Star Trek

[Unorthodox]

Whoa, 1:30.  I'll have to set that aside for later...

[Buster's Uncle]

I don't think you're the audience for that one.  Do you remember Charlie Evans?  Slapped Yeoman Rand on the butt? 

If the answer is no, you'd be better off if I posted the silly hour 1/2 redub episode someone patched together...

[Unorthodox]

Speaking of not being the audience....let me see if I can dig something up....

[Green1]

Has anyone seen this?

Star Trek: Of Gods and Men (Official Complete Film)

The pacing sucks and the acting is a bit weak, but it's not terrible...

I have watched a bunch of the fan made stuff. I agree, the acting is sometimes weak, but, like modders of old games - at least someone is producing content and keeping things alive. Depending on paramount/ JJ Abrahms is not going to do it.

I am looking forward to seeing what the guy that played Tuvok is going to do with Star Trek: Renegades.

[Buster's Uncle]

I think the fan-made stuff is mostly lame --  but they usually have their hearts in the right place, and I will totally watch anyone doing a credible attempt at real Star Trek.

Have you seen this one? http://trekmovie.com/2012/08/06/first-vignette-from-star-trek-continues-fan-series-picks-up-where-tos-left-off/  I provisionally think it shows even more promise than New Voyages/Phase II - if they'll just get around to making some full episodes.

[Green1]

Wow. That looks a lot more realistic than New Voyages.

[Buster's Uncle]

Their Kirk?  That's the voice of Edward Elgar on Fullmetal Alchemist.

[Buster's Uncle]

Here's an interesting site with some production details for various iterations - I only looked at the Real ST & Phase 2 stuff, but I know that stuff pretty well and there was some information that was new to me - more about Planet of the Titans than I'd ever seen, for instance.

http://ottens.co.uk/forgottentrek/forgotten-trek-returns/

[Buster's Uncle]

I've been reading and thinking a lot about Star Trek lately - it strikes me that TNG, etc., fans these days are in a place to finally understand how fans of real Trek like me have felt for 25 years now - this shiny new thing came along calling itself Star Trek, and it's like my thing never happened - except to dump on.  These kids today have no taste, and the suits have no respect.

Sucks hard, don't it?

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Here's a funny picture to cheer you up.

[Buster's Uncle]

Probably everyone's already seen this, but just in case...

Star Trek Enterprise Pizza Cutter from ThinkGeek

[Buster's Uncle]

Neil DeGrasse Jr. High Tyson gets it right, as usual...

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=OyUN5vG1T8k" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=OyUN5vG1T8k</a>

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[Buster's Uncle]

Speaking of nerdrage: "Get out your angry feelings by beating up William Shatner. You'll feel better."

Anger is Illogical

[Green1]

lol, BU....

I should have posted that in the corp chat (another thread in RC for those not reading all new posts) I was in when all that went down!

Then again, I do think more of us than would like to admit has had nerd rage to some degree in our gaming careers. Either on the recieving or giving end.

[Buster's Uncle]

I've been on both sides of that, the main difference being that the other guy was always wrong to feel that way.

[Buster's Uncle]

I've never seen Nemesis, but I read a lot about it and even sat through Mr. Plinket's review.  Contrarian that I am, I can never take it for granted that I'll hate what other people hate, but I have heard a lot about this flick, and it really does sound very bad.

So recently, I saw someone make a suggestion about how they could have made Nemesis good that strikes me as dead brilliant.  The basic problem with the movie was that Shinzon sucked, yes?  As Uno tells us, a good villain is everything in an adventure story.

So make villain Locutus instead.

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