I bet some of you guys thought we were going to do Ghostbusters this week since
the new one is out this Friday.
Well, guess again, because we already did Ghostbusters.
So, so there, please go check it out if you haven't already.
Instead, we're drawing inspiration from next week's big release, Star Trek Beyond.
Here are seven things you didn't know about Star Trek and
Star Trek Into Darkness, probably.
(Sound) 2009's Star Trek reboot was pretty
action packed, which has almost everything to do with why everyone loved it so much.
But you may not have known that there was a crap ton of action that wound up on
the cutting room floor.
There was a whole subplot with Nero being held captive by the Klingons for
25 years and it had a big prison break sequence.
In fact in this shot that's still in the final film Nero was
actually on a table being tortured and
interrogated by the head Klingon who was played by Victor Garber.
>> Cooperate and you will be spared the most unpleasant experience.
>> But since that whole storyline wound up being cut, they figured out a different
way to contextualize the shot within the film which kind of sucks.
because it means we missed out on seeing a Victor Garber all Klingoned up.
(Sound) >> I like this ship.
You know, it's exciting.
>> The Enterprise has all sorts of crazy gadgets, gear, and even crew.
Here's something that you probably didn't know was inside of it,
a fully functional beer factory.
The engine room of the Enterprise is actually a Budweiser plant in Van Nuys,
California, which means those giant vats off to the side are full of beer.
(Sound) But
shooting at a beer factory turned out to be less fun than you'd think.
First, it was super cold in there.
Then there were a ton of FDA regulations to work around.
Craft service wasn't even allowed to make popcorn for
the crew because of potential beer contamination from the odor.
So even though the taste would indicate otherwise,
it turns out Budweiser has fairly strict manufacturing standards.
>> you burnt Budweiser.
Stop making pee water.
>> Holy.
(Sound) >> Ben Burtt was in charge
of Star Trek's sound effects, and he's got a lot of street cred in that department.
He did the sound design for the original Star Wars movies and Indiana Jones.
On Star Trek, you'd be surprised to find out how he created some of the most
iconic sounds in the films.
For example, the sound of the Enterprise bridge door
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Well,to get that, he recorded the sound of an airdoor on a trolley,
then recorded he sound of his and
his son's sneakers squeaking on a floor and just put the sounds together.
And you'll never guess what the photon torpedo really is, (Sound)
It's a slinky.
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Burt suspended a metal coil from high up, connected it to a pickup,
which is basically just a little gadget that picks up vibrations and
translates them into sounds.
Then he just tapped the base of the slinky with a drumstick and presto,
you get the iconic pew pew of the photon torpedo.
(Sound) For
all the high tech imagery and gadgetry in Star Trek, you might be surprised
to find out how they achieved this shot from Into Darkness.
This shot of the glass with the spherical space ice was actually a pickup shot done
after principal had wrapped.
So those lights in the background are just Christmas lights that are out of focus.
And those blue lights reflecting in the glass come courtesy of the flashlight on
J.J. Abramson's iPhone.
Way to go, Paramount.
$190 million well spent.
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>> Are you out of your Vulcan mind?
>> I bet you didn't know that Into Darkness is totally messing with your head
in this scene.
>> Sure, it looks like everything's gone sideways because the Enterprise is
going down but Kirk and Scotty are totally lying on the floor.
And the crew member who goes flying by them there?
(Inaudible) >> You know,
that lady that they completely failed to save?
The actress is actually just being pulled on a wire across the floor.
Same here with Chekov.
He's flat on the floor and they're just pulling him with a wire.
(Inaudible) >> For this shot,
they pretty much pulled a.
By that I don't mean they pulled a dated reference.
I mean they just built the set on its side so that the wall is on the floor and
then they just had the actors run on the wall floor.
Pretty much all the shots in this sequence use tricks like flipping the shot upside
down or putting the camera on a trick angle to fake the environment for
being upside down or sideways or whatever.
All of the direction, moving on.
>> The bastard go away.
>> What do you mean?
>> It´s a portable transwarp beaming device.
>> If you´ve ever thought that the portable transwarp beaming device from
Into Darkness looked somehow familiar, it wasn´t just your imagination.
It looks familiar because it´s a vacum cleaner.
The team had played around with several design concepts for it, but
none of them were quite what JJ Abrams wanted.
Then one day, Arrnie, a custodian at their Sony offices just happened to be walking
by and Andy Segal, the prop master suggested they
base the design based on Arnie's vacuum, and JJ was into it.
Throw on some paint and futuristic embellishments, next thing you know,
the vacuum becomes a portable beaming device.
Movie magic y'all. (Sound)
>> Since my customary farewell would
appear oddly self-serving, I shall simply say, good luck.
>> Since this is our last thing, let's end on a goodbye.
Specifically, the goodbye between the Spocks in Star Trek.
If you look closely, you'll notice that there's something sort of off about
Spock's Vulcan salute to Spock Prime.
Well, it looks slightly off because Zachary Quinto's fingers
are glued together.
Quinto just couldn't do it.
He's one of those people who can't get his hand to form the salute, so
they had to do it with glue, and good for them, I guess.
Solving the problem with good old-fashioned glue instead of
a freaking CG hand double or something like that.
That wraps up 7 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Star Trek and Into Darkness.
But hit the thumbs up if you guys would ever want us to do a part two with some
other things we didn't have time for today.
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