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Zoe Saldana to don trippy ear plug and short dress in JJ Abrams' STAR TREK
Hey folks, Harry here... I'm digging this... Today, Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Zoe Saldana is in final negotiations to look off in odd directions while pretending to hear something out of the biggest ear plug in television history... that I know of. That's right, she'll put on the Red Mini and grab the console with every blast of cosmic force that shakes the intrepid ENTERPRISE in JJ Abrams' STAR TREK... which... well, I'm dying to see Sylar in. The rumors have been floating everywhere that Russell Crowe is being pursued like a prom queen to play the lead baddie in this epic relaunch. Let's keep our fingers crossed.
So far, I really like the casting of the main characters - as they're solid performers that could relaunch and stay in these roles for a while... however odd that may feel. Right? Right.
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wooooooooooo
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Trek is dead!
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Yummy!
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...not bad.
I'd like to open a hailing frequency with her... -
Looks like the casting is going well so far. I'm still excited about seeing Nimoy in another Trek movie.
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Does anyone really want to see this? Can't JJ Abrams work on his own project instead of a corporate Viacom retread?
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... looking at that picture.
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Yeah, I can see that! Brilliant casting!!
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take THAT Uhura!!! Way to put her in her place Abe! Uppity negro officers...
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She played a Trekkie in "The Terminal": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blSIyMmU4Tg
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Uhura was stacked people...captboulder is dead on. I love Abrams, but he has a serious hard on for skinny, flat-chested chicks (black or white)...Keri Russell, Jennifer Garner, etc.
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or a redhead, midget, oriental or latino chick. they're the only ones remaining. Once ive done that, i've like completed my 5 year mission
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That's a pretty funny clip.
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...or a Tommy Hilfiger ad meets Felicity episode meets a Snoop Doggy Dogg music video? Are they casting sexy bikini models so people will pay to see Star Trek instead of staying away and ridiculing it as a nerd's film? Oh well, at least Saldana really is African-American. Now if only they'd cast a real fucking Scotsman as Scotty.
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The circle has been broken!
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Because there were rumors about Arnie, being in the next Star Trek movie since part 4.
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correct. I have no desire to see this but I never was a fan of the serious before.
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being that they cant reproduce and all...
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MAKE IT SO.
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What about Siamese Twins?
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JJ must have heard me cause I said either her or Gabreial Union or Kerry Washington. Saldona is more then fine for me.
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Thank God for that. Zoe can actually act.
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Sep 18, 2007 2:56:03 AM CDT
Doesn't This Start Shooting, Like, Next Week???????????
by darth fabulous
Who is playing Kirk and Bones, dammit?
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The guy who plays Sylar in Heroes was easily one of the worst actors on television, taking a role that should have had real menace and giving it all the presence of a high school drama production.
Just because Spock is a Vulcan does not mean you can just shoehorn a crappy actor into the role and expect it to work. -
I tell Singer over looked so many actresses for crappy Halle
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Freakin' awesome: http://tinyurl.com/23ajj9
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Nichelle Nichols was a hottie back then. They needed someone more busty.
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We should all breathe a collective sigh of relief that neither Halle Berry nor Beyonce were cast as Uhuru. I'm still skeptical of JJ's Felicity-In-Space -- but people keep telling me Saldana can act (her voice squeaks like a chipmunk though, she needs to speak in a sultry purr). It all depends on the script, and unfortunately, the character descriptions in the casting sheet give me a bad feeling about this film. Uhuru was always the mature, intelligent, and matronly member of Star Trek -- the wise woman with common sense. Not everyone was a sassy wildchild risktaker with attitude in their youth. I'd also like to announce that I bet my left testicle Kirk will not be in this film -- the time-travel rumour is true, and it's JJ's pathetic attempt to weasel his way out of finding an actor to live up to Shatner's legacy.
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FUCK OFF!!!!!
I mean, I enjoyed SUPERNATURAL too (in a shitty but watchable kinda way), but for Kirk? That's a sacred role there! Come ON... -
...or you've missed the previous Trek talkbacks. ;)
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She's going to be perfect. I'm little worried on the other hand about our main performer; Zachary Quinto. The man isn't exactly known for his solid performances.
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For the first red shirt to buy the farm on a new planet - bwa ha ha ha - seriously, the new Kirk should be someone who can honor the character without sounding like Kevin Pollak... How 'bout Elias Toufexis - he's got the Kirk-y look and can act...
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Uhura had thighs, but not thunder (and lightning with a cyclone) thighs like Beyoncè!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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...deserves to be pulled out of their houses, dragged out to the curb, stripped naked and shot in the face with balls of their own sh!t!
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No !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in the headline.
I thought this was AICN?
