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What if we get rock people?

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"Oh darn."

:lol:
 
The crew will have to work out their motivations.

That, or the rock monsters will be the ridiculous minions of the STV's Floating Face God.
 
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Holy fuck - getting my prostate exam was more fun than this thread.
I'll trade your prostate exam for my prostate biopsy... and raise you.:rommie:

Hopefully, this movie will be another fun Star Trek movie. I do want to see them mature, now that they are "well into their 5-year mission".
 
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Pegg talks a little (emphasis on 'little') on Elba's character during promotion for Mission Impossible.

http://t.co/UvmDUentvY

Apparently he's morally complex, but not the same way Khan was in STID.

It made me think of Empires review for '09, where they longed 'oh, for the days of a truly evil empire' (in response to Nero's backstory). Looks like they'll be disappointed again.
 
It made me think of Empires review for '09, where they longed 'oh, for the days of a truly evil empire' (in response to Nero's backstory). Looks like they'll be disappointed again.

Well, good. Wanting simplistically "evil' villains is misunderstanding Star Trek on a fundamental level.
 
What's weird is that was less than a year after The Dark Knight and Iron Man, and the same month as Transformers 2. Our blockbusters weren't exactly lacking in purely evil villains.
 
A movie can be reasonably successful yet still draw criticism for certain elements. And in that case, it's only reasonable for the makers of the next movie to go "Okay, those aspects didn't go over well, so let's try not to repeat them next time."

But I don't remember a whole lot of criticism about Alice Eve outside of the underwear scene.

The business about the underwear scene was really about her character contributing nothing much in general except for that scene. Otherwise it would never have loomed so... large, as it were.

(We've talked about this somewhere before... ah, yes.)
 

HISlaH! tlhIngan Hol 'oHbej!
("Yes! It certainly is Klingon!")

Specifically, it reads vIHtaH gho, which means "the hoop is in motion".
This is an idiomatic expression that means roughly "Hurry up!" or "Time's running out!" Or, more specifically, that a time-limited opportunity has presented itself.

It is a reference to a Klingon game/exercise called qa'vaQ, where one person rolls a hoop (similar to a hula hoop) and another throws a spear through it.
Worf teaches this game to Toq and his friends on Carraya IV in the TNG episode Birthright, part II.

The expression comes from Klingon for the Galactic Traveler by Marc Okrand, and is written in the pIqaD alphabet advocated by the Klingon Language Institute.
The font appears to be KLI pIqaD HaSta, which I believe was also used for the Haynes Bird-of-Prey owners' workshop manual.
 

HISlaH! tlhIngan Hol 'oHbej!
("Yes! It certainly is Klingon!")

Specifically, it reads vIHtaH gho, which means "the hoop is in motion".
This is an idiomatic expression that means roughly "Hurry up!" or "Time's running out!" Or, more specifically, that a time-limited opportunity has presented itself.

It is a reference to a Klingon game/exercise called qa'vaQ, where one person rolls a hoop (similar to a hula hoop) and another throws a spear through it.

Interesting. In this case, as in the game, one must literally enter to win.
 
A movie can be reasonably successful yet still draw criticism for certain elements. And in that case, it's only reasonable for the makers of the next movie to go "Okay, those aspects didn't go over well, so let's try not to repeat them next time."

But I don't remember a whole lot of criticism about Alice Eve outside of the underwear scene.

Not the point. I'm not talking about rational and balanced assessments, I'm talking about studio logic, which tends to be based in careless generalizations and absolutes. These are the kind of people who think that if a movie in a specific genre does poorly, the problem is with the entire genre, not the quality of the movie itself. So they're not exactly inclined to break something down into its separate parts and judge them individually.




The expression comes from Klingon for the Galactic Traveler by Marc Okrand, and is written in the pIqaD alphabet advocated by the Klingon Language Institute.

I find it amusing that the Klingon writing system is named pIqaD. When Jean-Luc of the Enterprise introduces himself to Klingons, they must think he's calling himself "Captain Alphabet."
 
but seriously I'm betting Klingon and therefore brown.

Kirk having something with a Klingon woman would certainly cause devastation across all of time and space, shattering the Prime Universe into pieces. I fully approve of it and the implications it might have.

No, on a second thought, Kirk was always reasonable when it came to Klingons before they killed David. No, it should be Keenser having an affair with a Klingon man. Watch Scotty explode.

I am just so cruel, ain't I?
 
The expression comes from Klingon for the Galactic Traveler by Marc Okrand, and is written in the pIqaD alphabet advocated by the Klingon Language Institute.

I find it amusing that the Klingon writing system is named pIqaD. When Jean-Luc of the Enterprise introduces himself to Klingons, they must think he's calling himself "Captain Alphabet."
Indeed! The way he pronounces it a lot of the time ("p'cawed") is actually a very good approximation of how one pronounces pIqaD, which on top of being the name of a writing system can also mean "We challenge you." Perhaps that's the real reason the Yesterday's Enterprise universe was in such a state?
 
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