WullieBlake
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Feb 11, 2025 2:30 PM
WullieBlake
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Higure
This shot as they power up the Death Star in A New Hope is of a video mixing board. That lever is what they would use to control e.g. the kind of sweep effects that Star Wars uses for scene transitions.
Columbus43219
He tsk me.... he TSK me!
Danceswithpups
or a salt shaker to scan vital signs....
SoraHjort
Well, yeah. I mean besides the fact people would look at that at the time and think it was futuristic, there is also the fact that prop makers are really good at reusing anything they can, even broken junk and disgarded electronics.
wandergirl
All the better to find the nuclear wessels.
Vtoh
Be seeing you.
GratuaCuun
Shields UP, Keptin???
PedroBenecol
I heard those things cost and arm and a leg.
agathos
Same principle as using a DDR pad to beat Elden Ring.
huckyourmeat
Warp 808, engage!
lebanks
Actually, that might be the answer we've been looking for!
loowitslair
LOLOLOL
HumanCats
I look foward to the Behringer Enterprise.
ballsoutflyer
Pump up the wessels
Pump up the warp drive
Pump up the phasers
Fire, Fire.
jaddodd
The guards on Mars in Total Real has Casio FX-82 calculators on their arms.
If you're checking, it's just after, "Get ready for a surprise!"
Maulbert
Chekov was the navigator, not the helmsman. Sulu drove.
bikergeek6249
Dr. McCoy's medical instruments on TOS were salt and pepper shakers from the Paramount studio commissary.
ToSisPoS
Chekhov keeps leaving his gun around too.
stonecoldstevebuschemi
letthecatout
It’s always worth looking out for the Swedish salt and pepper shakers repurposed as medical equipment in Bones sick bay
filiuspelei
Honestly, better than the overly CGI stuff that is in so many movies
richardstinks
Drum 'n' Space
Fantelroy
Your comment reminded me of the Lost In Space theme from the '98 film https://youtu.be/QYpoCzkHh0s
helyx
johnnyhandbags
Magnetic boots and cats
Oneblueeyerighthandguy
Hubstep
Iaimtomisbehave
You don't need dilithium crystals to power that warp drive, all you need is a sick beat!
OGServersNET
RussellJackman
1200 Micrograms - Acid For Nothing, if you're interested in da sauce. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=971IFBvtsh4
ssjalhazred
Nothing tops the blinky tube lights.
taez555
Or like in Contact when she uses an Eventide Harmonizer to find aliens.
Kamchatkah
Not the weirdest thing it can do.
Oblok
I could actually understand this in this setting. If you're trying to hear something obscured by static, bending pitch/timing might help.
chrismelito
It's professional audio equipment being used for its intended purpose, which is not just music production. I've been in several control rooms that are used for the same purpose as those depicted in the film and they have tons of Eventide, Focusrite, BSS, Lexicon, Levinson, and Neve hardware. It's the best stuff in the world, but probably not as good as what the aliens are using.
WullieBlake
And a focusrite compressor
taez555
Yup, a Red 3 and pair of ADAT's. Not sure what the other rack unit is.
billstranger
The reds were soooo good......
SunFart
NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRDS!
RichGo
They prefer to be called Gearsluts!
Howlingowl
The new Star Trek movies straight up have barcode scanners on the bridge.
kydn
https://www.reddit.com/r/Thatsabooklight/ <- fun place to see more of this type of prop use
DrRad
Nice!
suffyr
Thanks friend!
WholeWheatBunnyHugger
Star Trek navigation joysticks? Macy's barcode scanners!
somethingsomethingwittyhere
The luggage onboard the Naboo Royal Starship (from Ep1) are motorcycle top cases, Samsonite beauty cases and SOLAS liferafts (?). Oh, and Jar Jar Bings....
kisselFL
unce unce unce
Rogerwilco1974
I mean... I've never seen it written down, and I've never written it down but that immediately struck me as wrong, somehow. My brain sees "nuts nuts nnts". No, that looks wrong as well...imma need to invent some new letters. Brb.
devolutionary
Back in the day we called it Oontz. Certain songs had Mad Oontz.
Rogerwilco1974
Ha! That's much better!
therandombagofmeat
Boots and pants and Boots and pants and Boots and pants and Boots and pants and Boots and pants and Boots and pants and Boots and pants and
keillrandor
Bums and tits and Bums and tits and Bums and tits and Bums and tits and Bums and tits and Bums and tits and Bums and tits and Bums and
PourMeAPuppersPlease
*boots and cats and boots and cats..
