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Crusher Crushed from Nemesis
Ant sent in a link to Wil Wheaton's weblog where he writes a surprisingly heartfelt piece on being cut from ST:Nemesis. Its a strangely bittersweet little entry that really speaks volumes, especially considering Wil's fairly public disagreements with
Rick Berman. Apparently Wil's bit was cut along with 48 whole minutes of the flick- its just the nature of filmaking. But
I guess if nothing else, they've got tons of stuff for the DVD now!
Snarky comments about Wheaton and/or Crusher in 3... 2... 1...
Er, pardon my ignorance, but who is Wil Wheaton?
Damn, that's a long movie. It takes the GodFather to pull that off. Granted I'm a Trek fanboy, so I'd have enjoyed the 3 hours, but I don't think my wife would have.
BTW, I saw the trailer before K-19, and it looks pretty good. It appears they've made a return to some good quality action!
they've got tons of stuff for the DVD now!
Yeah because if Paramount has shown anything, it just loves to pack extras into their Star Trek DVDs.
If you're the kind of person to make an angry distinction between "Trekkies" and "Trekkers", I'm honestly surprised you don't have a Wesley Crusher action figure.
I moderate "-1, Fool"
"The night features world-class electronic music artists and a special treat: celebrity boxing with Wil Wheaton and Barney! Wil Wheaton, of Star Trek: The Next Generation and Stand By Me fame, will take on Barney in a celebrity boxing matchup for the history books. Watch and see if Wil with his backing from EFF can protect free speech and parody on the Internet and defeat Barney and his team of corporate lawyers."
http://www.eff.org/cafe/2002/
Give that vomitous terrycloth reptile hell, Will!
Stefan Jones
No way. I've got two words for you, buddy. Well, actually it's one word, but it's so annoying that you actually have to say it twice:
Dang. I could only bring myself to type it once, and my fingers are already blistering, like I dipped them in acid or something.Stop talking on your mobile phone while you're driving through residential neighbourhoods!
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Of course, I tend to not put a whole lot of stock in what I read online...if I did I'd be overwhelmed with the sheer amount of hot teen bitches who want to get naked for me right now, and I'd be rolling in Nigerian money.
Exactly, Will. Most bigshot, part-in-Star-Trek-gettin' movie stars already have those problems.
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Oh fuck, I feel old. This is all I needed after finding my first grey hair last week.
Overall, I suppose anything that makes the end film better is a Good Thing. Still, it sucks that it had to happen -- I can't imagine the weirdness of putting, what, 7 years of my life in as a particular character and then having my last chance to play him yanked out.
At least Wil seems very grounded about it. Unless, of course, he just omitted some drinking-drug-and-wife-beatin' binge he went on after the end of the blog.
Every year during my review, I just pray the words "slashdot.org" aren't mentioned.
I know this is some crazy shit, but usually people's personal sites are really hard to beat for up to the minute news about that person. Just a thought..
Finally, math books without any of that base 6 crap in them.
Star Trek II: ugly space skanks (what happened to those hot chicks from "Space Seed"?)
Star Trek III: better looking Savek
Star Trek IV: cute but annoying whale-lovin' chick
Star Trek V: sexy muscular Klingon chick
Star Trek VI: boring, regal chick in charge of conference
Star Trek VII: Whoopi Goldberg, ugh
Star Trek VIII: creepy-looking overconfident Borg chick
Star Trek IX: beautiful mature quail who says one too many "live life to its fullist"-style quotes.
I dunno, I'm not seeing much of a pattern here....
GMDwatch this
Get a grip. I see plenty of people driving with children right there in the car with them, not muzzled or anything.
If he'd crashed in to one of those trees and died, I bet that 48 minutes would have been reinserted. It's about time talking on phones when driving was made illegal.
Not only would his footage have been restored (although the entire 48 minutes wasn't about him), the movie would have been dedicated to him as well. And we'd have to sit and listen to the other cast members praise/remember him on talk shows.
