Slog - Comments on Star Trek!

Comment by Sargon Bighorn

Sargon Bighorn — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:50:21 -0800

Uhura better know fluent Klingon and Vulcan, at a minimum. The inability to communicate in nothing but Earth-speak is SO unbelievable.

Comment by COMTE

COMTE — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:51:22 -0800

Just posted these links myself a few minutes ago.

Still wiping the saliva off my keyboard.

Comment by COMTE

COMTE — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:53:10 -0800

@1:

That's what the Universal Translator is for, dude...

Comment by Matt Fuckin' Hickey

Matt Fuckin' Hickey — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:53:14 -0800

I'm all about this shit. It looks FANTASTIC.

Comment by danhowes

danhowes — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:57:16 -0800

Is it just me, or does the guy playing McCoy look a little to much like Joey from Friends?

Comment by ZWBush

ZWBush — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:59:10 -0800

I love Star Trek. I think this movie looks terrible. Spock especially. I just can't see how this is gonna go anyplace good for the series. Looks like a giant cash cow and nothing more. Sorry to be the wet blanket, it just seems like a huge letdown to me.

Comment by Will in Seattle

Will in Seattle — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:01:43 -0800

The first Star Wars came out during the Nixon depression years, I think.

Not sure when the first Star Trek movie came out.

And the Universal Translator only works if they're intelligent ... and even then, sometimes you need a Vulcan ...

Comment by Greg

Greg — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:09:19 -0800

Kirstie Alley used to be pretty hot back in the day.

Comment by dwight moody

dwight moody — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:12:18 -0800

I just don't see any good coming out of this.

Can't they just do and Ensign Ro movie. Just Ro and a some of those green skinned ladies and a hot tub.

Comment by tomasyalba

tomasyalba — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:14:43 -0800

Though I do have my fingers crossed on the whole plot/acting/continuity thing, I fear I'll spend the whole time staring at all those jacked up hairdos. Who the fuck gave Uhura a center part?

Comment by brandon

brandon — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:17:27 -0800

all i know is the new spock is highly bangable, and i'm not sure how i feel about a sexy, sexy vulcan. that shit ain't right.

Comment by COMTE

COMTE — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:19:09 -0800

ST: TMP came out in late 1979.

Roddenberry had actually been approached by Paramount to do an updated TV series, to be called "Star Trek: Phase II", as part of the studio's plan to launch a fourth TV network in early 1977, but when that fell through and following the phenomenal success of "Star Wars", the decision was made to use the standing sets, costumes, props, et al as part of a feature film instead. At the time, it was billed as one of the most expensive motion pictures ever made, but years later we found out that was because Paramount did some "creative accounting" and transferred all the money they'd spent on the aborted series into the film's production budget.

And thus endeth your "Star Trek" trivia feature for the day.

Comment by Megan

Megan — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:25:18 -0800

'Roldy is on the Enterprise?

Comment by chicagogaydude

chicagogaydude — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:27:37 -0800

Star Trek is 40 years old. It's a semi-antique, on its way to Jules Verne-dom.

This is your father's future. Where is today's Star Trek? Where are the frickin' gay people, for one? It's truly bizarre.

Comment by Dubcek

Dubcek — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:32:46 -0800

I'm not digging the black command uniform or the tattooed Romulan, but other than that it looks pimp.

Also the guy playing Bones should swap out with the guy playing Chekhov.

Comment by boldly go

boldly go — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:39:14 -0800

@14, Stonewall was also 40 years ago -- being gay stopped being interesting or notable in your father's childhood

Comment by Catman

Catman — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:41:58 -0800

Yay, my favorite blog linking to my favorite blog!

Comment by kebabs

kebabs — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:45:17 -0800

The guy playing Scotty and the guy playing Chekhov are actually Scottish and Russian, respectively. That alone makes it better than the original TV show. Plus, Sylar and Harold.

Comment by violet_dagrinder

violet_dagrinder — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:46:46 -0800

Can't freakin' wait!

Comment by Sirkowski

Sirkowski — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:03:23 -0800

Is this a prequel or a reboot?

Comment by Andy Niable

Andy Niable — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:03:52 -0800

@7: You mean the Carter Recession years. It was 1977. Nixon resigned years before that. The first Trek film was greenlighted because of the success of Star Wars, and was released while Carter was still in office, in 1979.

Comment by chicagogaydude

chicagogaydude — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:09:29 -0800

@16 Yeah, well if they had some unnotable, uninteresting background gay characters they'd be about up to speed with Clay Aiken.

Comment by COMTE

COMTE — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:21:16 -0800

@20:

Technically, both.

Comment by Gloria

Gloria — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:36:23 -0800

@11: Vulcans have ALWAYS been sexy.

@20: So, a sort of "reimagining" a la Battlestar Galactica?

Comment by K

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:37:22 -0800

OMG It's Harold.

Never you mind that Sulu was Japanese and Harold is Korean. Never you mind. It's not like everyone's from Seattle and knows the difference.

Comment by COMTE

COMTE — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:54:16 -0800

@25:

According to canon, Sulu is actually half Japanese, half Filipino. His first name, Hikaru is fairly common in Japan, but the surname "Sulu" is not of Japanese origin, given that there is no "L" phoneme in the Japanese language. The story is that Roddenberry appropriated the name from The Sulu Sea, located in the southwestern part of the Philippines, as he intended the character to have a pan-Asian representation, and so it has been presumed that his family originated from that same area.

Shit, is my inner nerd showing today, or what?

Comment by mint chocolate chip

mint chocolate chip — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:05:02 -0800

WTF? Is anyone on this ship over 30?

Comment by mike

mike — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:20:07 -0800

MCP: NO. This is kinda like L'il Trek.

HAROLD OMG I misssed that for THE PAST THREE YEARS

Comment by whatwhat

whatwhat — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:57:58 -0800

The black uniform is a starfleet academy uniform apparently, not the command one.

They did a good job modernizing the uniforms.

I'm not sold on Kirk.

Spock will be bad-ass.

Comment by Greg

Greg — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:12:00 -0800

HOLY SHIT IT IS HAROLD FROM HAROLD & KUMAR GO TO WHITE CASTLE