On a recent cruise vacation up the coast of the Western United States I found myself in Seattle WA. After the normal visits to the Space Needle, and Pike’s Place market, we found ourselves back at the Seattle Center. While there we found an incredible building. It was the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame. They had numerous authentic, and replica, pieces of memorabilia from throughout the history of Sci-Fi. Despite their lack of Doctor Who it is a must for any geek.
Since the new Star Trek launches tonight, I thought I’d open up a thread to discuss what everyone thought of it. In an effort to help people who haven’t seen it yet, I’m going to create a thread in the forums as well. If you want to talk spoilers, go to the forums. If you want to talk about stuff that does not qualify as spoiler material, go ahead and post in the comments section below.
Most of this mirrors Squishy’s comments, but I thought I’d add some of my own.
How to handle traffic on the freeway.
My wife and I had a date night so we took the opportunity to go see the new James Bond film, Quantum of Solace. As with previous James Bond movies, the title came from Ian Fleming. It was the title of a short story in Fleming’s James Bond short story book “For your eyes only.” As with previous title uses, elements of the short story were not used in the movie.
Quantum of Solace picks up right where Casino Royale left off. So I would highly recommend re-watching that movie before staring QoS. If you had any doubt if this was an action flick, that was disproven in the first minutes of the movie. James Bond having to take a lot of matters into his own hands reminded me of License to Kill and Die Another Day. I also enjoyed the Goldfinger tribute when one of the Bond Girls is killed and left for Bond to find.
Lots of good things happened last weekend at Mountain-Con IV. Lot of things also need to be improved (as with any volunteer run organization). But let me show you the best thing that happened to me over the weekend.
The Artist Guest of Honor was David Reddick. David draws the Garfield comic strip for newspapers (yes he is authorized) but his fun job is drawing several Star Trek themed comics. One is called The Trek Life.
The main character for this series is a Trek Obsessed fan named Carl. A lot of people have compared me to this character. Ok more than a lot of you. When I heard that David was coming, I wanted to commission this piece of artwork from him.
Throughout all of geek history their have been the great debates. Who would win in a fight, Mighty Mouse or Superman? What’s the better time machine, the Delorean or the Tardis? Which is better, Star Wars or Star Trek? [Editor: could Pikachu ever battle Raiden?] I will not really be answering any of these questions, but I will be taking a look at a different side of the third question.
Let me come right out and say it, the new Clone Wars movie was good. Provided you take it for what it is. It is not Episode 2.5, it is not a stand alone movie. It is a straight to DVD quality movie that is intended to act as an introduction to a new Saturday morning cartoon. As such you have to hold it in the same light as Star Wars: Ewoks, and Star Wars: Droids. Now that’s out of the way.
Well, with a title like that, you KNOW this is going to be another Star Trek post. It’s honestly not like I don’t have anything better to talk about, it’s just that it offers up so many easy targets.
When I was younger, and watching shows like The Next Generation, Space: Above and Beyond, and seaQuest: DSV, I imagined how awesome it’d be to live on ships like I saw on TV and live those lives. Of course, that was as a kid. As an adult now, I have a quality of life that I’ve become accustomed to.
Let’s role play a bit, shall we?
A junior officer on the Enterprise D receives a standard 110 square meters (1182 square feet) living space. That’s not bad for just one person. If they want, they can opt to combine spaces with a roomie (though you don’t often see that in the show). The captain has a nice three room cabin, but even that is so spartan you feel out of place.
I’m a Trekker. I should clarify that before I go any further into this post. Not a Trekkie, but a Trekker. I’m not entirely sure what the differences are, but I have it on very good authority that I am one and not the other. The point is, I’m a Star Trek fan.
I just finished the game Star Trek Legacy for PC that I got for my birthday from Schmidty and Squishy. First strike against it (and the only one that really matters) was that it was a Star Trek game. In this one, you play throughout all the major eras as each other the main captains and fight a non-canon origin of the Borg.
Retconning the history is forgivable. What’s not is that it was created by programmers who were evidently frozen in ice for the last 14 years and have only recently started making games again. The sound is off, the controls are unmappable, the ships look like they were made from 5 polygons (tops), and there are huge gaping tears in space.
This is for all the Trekkies out there. Star Trek XI is set to be released in May 2009. Directed by J.J. Abrams (the guy that directed Mission: Impossible III) An upcoming movie about the greatest space adventure of all time, “Star Trek,” featuring a young, new crew venturing boldly where no man or woman has gone before. This is a chronicle of the early days of James T. Kirk and his fellow USS Enterprise crew members. What I have gathered about the plot is that it is the story of the James T. Kirk and his crew before they joined together to crew the Enterprise. It tells how the starship was built and its first missions.
Sorry, but I can’t upload media so here is a link. This trailer shows the construction of the infamous USS Enterprise.
There is a big debate amongst different geek camps, and it usually boils down to a case of “my hero can beat up your hero”. The great Star Wars vs Star Trek battle. The one that usually forgets all sort of things like scale, technology, or the fact that it’s all fictional.
I recently started trying to compare some of my favorite ships from various Sci Fi franchises, only to realize I was really comparing apples to oranges.
Iron Man – May, 2008
Speed Racer – May, 2008
Indiana Jones – May, 2008
The Incredible Hulk – June, 2008
Wall-E – June, 2008
Get Smart – June, 2008
X-Men Origins: Wolverine – May, 2009
Star Trek – May, 2009
Might actually have a nice summer of movies, which hasn’t happened for awhile. Sure, there was the glee-session that was Transformers last year (where I was bouncing in my seat like a 5 year old), but that and Bourne Ultimatum were sort of it for 2007.
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