Star Trek 3-Way
News recently broke that QT might be directing the next Star Trek film. With all the controversy just starting, we decided that now would be a great time to go where Videoland has never gone before - deep into the Star Trek franchise. For this Sci-Fi ménage a trois, we watched The Wrath of Khan, First Contact, and Star Trek (2009). Set your phasers to fun!
BRAD'S GOLDEN IDOLS
Best Film Location: 2009 Iowa including Riverside Shipyard, Shipyard Bar etc
Best Character: 2009 James T. Kirk
Best Screen Duo: 2009 Kirk & Spock
Best Villain/Antagonist: TIE Khan & 2009 Khan & Nero
Best Hero/Protagonist: TIE Khan & 2009 Spock & George Kirk
Best Kill: 2009 Kirk kills the Romulan thug...
Ayel: [choking Kirk] You can't even speak... [Kirk chokes out an unintelligible statement] What?
Kirk: I got your gun. [shoots Ayel]
WTF: Khan I thought Ricardo Montalban had a prosthetic chest
Best Score or Soundtrack: 2009 Michael Giacchino
Best Quote: Khan
Joachim: "We're all with you, sir. But, consider this. We are free. We have a ship, and the means to go where we will. We have escaped permanent exile on Ceti Alpha V. You have defeated the plans of Admiral Kirk. You do not need to defeat him again."
Khan: [paraphrase from Melville's Moby Dick] "He tasks me. He tasks me and I shall have him! I'll chase him 'round the moons of Nibia and 'round the Antares Maelstrom and 'round perdition's flames before I give him up!"
Best Screenplay: 2009 Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman
Best Technical Achievement: 2009 Cinematography & Scale
Best Crew: 2009
Best Captain: Contact Jean-Luc Picard
Best Enterprise: 2009
Best Mission: Contact
Best Scene: Khan The battle of the Mutara Nebula
Defining Moment: Khan Spock: [closing monologue] Space: the final frontier
Best Director: 2009 J. J. Abrams
Wild Card: Khan Costumes -Red Field Jackets
Best Picture: Star Trek 2009
Total after deductions:
The Wrath of Khan: 6
First Contact: 2
Star Trek: 13
Wayne's GOLDEN IDOLS
Best Film Location: Khan Bridge of the Enterprise
Best Character: 2009 Spock
Best Screen Duo: 2009 Kirk & Spock
Best Villain/Antagonist: 2009 Nero
Best Hero/Protagonist: Khan Spock
Best Kill: Khan Spock's suicide
WTF: Khan Ceti Alpha System plot holes
Best Score or Soundtrack: Contact Jerry Goldsmith & Joel Goldsmith
Best Quote: Khan Spock: "Live long & prosper."
Best Screenplay: 2009 Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman
Best Technical Achievement: 2009 FX
Best Crew: Khan
Best Captain: 2009 George Kirk
Best Enterprise: Khan
Best Mission: Contact
Best Scene: Khan Death of Spock
Defining Moment: 2009 Spock talking to the Council
Best Director: 2009 J. J. Abrams
Wild Card: 2009 Best Non-human species -Romulans
Best Picture: Star Trek 2009
Total after deductions:
The Wrath of Khan: 7
First Contact: 2
Star Trek: 10
Nathan's GOLDEN IDOLS
Best Film Location: Contact Bozeman, Montana
Best Character: Contact Dr. Zefram Cochrane
Best Screen Duo: 2009 Kirk & Spock
Best Villain/Antagonist: Khan Khan Noonien Singh
Best Hero/Protagonist: Khan Spock
Best Kill: 2009 Nero kills Captain Robau with a spear
WTF: Contact -Star Trek Renaissance
Best Score or Soundtrack: TIE Khan & 2009 James Horner & Michael Giacchino
Best Quote: Khan Kirk: "........Of my friend, I can only say this: of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most... human."
Best Screenplay: TIE Khan & 2009 Jack B. Sowards & Nicholas Meyer; Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman
Best Technical Achievement: 2009 Enterprise
Best Crew: 2009
Best Captain: Khan James T. Kirk
Best Enterprise: Contact
Best Mission: Contact
Best Scene: 2009 Opening scene -Birth of James Kirk, death of George Kirk, and the destruction of the USS Kelvin
Defining Moment: Khan Spock: [closing monologue] Space: the final frontier
Best Director: Contact Jonathan Frakes
Wild Card: Contact Best Red Shirt Death -Lieutenant Hawk
Best Picture: Star Trek 2: Wrath of Khan
Total after deductions:
The Wrath of Khan: 8
First Contact: 6
Star Trek: 7