YOUR INPUT SOUGHT: Potential multifandom "we love spaceships" vid

[bironic]

Supposing a person were crazy and just came up with a multifandom space show/movie Club Vivid vid idea set to Nicki Minaj's "Starships," heard on the radio for the first time this week. Supposing this person wanted to compile a list of canons to put in this theoretical vid, choose key scenes from said canons, and find a few friends who own certain

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[ellen_fremedon]

2001-- Dave in the pod, "Open the pod bay doors, Hal."
Galaxy Quest-- piloting the ship out of dock, the gel pod thing
Star Trek TOS movies-- SO MUCH starship porn

[ellen_fremedon]

Oh, and Red Dwarf! Lots of scenes of the less glamorous parts of starship maintenance.

[bironic]

Galaxy Quest! Of course! I think I even have a crappy dub of that around here somewhere.
2001 I would need to track down.
Did Community ever have clips of Inspector Spacetime, or do Abed & Troy just talk about it?
Um, also would you be willing to lend me some discs (Doctor Who/Farscape, notably) should this idea get greenlighted by the Club Vivid team?

[ellen_fremedon]

We've seen teeny bits of Inspector Spacetime over Abed's shoulder, but nothing space-y. However, there was a scene with Abed's fantasy spaceship in the Dreamatorium a couple of weeks ago ("Contemporary Impressionism"), and there was also the Apollo 13 episode from last season.

(Also-- Apollo 13! And The Right Stuff!)

I don't own Farscape, but I can lend you some old-school Doctor Who DVDs and clean electronic copies of all of New Who. (And electronic versions of all of old-school, but some of that is ancient VHS rips and not very viddable.)

[nightdog_barks]

Wow, that is a great get up and dance song.

You mean you're asking for suggestions as to movies and shows? How about Star Trek: First Contact, the scene where Zefram Cochran makes the first successful warp-drive flight from Earth? As I recall, the music behind the scene is Magic Carpet Ride, but it's a really joyful moment, full of promise and possibilities.

There's also the giant geodesic construct from Contact, although I'm not sure that really qualifies as a "spaceship." *g*

[bironic]

Ah, good suggestions both. Thank you! The only limitation on the suggestions I'm welcoming is that if I don't own it I'm going to have to find it fast, at the library or online somewhere, maybe even YouTube if the quality is high enough and the scene is good enough.

[nightdog_barks]

Found a snippet of the 'First Contact' scene on YouTube, but sadly it ends right before they engage warp drive. I'm betting a public library would have it, though. It was really popular.

Also, if anyone's got The Fifth Element, there are a lot of ships in that, including the huge honking hotel/casino that orbits Phloston Paradise.

[bironic]

Oh, that'd be a good one too! *need to check local library catalog*

[deelaundry]

Old school: Close Encounters of the Third Kind

X-Files

SGA has shots with beer in it (mentioned in the one verse)

[bironic]

Heh, I have a copy of Close Encounters ... in NY. But the main characters aren't flying the ship, so that's OK.

Do you know X-Files well? What scene(s)/episode(s) would be good to try to watch? I didn't know they flew ships in that.

[deelaundry]

If you want wistful as well, there are some shots of Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story and Toy Story 2 (which we have) that could work. There’s also the alien ship from Lilo & Stitch (which we also have).

X-Files and Close Encounters both, I was thinking about shots from the ground where the main characters are staring up at the ship (or the collection of lights meant to indicate the ship).

[bironic]

Cartoons! WALL-E! Touching the sky, trailing his hand through the nebula. Oh, must find. Wouldn't it be sweet to have cartoon shots in one sequence?

[kassrachel]

This is a great idea! I have no suggestions to offer which you haven't already thought of, but you rock.

[bironic]

Thanks! I hope I can pull it off. (I hope it gets greenlighted by the Club Vivid team, first!)

[rubynye]

*runs by*
*cheers you on*
*is lugged off by my day*(

[bironic]

*wave and hug*