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Monday, November 16, 2009

Nerd Today in Nerd: The Droid You Were Looking For

Posted by Paul Constant on Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 5:27 PM

Slog Tipper Matthew wanted to make sure that everybody out in Slog land saw this: R2-D2's cameo in the Star Trek reboot has finally been confirmed by Industrial Light and Magic. The poor beeping bastard is hurtling through outer space with a bunch of other debris in a space disaster. Why couldn't Tom Cruise have done a cameo in Star Trek instead?

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maybe he was inside the droid ...

Posted by Will in Seattle

on November 16, 2009 at 5:34 PM

Is it nerdy to know about the R2D2 on the side of the mothership in Close Encounters of the Third Kind?

Posted by stinkbug on November 16, 2009 at 5:42 PM

Did Xenu have a cameo?

Posted by Heather on November 16, 2009 at 5:44 PM

In "The Empire Strikes Back" during the asteroid part, one of the asteroid is a potato.

Also, same movie, when everyone is evacuating Cloud City, one guy runs by carrying a sno-cone machine.

Posted by Urgutha Forka on November 16, 2009 at 5:49 PM

R2D2 is a better actor ...

Posted by Gordon Werner on November 16, 2009 at 5:52 PM

Can we stop pretending that star wars and trek are nerdy? that shit is so mainstream now....you want to know what nerdy is? making a droid at home from scraps of metal and old broken TV sets. Nerdy is not consuming mass produced TV and movies that literally 99% of the population knows about then twittering new information about it from your iPhone.

kids these days think that loading a new app on your iphone is hacking.......jesus christ.....

Posted by Andy_Squirrel on November 16, 2009 at 6:01 PM

@6 nomenclature and coinage are more screwed up today than ever. spelling Sarah Palin has become such a no-brainer, that nurds will soon be spelled differently to the media writer, dumbed down, and out on capitol hill..

Posted by dnt trust me on November 16, 2009 at 7:41 PM

JJ already made Star Trek into Star Wars (seriously, there are way too many identical scenes) so its only fitting.

What makes me sad is that people ate this up and thought it was good.

Posted by Akbar Fazil on November 16, 2009 at 8:16 PM