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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?)
I guess I'll have to wait a while longer.
Scene:
Picard: Fire photon torpedo's
Yoda: Diverts torpedo's with a wave of his paw.
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The public premier was last weekend in Tulsa at the Sci-Fi Con. I've got a 3" DVD of it that was given away at Tulsa.
Now you'll have to excuse me, the perpetual motion machine is a little loud, and needs to be oiled.
... the first time I use my TiVo to fast forward through a show so I can watch the commercials.
And the men who hold high places must be the ones who start
To mold a new reality... closer to the heart
Wow... the IS a use for IPIX
I am become Troll, destroyer of threads
Why does CmdrTaco want to eat a cute, cuddly alien?
If a tree falls on an anonymous coward yelling 'first post' in the forest, does anybody hear?
Forgot to add that trailer screenshots are already up right... here.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again:
/. is a community, but few communities hold a single viewpont on any given issue.
First, the site isn't anti-MPAA. Many of it's users are. The site is a news and discussion forum.
Second, not all Slashdot readers are Anti-MPAA. Some don't give a rat's ass about the issue. Some, like me, realize the issues and have come to an internal compromise. Some users haven't bought a movie ticket or DVD in years. You have to realize that there are many thousands of posters, and not all have the same opinions about issues.
Just remember,
you forgot one (from snatch ;)
Do you know what "nemesis" means? A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent. Personified in this instance by an 'orrible cunt... me!
Or maybe we will be even luckier and group of
In any case the original article says:
t'nera semordnilap
Eloi are stupid, throw morlocks at them!
Wil? You there? Does your employment contract with Paramount allow you to geek out on this topic?
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We're anti-MPAA, not anti-interesting movies.
If none of us liked movies, the MPAA couldn't piss us off.
"Derp de derp."
According to the offical T3 site the T3 teaser will be playing in front of Men in Black.
Great. They've been Slashdotted. I can just see Commander Data drumming his fingers on the console waiting for the hourglass to go away.
"Derp de derp."
Plot: The Ribbon comes swooping by early 21st Century San Francisco and deposits a young Wesley Crusher in the famous rainbow-striped shirt at the corner of Haight and Ashbury. The story unfolds as he battles depression, overcome that the once-hip intersection is now dominated by a huge Starbucks, serving only Earl Grey, hot, and Mint Tea, hot, with a Ben and Jerry's across the street. He retreats to a small internet cafe and spends the next twenty years working on his blog, and occasionally visiting Gracie the whale at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, which for some reason has been moved ninety miles to the City. At the age of 37, Wesley's snatched out of the oncoming path of a hurtling Suliban-driven MUNI bus by a Traveler from another time, who does some weird magic with his hands and looks despondent, and suddenly they're both in a huge City in the far-distant future, where everything is destruction and decay, and all the citizens are dead. "This wasn't supposed to happen," says the Traveler. Roll credits
Picard: Fire photon torpedo's
Fire photon torpedo's what?
Yoda: Diverts torpedo's with a wave of his paw.
I think you've confused Yoda and Dogbert.
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3 countem 3 boners in one!
Synopsis: A band of gay space gnomes, aboard the U.S.S. Fellow Ship (get it, fellow, ship, heh heh) team up with the Lucasfilm Muppets(tm) to kill the one guy on the bridge of the Enterprise which nobody knows (and hence won't miss when he dies).
A splendid time is guaranteed for all!
"Would it kill you to put down the toilet seat?" -- Maya Angelou
No need to scrape the paint off. There are actual real nude pix of her out there.
Light cup, beer drink, thin so chain, neck turtle fat, man I won't say it again
It seems the Trailers are becoming more of interest than the movies. I make it a point to get to the movie on time so I don't miss the trailers. My girlfriend could not understand how I could like the "Hulk" trailer, that should next to nothing about a movie that will not be out for a year. I thought it was cool
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Is it the Odd numbered ones that suck or even. I think it the Odd. =)
Let's look at the evidence:
Be who you are...and be it in style!
I think what we're really all waiting for is the (anti-)climatic conflict between Storm Troopers (who can't shoot) and red shirts (who must die).
Generations - They could have done so much between the casts and didn't
Screw that - what made Generations so bad was a plot hole big enough to fly the entire Federtion fleet through all at once.
Let's see, distress call at station, Enterprise goes to help, bad guy abucts Geordi and blows up star, getting away. Eventually, they track him down, Picard goes to planet, fails to stop him, sucked into Nexus. While in Nexus, Picard can travel to ANY point in time? Does he go back to back in orbit, knowing where to use torpedos/phasers to destroy the launch site? Does he go back to just when the star explodes, so they can head STRAIGHT to the destination planet, beating the other ship? Or, even more intelligently, does he go back to when they first arrive at the station, so they can toss the bad guy in the brig, search the station, find the torpedo set to destroy the star, and prevent the whole thing?
OF COURSE NOT. We go back to just a couple minutes ago, with an overweight, horrible actor playing a previous Enterprise captain, at a time when they still have a really tough time defeating the enemy - never mind that they could be totally aware that, should they screw up, they'd go back into the Nexus to try again, and again, and again.
Why go back to that moment? It makes absolutely no sense, unless you're deliberately trying to make stopping the bad guy as DIFFICULT as possible.
Oh, and BTW, First Contact's huge plot hole? The Borg could simply have sent the probe back in time at some other place in the galaxy, not having alerted the federation to their plans, therefore, not having had any challenge to their assimilation. But then again, adding time travel instantly makes it insanely difficult to prevent plot holes, due to the way things can work out.
I thought Insurrection was the best of the three because of the comparative lack of plot holes.
"You know your god is man-made when he hates all the same people you do."
Oh, time travel is so hackneyed, especially in the Trekverse. But more importantly, First Contact ruined the Borg. Well, OK, "I, Hugh" began the degeneration, but First Contact was the final nail in the coffin.
The original Borg was/were the only truly alien aliens in Trek. Their ships were ungraceful (for a reason). They violated bilateral symmetry. Their motives were so alien as to be impossible to even recognize as motives. They were implacable, nigh-omnipotent, and -- most important of all -- not like some subset of humanity with a bad nose. Indeed, they were a reasonable (sort of) extrapolation of Net technology, an honest answer to a what-if question, the best element of sci fi.
What made them stand out was their communal decemtralized mind... a true unified consciousness, something emergent from the individual entities contained in the Borg net. What did First Contact do? It fell for the cliche "hive mind", took a weak metaphor (social insects) and expanded it, somehow, into a concept even weaker. A Borg Queen? Please! The true Borg would have no truck with a queen, a king, a president, or anything that makes one part more significant/important than another.
Let's say it again, class: The true Borg are decentralized and distributed. A "Borg Queen" is the exact antithesis of what the Borg were.
Arrgh. It bothers me every time I think about it. Grrr.
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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.
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