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is he Jewish? maybe he's Canadian?
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I thought his performance was perfectly subtle in all the right places. Can he pull off Spock is another matter - there's a real chance he could go ham but I'm confident in JJ's hands he'll bring something new and interesting to the table
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NEXT!
Though she does look nice in that dress. -
Or is there a pool on board.
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Denny Crane.
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gods, why are we comparing these new actors to the old characters. As far as i know, this is not a sequal to any of the previous films, this is a re-imagining, so stop moaning about her thighs and boobs! christ, how many people are now moaning that starbuck and boomer are hot chicks, and that the new BSG must be (by god it must be) better than the old BSG, so give this a chance and we may all be pleasently surprised, maybe
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...and let someone else sew his uniform!
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This is Hollywood! They can always pad out her chest.
"I'm surprised I have to explain this." - Joe Bob Briggs -
...and Uhura dancing with the giant leaves? I might have to poke my eyes out again.
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...it's the Abraham Lincoln episode. It's uncanny.
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big f'ing deal. Hey Hollywood, fire up the way back machine.. we's goin way back! Again..
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on an earlier tb. Meagan Good would've been my choice though.
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would have been a better choice.
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He goes for surface flash every time. "Lost" is just pretty people on a beach, wrapped in a non-sensical story with a million loose ends that will never be solved or linked to an over-arching plot. That's all I'm getting from every bit of news about the new Star Trek as well. So Uhuru will be an emaciated sex kitten to draw in the lapsed mainstream crossover audience? Gee, will she also wear a 7 of 9/N'pol-riffic shiny catsuit to attract the drooling teenage audience who could give a fuck about the legacy of Trek? Everything about this remake screams "one-off." There will never be a sequel, let alone a trilogy or continuing series from this dreck.
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For the story to work the cast need to be young and vulnerable. So far the casting comes across has Hollyweird stuntcock casting (EG: teen models who work has waiters). The cast need to be able to convince. With the exception of Quinto i dont have raised hopes for this movie. Whoever plays Kirk will have to be portrayed has someone who is scared but is not allowed to show it due to the circumstances he places himself and the crew in. So no Hollyweird stuntcock casting.
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90210 in Space indeed. Also, "leafs"? LEAFS? Are you fucking kidding me? Have you made it past the third grade yet? I mean, _damn_. I bet you always fuck up the panda joke.
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Holy crap she's hot!!
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seemed completely retarded, could barely string a sentence together. Conan actually helped her out at one point, it was really sad.
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It's a JJ rule.
She can be T'Pau, the homeroom teacher at Vulcan high school where T'Pring is a cheerleader.
This is uh huh uh huh an incredible cinematic experience. -
I second that. I think he can do it. He's probably one of the best young actors on tv right now, and with the right script, he would kill.
and I don't know what show you're watching Gruntybear, but I think Lost is one of the most non-shallow shows out there, at least on the major networks. There's some great character writing and complex plotting, and philosophical themes going on - way more ambitious than any show on the air that I can think of. So I'm gonna give Abrams some faith here (even though Lost is more Lindelof's thing than Abrams'). The only thing that has me worried is that awful Superman script... -
He could play some air guitar after blowing up the Klingons and then giving some alien chick the tongue.
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with an out of porportion ego and dreams of "oscar" I don't really give a rats ass.
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Kaaaaaahhhnn!
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Who will be Kirk's Wingman?
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too bad.
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Let me see...some hostile bad guy from another planet wants to eliminate the captain of the starship Enterprise from existance...where else have I heard of such a plot...oh yeah, the Klingon Experience at the Star Trek Exhibit at the Las Vegas Hilton! At least that was a motion simulation ride and had LeVar Burton and Jonathan Frakes reprise their roles as LaForge and Riker (Picard makes a voice-over in the end also).
Better than this 90210 crap they are now working on! -
He was in In The Valley of Elah and was very good. He reminded my of a younger Matt Damon, and since JJ has said he wanted Matt, this is a good second string choice--
http://www.imdb.com/gallery/hh/1434871/HH/1434871/iid_1339610.jpg.html?path=pgallery&path_key=Chatham,%20Wes -
I've already given up on this, seeing as how most casting rumors have actors that look like teenagers. I swear, Hollywood's pedophilia knows no bounds. Superman looks 17 years old. Why don't they just cast Topher Grace as Kirk and get the whole damn thing over with?
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... who earns cash on the side as an extra as... that guy on the original series who always operated the transporter when Scotty or Spock weren't running it and never had any dialogue other than "Yes (fill in name or rank)" except for that time when he played the Mirror-verse version of himself and Goatee-Spock zapped him with an agonizer!
