Star Trek: Nemesis Trailer to Premiere Tonight

savagexp writes "Dark Horizons is reporting that the trailer for the next Star Trek movie will premiere tonight on Entertainment Tonight and via the official website tonight at 7:30 EST." Makes me wish I could stomach ET, or at least had some real bandwidth. Hopefully it'll get placed in front of some of the movies coming in the next few weeks (maybe MiB2?)

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This calls for a Wil Wheaton post!

[MAXOMENOS]

Wil? You there? Does your employment contract with Paramount allow you to geek out on this topic?

Re:Hmmm...

[Buran]

It certainly took them long enough to have the Rihannsu ... err, Romulans ... get a real role in one of the films. Too bad it never happened while I played one in an online RPG. But I still have an interest in them as a lingering result.

If you want to learn more about them, find a copy of Diane Duane's novel The Romulan Way, preferably at a good used-book shop. It's not canon because it's just a novel, but it's damn good. It explains their form of government. (Incidentally, the "Senate" dates to ancient Roman times, I do believe. Many of the ranks the Romulans used, e.g. centurion, do as well.)

MiB2??

[jerkychew]

Everywhere I turn, I hear about a different trailer being attached to Men In Black 2. First it was The Two Towers, then Terminator 3, and now this? Whatever happened to going to the movies to see the movie??

Re:Dang! I was hoping for a StarWars vs Startrek m

[jtseng]

Actually the Federation has already done a strategic analysis of the military-industrial complex of the Empire.

Re:I think I've fallen into Bizarro World.

[gorilla]

Credits on IMDB are often incomplete until the film actually shows. I guess it depends on how well the publicity dept is at talking to IMDB.

Think about Data for a minute...

[Vought 28]

In reality, Data is just a machine. Yet he is considered to be on the same level as a human, and afforded the same rights as we are. This lowers humanity to the level of the machines we create. When machines are on an equal footing with the rest of us, you can bet that your rights will be quite limited.

Re:2,4,6,8...?

[leperjuice]

I have to agree with you mostly, but I can suggest a real-life computing situation where a "queen" is necessary for operation of the collective.

Windows 2000 domains.

Any flaming aside, Windows 2k has something called FSMO ("fizzmo") roles. Short for "Flexible Single Master Operation", the roles correspond to tasks that only one machine in the entire enterprise can do. This is to avoid any sort of duplication/collision of effort for certain important roles. Now, unless you actively do anything, the first box you bring up handles all the tasks (Schema Master, Domain Naming Master, PDC Emulator, RID Master, and Infrastructure Master if you're curious). Any machine can take over any or all of the roles, but there must be only one box handling a role. However, aside from the FSMO roles, all domain controllers are logically equivalent in terms of importance to the domain.

So, how does this correlate to the Borg? Well, assuming that there are a number of roles to play that are essential to the operation of the collective and that destruction of the master would cause a disruption in the collective mind until regeneration (think of a lost token in tokenring) so you'd choose a protected unit. This would be the "queen". Ideally, however, the system would be such that any unit could take over any or all of the roles quickly in case of danger.

Of course, why she'd be all slinky and with a removable head is beyond me.