I hear there's a deleted scene that will show up on the DVD where Kirk gets piss drunk and dry-humps Uhura's leg.
I saw it tonight. It sucked.
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That was R, they're a footnote race of not quite omnipotent and omniscient aliens that are 23% less powerful than a Q and seem to have a fetish for accidents involving flatulence jokes and spraying female crew with chocolate syrup.
How the fuck did Quark get to the 23rd century? They never explained it.
It was pretty cool the way the Enterprise used its quantum torpedoes to destroy the Death Star whilst simultaneously ripping open the space-time continuum and allowing Sam Beckett to "leap" into the Captain for the second half of the movie.
(though the quantum torpedoes were a clear continuity violation and Abrams should be waterboarded for such an oversight
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(though the quantum torpedoes were a clear continuity violation and Abrams should be waterboarded for such an oversight
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Well did they really need to have the scene with the alien that "resembled" ET the way that Breen resembled "Boushh" from Return of the Jedi as the porongraphy and crime lord of the planet TnA...I mean I can understand that's the place that Kirk would vacation, but why do that when there are other places like Risa...
I nearly walked out when they made Jonathan Harris's Dr. Smith emerge as the main villain, along with the robot in his early, psychotic phase (the use of B&W stock footage from Lost in Space may be considered by some critics as a daring departure from the state of the art special effects usually associated with modern space epics, but, frankly, it just sucked. The borrowed theme music by Johnny Williams, though, seemed appropriate.).
When the robot said "Mr Spock, you must plug your data probe into me" I think I threw up a bit in my mouth...
Well, yeah, but what else are you gonna do when a robot pwns the Ent computer at Wii Tennis? Man there is a lot of product placement in Trek XI too.
The robot wins at a Wii game, the crew wears Nikes, the viewscreen is a Sony, and Spock's "favourite human movie" is 300. And the Enterprise computer should not be running Windows Vista. I forget some of the smaller placements, but damn, is this a movie or a series of adverts?
Don't forget the Recaro captain's chair, the Momo steering column for the helm and Boston Acoustics speakers in the surround sound system in the rec room. And really, does everyone have to be drinking Gatorade on the bridge? And in the lounge, that Starbucks counter is really annoying (I hate coffee).
Still, at least they removed the flaming paint job on the nacelles after the test screening. Some things are just too tacky.
Still, at least they removed the flaming paint job on the nacelles after the test screening. Some things are just too tacky.
Hey, at least it wasn't as tacky as the neon stripe running along under the bottom of the saucer section and the fact the nacelles could move up and down...
A joystick to steer the Enterprise? ARGH!!!!!!!!
But it's a MOMO joystick--so relax man.
Of greater concern was, after the main computer system failed, the rebooted screen message was "640K is all the RAM anyone will ever need" and Syl...I mean, Spock concurred. I guess the product placements were designed to evoke every decade during which Star Trek was broadcast.
I saw Star Trek: Shortbus. Not only did it suck, it sucked itself.
I thought the cameo by Kevin Federline was pretty good. He made an excellent Pakled.
But did they really need to put Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda in as a couple of Klingons joy riding in souped up shuttlepods giving the Enterprise the finger as they blew past while "Born to Be Wild" played...it was just so cheap...
I was pulling for it right up 'til the kobayashi maru thing. That raped canon all over the place. First, C3PO should not have been there (Remember, he *hates* space travel), and second, not only shouldn't R2D2 have been there, but he most certainly should not have been flying that thing.
Also, What's up with all the Sky Pirates? I don't remember any Sky Pirates in Star Trek.
Also, What's up with all the Sky Pirates? I don't remember any Sky Pirates in Star Trek.
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