Scoop, Snark, Snark, Kiss
Slow news day.
Scoop: Paramount announces yet another fucking Trek movie.
Snark: Excellent. Just…excellent. Because we've all been dying for yet another fucking Trek movie.
Snark: Matt Damon as Captain Kirk. You can never un-read that last sentence, sorry.
Kiss: Gary Sinise would probably make a passable McCoy.
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Scoop: Abalieno is really really really, no shit, honest to god, look-my-fingers-aren't-crossed going to stop writing again.
Snark: Oh, it must be Wednesday.
Snark: Try not…DO!
Kiss: I'm still miffed that you called me stupid, but would miss you if you really did stop.
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Scoop: Sony raises Station Pass price to $30/month. This is an increase of $8/month in less than a 1 year period.
Snark: Makes the Planetside players feel better that their subscription fee was only raised $2/month.
Snark: Planetside. That's a game, right? I mean, people play this…on computers. Right?
Kiss: I really really really want to like Vanguard. Baby, why you gotta make me hit you all a' time?
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Scoop: Scooter Libby guilty.
Snark: Haha!
Snark: Seriously. Haha.
Kiss: Congrats on your forthcoming pardon.
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Scoop: Terrorists are (potentially) using Second Life to…um…communicate.
Snark: Support the troops, kill a furry.
Snark: Bin Laden easier to find now. He's the 6 foot tall diabetic with a cube on his head.
Kiss: We fight them in-game so we don't have to fight them in RL. (Sorry, that's still Snark.)
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March 7th, 2007 at 2:29 pm
Your such a bitch. Abalieno is a thousand times the writer you are. He should have called you worse than stupid.
March 7th, 2007 at 2:35 pm
Woohoo more star trek. Maybe this time they wont tottallly fuckit batshit crazy up.
Dont know who albeniony is so WTFC.
Sony….they still around? I would have thought nintendo had stuck them in a wii remote and sunk um in teh ocean.
Libby….hehe nice play there bud. Enjoy the talk circuit.
March 7th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
Now that you have revealed yourself to the world as the impartial and educated person that you are, I am sure that everyone will take your opinion seriously.
March 7th, 2007 at 3:23 pm
I just feel like the franchise needs a very long rest, and for someone who has a passion for good science fiction and good writing to take over the helm. Every incarnation in memory has suffered from terrible writing, flat characters, and an unrealistic portrayal of humanity. The movies, with a few exceptions, have been disasters.
At the very least, the franchise needs an overhaul. It doesn’t have to be a BSG-style re-imagining, but they need to breathe some life into it. I’ll be interested to see how they approach this latest movie, but pardon me if I don’t hold my breath.
@Isilion: lol. Hunter is my blog troll. He hails from 4chan.org, which I believe is where pedophiles hang out on the internet. I could be wrong.
March 7th, 2007 at 3:37 pm
MMMM Pedophiles……they burn real good over an open flame and a nice chianti hfff hfff hfff hffff.
I agree the franchise needs to lay low till after alll or most of the principle actors/actresses associated with it have either died or are to old to have the ability to have anything to do with it. Though I wouldn’t mind another STNG movie in about hhhmm 5 years. Give um time to gray up a bit and find a plot worthy of the franchise.
This deal with retro acting might be ok if it was done with a little more time between it and the complete banjanx of the last series and movie. Like 10 years.
March 7th, 2007 at 5:59 pm
Abmer wrote:
I thought that was Second Life.
I don’t have a serious, on-topic comment. Sorry.
March 8th, 2007 at 7:32 am
I guess I would eventually have read “Matt Damon as Capt. Kirk” somewhere else… but I gotta hate you for bringing it to me today.
Only really good Star Trek:
The original series.
TNG.
Kahn.
I’ve watched everything else (except this latest Scott Bacula thing… it just doesn’t grab me), and enjoyed it.. but… but… but…
Why do we need a redo of the original series’ characters with new actors? It’s a whole friggin’ future history! You’ve got wars and planets and parallel universes for the love of Gorn.
One thing that’s never been really explored (ha ha) in any of the series or the movies is the *inside* of the Federation. It’s always about “seeking out new life and new civilizations.” Well here’s a hint, screenwriters… to those of us back in the 21st century, the planets of the Federation proper ARE new life and new civilization. You could have any number of adventures set within that context that were all kinds of sci-fi-y and that yielded some interesting dramatic fruit.
