New Star Trek

[Neil Gendzwill]

Early reviews look very promising, but apparently original fans are not impressed (http://www.theonion.com/content/video/trekkies_bash_new_star_trek_film?utm_source=a-section).

[Paikea]

Wrath of Khan was the only one I was glad to have paid for...

[JSchmidt]

Early reviews look very promising, but apparently original fans are not impressed (http://www.theonion.com/content/video/trekkies_bash_new_star_trek_film?utm_source=a-section).

I think that may be a good thing.

[NoNameKleenex]

"If I wanted to watch young attractive people doing cool, exciting things . . . I . . . I would watch sports". Ha ha ha! I've always liked the Star Trek movies as an entertaining way to kill a couple of hours and not a whole lot more. Having said that, I do really want to see this one and escape for a couple more hours.

[Mystify]

Early reviews look very promising, but apparently original fans are not impressed (http://www.theonion.com/content/video/trekkies_bash_new_star_trek_film?utm_source=a-section).

Apologies if you already knew this and your post was made in sarcasm, but the Onion is more or less a fake, 'parody news' show. ;)

As for the film, it looks alright, and I'm actually contemplating going to see it..

[atgm]

I was a huge Star Trek fan as a kid... and I'm excited about this.

[ScottUK]

I quite enjoyed The Next Generation - so might give this an airing. I loved The Onion's take on it.

Mystify, as the Genzinator has posted Onion articles before, I'm sure he is aware they ain't quite right in the head.

[JoDuncan]

I've been a TNG fan for donkey's years (even chose RIker to model my beard after ;)).... the latter seasons of DS9 and Voyager even got to be ok too.

I'm really looking forward to this movie... laser beams, space ships... ace.

[MiddleEarthNet]

I've always been a Trekkie and always will be. I've seen every film, every episode and every series (though I don't own all of them on DVD - I do have a limit :)). Anyway I'm definatly going to see this film.

[Jung_Yul]

There's no "stand around a long table endlessly debating interstellar diplomacy" scene? THAT'S IT! I don't care what the title says, it's NOT Star Trek!

Seriously though, I am looking forward to seeing it. :grin:

[Fred27]

I've been a TNG fan for donkey's years (even chose RIker to model my beard after ;))..

Nerd Alert! Nerd Alert! ;) Set phasers to "shave!

[David G]

Anyone seen Eddie Izzard do Star Trek?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbOC0uoKYtU

Anyway, good or bad, I'm going to see the new film.

[Hisham]

I hope for Chris Pine's sake that he'll be as charismatic as William Shatner was as capt ladies' man/action hero James T Kirk.

[PhilMcLaughlin]

I wonder if it will be like this.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9CDdNouphY

[SanguineKendoka]

Not a Star Trek fan, but The Onion is satirical - its taking the piss out of fans, theres no fact in it.

I'll leave you to your neckbeards now.

[Neil Gendzwill]

Apologies if you already knew this and your post was made in sarcasm, but the Onion is more or less a fake, 'parody news' show. ;).


Not a Star Trek fan, but The Onion is satirical - its taking the piss out of fans, theres no fact in it.Thank you, Captains Obvious.

[ScottUK]

Anyone seen Eddie Izzard do Star Trek?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbOC0uoKYtUI prefer his Star Wars clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp69rg6Hdlo

:D

[Ken Morgan]

Or of course...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uJqW9O6aW0&feature=related

[Maku-san]

I've been a TNG fan for donkey's years (even chose RIker to model my beard after ;)).... the latter seasons of DS9 and Voyager even got to be ok too.

I'm really looking forward to this movie... laser beams, space ships... ace.

You, too?!? Awesome!!!

The womenfolk just go ga-ga over the Riker Beard... my wife's been asking me to go back to it... but I've had my goatee for 10 years now, so it's gonna be a tough habit to break. :wink:

[Abramo]

The Onion ain't no true??

