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There's a STAR TREK video game that is going to lead into JJ's STAR TREK 2 apparently...

Published at:  Feb 10, 2012 8:05:10 PM CST

Hey folks, Harry here...  JJ's STAR TREK 2 is pretty much a complete mystery at this point.  For this game there's an enemy race attempting to conquer the galaxy.   The game hits in the 1st quarter of 2013 but will "pave the way" to JJ's film which hits May 17th.   Found this out over at ShackNews - which has a video of in game footage, which I have to say seems pretty darn cool.   Love the space walk stuff.   But if you look - there is an alien ship here.   WILL THAT BE THE BAD GUYS?   I don't instantly recognize the ship, but figured I'd share with you folks, so that perhaps we'll have the answer soon enough.  

This was shown at E3 last year - and has been online for awhile, but with today's press release from Paramount stating that the game is now directly leading into the film - it's time to revisit this old game footage...  don't you think?





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  • Feb 10, 2012 8:08:16 PM CST

    First?

    by conspiracy

  • Feb 10, 2012 8:08:43 PM CST

    Looks like Mass Effect 3...

    by christopher_chance

    Good thing?

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  • Feb 10, 2012 8:08:49 PM CST

    FUCKING A...over 10 years and Finally a first.

    by conspiracy

    I feel like a total fucking douche bag right now

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  • Feb 10, 2012 8:10:31 PM CST

    I think it's the Cardasian's/ Dominion!

    by kbarber29

  • Feb 10, 2012 8:14:01 PM CST

    Ok...Where is Asimov and Roberto...let the REAL games begin.

    by conspiracy

    Ok Bob...did you have anything to do with this...What can you contractually tell us if so.

    Asimov....Begin the "Star Trek reduced to silly, violent, 3rd person, Tomb Raider style Shooter" Ranting.

    I'm gonna go out get a bottle of wine for wife's Co-Workers party and will be back later tonight to laugh, learn and perhaps mediate a cease fire to the inevitable carnage to follow.

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  • Feb 10, 2012 8:15:03 PM CST

    kbarber29...Ships did have a Cardassian look about them...

    by conspiracy

  • Feb 10, 2012 8:15:54 PM CST

    Where "Are"...bad grammar...no excuse.

    by conspiracy

  • This is going to be fucking crazy!!!!!!

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  • Feb 10, 2012 8:19:28 PM CST

    If this is true, thank you Orci, JJ., Kurtzman! Thank you!

    by kbarber29

    You are going to restore honor to DS9 and make it better for having watched Trek 2.

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  • Feb 10, 2012 8:27:41 PM CST

    I usually don't bitch about old news, but dudes...

    by dharma4

    ...This is old news :|

    -Namaste-

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  • Feb 10, 2012 8:36:52 PM CST

    Lens Flare - The Game

    by thound3

  • Feb 10, 2012 8:44:18 PM CST

    God, I love Trek.

    by cutest_of_borg

    Don't grieve, Admiral...

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  • Feb 10, 2012 8:48:17 PM CST

    Where are you guys seeing Cardassians or Jem Hadar?

    by neodevilbanex

    I only see the one shot of the ship swooping by in the distance... and it doesn't look like any Cardassian ship we've ever seen, nor any Jem Hadar ship.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Yes you. That would so fucking awesome.

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  • Feb 10, 2012 8:50:07 PM CST

    This game was announced nearly six months ago...

    by jd lux

  • Feb 10, 2012 8:50:54 PM CST

    Blow shit the fuck up!!

    by mugato5150

    FUCK YEAH! That's everything that Star Trek has been about the whole time, blowing the shit the fuck the shit...did I mention the fuckshit? UP! Fucking blow that shit up! That was Roddenberry's vision, explode that shit!

    Because Star Wars did it and it made more money. Because in Star Wars they blew a planet up so we need to blow more planets up and shit blows up and I just blew my load! Because everything is blowing up and ice monsters and swords! And shit blowing up!!!OMGWTF!!!!!!

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  • Feb 10, 2012 8:51:31 PM CST

    Is that the Wormhole at 26

    by xombygodd

  • Feb 10, 2012 8:54:36 PM CST

    neodevilbanex: hell yeah it is. Even moves like one.

    by kbarber29

  • Feb 10, 2012 8:55:03 PM CST

    At 40 is what I would swear is a cardassian ship

    by xombygodd

  • Feb 10, 2012 8:56:04 PM CST

    Star Shit

    by vezner2007

    might as well rename the series to be more accurately described.

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  • Feb 10, 2012 8:58:07 PM CST

    Xombygodd: yes, it looks like a wormhole, maybe the one by DS9

    by kbarber29

  • Feb 10, 2012 9:03:27 PM CST

    Maybe the birth of the wormhole?

    by kbarber29

  • Feb 10, 2012 9:08:09 PM CST

    I'm guessing this game...

    by jimmy_009

    ...is all about shooting, fighting, battles, and more shooting. You know, exactly the opposite of what most of Trek is about. Pass.

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  • Feb 10, 2012 9:11:53 PM CST

    I'm sorry....

    by sfzapgun

    ...but this "guns blazing" concept is NOT "Star Trek."

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  • Feb 10, 2012 9:14:22 PM CST

    THE DOMINION

    by khjll

    That was my idea for a STAR TREK film have to whole universe under siege by the DOMINION and bring in all the STAR TREK characters from all the franchises... Have a huge galactic EPIC space battle bigger than STAR WARS...

