I curse Ace of Spades for linking to the Agony Booth.

For now I am trapped within it. Curse you, Ace of Spades HQ. I cannot spend the next three days reading that site.

Moe Lane

PS: AoSHQ linked to the “Spock’s Brain” review: I personally would have gone with “And the Children Shall Lead.” Either way, I can’t imagine why Agony Booth thought advertising the complete third season of Star Trek DVDs would work. The whole shebang, on the other hand…

It’s apparently Star Trek Friday …Wait! Wait! These two are worth it!

As God is my witness, they are. First off, here’s a mashup via At The Point of a Gun*…

…that demonstrates that even Holy Grail can be improved with Star Trek; and then there’s this:

…from… well, I don’t actually know who. It got emailed to me. Go figure.

[UPDATE]: Duh, it was right there on the image. Luke Writes. You Read.

Moe Lane

*And check out this video he found, while you’re there.

What? Yes, CBS put Star Trek TOS on Youtube. High quality, too.

I’ve mentioned it before.

Anyway, it’s telling about the quality of the recent Star Trek movie that there’s been a number of people wondering how this version of the crew is going to handle meeting Khan. I’d actually prefer that they don’t – watch Space Seed again, then Wrath of Khan, and tell me how you can fairly expect somebody to live up to Ricardo Montalban – but it tells you something that the fans have relaxed about the entire prospect.

Me, I want to see how they handle Mirror, Mirror. I have high expectations for Simon Pegg’s performance in that one.

My longer review of the Star Trek movie. [pause]

[longer pause]

Oh, screw it: what Lileks said.

Moe Lane

PS: Were the first ten minutes ’emotional?’ Not at all! I merely had my allergies flare up. Happens all the time, to lots of people. Never to you, you say?

Really?

Uh-huh. Continue reading My longer review of the Star Trek movie. [pause]

I am off to see Star Trek. [UPDATED]

I wonder what it will be like…

OH SWEET MONKEY JEEBUS THAT WAS A GOOD MOVIE.

The Star Trek screenwriters’ interview.

Via The Rhetorician, meet Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (warning: spoilers):

This is what two people made of money look like, by the way. Real simple to duplicate: all you need is a $31 million opening day. That’s at Iron Man levels.

Some Friday Night links.

Constant Reader Matt has reviewed the new Star Trek movie on his new blog Hawk’s plateau.Personally, I liked the Cloverfield shaky-cam, but tastes differ.
GayPatriotWest has likewise reviewed the Star Trek movie.
Josh Trevino went a little… expansive on Twitter about how he felt about the Star Trek movie. But he never said whether it was better than Wrath of Khan.
And Neptunus Lex commemorates today as being the anniversary of the first airplane ordered for naval aviation. Just to throw that curve ball in there.
Also, Age of Sail is taking suggestions. Well, suggestions involving Napoleonic-era naval stuff, which I know is not exactly a completely alien subject for a lot of people reading this blog.

Moe Lane

PS: [Nah, I won’t mention it after all. It should be its own post, anyway.]

PPS: You know that you want this.

Revisiting the New ‘Stuff Just Blows Up’ Star Trek.

Dan Collins and David Thompson have more about that eye-rolling bad review of Star Trek that I… well, rolled my eyes over. David went on to mention “In the Pale Moonlight” of Star Trek: DS9; the clip that he’s thinking of is good enough that I’m reproducing it below. It’s no accident that this is one of the most memorable events from the series. Or that it’s also one of the most contrary-to-stereotypical ones, either.

Would that there had been more of them.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.

Newsweek: new Star Trek just blows up stuff.

Everybody exhale.

The latest film version of “Star Trek,” however, is more brawn than brain, and it largely jettisons complicated ethical conundrums in favor of action sequences and special effects.

And let me be the second to say, Thank. God.

Moe Lane

PS: More seriously-missing-the-point:

“…but what’s missing are the typically progressive politics and moral dilemmas that made the original “Trek” more than a space-age adventure show and helped earn it legions of ardent fans.”

Umm. No.

Star Trek Inspirational posters.

You may want to watch the original Star Trek again, Newsweek.

Just a thought.

Star Trek premieres… in Kuwait.

I meant to post on this story about the Star Trek movie and crew over the weekend, but never got around to it until AoSHQ reminded me:

I am in the Army and currently deployed to Kuwait. We have a movie theater on post that shows “second run” movies, meaning that we get the movie about a week or two after they are released in the states. At times, a special effort is made to show the movie here on the same date it is released in the states. With that being said, I was shocked to see the movie schedule that was published for the first half of April. According to this schedule the new Star Trek movie will have a “special premier” on April 11th. I found it very hard to believe that we would be able to view a big “summer time blockbuster” movie that won’t premiere in the States for another 27 days.

Sure enough, the movie actually did get played today and I was able to get in to see it not just once, but twice. Not only did the movie arrive in Kuwait, but J.J. Abrams and most of the “bridge crew” cast (Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, John Cho, Eric Bana and Karl Urban) were here as well.

Continue reading Star Trek premieres… in Kuwait.