I know that Gene had this idea that the Federation was, essentially, utopian, and that, therefore, the only place where “adventure” happens is at the fringe. So, yeah… what goes on internally in the Federation can’t stay true to his vision and be as gritty as Firefly or Blade Runner. But what about a series that takes place on a planet that’s just been admitted? Or about a crew/ship that is the Federation equivalent of the FBI? There must be *some* crimes, eh? Or about not exploration, but spying. That’d be fun.
I’m just saying… I love the franchise, it’s got all kinds of legs… but not Kirk and Spock’s legs. They’re very, very old.
March 8th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
I just keep telling myself “It couldn’t be any worse than the last Trek movie.”
And yeah, Gary Sinise would be awesome. I can almost even buy Damon. But Brody???
March 9th, 2007 at 7:17 am
What Star Trek needs is a nice civil war. A real one. Bring a new race into the Federation, then have the Federation split, divide the universe in half and start making warships again. The Enterprise, being a science and exploration vessel is caught deep on the wrong side of the fence and just happens to have aboard it an important member of the Federation, so they have to make an end run towards “safe” space, forcing them to jury-rig the Enterprise for combat using their array of science tools… but is “safe” really safe? who is really hunting them? and what caused the split in the Federation?
… or something like that.
March 9th, 2007 at 10:44 am
There are only three kinds of alien races in Star Trek.
1) Violent, xenophobic races who must come to learn the values of peace.
2) Peaceful, utopian races who are a) being slaughtered by (1); b) in a static culture in desperate need of a good kick in the butt; c) culture built on a shaky foundation sure to collapse.
3) Omnipotent (but not omniscient), godlike creatures. none of whom are aware of the others.
The Federation is obviously a Type 2 civilization, which means they are even now needing a good kick, being harvested by some sinister, unknown civilization, or about to collapse on its own weight.
So yeah, Jason… it’s way past time for every Federation world to choose sides and get busy.
March 9th, 2007 at 11:10 am
That was beautiful. And so true.
I was totally psyched when TNG was announced. I was a huge Trek fan at the time, and was giddy with anticipation to finally see the first episode of Star Trek in close to 20 years. I was mildly disappointed with the whole Q thing, and every time Wesley saved the ship I wanted to claw my eyes out.
Way off-topic but true story: I had breakfast with Wil Wheaton about 3 years ago. I was in a hotel with a continental breakfast, all the tables were full except the one he was sitting at, and I asked if I could share it with him. I didn’t realize it was WW until I sat down. I guess he was in town promoting his book. I said “You’re Wil Wheaton,” and then I immediately felt stupid. He looks down at his chest like he’s looking at a name tag, and says something like “I think you’re right!” So then I ranted for about 20 minutes on how much I hated Wesley. (jk!)
Fortunately TNG wasn’t a complete disaster, and came closest to any of the spinoffs to realizing Roddenberry’s vision. Some of the TNG episodes even nailed it, but they also missed more than they hit.
Everything that followed was crap. I /wanted/ to like them, but it was like they were hiring TV commercial writers. DS9 was at least just mediocre, Voyager was embarrassing, and Enterprise was just wtfbbq.
March 9th, 2007 at 2:24 pm
Andy Havens wants a more social Star trek series.
How bout :
Star Trek: SVU
Star Trek: Homicide
Perhaps:
CSI: Federation Outpost Zeta
J.A.G. : UFP
UFPCIS
Star Fleet Medical Center
Or:
Naughty Nurses of Starfleet Medical
Real Galaxy: Utopia Prime
Red Alert: Real Stories Of Starfleet Security
New World Make Over: How To Fix a Planet For Federation Entry
Comedy:
My Borg and Me
The Kilingons Next Door(Set on earth of course)
Just a few off the top of my head.
March 11th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
Mindkiller: LOL… You forgot…
“Every Vulcan Respects and Has Proper Familial Attitudes Towards Raymond.”
March 12th, 2007 at 6:40 am
I would like to see a prequel, that follows the origin of the Federation, and what sequence of events - battles, alliances, truces - took place to create the Federation that is represented in the Star Trek series.
March 12th, 2007 at 9:25 am
Like… Star Trek: Enterprise, which ends with the founding of the Federation?