EDIT: Wait, stop everything! I have something to say, mates:
I try to spread my posts amongst a smorgasbord of communities I find worthy of supporting, but I can tell you frankly, if the following StarTrek TOS movie post is valued so little, then to me, this community is worth the same as that one.
It's a fun movie scene, or do you disagree?
https://piefed.social/c/startrek@lemmy.world/p/2389959/this-isn-t-reality-this-is-fantasy-uhura-to-mr-adventure-stiii
"As you know my friends, it all begins with "fine, Corinthian leather..!"
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=montalban+corinthian+leather
Well... actually:
The Orbit was a further refinement of previous Italdesign concepts such as the Alfa Romeo New York Taxi (1976), Lancia Megagamma (1978), Capsula (1982) and Together (1984). The concept was built on a Volkswagen Golf Mk2 platform, specifically the new "Syncro." The goal was to produce a car around 4m in length. The concept was 15cm taller than the existing Volkswagen Golf and featured a large amount of glass.
The Orbit would be developed further into the Italdesign Machimoto, shown the same year. --WP
https://assets.dyler.com/uploads/posts/265/images/5417/volkswagen-orbit.jpg
This shot is certainly from one of the testing phases. I personally find it hilarious:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Qe8qpxvWbiw/maxresdefault.jpg
From this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe8qpxvWbiw
My heart goes out to Ricardo Montalban. He was basically paralysed at that point in life, had to work through extreme back pain via local anesthesia in order to appear 'standing and normal.' But he was so, so cool about it, including acting through ridiculous films like Naked Gun. (which I also adore)
That man was basically pure, undiluted cool. I grew up watching the insane nonsense that was Fantasy Island and Wrath of Khan was the first great Star Trek movie I ever saw... since I had already seen The Motionless Picture.
Also, that Columbo ep!
What an awesome performance.