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Star Trek To Return Christmas 2008
Tycoon Guy writes "Paramount today announced the new Star Trek film is scheduled for release on Christmas Day 2008. The studio also confirmed the film will be directed by J. J. Abrams, who said the film will 'embrace and respect' Trek canon, but will also 'chart its own course.' Also today, rumors are out claiming Matt Damon, Adrien Brody and Gary Sinise will play Kirk, Spock, and Scotty, respectively."
The studio also confirmed the film will be directed by J. J. Abrams, who said the film will 'embrace and respect' Trek canon, but will also 'chart its own course.'
It's great that the guy charting that course is best known for a show called LOST.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
Will dax be in it!?
I don't think they can make a DS9 movie because of the law they passed that hollywood has to make only movies that suck.
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much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
Funny One:
http://www.videosift.com/video/George-Takei-respo
I wonder who will replace our flamboyant navigator.
Kaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhnn nnnnnnnn!
I don't think they can make a DS9 movie because of the law they passed that hollywood has to make only movies that suck.
I hear Shatner is in negotiations.
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I reiterate: Shatner is Kirk.
Damon, Matt..... so the Ferengi are in it too?
Lets just hope the audience doesn't just walk out screaming:
We've been Khaaaaaaaannnnnnneeeedddd!!!
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
The old adage still seems to hold: Even numbered Star Trek movies don't totally suck.
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P.S. I'm posting about Star Trek while sloshed. Life can sink no lower.
I heard the working title of it was going to be "LOST in Space"
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No, but he might be the Kumquat Haagen-Dazs.
"It is our blasphemy which has made us great, and will sustain us, and which the gods secretly admire in us." - Zelazny
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How would a DS9 movie break such a rule?
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
On a humorous note, imagine John Madden playing Spock:
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
Adrian Brody as Spock, huh?
The plot: Kirk, Spock, and crew travel back in time to early 21st century Earth using the tried-and-true slingshot effect. They are arrested by police for their suspicious activities as they recon various historic landmarks in the United States. When a policeman removes the dew rag that Spock is wearing around his face, Kirk must convince him that Spock's appearance is due to a childhood accident in which his nose was caught in a mechanical rice picker.
They're going to worry about it being viewable by the UNINITIATED? Like, the 3 of them who will see this movie?
Guys, you've already lobbed ten of these over the fence and saturated 2nd tier television stations with reruns of the myriad TV versions. ANYBODY (okay, anybody who was older than 6 when the last one came out) who is likely to see this stinker is pretty going to have to know at least the basics about Star Trek - except perhaps for that Bedouin family that's been lost in the deserts of Cleveland since the Korean war ended 24 years ago.
Of course, they'll probably have to find a mysterious advanced technology device from the past, with a drawing of Kirk embedded in its design along side a warning. No worries, that's actually Kirk's sister. Spock's father will play a role in having deceived the Andorians into helping form the Federation, and his mother will have hidden his lost sister away behind a mysterious hatch on a jungle moon. Everything will go topsy-turvy when the Klingons take off their masks and turn out to have been from Secion 31 the whole time, and everything will end with no satisfying explanation having been given for any of this. But by that time, everybody will have forgotten why they entered the theater in the first place.
"It is our blasphemy which has made us great, and will sustain us, and which the gods secretly admire in us." - Zelazny
Actually the story begins with Scotty and Bones being merged in a transporter accident.
That they are found by the Galactica and Adama promptly puts them all out their misery.
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Worst. Signature. Ever.
Does that mean this will be a Star Trek "holiday special" ? (http://www.starwarsholidayspecial.com/)
Starring Will Smith as Cisco, Macaulay Culkin as quark, and Wilmer Valderrama as Dr. Bashir
J.J. Abrams is one of the guys who brought us "Lost" - coming December 2008 "Star Trek XI - Lost in Space" - Brent Spiner to play Robbie the Robot with a cameo from Matt le Blanc playing crewman #7.
How about: "Star Trek: The Crusher Adventures", in which Wesley Crusher (Wil Wheaton, of course, who is about the right age now) uses his Traveller powers to explore far reaches of the Universe. During the first six or seven episode, Wesley roams the known part of the Galaxy to round up a crew of ultra-geniuses whom he can also teach the Traveller gifts. No Vulcans, since they are too "logical" for such advanced knowledge, and no Klingons because they are too stupid. Several humans, of course, such as Mature-Guy, Black-Guy, and Hot-Babe, and several aliens, such a Plaster-Face, Funny-Hair, and a CGI-generated energy-based lifeform. Perhaps even Orion-Slave-Girl. While originally being able to travel without any visible means of transportation, Captain Wesley decides in season 2 that it would be a good idea to have a cool ship, as a place to call home and to transport aliens and goods. As an hommage to his mentor, he calls it the USS Traveller.
I am joking, of course, but I would not be surprised to find that this has already been the subject of several novels and a whole lot of fanfic.
You are a huge nerd *comic dog robot voice*
I - I would pay to see that, I'm afraid to say.
the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur - A.N. White
No - Britney Spears as Picard.
Tsunami -- You can't bring a good wave down!
"Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor, not a mechanic!! Oh, wait..."
or
"This is normally a 5 hour surgical procedure, but I'll have you buttoned up in two!"
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Actually, they have an all-new concept:
- Scotty has wry humor and uses the sentence "I'm an engineer, Jim, not a *" all the time.
- McCoy maintains that logic is the answer to everything.
- Spock has slept with every female on the planet.
- Uhura can fix any machine in half the time she should be able to.
- Kirk is rarely seen without a metal dongle in his ear. And a mini skirt. Starfleet Academy wasn't his most glorious time, you see.
Also, every character who wears any kind of red uniform cannot be killed by any means whatsoever. Indeed, Starfleet is experimenting with ship plating made of redshirts.
USE HOT GRITS WITH STATUE OF NATALIE PORTMAN (NAKED AND PETRIFIED)
I'm sorry, but did you even watch Enterprise?
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Instead of Will Smith, get Samuel L. Jackson.
"Fire the GOD DAMN PHASERS AT THOSE MOTHERFUCKERS."
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Kirk: Spock, what is your analysis of that space anomaly that is about to assimilate this ship?
Spock: Whoa!
Eternity: will that be smoking, or non-smoking? I Corinthians 6:9-10
Star Trek: Klingon Glory
They aren't the most cunning warriors in the empire. They get in alot of trouble, sent on a mission to protect the backwater sectors. But it all works out in the end.
(Cameos by Dorn and Frakes)
Captain Riker: "These have to be the stupidest klingons I've ever met!"
First Officer Worf, holding forehead in his hand, just sighs...
Mostly as a Lone Gunmen-esque action comedy, complete spoken in thlinganHol with subtitles. It could work!
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Triumph robot dog voice: You have read this deeply into an article about the casting of a Star Trek movie.
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