advanced as our smartphones today. Automatic shields, navigation in case of events like this. Especially when the crew just stands around looking scared instead of acting immediately.

@Geographus666

6 жыл бұрын

But that would be boring

@MgaTalunanKayo

6 жыл бұрын

Good point. But sometimes the simplest rudimentary technologies work and are robust. The consumer society of the Federation may be a LOT more advanced than our smartphones, and we rarely see how civilians utilize technologies. But for practical application, building starships and instruments to last the rigors of space is important.

@lazycalm41

6 жыл бұрын

Yes just think if they were as advanced as todays so called smart phones they would all be too busy taking selfies or checking FB messages or videoing whats happening so as to post on Instagram! either that or looking for a mains socket so as to charge the flat batteries of said smart phones!

@fatarsemonkey

6 жыл бұрын

A star ship is built pretty well for the rigors of space and generally would put up with most cosmic events such as solar winds, CME's and so on, the deflector array takes care of most space particles, shields are mainly for combat and use an enormous amount of energy and need to be at the captains discretion and direction especially during combat maneuvering. Obviously when something such as seen in this scenario comes along you activate all protective measures. What you don't see is the thousands of hours of nothing really happening and just the dramatic very rare event, it wouldn't be an exciting movie if they showed you driving to work every day but then one day you witness a meteorite smashing up the neighborhood, you show that day or time.

@dmorton8306

6 жыл бұрын

My smartphone doesn't have automatic shields.