{"id":2250,"date":"2013-05-27T19:57:51","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T23:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulradcliffe.me\/?p=2250"},"modified":"2013-06-21T11:21:50","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T15:21:50","slug":"lots-of-running-in-star-trek-into-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulradcliffe.me\/?p=2250","title":{"rendered":"Lots of Running in Star Trek Into Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Of course I went to see Star Trek Into Darkness<\/a>. I’m a huge<\/em> Star Trek fan.<\/p>\n

After about a week of letting it digest, I just realized that the characters did a lot of running in this movie. Like, an AWFUL LOT of running<\/strong>. They could marketed the movie as “Starfleet Academy’s Cross Country Team<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

I think I can talk about this with giving away any spoilers.<\/p>\n

You’d think that in a Sci-fi movie they’d spend all their time sitting in their spaceships as they float around space. But they spend a ridiculous amount of time sprinting and running.<\/p>\n

The opening sequence which was shown in a lot of trailers has Kirk and “Bones” running away from some angry aliens on the planet Nibiru. They’re running, not riding on a hovercraft, futuristic jet pack, or even riding some alien horse thing (well, they were supposed to ride the alien horse thing, but Kirk shot it by accident).<\/p>\n

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Kirk and “Bones” running away from aliens on Nibiru (image source<\/a>)<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

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There is a particularly appropriate scene that highlights the crossover between Star Trek and running. In this scene I’m talking about, the Engineer Montgomery Scott (Scotty) is running down a very long room. The way that Pegg sells the scene makes it actually a very funny. This article<\/a> says that Pegg ran so fast that he outran the motorized vehicle holding the camera. After the 3rd taping of running all out, he apparently threw up!<\/p>\n

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Simon Pegg channeling his Run, Fatboy, Run character while running in Star Trek Into Darkness (Image Source<\/a>)<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

A particular irony is that Scotty is played by Simon Pegg who starred in the 2007 movie Run, Fatboy, Run<\/a>, which features Pegg’s character ‘running’ a marathon in London.<\/p>\n

The characters spend a lot of time running while they’re on the ship too. Must be a really large ship!<\/p>\n

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Who needs a track when you need to run around your 370 meter long ship? (image source<\/a>)<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

One more running scene I’d like to highlight is Spock running through a futuristic San Francisco. He’s sprinting really fast in this scene for a rather long distance. It would have probably been a pretty grueling run. Either Starfleet trains their officers well, or half-Vulcan physiology gives him an athletic advantage.<\/p>\n

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Spock sprinting through a future San Francisco (source<\/a>)<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

One thing that I really liked in this scene was that among the futuristic cars on the streets of San Francisco, a traditional trolley streetcar was also shown. I thought it was nice that they included that.<\/p>\n

I’m not quite sure what point I was trying to make with this post. Probably just highlighting that even in a pseudo-utopian future, we’ll still have to run a lot. Multiple<\/a> sources indicate that Starfleet Academy does have a cross-country running team. Marathon training even into the 23rd century!<\/p>\n

UPDATE\u00a0June 21<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>I found these two great animated gifs on tumblr <\/a>that show some more running.<\/p>\n

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