But but... everything I know about glorious American culture came from them!! You mean you dan't have ninja parades, pot pie recalls and you actually know where Nigeria is??!?
Uncanny.

*****

I'm quite the nerk/geek/dork but I never quite enjoyed Star Trek. I might watch that movie for the explosions and chicks.

[Kendoka_Han]

The many faces of James T Kirk.... http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a3/Kirk_collage.jpg

Obviously the original beats this new film...storyline wise as well as [metaphorically] effects wise....

[SanguineKendoka]

Thank you, Captains Obvious.

We know where we're needed *beams out of thread*

[emitbrownne]

You, too?!? Awesome!!!

The womenfolk just go ga-ga over the Riker Beard... my wife's been asking me to go back to it... but I've had my goatee for 10 years now, so it's gonna be a tough habit to break. :wink:

And me... from the land of the perpetual beard.

Geek-me-thrice:)

http://ja-jp.facebook.com/people/Paul-Walsh/520181805

[still learning]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Maku-san
You, too?!? Awesome!!!

The womenfolk just go ga-ga over the Riker Beard... my wife's been asking me to go back to it... but I've had my goatee for 10 years now, so it's gonna be a tough habit to break.

And me... from the land of the perpetual beard.



Most adult women like a goatee because it reminds them of their bush.....

[ScottUK]

Must be the teeth.

[atgm]

I'm going nuts, thinking that other people can see Star Trek now, but I can't.

[Jung_Yul]

I'm going nuts, thinking that other people can see Star Trek now, but I can't.

Reminds me of the release of Star Wars Ep I... bear in mind, this was BEFORE any of us knew about Jar Jar, so we were extremely excited to see the film, but my Marine Corps unit was deployed to Okinawa when the film released in the States... and we returned to the States 2 friggin' days prior to its Okinawa release date. :mad:

[zaemon]

Can we get off this planet then?

[Maku-san]

Reminds me of the release of Star Wars Ep I... bear in mind, this was BEFORE any of us knew about Jar Jar, so we were extremely excited to see the film, but my Marine Corps unit was deployed to Okinawa when the film released in the States... and we returned to the States 2 friggin' days prior to its Okinawa release date. :mad:

Meesa SOOOOO deesapointment you donna like meesa Jar-Jar Beenks! :(


:silly:

[Andrew S]

Riker: "Captain, we've discovered a droid covered entirely in thread. What shall we do with it?"
Picard: "Make it sew."

[Neil Gendzwill]

Riker: "Captain, we've discovered a droid covered entirely in thread. What shall we do with it?"
Picard: "Make it sew."Something is missing. The correct answer always involves a tachyon beam.

[dwez]

Something is missing. The correct answer always involves a tachyon beam.

Or some peaceful resolution. G.O.D. forbid superior Federation firepower ever solved a problem! Seeing it this afternoon whoopee!

Actually I liked Jar Jar Binks in the Phantom Menace. I enjoyed his comic relief. it was the two minutes in Attack of the Clones where he was given the responsibility to stop the production of a clone army that he conveniently forgot Padmé had been doing for months/years and said yeah go ahead hwat harm can it do! Bloody gungans!

[b8amack]

I really enjoyed it. I'm not a trekkie; maybe that was why I liked it. Kirk gets his ass kicked the whole movie. It's great.

[emitbrownne]

....

Actually I liked Jar Jar Binks in the Phantom Menace. ....!

bad man... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUkCJDkG3fg

[Andrew S]

Trivia question:
In which episode of the original Star Trek series did Scottie make the emergency repairs to the Enterprise in miracle time and save the ship and crew?














Just about all of them.

[Bokushingu]

Sulu was bad azz! but did anyone else notice that they made him a little on the feminin side? The funny thing was i watching in one of those super loud theaters and somone pulled a fire alarm during the evacuation scene...lol we thought it was part of the movie--i thought I was on a star ship. lol

[dwez]

I thought the beginning was truly spectacular. Both the wife and I loved it. My only problem was deciding to take a toilet break at a 'quiet moment' only to return and find out the villain had given his reason to be so angry. Damn the entire plot missed cos of a whizz!. Still Spock gave a bit of a recap later.

