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The Enterprise Computer In Abrams' STAR TREK Has Found Its Voice!!
Merrick here...
And the voice will be...
CHRIS ROCK!?!?
Just kidding.
Majel Barrett-Roddenberry will continue her long standing tradition of voicing starship computers in J.J.'s new movie.
Per THIS blurb in Variety.
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Rock would be awesome.
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old news....
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"Uhura makes Wayne Brady look like Malcolm X"
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For saying 'First' and not a lot else. Always wanted to say that. Excellent choice of computer voice though, if only for continuity purposes. Still not sure about this movie...
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preferred Wilfred Brimbly
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...for a second till I scrolled down. Jesus!
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Dec 11, 2008 11:32:52 AM CST
LordPorkington is jealous for being 7th. And he's a cunt scab
by tylerdurden3395
And this is old news.
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Ah.
I thought it was.
It sounds like her. -
to update everything, make the ship all sleek and shiny and state-of-the-Apple-art and then give it the voice of an 80 year old woman.
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That's like considering someone other than James Earl Jones for the Star Wars prequeles. Or, someone other than Peter Cullen for Optimus Prime in Transformers. Or, someone other than Frank Welker in oh,.....wait.
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I honestly had a mini-stroke. My face twitched perceivably when I read the Chris Rock thing. Lets not do this again, mkay?
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I always thought the talking computer was unnecessary. The "Warning, shields down to 40%" Galaxy Quest spent 5 minutes making fun of it. Isn't that what readouts are for?
Plus, it always feels like lazy dialog writing. Isn't there anything more interesting to say, something that would advance the plot? Talking computers, unless conscious, are lame. And if conscious, they're more likely to kill you than not, so really, talking computers are just an all around bad idea. -
Yeah, because TOS always used Majel Barrett-Rodenberry's voi --- er, wait a minute ...
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I only brought so many pairs of underwear with me to Austin. I now have one less.
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sure it talked, in the filtered, processed as they could then voice of Majel Barrett. "Working".... Yeah, the talking is a little silly now, 40-plus years on, but still, there's some right about using her for this.
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it's a totally new renvisioning that is seperate from the existing trekverse! oh but it has nimoy, the voice, and a few other surprises....BUT IT'S NOT OLD STAR TREK!!! how then exactly. these things really confuse the continuity issues geeks love so much
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It worked for Knight Rider.
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Thank you for that.
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Would be inspired but very wrong. But imagine on the Blu-ray if you had an alternate Chris Rock voiced Enterprise.... 'Computer, is there any way we could re-crystalise Dilithium?' 'Smack it with ya dick, Smack it with ya dick!!!'
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"thuh rom'lins is reddyin' thare PHO-ton torpeedahs''eat cher OATmeal or yull get the DIbeetis!'
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or fran drescher = shoot the goddam bridge.
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...its not a total revisioning, its a change in the time line story, with a back story to kirk and spock from what i can see. just looks like a really slick trek! SLICK TREK, they should call it that... anyway we dont really want the original sets do we? if we could accept klingon forheads arriving in the first movie we can accept this surely.
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...it shoulda been sigourney weaver.
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That's what you meant to say, but we knew that.
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There doesn't seem to be one. So can I be the first to say that The Dark Knight has been royally shafted in the Golden Globe noms. Just one nomination... guess what it was for...
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I'm not sure what you're getting at. She was the regular voice of TOS computer.
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Helloooooooo it's called NEWS.
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or Norman Lovett. They're not doing anything and we KNOW that those "four new episodes" of Red Dwarf aren't happening.
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But awesome to see Majel doing the computer voice again. Very cool. I still remain very guarded about this though. I like a lot of what I see yet there's much I don't like.
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For once you made me smile.
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So how is Nimoy in this movie? Is he sitting around the Starfleet Retirement home and some whipper snapper askes about back in the day and he tells a story that is basically a flashback?
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No, there's time-travel involved. Now how & why - that's what will help determine my satisfaction w/ using that as a plot device.
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Finally some good news on this disaster.
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No ... she didn't start until TNG.
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Forgive me ... just checked WIKI and it says she did. This is news to me ... sorry for the previous messages dude ... you're right.
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or I'll go Gun-kata on you. Just kidding. I thought you were saying she didn't do the voice for every single episode of TOS. I don't know if she missed one or two, but nope, she was the regular voice.