SheepySleepySmuggler
* pussy in boots
DarkHollowDulcimers
When the beats and shouting hits just right.
PotOfJam
I love most trek, and while into darkness had its issues, I thought beyond was a cracking film, and the Sabotage scene is one of my favourites.
steelundecided
I liked this movie.
YouTubeRed
Brettnetuk
I didn’t clock until my brother pointed out that it was the same song Kirk wrecked the car to in the first one.
YouTubeRed
Badgerbadgerson3
Who? Where?
Dansosaur
Angela Bermúdez, a cosplayer, dressed as Jaylah from Star Trek: Beyond - 2016.
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1227044764009063&set=me-as-jaylah-from-star-trek-beyondmany-thanks-to-sagot-body-paint-for-the-incred
Ilovetomakestuffup
Star Trek 13, forgot her name though. She baits the Enterprise to a planet where it gets destroyed and the crew stranded and captured by some evil dude.
Sayagain
Nag, that's Jayla, her ship was destroyed by the bad people and she was stranded on the bad persons planet
Ilovetomakestuffup
wait, but wasnt she forced by them to bait the Enterprise to the planet too? Haven't watch the movies in years so I don't know exactly anymore
Sayagain
Nah that was a different individual
clewstah
Looks like Jaylah from Star Trek.
drksdrlife
Its a cosplay fa-sure. A good one but not the actress.
clewstah
Looks more in the line of concept art to me.
AThreeFootTallChocolateMooseWithFudgeEyes
https://youtu.be/5PaUTnk9k9Y
Mezinov
Could never get over the POS scanners glued to the console. Literally the exact same model from when I worked retail in the early 2000s.
supervillin
Scanners set to save!
Darkwell
Oh, point of sale. I read that as PIECE OF SHIT scanners, thinking there was some Trek rage I was unaware of.
zafner
Those Chris Pine movies didn't feel very Star Trek, but they were pretty fun movies I guess.
If you hate them: I feel like that's a pretty good indicator you're too uptight and you should chill out
Oatmealman1
I enjoyed them. I even enjoy the sw prequels. If you don't analyze it too closely and expect it to be amazing like the originals, you'll be disappointed. Alot of the animosity comes from og fans wanting to relive what they fell in love with, but all new and fresh. Times change and so do tastes. That's why there will never be another BttF.
igglebotato
Counterpoint: The first one was fun; the second one was Wrath of Khan × 9/11, pretty joyless
AbelardSnazz
They picked back up with the third one though.
the only thing I really hated about them was the crazy bright bridge with all the lens flare - how could anyone work there?
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
Was that the one that happened during the writer's strike? I agree the first one was fun even though it wasn't really Star Trek, but the next one just fell flat, due to (IMO) bad writing/storytelling. I didn't even watch the third, I'd lost interest in this timeline by then.
IHaveGreatKittenRecipes
The third is a fun action movie that happens to have Starfleet uniforms. If you wanna watch Star Trek, you'll be disappointed. If you wanna watch SHIT BLOWS UP!?!11!1, then it's great. And it actually has a decent enough plot that is *not* just a rewrite of another Trek movie. But since it's the Pine alternate timeline it's not good old Star Trek, and it's *very* not TOS. Maaaaybe a DS9 adjacent reality.
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
Thanks, that confirms me in not watching it. I'm not into action and things blowing up, even DS9 got dull for me when it was all about the war. It's fine once in awhile, but I need the focus to be sci-fi, exploring ideas and humanity and life itself. TNG was so goddamn good at that, that's still my fave. The further from that they go, the less I like it.
zafner
I couldn't enjoy the second one as much because of the whole wrath of Khan thing. Like, it was pretty obvious that that was what they were doing, and they did it in a less sensible way that had no emotional connection to the audience it worked a lot less for me.
I've seen the third one three times now and I find it fun and forgettable and I'll probably watch it again
randomwalrus
I mean, they are the Star Trek movies you get when a guy who does not like Star Trek is hired to make Star Trek.
zafner
Couldn't have said it better myself. This is exactly my feeling
lostcause261
Is that why the third one hit the mark better?
randomwalrus
Maybe? Just know JarJarAbrams went on record before the first one came out that he did not like Star Trek. Which is why the first one was basically just Star Wars wearing a Star Trek uniform. His attempt to get to make Star Wars movies, I guess, which, it seems, worked out for him. Much to many a fans' disgust... of both franchises.