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1 year agoFirst, you kinda had to be there…
Star Trek: The Motion Picture kind of went over like a wet fart in church. People really didn’t like it.
So II rolls up, changes the uniform styles, brings back a classic villain, a tense, action driven script, and emulates Balance of Terror which is quite possibly the best TOS episode.
Then, following it up is Search For Spock which was mostly forgettable. Then Voyage Home which is just as well liked as II.
That started the early meme of “odd numbered ones suck, even numbered ones are good.”
Which held for V and VI as well.
This story was used to good effect in the comic issue Fantastic Four #275.
https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Fantastic_Four_Vol_1_275
She Hulk was suntanning on the top of the Baxter building, and some jerks in a helicopter blew off her bathing suit and got some topless photos.
They sold them to some shady skin magazine, and even though She Hulk sued, couldn’t stop them from going to print…
Where the printer color corrected everything to remove the green, just showing an angry woman on a roof.
They even referenced the Star Trek story in the book.