Great moments in Trek acting.  On the other hand it's nice to see Romulans riled up for just about anything.

A Klingon orphan raised by human parents, struggling to find his place in the world, living his life by the ideals he read in books, only to discover that those ideals rarely matched how life actually worked.

It's no magical power, it's the treasure of the Sierra Madre.  Or the Maltese Falcon.  Or the Grail.  It an empty thing that reflects the pursuers back on themselves.

Note also the film was mostly shot in Pennsylvania, which offers a 25% credit on films that spend 60% of their budget in the state.  Lionsgate is pretty aggressive about getting private equity funding, and just looking down the list in IMDb Pro there are 23 different distributors for different territories and media;…

With a movie like this beware of the reported budget numbers, since the producers are going to inflate those with improperly costed items in order to cut out the net participants.

There's a movie where the main character's wife literally is a model and literally does nothing but smile once before being killed.

There's this story in Sid Lumet's book about how he discovered the reason for Brando's utter awfulness in almost everything.

(“One of the things I hate most in action films of this type is the unnecessary role of the wife or girlfriend who you know is going to be killed, and is played by some model or actress who you can just tell has been hired to play two scenes and smile and then be killed.”)

"Moon over Parador" was a ripoff of a 1939 classic Akim Tamiroff movie.

@avclub-146bc30c345d31f3468fec764a1970e1:disqus  A claim like "The Federation doesn't know about X" is by its's nature pretty broad — it makes more sense to say that McCoy and Kirk were just unaware of an obscure development of Vulcan culture, just as maybe someone in Starfleet knew about joined Trill — which, it is…

Everybody knows the story about how this film was delayed by three months, right?  It used to have a bloody machine-gun massacre in a movie theater, and then Aurora happened, so they just reshot it in Chinatown, keeping the same body count.

Now I'm not gonna pick a BIG fight here, but what makes you think people feel qualified to judge any of the other categories?  How is it hard to know what good sound editing is, but much easier to know what good editing or VFX are?

Hey you left out your picks for sound and sound editing. (And CA's sound editing was pretty pedestrian, the Walchowski's haven't found someone in Germany that can do half of what Dane Davis did for them on the Matrix films.)

Can't tell if trolling…

@avclub-53e4db6f596904f154b5efa09193e3ab:disqus In order to get stills for continuity or press, they have to shoot a setup where the cameras are far enough away from the blocking for the still photog to get a shot of the action without having a camera in the frame. If they don't shot such a setup, the photographer…

Not exactly what you're looking for, but a start:

@avclub-adb4c903674d579c1a43dbf3ae93f077:disqus MANTIS?  Hell, I was watching SuperForce…

@avclub-4fdd6fbd220e26b63a7c9a5aa88f5f31:disqus Isn't the Galaxy-class the ship that, according to the blueprints, has like 20% of its habitable volume set aside for sentient dolphins?

I really dug some of the Manny Coto S4 episodes, with all that temporal cold war/Xindi crap out of the way they could just do cool high-concept stories.

" Khan is the living, breathing embodiment of Kirk's seat of his pants,"