I second your call for making driving while phoning illegal. You need to make a cell-phone call? Pull off to the side of the road and talk. When you're ready to dedicate your attention to driving, come back and join the rest of us on the roads!
GMD
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Yeah he would have been in Star Trek X if he had been using OSX
Trekkies.
Nobody else cares.
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
Ahhh, you kids don't know nuthin! How do you young whippersnappers think us old folks who grew up with ST:TOS felt, huh? Waitin' ten gol-dang years from the time the series was cancelled to the release of the first movie. And what did we get? ST:TMP. A pastel-colored bridge! Everyone wearing dental assistant's uniforms! Kirk with an obvious girdle holding his gut in and an alien hairpiece of some kind! Now that's pain! BUT WE WERE THANKFUL FOR IT!!!
And the brethren went away edified.
Eye think the spell checker wood have accepted that line
talking, putting on makeup, reaching around to take care of a baby/kids, getting dressed, drinking a soda/coffee and eating food have been statistically proven to be many *many* times more dangerous than simply talking on a cellphone.
Please provide a URL link to the statistic that shows that more accidents are caused by people getting dressed while driving than from people using cell phones while driving. I'd be interested in seeing it.
Now, accidents being caused because some hot chick is getting undressed while driving I can understand... :)
GMD
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If you were a true geek, you wouldn't have to ask who Will Wheaten is. You would Just Know.
But, fool, you are only a nerd. The truly productive members of our technological society who runs his GCC and puts strange Paul Graham quotes in his slashdot signiture. Yet you ask who Will Wheaten is.
Posting here on Slashdot is only a sign of True Geekiness. But I must ask you, do you have a Geek Code? If you are over 16, do still own any action figures? models?
Do you watch cartoons?
These too are only signs of True Geekiness. But your True Nerd may kill the Geek within. You may spend the rest of your miserable life learning about the workings of the Universe, building vast technological systems, and watching reruns of Gilligan's Island.
But one day you become old and gray, and you suddenly discover what you believe to be the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything; and you bring forth this information to the Council of True Geekdom. And they laugh. And Geeks throughout the world learn of your pitiful endeaver and they, too, laugh.
To reconcile, you will be forced to stand on your knees and beg: "Thou art geekier than I."
And then, for the first time, you may learn what we already Just Know.
There is no Spoon.
Jar^2 (or (Jar)(Jar)) expands to Jar Jar
Or, if you assume ^ is a binary XOR operation then Jar^2 evaluates to Jah
Will, youse just give me and silent bob your phone number, address, bank numbers and some time with your fine-ass wife and we'll beat the shit out of anyone you want. Snoogans.
Love,
Jay and Silent Bob
And we had to walk seven parsecs to school and back! In the freezing vacuum of space! Uphill BOTH ways!
deus does not exist but if he does
Is cock-boy hyphenated?
I don't know. Is anal-retentive?
In mathematics, one does not understand things, one merely gets used to them.
--VonNeumann
"What are you going to do? Program a holographic doctor?" An obvious poke at those who watched voyager. It's stuff like that which makes Star Trek interesting.
I groaned when I heard that line, the lameness filter was off the scale.
Ignoring the big huge plothole of "so this engineer dude knocks up holograms complete with personality and ship wide movement capability in his spare time while in then takes the federation another what, FIVE HUNDRED YEARS to get to the same point???"
Yaaah, err, suuuure. Bleh. Fucking lame man, continuity is one thing, and I don't give too much of a damn about it, but a 5-freakin-hundred year continuity fuck up? That is to large for even my grammer poor self not to bitch over!
Need help treating your acne? Come here!
Things like TWOK don't- where that acronym might make sense on a fansite, it means nothing to most of the people here.
I just thought it was some porn I haven't seen yet.
Dacels Jewelers can't be trusted.
Wow, I think you all just out-did Adric. Now we need some more dinosaurs and an earth-bound freighter.
In short: Being an idiotic expert in the semantics of something no one cares about, makes you look like a jackass.
And then for him to say "makes you look like a jackass" - we're jackoffs, not jackasses.
Sincerely,
Trekki^H^H^Treker