I can't remember the last Trek film I actually enjoyed. Maybe The Voyage Home, but I was a kid then (though I still use Scotty's "hello computer" line).

How were we to know?

Despite what most critics thought, Abrams didn't do a bad Mission:Impossible either.

The Green Onion Slave Girl is a Trekkie?!?!?!?!

How were we to know?

Next week: I quite like the internet.

I can't remember the last Trek film I actually enjoyed. Maybe The Voyage Home, but I was a kid then (though I still use Scotty's "hello computer" line).

I did?

As always, John Rogers talks clever-like (somewhat spoilery).

Oo, that's brilliant, and he's absolutely right. (But, really spoilery.) I need to be able to talk about this in spoilery terms at some point, but it'll be after jsr's been to see it, that's for sure.

Second chilling detail: this would be Star Trek XI.

What? How did we get from 4 when I was a teenager to 11? Did some go straight to video? I vaguely remember 3 or 4 slipping by, but 6?

though I still use Scotty's "hello computer" line

As someone who?

I'm remembering your Whedon teeshirt from Foo.

Heh, sure you are. Hoping to take that to Auckland again soon.

Also, note the Extreme Kirk Mince in that picture.

That site claims the joke started here, but whether it did or not that site is still fun, especially the Firefly comparison.

Thank you for reassuring me that I can go and not want to poke my brian out?

The guy you were crushing on at twelve is always going to have a special place in your heart.

Yup. Despite Westley objectively being a bit of a dickhead, I still have a bit of a thing for pirate shirts, black masks and English accents.

Trekkieness has always been a?

The Nitpicker's Guide for Classic Trekkers

Oh come ON. First Milly-Molly-Mandy Again , now this? I try not to believe in fates, but these levels of coincidence are... starting to freak me out.

Also, sorry, but I still can't see any sexual tension there.

Oh, I can. I leaned over?

especially the Firefly comparison

And yet again my workmates are wondering why I'm giggling.

Chain of command, can I haz one?

Also, I wouldn't be worried about new kirk/new spock slash...

I'd be?

I particular liked the warp speed jumps, the whole cinema boomphed when they kicked it.

And we may have turned our 10 yr old into a Trekkie. He's been wandering around the?

What a fantasic Vulcan he makes...!

That didn't mean I wasn't aware of its flaws. All Trekkies are,

For me it was the stitching, sometimes the chest insignia looked like the badges on my boy scout shirt, bad tension and puckering, and the action gussets on Cap'n Kirk's shirts were always set to rip at the?

Russians still apparently can't pronounce their vs, even Russians called Pavel Andreivich Chekov.

And while it was the cheapest laugh ever, I really did enjoy the computer not understanding WTF he was saying either.

Simon Pegg — hilarious, though I could have done without the Ewok. Oh, and since I?

TNG's appeal wore off pretty fast

Here's my theory about that. 1987 wasn't exactly a year over-loaded with decent science fiction television, and along with the intense loyalty of the fans, the show got a pass it just didn't deserve for a lot of eye-wateringly bad production, writing and acting.?

because the bar for genre television was welll and truly raised by Babylon 5, Deep Space Nine, Farscape, Stargate:SG1 before it started to cannibalise itself etc.

Babylon 5 did really seem to have a lot of influence beyond how good it was in and of itself. Multi-episode and even multi-series?

Babylon 5 did really seem to have a lot of influence beyond how good it was

Or wasn't. I'm having painful flashbacks.

They didn't rip Kirk's shirt! All movie!

sorry I ain't seen the new movie as yet – next Tuesday : )
I was referring to misty eyed memories of TOS
(which I hope means The Original Series)
and not Talos Of Spock or somesuch

I _love_ little digs in?

You do know that with this, it's not so much a matter of "leave the lens flar in" as "carefully and expensively create a lens flare on this shot so it looks like it was actually shot with a real camera, not entirely CGI", right?

I translate promotional material for?

the splashing of a bucket of water on the character played by Hugh Jackman.' One can't help feeling that splashing an actual bucket of actual water would have been cheaper, if not perhaps quite as realistic.

