TMC
10-23-2022, 05:46 PM
https://whatculture.com/tv/10-star-trek-scenes-even-more-impressive-when-you-know-the-truth?rf=homepage
858 episodes, 13 films and counting (AToW) – that’s a lot of scenes to impress you with!
BY JACK KIELY
OCTOBER 23RD, 2022
We all know what the first duty of every Starfleet officer is; we’ve had the lecture from Picard. Of course, we could always opt instead for Garak’s definitions of 'the truth'. However, with nearly six decades of success and a multitude of new adventures on the horizon, you certainly can’t accuse Star Trek of a lack of imagination. And, if TV and film is the art of trickery in the pursuit of believability, then it is, au contraire, all lies – especially the truth.
With more scenes and scenarios than you can shake a Klingon painstik at, we certainly have plenty of these professional porkies to be impressed with. Think of Riker giving the order to fire at the end of The Best of Both Worlds, Kirk and Spock seeing the faces of the Romulans for the first time, Janeway’s first and last “Set a course… for home”, Sisko and Defiant standing off against the Dominion fleet, or Archer fleeing the exploding Xindi weapon to name but a few.
Some Star Trek moments, however, as remarkable as they already are, only gain in stature when you learn of the effort, ingenuity, skill, sacrifice, and occasionally the arguments it took to make them. The real truth behind the following scenes will make you watch them with a newfound sense of awe.
858 episodes, 13 films and counting (AToW) – that’s a lot of scenes to impress you with!
BY JACK KIELY
OCTOBER 23RD, 2022
We all know what the first duty of every Starfleet officer is; we’ve had the lecture from Picard. Of course, we could always opt instead for Garak’s definitions of 'the truth'. However, with nearly six decades of success and a multitude of new adventures on the horizon, you certainly can’t accuse Star Trek of a lack of imagination. And, if TV and film is the art of trickery in the pursuit of believability, then it is, au contraire, all lies – especially the truth.
With more scenes and scenarios than you can shake a Klingon painstik at, we certainly have plenty of these professional porkies to be impressed with. Think of Riker giving the order to fire at the end of The Best of Both Worlds, Kirk and Spock seeing the faces of the Romulans for the first time, Janeway’s first and last “Set a course… for home”, Sisko and Defiant standing off against the Dominion fleet, or Archer fleeing the exploding Xindi weapon to name but a few.
Some Star Trek moments, however, as remarkable as they already are, only gain in stature when you learn of the effort, ingenuity, skill, sacrifice, and occasionally the arguments it took to make them. The real truth behind the following scenes will make you watch them with a newfound sense of awe.