[ SECRET POST #2739 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2739 ⌋

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Comments

Re: The Reboots Improved Literally One Thing

[(Anonymous)]

I am firmly in the camp that Kirk's hacking the database was one of those things they should never have shown. It sounds cooler in conversation than it could ever look on screen (even without the director saying "I want you to have him eat an apple, so he'll look like even more of an asshole") because onscreen it just looks like a kid cheating at an exam instead of an older man reflecting on the cunning thing he did in his youth. I know the rule is "show, don't tell", but somethings telling works better. This was one.

Or at least, the way it was glossed over in the movie anyway. Maybe if we sat through Kirk's first attempt at it with him, watched him puzzle it out and what the ramifications were, saw him set up the Mission Impossible style raid to access Starfleet's servers, got other memebers of his future command crew on side... That would have been so much better than just a few lines of dialogue about him bitching about it, then cut to him being smug in the simulator.

Re: The Reboots Improved Literally One Thing

[abharding]

Well to be fair I think the apple eating was more a nod to the scene where we first learned about how Kirk beat the Kobayashi Maru test. The problem in the first movie was there was no reason for Kirk to be eating anything on the bridge. In the TWOK helped set the scene - Kirk was telling a story about how he beat the test not taking the test itself.

Re: The Reboots Improved Literally One Thing

[(Anonymous)]

It'd be nice if it were a nod, but Abrams has confirmed that it isn't -- it was just a lucky coincidence. They gave Pine an apple to eat because it would help make him look more cocky. Like how in the third Harry Potter movie, Draco is eating an apple when they meet Buckbeak. Later on Abrams and company saw the connection to Wrath of Khan, though.