Original Series Imagery on the Big Screen?

[ZapBrannigan]

I was just reminded of this "throw back" trailer for Star Trek VI...

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...and what a kick I got out of seeing TOS imagery on the big screen, in a "current" theater setting, meaning not a special screening of an episode for fans, but a general interest, wide-audience situation. And there was good old TOS, right out in public.

There are other cases where Original Series scenes or material made it to silver screen. Let's see if we can name them.

 

[Push The Button]

In Airplane II, Shatner’s moonbase commander character looks in a periscope and sees the TOS Enterprise fly by. My cousin and I applauded when we saw it.

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[ZapBrannigan]

That's a great one. And I know at least three more examples, if you can think of them.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

I saw TOS-R "The Menagerie" on the big screen in November 2007.

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[NCC-73515]

Arena in Coneheads

 

[ZapBrannigan]

Arena in Coneheads

Yep, that's another one I had in mind.

 

[Tosk]

X-Men: Days of Future Past and Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey both feature TOS episode footage. (The Naked Time and Arena.)

 

[ZapBrannigan]

X-Men: Days of Future Past and Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey both feature TOS episode footage. (The Naked Time and Arena.)

Now I just have one example left, unless you guys think of more.

 

[Tosk]

Out of curiosity, which of the ones so far was one that you didn't have in mind?

 

[ItsGreen]

Does this count?

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[BillJ]

Ben Stiller watches “Arena” on his iPod in Tropic Thunder.

 

[Kor]

A TV back in 1973 plays a snippet of "The Naked Time" with Kirk saying "We're going backward in time" in X-Men: Days of Future Past, which is a story about time travel.

I saw TOS-R "The Menagerie" on the big screen in November 2007.

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So did I. I think there were about four people in the audience. But it was a fun experience.

Kor

 

[ZapBrannigan]

Out of curiosity, which of the ones so far was one that you didn't have in mind?

I didn't know about X-Men or Tropic Thunder, and I'd forgotten about Wayne's World.

I still have one left that nobody got yet.

Edit: I have two! But they aren't "imagery," just really explicit references like the one in Wayne's World.

 

[Ssosmcin]

I'm pretty sure I remember a scene in the Tom Cruise/Sean Penn film Taps.

 

[Noname Given]

I'm pretty sure I remember a scene in the Tom Cruise/Sean Penn film Taps.

From TOS S3 - "Spock's Brain".

 

[ItsGreen]

From TOS S3 - "Spock's Brain".

thanks...at the 45:40 timeframe

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[Ssosmcin]

Nice, thanks peeps!

 

[ZapBrannigan]

Well that's another one I didn't know about.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey!

 

[BK613]

Boomerang

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