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Our First Clear Look At Props From The New TREK Movie!!
Merrick here...
Seems there's a display of props from the new TREK movie at CES in Vegas.
TrekMovie has some images of said props - be sure to click the Medical Tricorder to find a communicator & Uhura's comm station ear piece as well.
That Tricorder looks like a vibrator with a special attachment. I wouldn't know much about this, though - none of Merrick's Women have needed one.
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That was a bit weird...
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Looks like something I pulled out of my car.
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Just sayin...
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for that fine Romulan ale.
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It gives me a sense of enormous well-being.
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I SEE ALL, KNOW ALL, AM ALL !BWHAH-HA-HA-HA ! That is all.P.S.: I think they mislabeled the prop. Looks like McCoy's medical *scanner*, the handheld sensor that feeds data to a medial tricorder or, if in sick-bay, the local wireless connection to the sickbay computers or diagnostic devices.Yeah, I'm an old Trek nerd. What's YOUR problem ?
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The Aint it Cool site screwed up and I had to reset my login info OR I'd have been first. Burn in hell QUINT!!
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That thing is bigger than my past three cell phones. Doesn't even look like it has bluetooth, and how the hell you supposed to text on that thing?
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Those gizmos are fucking crap. I got better shit than that now, and I'm fucking poor.
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part of the 'clear is cool' theme? do you really need to see inside the tricorder all the time? and to see 20th century wiring and sautering inside? really? aren't they a little past that? i bet those are the wires and actual motor that make that little ring spin when karl urban squeezes it predending to scan a body
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electrical tape wrapped around the motor and wires in there?
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..the flying cars with the giant bubble cockpits? Robots who do hilarious antics cleaning up after those darned kids while wearing a maid outfit. This movie takes place not in our future but in the future world envisioned in the 70's. Bowls that pop up from hidden chambers in countertops. Ovens where you place a food "brick" in them, press a button and viola, out pops a fully cooked 4 course turkey dinner while the smiling Stepford Mom never gets a hair out of place.I'm going to stop now.
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So strangers larger than me will randomly beat me up.
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if we cover our ears and close our eyes.
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Zing!
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... or at least that's the feeling I get...
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All of those images/concepts that you mentioned were popular in the 1950's. That's what they though we'd live like today. I've a hunch that you're pretty young. The 70's must seem like ancient history to you.
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and they come out neatly folded and inside plastic wrap. kudos to Lost In Space!
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http://tinyurl.com/8c9sg7
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Look Kirks soiled undies. Quintos tissue use to remove makeup. The sock Pegg beat off in. Fuckin get laid and lose the geek shit you orange soda mothers basement living retards.
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Looks like a mini-lightsaber.
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the trek looks like star trek 90210...why's everyone so young and preppy looking?
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Just sayin'.
Looks like they're combining the traditional Spock-like tricorder with the salt shaker Bones used to scan patients with. I like. -
that's what it is.
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i meant this new startrek movie looks too dawson's creek-ish...wheres the picards and shatners?
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more like a pepper mill. or a moped shock with a tube replacing the spring. or a big syringe with a motor in it. i bet they thought that was clever- let's make bones's tricorder look like a big syringe...get it? cause he's a doctor? where's my check, i'm out!
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has it nailed. That's the scanner to the unseen box.
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It looks like Trek 90210 because it's made by idiots.
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Well??????
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Looks like the scanner to me too but if so, it's much larger than TOS scanner. The original scanner fit inside the tricorder. Wonder if this will be a stand alone unit or sickbay unit as opposed to a field unit?
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All retroey and awesome. Haters will continue to spout bullshit after relaase, but inside they will feel the pain of wrong, wrong, wrong.
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Damn Merrick, if you think that looks like a vibrator I'd hate to think what you shove up your ass when errrr playing :D
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Looks a bit beefier than in TOS. Kinda like the transistor radio I got for my 6th birthday. Works for me! :D
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Bones must be popular with the ladies when it's time for their physicals...
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Yeah blow up dolls tend not to need vibrators. That shit was about as funny as The Love Guru. You're doing a lame post on a picture of a prop on a fucking star wars, why you have to act like a reatrded frat boy is beyond me.
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...the 70's ancient to me? Heheh, I wish. And yes, I'm aware those spots were filmed in the 50's but I usually write a wall of text and didn't want to go to overboard on what was just a dumb joke.In terms of 70's being ancient...I saw Star Wars, before anybody called it Episode anything, in the theater under its first run and I still remember going. Of course, I probably was wearing Keds, had a belly full of sugary death, and carrying my house key on a chain around my neck but still...I remember!!
