Karl Urban on "Star Trek"

[Kegek]

Hm. Matt, I really don't see what the prequel/reboot debate had to do with this thread prior to you bringing it up. Could you explain that a bit?

 

[SlyCardie]

Let's all agree that it's a prequel.

I'm contemplating seeing Cloverfield simply to see the trailer for XI. <_<

 

[CorporalClegg]

I wonder if Matt even knows what a reboot is?

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Strictly speaking, no one does. It's whatever I point to and call a "reboot" - if I'm a marketer working for a movie studio. Does it profit us to call it a "reboot," a "reimagining," a "prequel" or a "retelling"...or do we sell the most tickets by Just Not Saying?

 

[Cyke101]

Matt said:
All I'm saying is that it's stupid to get your hopes up for some recreation fanwank.

I would like to take this time to point out that, well, the creation of a new Trek movie (with Nimoy, no less) after the failure of Nemesis is indeed fanwank.

Reboot or Prequel, whatever it may be in the end, it's still fanwank. And I have no problems with that.

 

[Kryton]

Am I the only person who reboots his computer and gets it back pretty much in the same condition it was in before the reboot?

 

[Cary L. Brown]

Kryton Kryngle said:Am I the only person who reboots his computer and gets it back pretty much in the same condition it was in before the reboot?

"Reboot" is, technically, a computer term. Its usage in film-making terms is pure slang, of course. But what does a "reboot" do for a computer?

A reboot does NOT mean that you wipe away everything that's been installed on your computer. That's called a "reload" or a "reinstall." In that case, you go back to the basics and throw away everything you've built up over time (you can "reinstall" much of that, but you have to rebuild it all, piece by piece).

A reboot DOES, however, allow you to restart processes, in the case that something has gone horribly wrong, and get everything working in (theoretically) the right relationship.

You don't lose your history, nor do you lose your data, nor do you lose your applications.

Basically, in computer terms, a reboot is done RIGHT AFTER a horrible mistake or error, to allow you to correct that individual horrible error. It's also done for basic housekeeping, to AVOID an error which is likely coming shortly.

Now, in common usage in the "BSG/Trek/etc" conversations, the terms "reboot," "reimagining" and so forth are used largely interchangeably. However, if you wanted to use a computer term in the most accurate sense, what's meant when these terms are thrown about is most closely related to a reformatting followed by a reinstallation. (Well, really, in the case of nuBSG, its not even THAT close... it's more like tossing out your old PC and replacing it with a Mac, but calling it the same computer. )

 

[Aragorn]

CorporateClaus said:
I wonder if Matt even knows what a reboot is?

But... but... but he's giving 99.9% odds!!! You don't just pull that sort of number out of your ass without anything to back that up unless you're a total loser.

 

[Plum]

... can't tell ye how boring this OT is!