OT: Star Trek Movie (XI)

[Atrocities]

"Romulus, My Father"
the Title.

Well they have the principle cast cast.

Sorry no Gary or Matt.

The Cast

It is rumored that the movie will be a remake of Balance Of Terror. This is supported by the fact that Eric Bana will be playing the Romulan Praetor Nero.

I was hoping that Thomas Jane would have gotten the part of Kirk, but they felt he looked too old. (BS in my opinon.)

Gary Sinise would have made an ideal McCoy but he wanted to much money. Instead the part went to LOTR actor Karl Urban. I am ok with this choice but I do wonder how he is going to adapt his native kiwi accent to that of a souther gentleman's?

The choice for Spock was spot on "nailed it" , and other cast say for Scotty, I would have rather seen Paul McGillion get that part, but he just didn't know the right people, seem to be all good ones. (Paul McGillion did read for the part, but lost it to Simon Pegg.)

Bruce Greenwood Cast as Christopher Pike over Tom Cruise, THANK YOU GOD!

It is going to be good to see a TOS movie made. I loved the original series and still do to this day. With the remastered episodes the series doesn't look so dated. To bad the remastered version don't have the full run time as the originals. The originals were 49 to 52 minutes long, the new version are about 40 to 41 minutes. Cut Cut Cut... damn bean counters should all go to hell.

On a personal note, I am jealous of all of these people. I spent my life watching Star Trek, and here they are making a movie about that series and I am older than most of the cast! What the HELL MAN! Hell most of them weren't even born until AFTER Star Trek The Motion Picture! WTH MAN!

[GuyOfDoom]

I'll see it mainly because it's Star Trek. Not because I have any expectations of quality. In fact I've pretty much given up on Star Trek since the same 3 people have been calling the shots for awhile now and it's clear they have $$$ on the brain rather than any sense of fan loyalty.

[Kana]

I'm alittle disappointed it isn't a bit more of a prequel than actually running along with the TOS. If it is a remake of an episode, then I really think they are doing a diservice.

[Randallw]

You can see Spock here

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/34774

I'm also surprised at your "Romulus, my father" reference. I would have thought only Australians would know about it.


Harlan Ellison by the way is being a jerk about their plan to use one of his ideas. Great writer I gather, but a jerk. Mind you the original ST makers didn't know the difference between ruins and runes

[narf poit chez BOOM]

I tried going there, but there was an annoying, un-closeable advertisement.

[Randallw]

Sorry about that. Maybe I have it blocked. I'll put 2 of the pictures in my photobucket.

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i1...intoSpock1.jpg
http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i1...intoSpock3.jpg

[AgentZero]

Are they up to 11 already? Jasus. I'll go see it though, just because it is Star Trek. I'm hoping and praying that they'll get back to the original spirit of TOS, without all that moral preachy bull**** that's frankly been ruining the series.

[Randallw]

I understand there are two camps to ST fans.

Those who prefer it to be clean, hopeful and free of modern day concerns.

and,

dark, where there are still lots of problems and you need to be sneaky, such as tricking another empire into joining a war on your side when you are at risk of losing.

I much prefer the later. Yeah I'm a political realist

People, who I have never really understood, seem to go on about whomever it was that took over after Gene Rodenberrys death ruining the franchise. There are a lot of things about Star Trek I disagree with, which I won't go into at the moment because I don't feel like going there, but I usually just don't let it bother me and I enjoy the special effects and occasional great episode.

We can, if you like, list our favourite episodes. For me

The two parter of Voyager with the ship that removes the target from time.
The Enterprise mirror episodes.
Any Klingon epsiode.

I like Enterprise despite the fact it didn't do, until too late, what it should have been from the start (season 3 was a major mistake). The whole run should have been season 4 stuff, but I don't let it bother me. I don't run the TV companies so why get depressed by what I don't control.

oh, and the Dominion war.

[AgentZero]

I do not like the clean, hopeful Star Trek. The whole, "Let's solve our problems with idealism! And technology!" attitude makes my channel-flicking finger very itchy. Well, I'm not entirely against the "let's solve our problems with technology" part, because it's sci-fi, so of course technology will play a part in it.

And coming up with some neat little gadget to solve a particular problem that we can look at and say, "Wow, that's cool," is good sci-fi technofantasy. Realigning the phase coil inductors is not.

Why not just say, "Well, Captain, what we're going to do, see, is load the magazines with bovine fecal matter, and fire it out the torpedo tubes. Oh look, the bovine fecal matter blew them up! Aren't we clever?" Because that, and realigning the phase coil inductors, is exactly the same damn thing.

[Randallw]

There's a Voyager epsiode where they fight the Borg. They fire the Phasers at the Borg. You know beam of light goes from Voyager to Borg ship then stays for a little bit too long. The Borg ship then pulsed back along the beam to Voyager. Cue sparks and such. Someone says

"What happened"
and 7 of 9 says
"They reversed the beam with a feed back pulse"

Is it really technobabble when that makes perfect sense? I mean the pulse goes back in the opposite direction and damages the emitters. Looks like a feedback pulse to me.

In fact it makes so much sense I would expect Star Fleet to plan against that tactic. Don't leave the Phaser beam in place so long, or use disruptors. Except that the disruptor beam would leave an ionisation trail and due to the need to align the disruptor pulse to pass through the ships shields that would leave a trail that could penetrate the shields in return.