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It's pretty damn boring, and the reason fewer, and fewer, and fewer people are coming in here. The clout was lost about three years ago, when you all wet your pants over "Sky Captain." Then bludgeoned by the "Snakes on a Plane" fiasco.
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I have a funny anecdote to tell. I was talking with a friend about all the different versions of Othello I've seen. Three or four different stage versions, and a couple of movies. I jokingly adlibed that I've also seen the version with Olivier playing a black face Othello. We both thought that was pretty humorous. Wrong, and a little bit racist, but humorous. Until I went home and checked IMDB and found out that Olivier actually DID a blackface Othello movie. My horrible joke turned into an even more horrible reality.
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Adlibbed. I hate typos.
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No official first name, but both John and Winston have been used as he was played by John Winston.
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"I know. I know. A thousand questions. But first, the Tranya, mate!"
Yeah, I can see it.
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Like Roddenberry, yo.
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"Was that 'wrong'?" "Yes."
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Please say yes.
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The only prominent ones I can think of are Worf and his brother (Michael Dorn and Tony Todd). Most of the other main ones, including Martok, Garek, and those two evil sisters were white guys and gals. And remember, Uhura was African, not African-American. So it makes sense to cast a more 'exotic' looking black woman for the role (no offense to Gabrielle Union, who is a good actor, but wrong for this role). Too bad they didn't realize the same thing for Storm.
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he's the Cardassian, I meant Gowron (sp?), the guy with the big crazy eyes.
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The really funny part is that the role of Othello in the play isn't specifically described as being black. He could have simply been a Arab North African, rather than a Sub-Saharan African with black skin. This is odd because in the case of Titus Andronicus, the play clearly refers to Aaron's skin (and his son's) as being black, yet there are no such direct references in Othello. Complicating things further, it seems that the Black Othello is a modern invention, only being de rigeur for the last eighty years or so, and even after that, there are still actors, such as Patrick Stewart, who have still continued to play the role while not doing something as cliche as painting themselves black (Stewart did, however, change the setting of the play such that he was a European man in an African setting). Finally, one must also keep in mind that Olivier made his blackface Othello in 1965, a time when blackface performance was only starting to be considered outré.
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I guess Zoe has done some solid work in movies, yet I always cringe thinking about her utterly wooden role in "Chronicles of Riddick." Granted, that was a terribly written, terribly put together film, but Soldana worsened it by degrees.
I almost can't watch her in other films (except maybe "Crash") due to the bad memories. Hopefully she'll ease my pain with her work in Trek. -
God...de rigueur.
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I have never seen a full episode of Star Trek, just seemed kind of corny. I did watch Wrath of Khan I liked that one.
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and drunk.
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Check it...
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Is this really what we need? I read a great article about the writers for TNG and having to thing inside Roddenberry's box. To turn such a beloved franchise over to a hack is a disastet waiting to happen. I mean this guy has like 8 projects going, so how much does he care about the films or is he just cashing checks? Lame.
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...NOT looking like a two dollar whore?
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liljuniorbrown, your utter lack of Trek-ocity and clear love of the anorexic female form make you the IDEAL friggin' candidate for this - so far - wretched "sciffy" reboot. Quick, someone call JJ - I've found his audience.
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He wouldn't last 5 minutes, before getting ripped on some Jaegermeister and then punching out the nerds that won't leave him alone. Should make for a great You Tube clip though, Crowe going nuts at a Trekkie convention, it'd be pretty awesome
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Greg Grunberg will undoubtedly play the first red shirt to go down. Abrams has some sort of BFF contract with Grunberg that says he has to get screen time in any Abrams project, no matter how shitty the role.
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I'm really looking forward to this. Everything we hear just feels so fresh.
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That would be thandie Newton of whom you speak. How you confused the two is beyond me, cause they look nothing alike. Oh well I guess us colored folk all still look alike even in this day and age.
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Good young actor who I think could pull it off
very well .Also Gosling is 26, and come to think of it the people that have been confirmed so far are in the same age range as the original cast back in the 60's. I don't see a problem. -
Meagan Goode would have been a great choice, and she's actress to boot, but damn if that girl isn't saddled with the shytiest roles. It pains me to see that mess of an so called actress Beyonce get roles when their are more capable actresses out there. Don't know about Goode but Saldona can sing as well so the need for overrated beyonce to take a part that also requires singing isn't needed. I use to like her but after that whole "Hudson winning the Oscar" deal and Beyonce having a fit and mad that she was both snubbed and
out done by Hudson just speaks a lot about her character. While i'm on a role i'm gonna throw Halle Berry's butt in there too. Now her I like but Halle is only good in certain parts. Sadly she isn't the most capable actress at times. Saldona, Union, Goode, and Washington are all much better actresses then Berry to just mention a few. -
Golda Meir.
