Mooooovie

[ysobel]

Went to see Star Trek.

(yes, again. shush.)

It was still awesome. And fun. And I finally saw the tribble.

Vulcan still go boom, though, which is not awesome. I am also highly bothered by the blueness of the sky.

Most of the characters (well, new actor versions, I mean) are growing on me more, with each time I see it. Sarek (and Amanda) are, for whatever reason, the primary exceptions; they still have a vibe of Wrongness to them.

I still want to write Kirk/McCoy Academy spacejumping fic. (Because you know that as much as Bones gripes about the dangers space shuttles, he's going to be even more thrilled at the prospect of jumping out of a [perfectly good] shuttle.)

I also want to write an elder-Spock-POV thing on how the universe is like a giant rubber band. er, not that he'd think that, but the whole thing about how the timeline, stretched out of What Should Have Been, is trying to rebound, and okay maybe he's helping with some of that ("oh hai there younger me, go bond with Kirk already zomg you guys are bffs") but the level of coincidence required to have Spock *happen* to maroon Kirk right next to where Spock Prime *happened* to be marooned which just *happened* to be right next to where Scotty, almost inexplicably, was stationed...

(I also want to know wtf Nero was thinking drilling into *water*. I mean, yes, okay, Starfleet headquarters, plus very symbolic bridge, but srsly, drilling into the ocean to get to the core? when a teensy shift would have had the drill going through land?)

Also, the star_trek_flashfic prompt right now is mirror universes, and even though I know I'm fucking conflating Trekverse mirror universes with SGverse quantum mirror thingums, I still kind of want to write something where they end up in a mirror universe where Vulcan still exists, and Amanda still is alive, and Spock goes all crazy wibbly emotionally compromised.

Comments

[beckyzoole]

Sarek and Amanda are the two that seem wrong to me, too. Amanda the most.

But, what's wrong with Nero drilling into the bay? There's just a thin layer of water, after all, before you get to the land underneath it. ("Thin" compared to the total thickness of the earth's crust.) And it would probably be easier to drill through water than land, anyway, with less resistance, less friction.

[jmtorres]

But water will continue to pour in and get in your way.

[rainbow]

Yay! I'm so glad you got to see it again (and envious!).

I remember when Cat saw one of the old movies with her friend Mary -- her jaw dropped when they showed Vulcan and she looked at Mary and said "But...there are *seagulls*! On Vulcan! SEAGULLS!!!" as Mary frantically hushed her. It makes me giggle to remember -- she was just *so outraged* that they couldn't be bothered to edit them out when they made no sense.

[beckyzoole]

I hadn't thought of that. Good point!

Although, it wouldn't necessarily be in the way; it would be a coolant and lubricant for the high-speed drill, wouldn't it?

I know that oil rigs drill in water, and it doesn't seem to bother them. I wonder how they keep salt water from contaminating the oil field.

[ysobel]

Well, oil rigs (to my limited understanding a) are completely physical, rather than being a burning pillar of fire from the sky, and b) aren't trying to reach the planet's core.

(... though seeing as how red matter seemed to be basically some weird antimatter, I'm not sure why they needed to get to the planet's core per se ...)

[pauamma]

Although, it wouldn't necessarily be in the way; it would be a coolant and lubricant for the high-speed drill, wouldn't it?

Coolant maybe, lubricant no. You need drilling mud for that.

I know that oil rigs drill in water, and it doesn't seem to bother them. I wonder how they keep salt water from contaminating the oil field.

Simply put, there's no reason to, because most wells don't contain pure oil, but a mix of oil, heavily mineralised water, and (often) natural gas, so there's little point. Water coming up the well is more often than not reinjected into the oil reservoir after separation at the wellhead, and it's not uncommon to inject additional water to assist in oil recovery. That said, you don't want the drilling mud (while drilling) or extracted oil (once the well is producing) to contaminate seawater, and the same method (usually, steel casing going up to the surface) also keeps seawater from getting in.