Yeah it is kinda funny being concerned for fake rubber whales having to breath in a piece of make believe fiction. LOL.
What would we do if those nonexistant fake whales died on our tv, oh the horror!.
I still think TREK V is the worst of the original series movies. But not the worst of all the trek movies nemesis fits that bill.
I am probably the only one who likes final frontier better than JJ's movie simply because it has the original cast and enterprise in it. No matter the laughable plot, bad acting and action scenes and the worst big screen special effects i have seen since Superman IV the quest for peace.
ILM's B or C crew effects don't hold up very well either and look budget grade. The only film with satisfactory effects out of all six was the motion picture. They cheaped out ever since then up until the new jj movie. And the last time they had any jaw dropping visuals was in like 1 scene in first contact.
The only film to have star wars level effects or even surpass star wars in some ways was the motion picture done by Trumble and Dykstra. With the aid of Lucasfilms old van nuys warehouse and the dystraflex camera at apogee. A lot of people who moved to the new ILM headquarters worked on star trek 1. in fact that production is all ilm in all but name and because trumbal was involved. A lot of people remained behind to work for John at apogee and worked on the original battlestar galactica.
Almost all the trek scripts and as filmed are overgrown tv productions and not epic screen adventures. The motion picture would be the last to do so until JJ made his own epic big screen take on the franchise, which some fans and critics have damned as being too much like an extended television episode of the original series on speed.
In one way star wars is ever so more superior than star trek it was always intended to be on the big screen and shot in the wide anamorphic aspect ratio of 2:35:1. And composed visually and tonally as an epic space saga. With sweeping visual flair Lucas borrowed from Akira Kurosawas samurai epics. And World War II films and John Ford westerns. Which of course were composed chiefly in academy standard ration of 1:33:1.
The film Lucas style for star wars borrowed from besides his own films THX 1138 and American Graffiti was Kurosawa's first use of the anamorphic widescreen filmaking process the Hidden Fortress.
TREK began as a tv series and it should return to tv even with the start of pre production on a new sequel to TREK 2009. Hopefully they will actually call it something next time other than Star Trek to not confuse people.