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EvilNTUser writes "Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning can now be ordered on DVD, and will hopefully be shipped before 2005-09-06 unless you slashdot them (the link uses Coral). The independent movie is a 103 minute parody of Star Trek and Babylon 5, with all special effects rendered by the makers themselves. It looks like all the delays were worth it, so make sure you don't miss Captain Pirk's quest for world domination."
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I used to be a huge fan of ST TNG but the movies that they made after the series were sub par.
The thing that pisses me off most, is that they turned the Borg into frigging vampires. This, in my opinion (as an American) is the standard American moral cop out. The Borg were evil because of their evil queen leader. Kill the evil leader and the people are cured. The Nazis were evil because of Hitler. The Chinese were Communists because of Mao. At least the series had members of the Borg Collective in thrall to a fascist leader (lore) after their destruction, so it wasn't like everything was a-okay.
While I have my problems with The Matrix (I could believe in humans being enslaved in the Matrix in order to use their neural nets for the purpose of the Machines, but for energy? Too inefficient), it was one of the few films which didn't fall back on this cliched notion of evil. It showed people fighting because they were nations and because of economic reasons. It even had the guts to blame humans for the war. I wish Star Trek would have taken a similar tack, showing how the Borg were formed, not by some evil leader, but by economic conditions and competition, and by their own 'free' will.
After all, eventually Borg style networking will be more efficient than going to school for 16 years to learn what you need to know. It'll be like an instant college degree. Economics and the race to the bottom as people compete tends to compell certain life choices and the use of certain technology. And those choices change us as humans and as a society.
I suppose that's the theme of GATTACA, to a degree. I think Star Trek would have been better off using The Borg to the same effect.
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From the trailer, it looks like they're headed for some serious lawsuits for selling this on DVD. Paramount is not exactly known for playing nice with fan sites, much less fan flicks that use their IP. And I doubt WB is all too pleased, either.
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And where are all the comments? This is like the fourth
I'm quite interested to see how the Finns pull of full-length sci-fi comedy, considering very few other countries seem to have even got close to making it funny.
A question for someone who speaks both languages.
In the trailer there are a lot of seemingly bizarre translations. Twinkler Banks is a great example. Was that a translation made on the word or the meaning of the words? Or was it just wrong altogether? While I understand it is a parody, foreign humor can be difficult to understand at times. Fortunately special effects usually are not confusing.
* Winners compare their achievements to their goals, losers compare theirs to that of others.
This appears to be the end result of an awful lots of work.... and absolutely no sense of humor.
As usual, cheers to the CGI and OMGZ to everything else.
A horrible, horrible pun...
Something Witty Goes Here
A friend of mine always asks the same thing about Linux guys. Here is my theory:
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Once upon a time (any time within the 20th century before the 1960s in the United States), men only had short conservative hair cuts and women had hair like Donna Reed. During these times, all dissent on any front was not only frowned upon but wound up getting you investigated as a "dirty red". But, as is wont to happen, the conservatives became more and more corrupt and the average person began seeing through their illusion of morality. More and more of those "beatniks" and their kind started to become prevalent in society and the conservatives lost their grip.
In the 60s, the counterculturalists morphed into hippies and one of the symbols of the males of their rebellion was to grow long hair as a reaction against the crew cut. This trend spread until not only hippies had long hair, but even college professors, detectives, doctors and even lawyers (by the 80s)! What was once a symbol of rebellion had become a weakened style statement with no real substance. By the 90s you were seeing a mixture of men sporting both crew cuts and pony tails.
Finally, sometime between the 70s and now, geeks (who are woefully behind the times in terms of style and counterculture) caught onto the concept of the male pony tail. This seemed to spread throughout several of the geek subcultures such as the Linux community, gamers, sci-fi fans and the like. The meaning of the pony tail amongst these folk is somewhat of a mystery because it's likely to be both a symbol of some kind of rebellion (akin to, "I shake my fist at thee") and an awkward fashion statement. So it's safe to say that the reason these folks have pony tails is probably because they want them. But it's also safe to say that they probably haven't a clue in the world WHY they want them. Except maybe because "so and so has one and he's super cool".
Did that clear things up?
-"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o