I have to say that underneath the slickness, acting and quality it is in fact very little different to any other Star Trek, which I like but find it amazing that it doesn't suffer from the perceived stigma your average non-trekkie would carry over.

Quinto's Spock and Uban's McCoy were awesome. Pine's Kirk was not a reference in my book but I thought he was great and his acting was something I'd like to see in something else. I can't imagine if a younger Brad Pitt lookalike with some acting skills will have a future in the movies though, a shame ;)

[Neil Gendzwill]

Pine's Kirk was not a reference in my bookAll except that final scene where it degenerated into a Shatner impersonation.

I enjoyed the movie a lot, but I agree that under all the flash and higher-quality everything, it was still fundamentally Star Trek.

[rfoxmich]

Early reviews look very promising, but apparently original fans are not impressed (http://www.theonion.com/content/video/trekkies_bash_new_star_trek_film?utm_source=a-section).

I am now and always will be your friend.

[Raffa]

Even my wife, which hates science-fiction, have liked it.
Good film...

[JoDuncan]

You, too?!? Awesome!!!

The womenfolk just go ga-ga over the Riker Beard... my wife's been asking me to go back to it... but I've had my goatee for 10 years now, so it's gonna be a tough habit to break. :wink:


And me... from the land of the perpetual beard.

Geek-me-thrice:)

http://ja-jp.facebook.com/people/Paul-Walsh/520181805

I'm the one wearing the Tool T-shirt (http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/photo.php?pid=1387275&id=740585864)

Who's nae-sayin the Riker beard?

None of you bitches that's who. :smoker:

[ScottUK]

While the use of the words Tool, Riker and Bitches may seem a little gay, the three together amount to awesomeness beyond belief.

[Paikea]

Early reviews look very promising, but apparently original fans are not impressed (http://www.theonion.com/content/video/trekkies_bash_new_star_trek_film?utm_source=a-section).Yeah. Not awful, but I still think they should have stopped with Wrath of Khan.

[Anonymous]

Saw it yesterday, was expecting it to be kinda bad, but was pleasantly surprised.

[Gessho]

That piece from the Onion was hilarious and so very true. There are fans who miss the heavy-handed moralizing though I am note one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0nHj2WTTa0&feature=player_embedded

[David G]

Saw it yesterday.

"It's like Star Trek Jim, but not as we know it!"

Enjoyed it, although it is just "normal" Star Trek on speed!

Was a big STTNG fan and still enjoy the repeats.

Trivia: love in STTNG that there are some pipes labelled GNDN . .

. . . which was an "in house" joke for Goes Nowhere, Does Nothing!

[BoguBoogyman]

I thought the movie was pretty grounded. No over-done sci-fi stuff here. I really enjoyed it. It made me like star trek. Dare I say. NERD ALERT.:spchless:

[JoDuncan]

Pretty grounded eh?

Absolutely f*cked science... cracking movie.

[Angel_Of_Music]

Well, that is why it is called "science fiction"! :glasses:

[bullet08]

my 5 yr old and 8 yr old loved it. they also love spongebob squarepants.

i sort of liked it. i sort of like spongebob squarepants.. my brain needs break from all the crap that's going on now and then.

pete

[dwez]

Well, that is why it is called "science fiction"! :glasses:

Well last night's CSI pointed out that travelling faster than the speed of light, that's fantasy and if Einstein was alive he'd smack you upside your head.

[Neil Gendzwill]

I thought the movie was pretty grounded. No over-done sci-fi stuff here.It requires less suspension of disbelief than the average x-men movie, but still those of us with technical backgrounds pretty much have to turn off the left side of our brains to enjoy movies like this.

