Sentences with phrase «planet vulcan»

They could've reskinned everything so that Captain Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise were blasting Klingons on the planet Vulcan, and nobody would've noticed any discrepancy at all.

Flipping back and forth to the planet Vulcan, we also meet the mixed - race Spock (Zachary Quinto), whose rebellions against authority are less rowdy but no less deep.

The film starts off with our heroes on planet Vulcan, loading up to go home and face punishment from the Federation for their hijacking of the Enterprise and its subsequent destruction, as well as the sabotage of the Exelsior.

«Last night, Darth Vader came from the planet Vulcan and told me that if I didn't take Lorraine out that he'd melt my brain.»

Last night, Darth Vader came down from Planet Vulcan and told me that if I didn't take Lorraine out, that he'd melt my brain.

Watching Kirk (Chris Pine) and Sulu (John Cho) execute an orbital dive to a drilling platform on planet Vulcan.

Instead of a planet Vulcan, maybe it made more sense to look for a whole bunch of Vulcanettes.

Not exact matches

The last time something was called «dark» in physics was in the mid-1800s, when Urbain - Jean - Joseph Leverrier of France proposed an unseen dark planet, which he named Vulcan.

Some even claimed to have observed the mystery planet and named it Vulcan.

Long before Star Trek's Mr. Spock (inset), many astronomers during the 19th and early 20th centuries thought a planet named Vulcan circled the sun inside the orbit of Mercury (shown transiting the sun, main image) and tugged on the latter, accounting for peculiarities in Mercury's motion.

So the pledge by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) to heed public opinion when naming celestial bodies is in - keeping with the zeitgeist — even if its hand was forced by the good - natured outcry over its earlier decision to ignore a bid, led by Star Trek star William Shatner, to name a Plutonian moon «Vulcan» (see «Official planet namer listens to voice of the people «-RRB-.

They even gave the putative new planet a name: Vulcan, after the Roman god of fire, fitting for a world whose surface temperature would be hot enough to melt lead and zinc.

At first, astronomers thought they had evidence of another planet, which they dubbed Vulcan.

Vulcan cult leader Sybok (Laurence Luckinbill) and his followers have invaded a «planet of peace,» where delegates from hostile races coexist in a sort of intergalactic United Nations.

Nero plots an elaborate revenge scheme whereby he travels back through time to destroy Spock's home planet of Vulcan and make him watch it.

If the undercurrent of the plot is the question of the relevance of and necessity for ethics in wartime, the underlying thrust of the arcs of Kirk — the man who lives like he's never going to die and who's convinced himself that he'll never allow the death of anyone in his «family» — and Spock — the half - human, half - Vulcan who has experienced the annihilation of his entire planet and has determined never to feel that pain again — is a shifting perspective on death.

The universe's few remaining Vulcans are trying to find a new home planet, and they have built some sort of ultra-powerful device for doing so.

Purdue is involved in a global - scale carbon dioxide mapping effort, called the Hestia Project, that it says will eventually do for the planet what the initial Vulcan project is doing for the country.