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Sure, it's write most of the time, but as people can add anything they want it isn't always 100 percent reliable. In this case though, it is. Also, check out IMDB to see her list of credits including all the Star Trek stuff both as the computer, and other roles.
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Sigourney Weaver? "I have ONE job on this lousy ship. It's stupid, but I'm gonna do it!!!!"
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I thought James Doohan was the original voice of the Enterprise computer?
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In Bruges for Best Picture Comedy and Best Actor nods for Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson!
Also, James Franco nominated for Best Actor for Pineapple Express!!!! HOLY SHIT!
This is 100% serious by the way. Benjamin Button leads the way with the most nominations. Vicky Cristina Barcelona probably will win Best Picture Comedy. -
Where da talkback fo dat?
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CHA-CHA the neo-pundit excelsior baba-ganoush..
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Robert Prosky RIP!
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"Atmosphere of planet below is within normal parameters...Denny Crane!"
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He's been in everything.
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I'm not 100% sure but it was my impression Majel Barret HAS always been the voice of the computer going back to the original series, but I could be wrong.
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That is all.
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ok....can death take a holiday until 09?
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WALL*E didn't teach us that, man. FUTURAMA was the first thing to ever use Ripley as the voice of a spaceship and it was awesome. That is all.
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"Workin'!"
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Grandpa Fred from Gremlins 2?! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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Ding. "Say man, somebody stole your diluthium crystals."
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Dec 11, 2008 12:58:32 PM CST
Why didn't they get the guy who voiced Jazz in Transformers?
by rickey henderson
Darius McCrary? That way, when the Enterprise drops out of warp, the computer can say "THIS LOOKS LIKE A COOL PLACE TO KICK IT" and it'll be totally awesome.
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Dec 11, 2008 1:09:35 PM CST
Chris Tucker: I ain't staying in no cargo bay for
by grammaton cleric binks
no minutes.
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Good one Merrick.
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Gotta give them props for the gesture...I'm a hardcore old-time Trekkie,I'm trying to keep an open mind about this movie.
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and have him read the lines cold, having never seen them before and having no idea what the situation is or what he's talking about.
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DID talk, I just don't know if it was Majel Barrets voice, but they did indeed talk. I can think of a few episodes where they did. Not as much as in the newer series, but they did talk.
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...if my memory is correct. The Abrams computer voice should be a Macintosh Classic!
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Yeah, it talked. It was a monotonous voice that would say things like "ACCESSING" or "COMPUTING". It wasn't conversant, for lack of a better word, until TNG.
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Whew. I heard it was going to be Sascha Fierce.
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What about Crackhead Bob.
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Why not Riley as the voice of the ship? "O-qua tangin-wann, the Biavians are firing." Or, Sal the Stockbroker's voice deepener he uses to voice Obama.
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Bobcat Goldthwait wasn't available!
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She did the voice on TOS as well, but in more of a high-pitched monotone.
A memorable clip, even more memorable when you think of Star Trek III:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZg36y9YkuY
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you said-"I second the suggestion of Wilfred Brimley
by smackfu Dec 11th, 2008
01:33:19 PM
and have him read the lines cold, having never seen them before and having no idea what the situation is or what he's talking about.
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hilarious! and then cut the audio just after he mumbles '..now what the fu-?' about the tecno-babble he just read.fuck i just want to hear more brimleyisms, anywhere i can get them. -
I was thinking the exact same thing, have barely audible mutterings as the mic fades out.
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it's at least a concession to the hard core trek nerds.
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"ConTAINment on the...PRImary PLAS'm...wuts this word? Inducers? is failin, wutev'r the geezus that means"
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Always wanted to say that.
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she's so hot
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Fran Drescher at her whinest
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James Spader woulda been a great choice. He's actually got a good voice for it, and he's the Shats new husband !
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COme on, pull out your DVDs.
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He needs the work..Gilbert Gottfried...no wait..Fran Dresher...
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Hmmm.... maybe Gene was ahead of his day.
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whorp core britches is as immununt as di-beetis.
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Angelina Jolie would have been PERFECT for the voice.
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IMDB gives credit to Mrs. Gene. But you guys already thought I was an idiot because I voted for GWB and would vote for him again!
