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First Official Photos From New Star Trek Movie
Philias Fog writes "The most secret project in Hollywood is finally lifting its skirt. Today Paramount released a number of images for their new Star Trek movie directed by JJ Abrams. Shots include images of the bridge of the Enterprise, the villain Nero, a ship (not the Enterprise) and all of the crew in uniform. TrekMovie.com has a complete set of photos and links to all the new shots."
I can't get over the fact that Zachary Quinto (Sylar) from Heroes is Spock. I keep expecting that the plot will be about a bunch of scalped corpses being found all over the Enterprise.
It's obvious. Galloping around the cosmos is a game for the young, Doctor!
Correction: ..... .....
Why don't.... you... people....
Get a life!
Be glad that Lucas and Spielberg's hands were nowhere near this film. It's either this or seeing a CG render of McCoy.
~ Old Warriors Society
Considering Sulu was running around with Kumar getting stoned on the weekends and escaping from Guantanamo, it's no wonder it took him so long.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
That's dangerous, artillery is quite heavy.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
I would think CleverNickName would be the best person to answer that one.
Unlikely, looks like he hasn't commented on Slashdot since January.
In other news, a giant wooshing sound caught thousands of noobs by surprise today.
RAPE! RAPE!
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
This says it better than I can.
"I think it would be a good idea!"
Gandhi, about Internet Security
Hey, Commander. In Quasar Delema, you used the auxiliary of Deck-B for Gamma Over-ride. But, online blueprints clearly indicate that Deck-B is independent of the Kined Matrix. We were just wondering where the error lies in that...
PS - The Klingons didn't have a word for surrender...until they met Kirk
This sounds awfully like:
The Klingons didn't have a word for surrender...until they met Chuck Norris *gaah*
Buzz Aldrin's 78
simon
WNMHGB
Gesundheit.
I find it kinda hard to swallow that Sulu took an additional 25 years to rank captain.
But haven't the fans complained for years about the prejudice against gays in Trek?
Or did I misunderstand that?
they aren't raping anything, they're re-imagining.
Your Honour, the defendant didn't rape the victim. He simply re-imaginined her vagina with his penis in it.
Trolling is a art,
More like the Tiny Toon Adventures. And the Klingons are the Dizzy Devil, the Ferengi are Montana Max and the new enemy is ... of course... Elmyra.
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
The current Galactica is far superior to the tripe from my childhood.
What do you mean? I thought seeing "alien species" dancing disco was great drama!
Damn it Jim! I am a small web server! Not a beowulf cluster!
Insert funny smart-ass comment here.
Does anyone else think the bridge photo looks like a bad SNL sketch of Star Trek? Why does Uhuru look like she is about to check and see if our table is ready?
How dare you knock the Priceline Negotiator. I only have one thing to say about that...
"But this one goes to 11!"
They gave Janeway a ship and she got lost on her first day. Clearly Starfleet aint what it used to be.
A constitution class ship has neither an infinitely thin skin, nor is it 100% hollow, nor is it a perfect box. Your air volume calculation needs work.
More or less what I said in my post. So what's your estimate, captain pedant?
I guessed that the skin was 3 cm thick at the hull breach, but on TV it looks like several separate layers. I also remember what one of the "experts" said about the aircraft that hit the World Trade Center; that the aircraft had similar density to an empty soda can. Since aircraft and TV spacecraft seem to be somewhat similar in construction, I made an engineering decision to throw out the volume occupied by the material the ship itself is constructed from and it's contents.
Heck, I made the ship a rectangular box. It doesn't look like one, but I remember from a course I took on designing gating systems for metal castings (fluid systems to feed odd-shaped empty cavities) that simplifying the shape you're trying to feed (to or from, it doesn't matter) makes the calculations a lot simpler. A more accurate volume guess would be a set of cylindrical sections (the saucer is a very short, wide cylinder for example).
But, who has the time.
Even if I did that, people like you'd probably want me to factor in the effect of bedsheets and seat cushions, and liquid water that would flash to steam from the sinks and toilets.
In short, you can't ever make a rabid fan happy, so why even try?
That was a rhetorical question, by the way.
Putting moderation advice in your
I must be getting old but it looks like a high school production of TOS to me.
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I lost track, is this an even or odd Star Trek movie?
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> So it ended up going to Cho even though Abrams was
> a little unsure of casting a Korean as a Japanese officer.
Sort of like being unsure of casting an Irishman as a Scottish engineer.
The reason that makeup is so heavy is that, when you're looking at a 3-story tall closeup in a theater, "average skin" looks like the surface of the moon, and it can be very distracting.
Ah, I see you made the same mistake I did and saw "The Matrix" -- and specifically Lawrence Fishburn's face -- at an IMAX theater. [shudder]
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
Unless you're standing next to the hole and get stuck to it. In which case you'd seal it nicely, saving the air and getting a nasty bruise.
All hail the inanimate carbon rod!
Sure, there are plenty of people who will watch and accept any vapid trash you throw up on the screen, so long as it has explosions, boobies, and (most importantly) a twist ending. A lot of people watch Lost, Fringe, used to watch Alias, and actually went to see Mission Impossible 3. This just shows that there's a ready market to make a quick buck distracting folks for 47 minutes (or longer).
I disagree. Boobies are ALWAYS more important than a twist ending in my book.
Ahhhhh, I love the smell of fresh Star Trek discord and dissention in the morning. I've been missing it now for a couple of years since there's been no new Trek for us to nitpick about. I'm just waiting now for the Zombies to come out of Engineering right there behind Simon Pegg, and for Spock to start slicing open foreheads and we'll know we've reached complete fandom critical mass.
I am *so* looking forward to this - a young Kirk shows his stuff before he becomes the legend he was in later life in a never before referenced adventure that completely ignores all prior continuity, but the entire crew of the Enterprise happens to be there for.
I especially waiting on the next one, "Star Fleet Babies" where the entire crew of the Enterprise, being kept by odd coincidence in a babysitting clinic run by Amanda Rogers in Iowa, save the young federation from a very young Trelane of Gothos and the baby borg he teleports in after baby Spock beats him at chess.
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That stardate makes no sense.
So, what's the plot about, Kirk is grounded by his parents, but sneaks out and steals the Enterprise?
How about
Star date Nine zero
Two
One zero.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill