Sulphur on 2/6/2009 at 20:53

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A little less.

Stitch on 2/6/2009 at 21:23

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I'd say you're zinging at approximately a Thief13x-with-a-trig-habit level right now, but tackle practice with an improved work ethic and you might be able to touch my 2006 off season, stranger things have certainly happened.

Gingerbread Man on 2/6/2009 at 22:10

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But. But. BUT BUT BUT

Look this is a TV / movie / comic book franchise about (among other things):

A GUY NAMED JAMES KIRK WHO WAS SO FUCKING AWESOME THAT HE WENT FROM CADET TO CAPTAIN AND THEN SAILED OFF IN THE GODDAMNED FLAGSHIP OF THE ENTIRE STARFLEET TO EXPLORE NEW WORLDS BY GUM!

It's about a hero who did awesome and heroic and unheard-of things like that. It's about unbelievable circumstances and amazing feats with unrealistic consequences.

And what's with the ridiculous amount of sperging vis à vis the way the spaceship looks. I didn't hear this kind of pants-wetting when Lost In Space went from this:

http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/6243/robot1965.jpg

to this:

http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/8566/robot1998.jpg

and before you start, I think it's arguable that the robot from Lost in Space is as iconic a thing in Nerdland as the spaceship from Star Trek.

It's a little more understandable to hear bitching about the iPod Bridge re-design, until you remember that the way things looked in 1966 was due to them wanting to make a futuristic-looking cutting-edge spaceship control room. Should be grateful that Star Trek is about a bright and shining future where the human race has joined a very stable and reasonably friendly interstellar community. They just don't make movies about the spaceship captains who aren't embroiled in fantasticness on the edge of known space, pitted against crazy monsters and terrifying enemies who want to destroy and kill and omg ENTERPRISE! IT'S JAMES T KIRK EVERYONE! FUCK YEAH!

I'll take iPod shiny over Yet Another Post-Catastrophe Future Aesthetic. Can we please get the dystopia out of our systems for a while? We're living in one in many ways, in many places, and from many perspectives. I'm happy to see positiveness these days, Roddenberry was right to do that. Fuck the haters.

Erm...

Sorry, Starr had James Taylor on the speakers during that last paragraph.
:erm:

So... what? Right.

Unless you want to watch movies about dusty schmucks carefully sweeping sand off yet another shard of pottery in North Africa, let's let crazy professors hang on to submarine periscopes in pursuit of Nazis and a box that no one found even though there was only a foot-thick wall that a girl could push over, a hundred skeletons, and a billion snakes between it and the outside world, which was just as well because that box would kill everyone in horrible ways unless they closed their eyes in time!

And let's enjoy the incredible story of a cadet who became the captain of the Enterprise and that was only the START! :D






you grumpy mofos

oudeis on 2/6/2009 at 22:18

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At one time, maybe, but not for over 20 years at this point, and certainly not for the crowd Star Trek 90210 is aimed at.

Kids these days! *snort* :nono:

uncadonego on 3/6/2009 at 02:11

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Originally Star Trek was plugged to the networks as "Wagon Train" to the stars, and Kirk was supposed to be like Horatio Hornblower in outer space. Horatio Hornblower is the kind of guy who grabs the lit wick from a shell shot out of a cannon from another ship that is about to blow the deck of his ship.
Haven't seen the new movie yet, but Shatner played the role like that all the time.