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also played the voice of a ship in Futurama. She would be great. It is fine that they kept the tradition going.
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That's just straight up nightmare inducing.
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"coordinates are GET YO AWS TO MAWZ"
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that alone would make me sit through this shit.
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For a moment, I thought you were serious. Not that I don't think Chris Rock could do a good voice if he wanted to, but he would have to sound so different that no one would know it was him, which would make it pointless to pay him to do it. Whatever. Glad it's not him.
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In Soviet Russia, galaxy explores YOU!
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He would have been great. Really.
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And her voice is amazing.
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Nice one
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He would be the best, mayne.
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...DS9 etc..
I don't know what that person up there is talking about. Majels Wikipedia page lists EVERY series.
Plus I watch an episode, or two, of TOS every night...she does the voice.
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'Cause she won't be around for ever.
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"Starfleet, it's the right thing to do, and a tasty way to do it."
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O, and P are right next to each other.
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THE MOTHERFUCKIN SHIELDS ARE AT 50%, AND THE MOTHERFUCKIN TRANSPORTER IS OFFLINE... USE A SHUTTLECRAFT MOTHERFUCKAAAA
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Rain is a great idea! He would have to play it a bit different from HAL though, or it would be too on the nose. Good choice though.
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Could be helpful if someone on the crew gets DIABEETUS!
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"life.. signs.. baby!!"
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You may find yourself living in a photon torpedo! You may find yourself in another part of the galaxy! You may find yourself behind the wheel of a large shuttlecraft! With beautiful quarters, and a beautiful andorian! And you may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?
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he needs to voice something dammit. i agree, he or the late Lynd would make excellent gay spaceships.
"we've got us a planet, it's as big as class M, and it's about to ex-PLODE!''Hail a little louder, sugar!' 'your WHAT?!------torpedo's...busted' and they would both gigle everytime someone said 'jeffery's tube' -
Dec 11, 2008 4:18:30 PM CST
Who here in the talk back and AICN news staff........
by yoda's ball sack
........got a hard on after reading this???????
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The rest of you bow down and kiss his ass.
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I can respect a self-depreciating, self-correcting idiot.
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"I'm going to get medieval on those Klingons."
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Like it could be any one else! Great news!
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"You ain't got no problem Kirk. I'm on the motherfucker. Chill those cadets out, and wait for the USS Wolf which should be arriving shortly." "Sheet computer, that's all you had to say."
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Hi there! I'm Eddie your shipboard computer!
Kirk - "Do Something!"
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That chunk of crap would even piss Spock off.
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To Kirk "How many times a week to you require female companionship."
Kirk: Let's see, once a day minimum, two on an average day, three on a good day, some need to be green.
Colussus: "I said need,not want."
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a sexy female voice and Kirkster would reprogram the holodeck (not invented at that time but who gives a shit, not JarJar) with some transporter pattern stuff and be banging away. Har de har har. Dis Trek stuff is great.
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Would have been a great little in-joke.
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Shame the story and production design are shit.
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Ninja Vulcans, and Pirate Vulcans, and Zombie Vulcans and thus, Zombie Ninja Pirate Vulcans
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Kirk to computer: Star Trek 11, analysis, please.
Computer: Star Trek 11. Entertainment film, premiered in 2009, Earth. Star Trek 11 revised 1960's Earth televised serial Star Trek, utilizing younger actors, CGI special effects. Designed to supplant original series, renew Star Trek movie franchise. Film total box office take amounted to--
Kirk: Cancel. Explain why William Shatner did not appear.
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Mr. Spock, Scotty says the crackalacka warp engines canna take anymore...
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this wormhole is mine and must be sealed up forever. for the love of god!
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There were a couple of different voices over the 3 year run, including Majel Barret-Roddenberry.
It was in this monotone, mechanical fashion, and often accompanied by this rapid teletype/typewriter sound.
"working ....." lengthy typing sound
"creature would have to be pure energy ...."
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that was terrifying/hilarious.
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That actually would have been kinda entertaining. We already know this thing is gonna piss off all Trekies (myself included) so why not just say 'fuck it' and go for a spoof..
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I always liked the competing theories that the voice was either because the character of Number One in "The Cage" originally programmed the computer, or because Spock programmed the computer to sound like Nurse Chapel. There was at least one cute scene in TNG where Lwaxana Troi and the computer conversed.