I'd be prepared to extensively test that theory.

I was referring to misty eyed memories of TOS

Those velour shirts were teh suckage, but the ripping did make for great continuity errors.

Trivia for the day: in The Motion Picture, Kirk and McCoy get into an elevator, and when they get out, they're wearing each other's shirts...

I'd be prepared to extensively test that theory

Not helping.

One can't help feeling that splashing an actual bucket of actual water would have been cheaper, if not perhaps quite as realistic.

was it W.C Fields who might've said:
"Never work with children, animals or water"

well I'm sure he said:
"You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns?

Trekkies bash new Star Trek film as 'Fun, Watchable'

I'm looking forward to seeing Star Trek once the first weeks' crowds decline but with with the number of spoilers I've bumped into think it looks good.

And as probably a team of one I'd like to give some love to Voyager especially before?

Those velour shirts were teh suckage, but the ripping did make for great continuity errors.

I loved the Star Trek Futurama episode. When they all fight at the end, before anything happens the first thing Kirk does is rip his shirt

I _love_ little digs in CG movies where they've carefully faked camera artefacts on the film.

The thing I'm liking the most about CG movies at the moment is how it allows much cooler things to be done with the camera work than you could do with the real ones.?

and a woman captain placed not on a 5 mission with station visits but almost completely isolated from all Federation assistance

Yeah, see, not really enough for me to just shove a random vagina in the big chair. I didn't like Janeway, and I didn't 'buy' her. I have this?

I have to say that some of the flaws in the movie grated:
* Why TF are there plastic sheets hanging for someone to dramatically walk through? WTF is that all about?
* The most advanced ship from the future has?

* Why TF are there plastic sheets hanging for someone to dramatically walk through? WTF is that all about?

Heh, so they're having this dramatic fight sequence on these inexplicable narrow platforms over an abyss INSIDE the enemy ship so they can channel some Empire Strikes Back , and my?

I have never watched a Star Trek movie, nor an entire tv episode.

And yet, I find myself inextricably drawn to watching this movie. Maybe it's my love of Jabrams and Pegg, but still...it's Star trek ...I'd have to mock myself. And that seems?

WTF was the ewok doing there

That wasn't an ewok. That was Rocky Dennis.

Megan, join us. Jooooooin usssss...

but still...it's Star trek ...I'd have to mock myself. And that seems like a lot of work.

I am pretty confident that's a job you could out-source.

Megan, join us. Jooooooin usssss...

You see this is how it starts. At first it's all these awesome brainy, funny, talented women (and then all the boys as well, those Trekkies are hott ), and next thing you know I'm dancing in a field at midnight covered in cows' blood?

next thing you know I'm dancing in a field at midnight covered in cows' blood worshipping Spock

Oh hell, Danielle, she's onto us.

Maybe your trousers weren't tight enough?

wanted a Majel Barrett-related character, dammit.

"Are you tryng to seduce me, Mrs Roddenberry?"

surely they could have sampled her voice and created a facsimile for the computer voice one last time... sob

who is the new Number One?

yrs Captain Slog

surely they could have sampled her voice and created a facsimile for the computer voice one last time... sob

IMDB says:

"Majel Barrett, the wife of "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry, has a role in this film as the voice of the Enterprise computer. She completed filming two weeks before?

Janeway was a pain but the stories were ace.

I thought the shit-to-quality ratio was unacceptably high, myself. When you're turning over, in effect, the equivalent of ten full length features in a little over six months, its not all going to be gold pressed latinum. But you've just got?

informed that water is a lot harder than you'd think.

So I should wear protective clothing before I shower?

I thought the shit-to-quality ratio was unacceptably high, myself

I think all of us could rate all the films and series on that scale. For me TNG's reliance on the holodeck for so many stories tops the list. But I'ver ead of others who love those fictions within fictions.

Voyager?

Did y'all know that Keith Ng is a Vulcan? Tze Ming told me.

