Trekspam

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Aww. The new movie made Spock cry. (Thanks, gethenian!)

Can you imagine how surreal his life must be? Although all things considered, I think there are worse lives to have than Leonard Nimoy’s—he seems to have enjoyed it quite a bit, anyway. I wonder what he thought of Baby Spock’s performance, and what kind of tips he gave him.* I’m with him on Karl Urban’s performance, though—dude was a spot-on Baby McCoy.

Upon second viewing, my sister has decided that her favorite character in Star Trek is the soundtrack, which is a total fanboy. You think I was in capslock? That was directly the result of the soundtrack, which was also stuck in capslock. The whole movie it’s like “HAY GUYS HOW COOL IS IT THAT THIS IS A STAR TREK MOVIE AND I GET TO BE THE SOUNDTRACK? DID YOU JUST SEE THAT AWESOME THING KIRK DID? AND HOW ABOUT THAT SPOCK, HUH? THIS IS SO GREAT HOW WE’RE ALL HERE WATCHING THIS!”

And since we took Mom’n’Dad today, we got to spend a few minutes after the movie pinning down the timeline for them, including an explanation that, depending on which fan you ask, “Either we’ve started a parallel universe here or the entire franchise just got erased”.

And last but not least, kjpepper posted one of the better YouTube tributes to Redshirts I’ve ever seen. Go collective Ensigns Ricky!

*"More eyeshadow!"

Comments

[beccastareyes]

I go with parallel universe. After all, there was presumably a universe where Nero never showed up to kill Kirk's daddy. And it's not like Trek doesn't have enough of those.

[pandoras-closet.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Spock even said that it was a paralell universe.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I'm never sure where they stand with that, but that's the one I'm going with, too.

[pandoras-closet.livejournal.com]

It's Star Trek.

In the Whoverse, Time is a ball of timey-wiemy stuff.

In Trek, it's silly putty.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I wound up saying, "See, in Star Trek, time does loop-de-loops on a pretty regular basis."

[biomekanic.livejournal.com]

I'm just glad the time cops didn't show up.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Dulmer and Lucsly would have busted Spock SO HARD.

(That was a great episode. I still want an icon of Chief O'Brien solemnly running tribbles across that tricorder and tossing them over his shoulder.)

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

...did Nimoy really call DeForest Kelley "D-Kelley"?

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I caught that, too! I am hoping like hell he did, because that would be hilarious.

I'm wondering if it was a mistype--maybe Kelley was "D" to his friends, and they just did the hyphen because that's how they heard it. I don't know, though.

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

I love the idea that the entire TOS cast had J-Lo-esque rapper nicknames. D-Kelley, L-Moy, J-Doo, Ni-Ni, W-Shat...

Well, maybe not that last one.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

BWAHAHA.

Don't feel bad for him, though. He's officially known as WILLIAM FUCKING SHATNER and by god he's earned it.

(Also, if I were Leonard Nimoy I would spend a lot of my life insisting "THAT'S COMMANDER SPOCK TO YOU, PAL.")

[gethenian.livejournal.com]

L-Moy sounds like a muppet name.

...and now I have this mental image of PIGS IN SPAAAAAAAAAAAACE running into the Enterprise during that episode of the Muppet Show where they have John Cleese on the Pigs In Space bit as a pirate...



I really don't need drugs. My brain is enough.

[wendyzski.livejournal.com]

Parallel universes are canon. 'Mirror Mirror' anyone?

[queenlyzard.livejournal.com]

Excellent video clip.

And yeah, the movie made me happier than I expected. I actually didn't quite see baby-McCoy that way, though-- I was a bit surprised at how they portrayed him, but it all worked out in the end. Baby-Spock impressed me quite a lot.

I am amazed that Shatner didn't manage a cameo appearance, though.

BTW, when I went to see it, someone had taped up a copy of the same LOLTrek you have as your icon, just under the movie poster in the theater! Quite amusing.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Really? I could have sworn he was CHANNELING DeForest Kelley.

Well, Kirk is dead. But since when does that stop anybody?

And this LOLTrek is so dang true, en't it?

[queenlyzard.livejournal.com]

well, that's the thing. He /was/ channeling Deforest (what the hell kind of name is that, anyway) Kelley. But I always thought of Bones' character as the sort of thing one develops over long years of experience. He had that whole Medical Veteran vibe going on, the cynicism of a man who's seen too much.

The thing is, no one starts out that way. It was just a bit jarring to me to see the same attitude in a young version of him, you know? I expected a bit more naive optimism as a basis for that later cynicism. The young Bones was /too much/ like the old Bones to strike me as completely believable. But I wound up loving him anyway.

And no, I didn't expect Shatner to show up as Kirk, dead or not. But he should have been in there somewhere. Maybe as a redshirt in the background or something.