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Is anyone else sick of idiots saying 90210Trek in every single Trek talkback? Shut the Fuck Up!!! They are the exact correct age to play these charcters at that stage in thier life.
Is the world supposed to completely ignore people in their 20s because you are an old jaded fuck who has completely lost your inner child? Get over it!
I am an old fuck, but the kid in me is alive and strong. Deal. -
Christopher Nolan, TDK; Gus Van Sant, Milk; Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire; David Fincher, Curious Case of Benjamin Button; Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon
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The medical tricorder we see here is probably similar to the instrument scanner that Bones and Beverly Chrusher used to hold over thier patients to diagnose their symptoms. In the Next Generation they used the "salt shaker" prop and it sent information to a traditional looking tricorder box unit, that may be the case here or as in Bones case the information from the hand unit was sent to he monitor above the patients bed. I don't know what the fuss is about these items they look like they could be the instruments used in Kirks era and bare in mind the tech in Trek will have changed due to the time travel manipulations that have been suggested happen in this film.
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great..from the dudes that brought us transformers!!
That movie had the dopey-est dialog, I really wanted to like it..the effects were great, action was ok. However, everytime someone's mouth opened, whacky(not funny) shit came out...and while every actor was trying to out-whacky the other, all you could do was cringe. Please fix that crap on part 2 cause star trek isnt giving me any faith!
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I'm 23... I just think people in their twenties are far less interesting than people who've lived a full life and are reflecting on it. Gravitas improves with age.
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What journalist with any geek knowledge whatsoever would report that as being a tricorder? As was said before, it's obviously the salt shaker scanner thing, only now with improved sex toy goodness. But why does that earpiece look as huge and unreasonably bulky as the one in the original series? I don't care if it can read signals from across the galaxy. They'd make a separate relay device that you don't have to wear before they'd make a big ass thing like that and make you shove it into your ear. Fuck all that. I want to see what the guns look like.
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Can be boring as fuck, believe me. Far less adventurous and often times too beat down by life to continue to truly live. Character building is at an end and alot end up saying shit like 90210 trek because they didn't do any living at all.
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Come on..we all know JJ and Co. Suck...they better thank the maker Hollywood believes the hype..cuz there isn't a damned bit of substance to anything they do. Lost is Lost...Cloverfield should have been DTV as well...Transformers was obviously written By Orci's illegitimate Alabama, ebonics speaking, love child, and this is just going down that road as well. BTW...Where are Zoe Saldana's tits? They've been mad selling this disaster on those babies in the trailer...might as well pop those beauties out and really get the hype going.
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all memorable story characters are old. old character areinteresting as hell. Old Man's War anyone??
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And Godspeed. I want FRESH TREK.
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They're going for the sleek but retro feel, blah blah blah. Why are the wires visible in the medical tricorder? Should humankind have done away with dangling wires by the time the Enterprise has been created?
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They re-design the tri-corder into a light sabre. They re-design the communiucator into an old Palm Tungsten 3 with leatherette cover. and then what do they do with the pineapple earplug device?
"meh why change what works, amirite?"
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To some of you complaining about having more advanced looking tech in your own possession than what is on diplay here, just remember the production crew had to create a design that didn't jar too much with the original series, they had to toe a fine line between modernising everything and keeping some aspects of the 60's show. I think it's a pretty good attempt.
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The tricorder on display is not the actual tri-corder itself. They've gone back to the original 'shoulder strap cassette recorder' device that Spock used to carry, and this is the 'wand' that connects to it.
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It's the scanner not the tricorder! Jeez!
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That's what I'm freakin waiting for natch! Hook us up JJ, you freakin self-important biscuit lovin kook! And who's playing the green dancing girl? My vote is for Emma Watson. She's 18 and already said she'd be willing to do the nude for her art. I love her! GOGO boots for legally aged Hermione!!!! Make it so!
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Most interesting old people are interesting because of what they experienced in their youth.
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they didn't appreciate what they were experiencing, ironically.
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Because we all know the people that get the most are Star Trek loving nerds and Aint it Cool News reporters
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Sitting around reflecting about all the cool shit they experienced when they were young... awesome.
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Hey! I think i was sitting next to you.
