Posts Tagged “star trek”

This past Friday I saw the movie that claims to start the summer, X-men Origins: Wolverine. For years the back story of Wolverine has been incredibly confusing. However this all changed a few years ago with a min-series entitled, “Origins”. This finally put the beginnings of one of the Marvel universes most celebrated characters. The movie holds close to this part of the story. However when it comes to other bits of Marvel history it is far less faithful. There will be a few “spoilers” but lets face it, no one who goes to see this movie was expecting The Usual Suspects.

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.

http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/features/treklife.html

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.

[Editor's Note: TardisCaptain, has been attending conventions since the late eighties from Seattle to Los Angels to Oklahoma and all points in-between. This includes General SF conventions, gaming cons, charity cons, LAN expos and of course Star Trek cons. He has volunteered at various local conventions including Conduit, LTUE and Mountain-Con. He was the ConChair of Mountain-Con I, II and III and is still a trustee for Mountain-Con.]

Attending a convention is a rare treat. There is usually a large buzz of fans wanting to meet their favorite author or actor. Other fans are excited because they have the opportunity to share their fandom. Merchants have brought rare and unusual items to the dealers’ room. Games have been prepared by Game Masters, LARP Judges and LAN coordinators. Costumers have spent thousands of dollars and thousands of man-hours preparing costumes. Artists have submitted images of their imagination to the art-show or film festival. All of these fans have brought something to contribute to the excitement of a convention. All for one glorious geek-fest-filled three days.

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.

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.