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Dec 11, 2008 7:32:15 PM CST
You guys are all just twisted... the perfect voices are either..
by topfivevideo
Steven Wright or Brian Posehn
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Clicked on the link and was hoping it was Majel. The Chris Rock shit made me laugh."Why is it Klingons always want credit for shit they supposed to do? Sayin' 'I ain't never been to Rura Penthe'... you not supposed to you dumb motherfucka!"
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...with that Chris Rock shit...
No offense to Mr. Rock; but his voice is all wrong for a starship computer. Majel Barret is good, safe choice. -
Good for Majel.
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Since KNIGHT RIDER is D.O.A.
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"Warning. Coming in at Warp factor 5, there is the legendary Klingon Cruiser with their big hit--the photon torpedo."
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that was hilarious. i actually laughed outloud, i think its partly because i could hear casey's voice actually saying that. lol
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Chris Rock would be a great voice.
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If that were the case, I'd see this opening day.
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Warp speed, angels!
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"...That when white computers talk, they're all up high LIKE THIS, but when black computers talk, they're all down low LIKE THIS?!
"I'm tellin' ya...that's why they'll NEVER let a black guy do a computer voice on a Starship! Whitey can't handle th' FLAVA!" -
WAY TO FUCK WITH CONTINUITY, JJ! Kiddin', but only slightly.
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"Whatcha gonna do when the Enterprise runs wild on you, BROTHER!!!"
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...comes the next milestone in motion picture history:
AVATAR - Fucking your eyeballs in 2009!
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..comes the most predictable post conceivable..fucking you bored stiff in 2008
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can you imagine it. "Maaaaaan Kirk you cwazy bitch CWAZY" to which Kirk replies (in classic over the top shatner) "Spock! can you... turn off that..... blasted thing!" damn it could be the next great buddy sensation. the computer didn't have the next gen voice with the old crew. not even in the films. you suck abrams! only kidding, luv ya work bud.
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Woooooooo!
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Dec 12, 2008 8:24:19 AM CST
So they changed everything about Star Trek except this?
by excaliburffolkes
Is this supposed to be some kind of concession of continuity to the fans so that Abrams and co. can say, "See, see we left some things the same!"
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"Go ahead, make my Stardate"
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"Get your stinking paws off me you damn dirty Klingons."
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Kittridge was his name in the first movie."This computer tape will self-destruct in five seconds." :-)
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The only way to win this movie, is not to see it.
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Dec 12, 2008 10:22:44 AM CST
You can't be serious. Bitchin about the computer talking?
by the founder
I can see y fanboys getthe shaft. Serioulsy WHO GIVES A PHUCK IF THE COMPUTER DIDN'T TALK IN THE TOS BUT SPEAKS NOW? This is a non issue.
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You won't believe how fast our ships can go.
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Hes fucking dead you tard!!!!
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Oxybgen levebel isbuh normbumal. Probabubibity obbuh ablibien inbuhtrusibuhn ibisuh tenbuhnty perbuhcent.
Kirk: WHAT?!?!? -
That's hasn't stopped Hollywood before.
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thing to me is that when they beam someone up, they operate the transporter by sliding three levers/buttons up. When I finally see that, then and only then I will know that I am in the Star Trek universe. Hmmmmmm good.
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That would have been great.
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unless i missed something in the trailer about the computer on the spaceship going all fucking HAL, just who the fuck cares voices the computer that says "red alert"??
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But she's getting old...they'd better find someone who can do an impression of her voice or something.
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Bad idea of the year--Is Chris Rock to be the voice of the Enterprise computer in Star Trek?
Posted: 12 Dec 2008 05:53 AM PST
Computer voices in movies are traditionally muted, neutral sounds, the best ever being the HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Ain't it Cool News says Chris Rock might voice the computer in the new J.J. Abrams Star Trek movie,... -
I don't know a movie critic Roger Moore. Unless there really is one with the same name as James Bond.
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Honestly I'm surprised. I figured it would be some random person, and just sound terrible. Majel Barret is THE best computer voice ever, as far as I'm concerened. They need to make recordings of her voice to use for real computers down the line...
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It should have been Gary Busey !!!!!!
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