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I did not realize every talk back about star trek had a 90210 comment in it, honestly. Its obviously what stands out the most and its also questionable; given how cringe worthy that demographic's dialog is written in TV and Film alot of times. No one really knows how good this movie will end up being until it has been seen. Hardly anything has worked in the star trek series; I'm doubtful on this one but maybe being a prequel and having young characters will work...We just need to talk a lil shit in here Wrecks, so live a little
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and some "old" people are still experiencing cool shit because they refuse to listen and adhere to the bullshit that "society" expects of us when we get older. However some of you are lost already if you think "all" old people sit around and reflect about cool shit they did when they were younger.
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It is awesome. Try it sometime when you're not pulling your air out studying for your SATs.
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hair out. Sorry, I'm old and therefor what i have to say is irellevant. In all seriousness, I work with tons of young people and a good many of them are boring as fuck.
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You can't fault them too much for making clunky looking tech that is less sleek than we have today. In reality, a communicator from the same age as intersteller travel would probably be the size of a grain of rice, contain all music ever written and would be injected directly into people's skulls with a big-ass needle. Or it would be a soppository. Heck, that'll probably be the design for the 4G iPhone.
However, if the made the technology all realistic, then you'd have all the trek-geeks sobbing into their keyboards because JJ wasn't faithfull to the 60's show. Ohura's freaking giant bluetooth is still retarded though. -
It's not so much that they're young, it's that they're all so pretty. We're talking the military here, you'd expect to see less Abercrombe and Fitch models and more nerdlingers and manly-women.
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As I said, I'm an old fuck too. 40 as a matter of fact. So I can't even remmeber what an SAT is...lol. Sitting around reflecting about what you did in your youth is fine and can be enjoyable, but do I want to see that in a Science Fiction adventure??? Fuck no. TOS was about young people going out into the universe discovering what made humanity great. How is this different? They are few years younger, it's an origin story. @ huggeorange: It's not like Trek was ever well known for it's dialog. It's an adventure movie, not shakespeare.
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God, didn't anyone watch the show.
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Energize Me!
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I know the guys that built the med tric for this movie and that aint it. Somebody fucked up on that display
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Star Trek In Name Only!
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spread the word
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You know and I know, you'll be there on opening night and that this film, with this film-maker, is the best thing to happen since Wrath of Khan.
Anybody who knows anything about design continuity can see that the tricorder on display is not a tricorder. Uhura's ear-piece is alomost identical to the original, and Kirk's communicator is an update due to the fact that cell phones are so popular now. Anyway, it's all looking great and lining up for this is gonna be the same buzz as lining up for Return of the Jedi in '83. I only wish I was seeingthis in the States. -
Jan 08, 2009 2:22:39 PM CST
Merrick is over compensating for his lack of sexual ability
by awepittance
no one feels like saying 'me girls never needed a vibrator' unless they had something to hide or overcompensate for. Merrick what sexual ability department are you lackingin and trying to cover up for?
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Jan 08, 2009 2:27:20 PM CST
"had to create a design that didn't jar too much with the origin
by i dunno
LOL, what? The communications earpiece is the only thing that looks like it fits with the original series. The Apple iStor comparison is apt. APT!
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I watched the show, but as I had a life, I didn't memorize the civil/military structure of a fictional future universe, sorry if I offended your uber-geek sensibilities. So they just hand out heavily armed space cruisers to groups of models and send them out to defend the Federation in large scale naval conflicts? In ships with military designations and crews orginized around military ranks? That sounds like a pretty sorry way to defend your people.
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Prostitutes just want to be paid, you don't have to please them.
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Jan 08, 2009 2:34:06 PM CST
"That sounds like a pretty sorry way to defend your people"
by cameron1975willi
You voted for Bush, TWICE! Didn't you?
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Says the guy posting in a science fiction movie prop talkback.
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I just KNOW..Spock is going to say.."My Bad" when he walks in on Kirk Boinking, that sassy, jive talking Uhura. Or Checkov will shout.."That Vessel is full of Win and Gold!". And lets not forget to mention Scotty getting his drunk on and pissing on something. That said it does REEK of "The O.C. in SPace". Youth is fine...but in no logical universe will you find a military/science vessel chocked full of such pretty, and similarly aged, people; it just makes no sense. Even Original Trek understood that organizations such as this are made up of all kinds of people..young..old...hot..not.
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my first thought was that it was a Universal Translator.....
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Remember Trek the Motion Picture? Remeber the trainees? All of them young young young. It's pretty obvious from the trailer and the little bits that have leaked from the film that this crew are trainees, or fresh from the Academy as well... Cast is aged prefectly. Also, it takes place over 200 years into the future... the ugly gene has been bred out.
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young young young trainess.
