Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home #1 (REUPLOAD) - Atop the Fourth Wall

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Welcome to Atop the Fourth Wall, where bad comics burn. In this episode, Linkara looks at the adaptation of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home!

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Originally uploaded July 23rd, 2012.

ORIGINAL INFO: The movie is about a crew in a stolen alien vessel going back in time to rescue some whales so they can talk to an alien probe. Why wasn’t this a comic book FIRST?

RUMINATIONS: The opening rant in this episode feels… quite a bit off nowadays. While I still struggle to say that any particular Star Trek episode is a “message” show in the way described (specifically written with a ‘THIS IS THE LESSON’), it’s easily misinterpreted to mean that Star Trek LACKED any kind of social messages and that’s not what I really want to say. They were still articulating the problems of the era and reflect the reality of everyday life, just not in particular the way they were suggesting. Racism was a factor in “Let That Be Your Last Battlefield,” but I don’t think it was strictly the focus of it. After all, it wasn’t “Your racism destroyed your world!” it was that even after 50,000 years and the loss of everything they were fighting for… they couldn’t let go of their hatred for one another. But then again, that’s just my own interpretation of it and shouldn’t be accepted as fact or gospel on the matter.

Like I said back in the Batman: A Word to the Wise review, the Gunslinger storyline was the one that underwent the most changes from conception to execution. As a result, I knew I needed to plan it waaay in advance, get as many scripts finished for it as I could. As such, when I was asked by the higher ups at Channel Awesome if I’d like to fly to Washington, DC to lobby congress about SOPA (the Stop Online Piracy Act, in case you missed all that a few years ago), I knew the opportunity to film in DC had to be taken advantage of. I wore a few of the outfit pieces underneath the regular suit I wore and kept the rest in my bags, making sure to keep my sleeves down (although I should note the other reason why the sleeves were down was because it was December and COLD). Filming in DC is actually okay to do as long as it’s not on a tripod and you alert the police around you that you’re doing it, which we did. Even Angry Joe filmed a brief bit with Corporate Commander… although he wisely decided to not wear his helmet for it. Still, that worked out just fine, since it allowed for the joke of me running past and hitting him.

Subsequently, the bits with Brad Jones were filmed during To Boldly Flee, as part of a vlog we did about me going to White castle, since I had never been there before and Brad’s a big White Castle fan. While I’m not really sold on the sliders (partially because I prefer plain hamburgers vs. cheeseburgers), the chicken rings sold me on their absurdity and, well, fried chicken-ness. The final shots of me walking in front of the sunset came from the same day, done while filming this episode, since I needed fill-ins and the sun was coming down, so I knew a few spots down near where I lived that would look perfect for it.

As for the review portion, I’m quite surprised I even managed to throw something together that looked in ANY way similar to Kirk’s outfit in the film. I’m not even sure what it is he’s wearing in the movie – some kind of combination wrap-around and sort-of frilled shirt underneath? Still, showing off the green uniform and season 1/2 TNG uniforms justified their purchases, so there’s always that.