I know there's a giant cluster of wrong-i-tronic particles somewhere... Calibrate the sensors!

Did y'all know that Keith Ng is a Vulcan? Tze Ming told me.

I know there's a giant cluster of wrong-i-tronic particles somewhere... Calibrate the sensors!

Oh go on, it explains the raw sexual magnetism.

the raw sexual magnetism.

I had that problem once. I had myself degaussed, and it cleared right up. I still have a slight bias state though.

the raw sexual magnetism.

I had that problem once. I had myself degaussed, and it cleared right up. I still have a slight bias state though.

Surely you needed to reverse the polarity.

I'm pretty sure OSH has determined sexual magnetism needs to be heated to 65C for at least?

Surely you needed to reverse the polarity.

The birth of slash, in a nutshell.

Megan, join us. Jooooooin usssss...

I for one am not joining until I get the five husbands I was promised.

I for one am not joining until I get the five husbands I was promised.

I'll join if I can have the ten wives promised.

On second thoughts, cancel that application.

I'll join if I can have the ten wives promised.

Shameful Nerdlinger Report: I read that and thought 'hey, I bet I could make a joke about Harry Mudd here!'

I for one am not joining until I get the five husbands I was promised.

3410, meet Amy. Amy, meet 3410?

The clip on that site misses the money quote from Smith: ?"I'd watch that dude do anything? I'd watch that dude have sex with my wife at this point. He's such a good actor."

Also, looks like Smith might be able?

Kevin Smith raves about Chris Pine.

[3410 fails to construct a decent Chris Pine / Chris Pike joke.]

The clip on that site misses the money quote from Smith: ?"I'd watch that dude do anything? I'd watch that dude have sex with my wife at this point. He's such a good actor."

Which raises the obvious question: If he was having sex with your wife, what makes you?

Oh go on, it explains the raw sexual magnetism.

OK, I can get with that. Its the inscrutable, really good at math bit I want to stay the hell away from. The Wrath of Tze Ming The Merciless I do not need. :)

Shameful Nerdlinger Report: I read that and thought 'hey, I bet I could make a joke about Harry Mudd here!'

Heh, I kept trying to make a 'reversing the polarity of the toaster oven' joke work, and then thinking I probably shouldn't.

The clip on that site misses the money?

Or a long list of people he'd like to watch having sex with Chris Pine.

Very good point.

Y'know, he's just not THAT good an actor. Either that or Smith has a very long list of actors he'd like to watch having sex with his wife.

I can't picture Chris Pine having sex without flashing on 'Team America: World Police' — because there's nothing more disturbing that puppet?

And why did this stop you?

I like to have random outbreaks of decency every now and then. It keeps people on their toes.

I like to have random outbreaks of decency every now and then. It keeps people on their toes.

So you use your decency for nefarious purposes...
Point to Ms Hart

He's such a good actor.

He should know. He discovered Ben Affleck after all.

He should know. He discovered Ben Affleck after all.

And there we go, we're back to Team America . It's Friday, right?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pM8PrqY5Rg

not entirely safe for work

Wardrobe Whinge: The mustard, paprika, and cobalt uniform colour scheme singed my eyeballs, but was pretty canonical, I guess, although that waffle-weave fabric was a bit tragic.

Trousers altogether NOT tight enough, as noted by others;?

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Laziest Screenwriting Hack: Oh, crap, how the hell do we intersect character A with storyline B? Ooh, I know, how about "A is chased by a ravening monster all the way to B?"

Because a?

Laziest Screenwriting Hack: Oh, crap, how the hell do we intersect character A with storyline B? Ooh, I know, how about "A is chased by a ravening monster all the way to B?"

Watching that chase scene, thinking 'man this is unnecessary'. Not just one ravening monster, mind, but two?

It was like they were nearly finished and then somebody found another truck full of money parked out back that needed to be blown on some completely gratuitous CGI.

They should have driven that truck full of money over to Wardrobe and spent it on some decent stretch fabric, yo.?