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the Tricorder prop in this video
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Karl Urban: 36, Simon Peg: 38. perfect.
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Well, let the guys from Star Trek show you:
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Zoe Saldana: 30, John Cho: 37, Zachary Quinto: 31. yeah 90210 right.
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That's almost as crazy as trying to say the Federation doesn't use money, which they obviously have, several times. There's very little in Star Trek that is consistent.
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Isn't that a bit too "meta"? As in, "Spaceballs: The Lunch Box" and "Spaceballs: The Flame-Thrower"?
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I mean exactly what I said. It's not the military. Starfleets primary purpose was exploration. Weapons and combat training were purley for defense. This is stated over and over and over and over in every single series.
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This is some pathetic news!
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Then why have ranks beyond captain and 1st mate? I think the idea is something along the lines of a functional UN evolves into a "Federation" and yes any martial forces are mostly peacekeepers but when cornered, Picard would bust some of that Excalibur/Dune asskicking on YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!! (he was always a pussy in the Trek shit, he's a freakin warrior badass in both Excalibur and Dune! Plus he plays the god damn baliset! What did Picard play? A fucking ocarina? A god damn picolo? Triangle with drop D tuning? I mean. Shit! Asswipe TNG writers.)
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Not the federation. Of course there are a monetary systems that have to be contended with when they deal with other planets. Christ I know too much about Star Trek.
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It's easy and fun at parties and small social gatherings!Just match any alien species with modern races on Earth based on any generalized traits/symbolism and let the fun begin!!!
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I just had to. But it's 2009! Surely that vicious argument won't once again be resurrected?! It's in the past! Obama will be prez in 2 weeks! The world is saved! Hardeeharhar. w00t w00t
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I take a shot every time them mention those rascally Chin....er, I mean Romulans
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And let's not forget the chosen people: The Bajorans.
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They can't even name the props right? EPIC FAIL!
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Ooooo!!
Ahhhhhh!!
Meh...not really!
So THIS is a "Prop" from the new Star Trek Movie? It's nothing spectacular or makes me go "Wow!! Cool!! I gotta see THIS movie!!"
I mean, come ON! Show us something really cool...like costumes, weapons, some of the actual sets the movie was filmed on?
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I voted against Bush both times.
A: What does Dubya have to do with defending your home world from militant aliens?
B: Bush was obviously a pretty sorry way of defending OUR people.
If you lived in a galaxy full of pissed off Romulans, Klingons and Borg, would you want your only defense to by a few "exploration" ships with crews of GAP models who wind up letting the Earth get imperiled over and over because the officers are busy "exploring" green bitches? This is why I've always hated Star Trek: you have what is obviously a navy of heavily armed starships, crewed by people with military ranks who nearly weekly are involved in firefights and fleet actions, discipline is by court-martial, training is at acadamies, they wear uniforms and get medals... but they're not the military, because there's no military in the nice utopian future? SHIT MAKES NO SENSE! Walks like a navy, quacks like a navy, it's a freakin' NAVY! -
Why do people use the its not like its shakespeare to excuse terrible writing all the time? To begin with, there is nothing out there like shakespeare, to say "its not like its shakespeare" is a redundant comment in itself. Secondly, there is no reason to be conformative with a steaming pile of written works, whether its star trek or not.
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wanted you to have this when you were old enough, but your uncle wouldn't allow it; he feared you'd follow ol' Kirk on some damn fool idealistic crusade, like your father did.
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Totally agree with you, especially when calling it "Melrose Space" is more clever.
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Whoever said that it wasn't the military?
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"Is that a tricorder?""uh... yea"
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To fans of the series, it's a pretty basic fact.
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Jan 08, 2009 6:07:09 PM CST
Merrick - have you ever actually seen a vibrator in real life?
by gruntybear
'Cuz that tricorder don't look nuthin' like any vibrating pleasure-dong I've ever seen. More appropriately, it actually looks like the starter kit for those make-your-own lightsabers that they used to carry at the Disney parks.
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That's really surprising.
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How goes it. *Fist bump*
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are you contending that the Federation has no military?
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Makes Superman Returns look like Laurence of Arabia
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30s are the new 20s. 20s are the new teens. Teens are the new toddlers. Toddlers are all kids with autism or adhd.
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UNTIL I'M SITTING IN THE MOVIE THEATER!!!
