Star Trek

[keire_ke]

[[um. Hi! I'm not dead. Not even a little bit! I'm mostly on Tumblr these days, and AO3]]

Aside from some odd bouts of "dude, gravity does not work like that," "...this is a spaceship, build to withstand pressure from the INSIDE, not OUTSIDE," "guys, in space if you can see the nearest flying object you are, oh, 5,000 klicks too close" and last but

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[7veilsphaedra]

You have an abundance of earth-logic, but most screenwriters use id-gratification logic where anything goes as long as the egos of the character-with-whom-target-audiences-self-identify (ie., Kirk, Spock, Bones, Uhura, Khan ...) are well-suckled. Official reprimands and court martials don't give egos that big boost, so earth-logic doesn't feature often in action adventure flicks.

[keire_ke]

I know, I know... it just bugs me. And oftentimes earth-logic can be worked into the actual movie! For instance, I really liked Prometheus, on the basis that you can pretend the stupid decisions actually were sensible - the plot allows for that, because the stupid doesn't actually kill (except those two guys, but that was terminal stupidity anyway).