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Wouldn't that be a reason to cast Crowe? For the simple fact that you could unleash him upon Earth's most obnoxious population, and see what happens? What would be really funny to see is when a Trekkie actually kicks Crowe's ass, I bet that would be quite a shocker!
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That would be awesome!
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that this movie is no longer about Academy frat parties, and is simply a full blown adventure in the TOS with a recast.
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Sorry... I confused Thandie Newton with Zoe Saldana. I'm now much happier knowing Zoe instead of Thandie is Uhura.
Phew! -
Then assaults the Enterprise crew's ears with Thirty Odd Foot of Grunts' music!
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I guess I had thought there was a bigger age gap between Uhura and Spock and Kirk. I mean yeah they're all Yoda-old now, but back in the day I thought there was like a ten year age difference. Is Uhura gonna be like a fresh out of the academy girl who...oh hell, I really don't care, this is the thing that blows up Vulcan from the guy who didn't blow up Krypton. Yeah whatever, I'll be interested when/if they get Ryan Gosling for Kirk. And if Gary Sinise isn't McCoy then I curse this thing like a bad horror movie.
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If that's your biggest problem with this project then I think that means so far, so good!
Mister Man, I think you are right on the money - people are just bitchin for the sake of bitchin. "Oh my life is so poor! I need an outlet for my sexual frustration! Oh there's a new movie by some guy who's actually accomplished something with his life? FUCK THAT!"
It's gettin old ppl... -
Wasn't Othello a Moor? Last I knew they were black.
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We need an Uhura with a big ass, huge tatas, and a righteous voice. This is the alternate Trek universe, you know...
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Now THAT would be alternate! Denzel would be a pretty cool Kirk, lol. Terrence Howard maybe?
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There shall be no Starfleet personnel over thirty years of age.
Violation of this Starfleet General Order shall be punished by no greenlight. -
Make money at all costs. No matter what, the bottom line is make lots of money. That is all.
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Yes, ladiez and germs, the illustrious K-Fed has signed on to Star Trek as the revered Captain Kirk. To the consternation of some Trek fans, K-Fed said in a statement that he will offer his own take on the role. Our sources have been working overtime to bring you the latest hot info. For those Trek fans willing to spoil themselves, keep reading. *** SPOILERS FOLLOW *** The latest rumors from the set have the Enterprise being attacked by Klingons early in the second act. Captain Kirk, refusing to admit defeat, feigns discussion of surrender with the Klingons. Fans will recognize shades of StarTrek II in this sequence. Then, to the surprise of the Klingons, Kirk breaks into shitty rap mid-sentence, when Uhura throws down her ear piece and proceeds to shake that ass. The rest of the human crew covers their ears. At which point Spock, ever the calm Vulcan, uses the his trademark shoulder pinch to render the Captain unconcious. Spock raises his eyebrow at Uhura, who picks up her ear piece and sits down, then apologizes to the Klingons for the cruel punishment.
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Zoe is one sexy ass bitch. Yeah she is a tad skinny. But I googled her name to see more images... she's got a cute little milk chocolate ass. Me likey :-P
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You know its true.
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Think about it JJ. The resulting geek froth alone could power Atlanta for a week.
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...basically all inhabitants of northern Africa. Everyone from the North African Arabs with generally lighter skin to the dark skinned Sub-Saharan Africans. This is the definition of Moor used by Shakespeare. Coincidentally, the citation for this comes from someone whose name you might recognize. His name is Strabo. http://202.91.162.19/1/0/0/8/10085/10085-h/10085-h.htm
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tugger
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howsabout nimoy and shatner change roles. That would be interesting.
As for the gal, not too bad a resume to bring to the fold. I just wish it would be something different cause I think this whole trek reinvention is gonna land into superman returns territory (not a compliment.) If I had my way the torch would be passed to the DS9 crew for movies two movies ago and first contact would have them in there and roddenberry would have lived and played the prof (truth stranger than fiction if gene r. hadn't died.) -
Franklin in her biopic. At least that's what Ree ree wants.
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James Vanderbeek as Kirk. He was great in 'Rules of Attraction'. Dawson... in space!
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...that's a little piece of useless info for some, i guess.
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i would...so would you
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Made me laugh out loud.
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New York, people....NEW YORK! She got the tits, the 'tude, and probably the time.
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K-Fed...that's funny, man. I can see him now kickin' back in the con, wearin' his Judy Garland-lookin' fedora tilted down over one eye. WORD!And while we're at it bring in V-Ice to play Spock. I know they already got some guy I never seen before for the role, but ya gotta admit the ears would go great with those lighting bolts shaved into the side of his head.
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the name "Uhura" is nowhere in the story!
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