I've think of the "science" in SF as coming in two flavours: stuff that is so far ahead of what we know that it can just be considered magic, and stuff that is an extension of what we know. In the first case, it's relatively easy to say "OK, impossible as far as I know but I don't have any reference so let's just go with it". Warp drive and beaming people aboard are examples of that. In the second, if they don't get their science right then anyone who knows anything about the subject says "bullshit". The classic example of that is the scene in Independence Day where they infect an alien spaceship with a computer virus. Or in the new Star Trek movie when they start playing fast and loose with the behaviour of black holes.

[dwez]

The classic example of that is the scene in Independence Day where they infect an alien spaceship with a computer virus.

Yes, exactly! Because we all know Mac's don't have viruses!

*Runs away as the worms disembark from their tin can...

Although I always see this scene now in much the same way as Dr. Evil describing 'a laser'.

[Neil Gendzwill]

Yes, exactly! Because we all know Mac's don't have viruses!

*Runs away as the worms disembark from their tin can...[pedant]I'm less offended by the concept than by your misuse of an apostrophe.[/pendant]

[b8amack]

It requires less suspension of disbelief than the average x-men movie, but still those of us with technical backgrounds pretty much have to turn off the left side of our brains to enjoy movies like this.

I've think of the "science" in SF as coming in two flavours: stuff that is so far ahead of what we know that it can just be considered magic, and stuff that is an extension of what we know. In the first case, it's relatively easy to say "OK, impossible as far as I know but I don't have any reference so let's just go with it". Warp drive and beaming people aboard are examples of that. In the second, if they don't get their science right then anyone who knows anything about the subject says "bullshit". The classic example of that is the scene in Independence Day where they infect an alien spaceship with a computer virus. Or in the new Star Trek movie when they start playing fast and loose with the behaviour of black holes.

Yeah, but hard sf movies are pretty damn hard to come by. There's what, 2001 and Sunshine? (And Sunshine gets a bit ridiculous)

[dwez]

[pedant]I'm less offended by the concept than by your misuse of an apostrophe.[/pendant]

And I'm amused by your BB code starting as a

1. a person who makes an excessive or inappropriate display of learning.
2. a person who overemphasizes rules or minor details.
3. a person who adheres rigidly to book knowledge without regard to common sense.
4. Obsolete. a schoolmaster.

and ending as a

1. a hanging ornament, as an earring or the main piece suspended from a necklace.
2. an ornament suspended from a roof, vault, or ceiling.
3. a hanging electrical lighting fixture; chandelier.
4. that by which something is suspended, as the ringed stem of a watch.

Touché or ai-men take your pick? ;)

[Neil Gendzwill]

Either one.

[Curtis]

Okay, time for some of you to read these books.

Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration Into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel

The Physics of Star Trek

And yes, I am looking forward to seeing the movie.

[JoDuncan]

I think i'll stick to my plain old physics text books thanks... popular science... my favourite oxymoron.

[ScottUK]

My favrourites are:

1: Microsoft Works, and
2: American History



(runs and ducks for cover) :D

[still learning]

My favrourites are:

1: Microsoft Works, and
2: American History



(runs and ducks for cover) :D

The first - being something of a misnomer
The second - a very short [but good for a laugh] read.

My favourite oxymoron - - Military Intelligence........

[Abramo]

I don't think popular science is an oxymoron, but funny you mentioned it; I was going to write here that "science fiction" is a grand oxymoron.

[Curtis]

I watch movies to be entertained. What I find interesting about science fiction is when the the fiction becomes reality. Think of some of the devices in TOS and other scifi, communicators, scanners, etc., some of these we have now.

As Neil mentioned, some of it is just plain movie magic. I laughed, I cried, I was transported away for a couple hours.

[Charuzu]

Well, I'm quite mixed on it

I raged over the destruction of Vulcan and the Romace between Spock and Uhara (which came out of thin air).

In all, I think Abrams killed my beloved series, but hey, maybe he'll fix what he killed in the next movie