Y'know, I'm as excited as anybody about this new movie...maybe not quite as excited as I was by every new Star Trek episode on TV back in the 60's [yeah, I'm an old fart]....but pretty darn close. So why would I or anybody want to see all this spoilerish shit? It's gotten so that I don't want to see movie trailers any more, because too much of the good stuff is given away before the movie every hits the screen. I am going to see this movie, and there is _nothing_ that any ad agency, movie studio or Harry Knowles that is going to make that outcome more likely. so there!
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So this is uhuras vibrator?
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...I can replace that with the tentacle, right Mr. Franklin T. Marmoset?
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...looks more like a Sonic Screwdriver to me.
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from the original series and Next Gen look when you see them up close at the Sciffy Museum at the EMP in Seattle. Especially the Next Gen stuff -- some of them have what looks to be colored construction paper glued to them. Oh! the magic of blurry late 80's early 90's TV screens.
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For one thing, when shapeshifters were going to invade Earth in DS9, Sisko was --|this|-- close to letting Starfleet take over the Federation presidency, and turning Earth into a military dictatorship. It was stated a billion times in those 2 episodes alone that Starfleet was the Earth military.
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I thought the same thing when I saw a TNG exhibit at the local science center years ago. In the pre-HD days the camera was pretty forgiving. Nowadays things have to have a much more finished quality. Make-up artist's have had to adjust they way they work. Film sets have to be more detailed. I'll never forget how shitty I thought the Alien costume looked when I saw them at the 1980 Worldcon. One of the reasons that I was so blown away by my first trip to Disneyland was the the amount of detail that went into the exhibits. The Jungle Cruise temple for example looks absolutely like it's carved from stone instead of fiberglass or whatever they used. Before HD, you wouldn't have to take the finish that far for a movie. I'm surprised that more actors don't balk at green screens as they usually prefer to work in a real environment. On the TV adaptation of August Wilson's The Piano Lesson we had to have the house set finished ahead of the shooting schedule just so that the actors could rehearse on the set and get the feel of the thing.
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to be Uhura's pleasure dong
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DeForest Kelly is buzzing in his grave.
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...sex scene with Uhuru. I can't wait to see, and hear, her squeal.
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bend over, Spock--it is only logical
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ULTRAMAN!!!! It's the Beta Capsule you dolts! God Damn Kirk is gonna show up and march right up to Shitzor and look him in each eye (one at a time) and then shoot his arm staight up holding the Beta Capsule and shout ULTRAMAN!!! And then ULTRAMAN-Shattner will proceed to beat the shit out of Eric Bana and Nick Nolte. Why Nick Nolte? Cause that dude is fucking KAH-RAY-ZEE! Natch!
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..they're just not the kind that "insert" if you catch my drift.
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Uhura's thong or something more sexy than the Star Trek equivalent of a 2nd grader's back-to-school pencil kit?
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that Starfleet is not the military. I dare you. The closest thing is in Trek 4 where Kirk tells the shrill whale girl that he's not with the military. But he was referring to the American 20th century military. In Trek 2, Kirk's pussy son was whining that "scientists have always been pawns of the military" and he was whining about Chekov in his science vessel, the Reliant. Roddenberry might have wanted there to be no military or no conflict at all in the first season of the next generation but that lame ass idea was thrown out the window.
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I think J.J. Abrams might be mixing franchises here!
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The official tricorders should still be cool looking "man purses." Um, wait...you know what I meant.
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How amazingly awesome.
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Now THAT looks like...okay I'll stop.
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And it's complete: my Doctor Who fannishness now eclipses all others.
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Jan 10, 2009 9:42:40 AM CST
McCoy's original instruments were made of cake decorators!
by catbarf the 12th
like, to apply frosting with. True story. I don't think a vibrator would have got through the censors anyway.
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No, they were salt and pepper shakers....very art deco...and they still pop up on ebay now and then. They were not cake decorators.
true story
ironically teh new 'tricorder' (which is mislabeled...it is actually a scanner) is a commercially available pepper mill.
yup
I think they are trying too hard to be clever by finding 'modern' salt shakers to replace McCoys 60's salt shakers. This piece is in fact available commercially and is an honest to God pepper mill.
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That at least a nozzle or two was from a frosting applicator. Sorry I don't have the book anymore and forgot the title. They were probably gluing a few things together along the way, so there's room for a few odds and ends, eh?
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but dangit, there's a frosting nozzle in there someplace, or somebody gave me a bad report. Pictures were used as an example though, and it seemed reasonable to me. Maybe the things I'm remembering belonged to the rarely seen ship's dentist. Or maybe my mind is going the way of "Deadly Years" Kirk already.
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