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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2009 16:21:14 GMT
I'd never seen the original Star Trek series, and had no real desire to see the movie, but some friends of mine dragged me along. I was almost offended when the captain asked for people with hand-to-hand training and the first volunteer was THE ONE ASIAN MAN. Oh yeah, kung fu master on board, look out guys. Even worse came the news that, oh, his specialty is FENCING. Of course, at this point I figure the man has a rapier or epee or some, gee I dunno, fencing sword, so when he whips out that...thing...I'm damn near pissed. Then he started dancing with it. Oh, right, some call that fighting, I guess. LOL I had pretty much the exact same thoughts in my head. During the fight I'm watching him and thinking, "hmm well this is the future so maybe they changed what fencing actually is. Or maybe he combines his 'formal' fencing with some MA experience." But yea, being a JSA practitioner I laughed at how he jumped and danced in the fight. As for the sword I thought it was cool, and had much less worries about it then the fighting style. Sci-Fi can explain a futuristic sword all they want. But fighting is fighting and there are things that just...well...aren't fighting. LOL I can imagine some kind of nano-technology, combined with magnetic fields or some such. Magnetic field polorized one way extends the blade, flip it the other way and it collapses the blade. /shrug
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Post by brotherbanzai on May 11, 2009 21:47:24 GMT
The guy in the landing party who is wearing a red shirt always dies, as per the original series. So we're willing to accept that you can go back in time by being sucked into a black hole, that in the future humans are friends with aliens from a bunch of other planets, and people can be "beamed" across light years, but we have a problem with a folding sword and some overly flashy fight moves? Sheesh it's a sci-fi movie Maybe in the future any style of sword fighting will be loosely called "fencing". I always thought Star fleet was supposed to be about exploration more than combat so it would be reasonable that most aren't trained to fight hand to hand. Was a pretty good movie and it was clever how they've made it possible to start the series anew with the old characters.
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Post by randomnobody on May 11, 2009 21:57:09 GMT
I always thought Star fleet was supposed to be about exploration more than combat so it would be reasonable that most aren't trained to fight hand to hand. Initially I thought that to, and would like to continue doing so, however...why oh why would any "explorer" intentionally engage in intergalactic warfare? Thus, my pondering.
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Post by brotherbanzai on May 11, 2009 22:05:47 GMT
I always thought it was sort of like if we merged NASA with the Air Force. They go out exploring but the ships are armed as well. Since there aren't any "battle ships", the star ships act as fighting ships as needed even though their primary purpose is to fly around and check out cool stuff.
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Post by Dave(utilityslave) on May 11, 2009 22:05:58 GMT
Perhaps Sulu studied that great new discipline of the future, "DancingwiththeStars-Fu"!
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2009 9:11:14 GMT
People are complaining about unrealistic sword fighting in a series that once spawned..
THE GREATEST FIGHT SCENE EVER??
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Post by brotherbanzai on May 13, 2009 22:59:10 GMT
I love that episode, where Kirk makes gunpowder to shoot the lizard dude!
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2009 18:59:37 GMT
I just watched Seven Swords, by Tsui Hark yesterday- if anyone's ever seen it, they can attest to some interesting, and in some cases, wild imaginations for a sword.
No matter-reduction or erstwhile pocket-dimension usage but some pretty cool stuff nonetheless.
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2009 3:25:41 GMT
Ok, I haven't seen Star Trek yet, but which of these are more realistic?: Sulu's futuristics collapsible sword, or...
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2009 11:18:38 GMT
Ok, I haven't seen Star Trek yet, but which of these are more realistic?: Sulu's futuristics collapsible sword, or... I like the finger guard on that one katana but it still doesn't make me want to own one. Heck, do any of us even expect movies to get anything halfway right? I know I don't. ;D
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2009 21:14:44 GMT
But is it a katana? Here's the original Sulu with sword: Young Sulu with folding sword:
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2009 13:50:53 GMT
Ha! Now THAT was a great episode, when Sulu got possessed and went after everyone!
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