Thanks JJ, I needed THAT!

[Borgminister]

Can't disagree with you there...

 

[indranee]

you get brownie points if you can name that tune (or the composer)

 

[KirkusOveractus]

^ Wasn't that Springsteen?

 

[indranee]

yep. Two Hearts. in The River album.

you win a delicious, juicy chocolate fudge brownie!

 

[KirkusOveractus]

Ooooh, I like brownies!

 

[Borgminister]

Too slow and fat... But at least I won't put on any more weight with the brownies...

 

[KirkusOveractus]

Now, I gotta figure out how to get the brownie (and thus also get to meet indranee!)

 

[indranee]

they're low fat we could all use some good health!

 

[Admiral James Kirk]

Admiral, I have to post on here, and say how much I love your OP! Spot on, as far as I'm concerned, and I agree with you all the way!

Thank you. I think it's really important that people register their satisfaction with a product.

It's been said that people at Paramount do pay attention to this board to some limited degree. Over the years I've been here there's been absolutely no hesitation at registering dissatisfaction with what we've been given. This is out absolute right.

If we don't like a product we should voice that dislike. Especially if we've got somebody's ear. The thing is that we should absolutely remember to say loud and clear what is working so we can get more of the same.

One way to do this of course is repeat business. I've seen Trek twice. I brought someone my second time. I'm thinking of seeing it a third time. I never see movies three times. Never. Well not in years. The last Trek movie I saw more than three times in theaters was TFF and that was twenty years ago. I saw TUC twice. I saw FC once. I saw INS, unfortunately, once. Wish I'd never seen that one. I skipped NEM until DVD. ST is the first Star Trek movie in years that deserves repeat viewing.

Another way I'm registering my satisfaction is with merchandise. I bought the novelization and the soundtrack and I'm thinking about picking up one of those cool phasers and maybe some for my kids as well. Do they have a model kit of the new Enterprise out yet? I want me one. One of my proudest pieces of merchandise are the drink cups I got from BK. Not the glass ones. I ain't buying a value meal when I just want a chicken sandwich and a cup of coffee! I got the plastic ones with the Enterprise and they're gorgeous. Love 'em. There was this old man in line behind me who specifically asked for one of those Star Trek cups even though all he had to do was order a large drink to get one. I wanted to gush to him about the movie but I was afraid he'd think I was a dork. Even my ex who hates everything in the world loved the movie. She kept going on about how badass Sulu was. I mean nobody ever gushes about Sulu so that was sweet.

Besides repeat viewing I'm happy to just thank the people who made this movie and hope that at least one person responsible be it any of the people I mention in the original post or even a random exec at Paramount. I am so grateful to them for giving Trek, the original Trek another chance to dazzle. They didn't fail. Not even a little. And I know that given a second chance that the next Trek will set the galaxy on fire.

I can't wait!

 

[Minuialeth]

I'm glad you posted that, Mr. B. It brings up so many great and funny moments in Star Trek, and it's wonderful to see so many consistent similarities to the TOS crew and their actions in this new movie as well.

So true!

Thanks a lot for your post, Admiral James Kirk

 

[Admiral James Kirk]

My pleasure. It's nice to have something to celebrate isn't it?

 

[Minuialeth]

Oh yes, it is! The movie has brought back the enthusiasm I felt watching ST years ago. I hoped I was going to like the movie (never had the chance to see another ST movie in my one and only local theater) but I didn't think I would enjoy it that much!
I've bought the countdown books (too bad I didn't know about them before watching the movie, it would have helped a lot), the novelization, TOS DVDs, the ST movies I had rented (VHS!) but had never gotten around to buy (only had the latest 3), I have to get my hands on the animated TOS and yesterday I litterally gushed over an Enterprise plastic model with the electronic sounds from the movie I saw in a supermarket. Oh, gushed over the phasers they sold, too.

I've checked the release date for the DVD (November?! That's like, forever) and noticed a "Theater version" mention at Amazon France. Is that me having too much hope or could it mean that there would be an extended version of the movie on DVD?

 

[Admiral James Kirk]

Hmmm. I dunno. It's not like Star Trek was Watchmen which had-I think-a four hour long director's cut. I think very little was cut out of ST. Just a couple of scenes with young Kirk if I recall and the stuff with Nero and the Klingons. Probably didn't amount to a lot of screentime. I'd think it was mostly deleted scene fodder.

Then again perhaps Paramount is saving that stuff for a specil Imax rerelease first and then a DVD later.

Hard to say. Nice to speculate though.