    Reply to Talkback

  • Changeling's can shapeshift and may have been spying on the Federation for some time. We could meet evil Odo.

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  • Feb 10, 2012 9:19:17 PM CST

    We might meet evil Odo.

    by kbarber29

  • Feb 10, 2012 9:21:53 PM CST

    Peter Weller looks like a Changeling, might be reprising Odo?

    by kbarber29

  • Feb 10, 2012 9:33:46 PM CST

    I don't see any DS9

    by supertrekkie

  • Feb 10, 2012 10:11:03 PM CST

    So Star Trek 2 is just going to be a big Mass Effect ripoff, then?

    by melgibsoncalledmethenword

  • Feb 10, 2012 10:18:56 PM CST

    I wonder ...

    by jae684

    if the game will suck as badly as the movie is going to?

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  • Feb 10, 2012 10:25:51 PM CST

    Now at .16, .17, that's a wormhole. And it might also be ds9.

    by kbarber29

  • Feb 10, 2012 10:27:01 PM CST

    DS9

    by adml_shake

    Lets not forget that this is what...80-90 years before the station is built?

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  • Feb 10, 2012 10:27:29 PM CST

    I call bullshit unless they Bring Back Black Station Captain!

    by victor82

    AND the Cardassian tailor.

    No tailor, no peace!

    BTW, we went through the whole first film with one green chick but NO FUCKING MUGATO!

    WTF IS THIS SHIT?!!!

    Reply to Talkback

  • Gave away everything, including the big boss fight at the end, fighting Green Goblin, cue the cutscene where he kills himself with the glider. I think it even came out before the movie.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Feb 10, 2012 10:28:35 PM CST

    Looks nothing like JJ-Trek...

    by georgieboy

    There aren't any lens flares or swollen hands...

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  • Feb 10, 2012 10:30:28 PM CST

    Who's making this? Bioware?

    by mikeyeieio

  • Feb 10, 2012 10:31:42 PM CST

    Spoiler...

    by thewacokid

    This game will be terrible. Just like every other game ever made based off movies.

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  • Feb 10, 2012 10:32:55 PM CST

    Tholians

    by reharb

    Tholians.
    The "web" like tendrils enveloping the Enterprise reminded me of a spiders web, so there we go.

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  • Feb 10, 2012 10:41:50 PM CST

    release the Asi!!!!

    by miyamoto_musashi

  • Feb 10, 2012 10:48:40 PM CST

    Looks like a Star Trek Mod for Mass Effect

    by dougmckenzie

    I'm sure that's all it is anyway. Is Bioware the best handler of SCI-FI IPs right now? Sure looks like it.

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  • Feb 10, 2012 11:09:09 PM CST

    This artical came at a bad time for hilarity...Friday Night.

    by conspiracy

    Sun isn't even up in Portugal, and Roberto is probably knee deep in a $20 Martini on his expense account somewhere off Wilshire.

    The insanity will have to wait....

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  • Feb 10, 2012 11:10:13 PM CST

    And yes..I know..."Article"...I AM drinking people...

    by conspiracy

  • Feb 10, 2012 11:32:14 PM CST

    mugato5150, Look what happened...

    by jumpinjehosaphat

    ...when Star Wars tried to be Star Trek. We got Episode 1 trade disputes, diplomats, pontification and moralizing about species cohabitation, Federation-style Jedi rules of engagement, shoehorned pseudo-sciene to needlessly explain plot, and other such long-winded and self-contradictory horse hockey -- Just like Star Trek!

    Reply to Talkback

  • Feb 10, 2012 11:34:17 PM CST

    Hyping-up crap with crap always seems to work.

    by justmyluck

    AND MORE LENS FLARES, PLEASE.

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  • Feb 10, 2012 11:52:26 PM CST

    conspiracy re Roberto

    by miyamoto_musashi

    I prefer to think that he is currently snorting cocaine of an underage Thai hooker....isn't that a normal Friday night for him ?

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  • Feb 11, 2012 12:51:56 AM CST

    And then there's the retarded lens flares comments...

    by garymakin

  • Feb 11, 2012 12:52:40 AM CST

    A crossover with original timeline characters?

    by ccchhhrrriiisssmredux

    That would make a fantastic film...and might hush the naysayers!

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  • Feb 11, 2012 1:16:24 AM CST

    It's a Kardashian spacecraft!

    by leon_the_professional

  • Feb 11, 2012 1:29:07 AM CST

    Star Drek Duh

    by cozy

  • Feb 11, 2012 1:46:32 AM CST

    Mass Effect. Oh, it's Mass Effect. Mass Effect? Yeah, Mass Effect.

    by larry sellers

    SHUT THE FUCK UP

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  • Feb 11, 2012 2:16:15 AM CST

    Cardassians would fit in the timeline

    by halffrog

    The ship at 0:40 certainly looks Cardassian - though a double-tailed ship is not *that* difficult to conceive.

    In the original timeline, Cardassians had contact at least with Vulcan at the time of Kirk and Spock.

    While the occupation of Bajor was later, Cardassians already were active then, though they only joined the Dominion after the wormhole existed and the Klingons had try to invade.

    So yes, maybe an evil Odo helped the Cardassians to flex their muscles earlier, and maybe even helped them create a wormhole to the Delta Quadrant.

    Benedict Cumberbatch certainly would look intruiging in a Cardassian makeup...

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  • The days of games being forced to follow the movies are ending. Studios are realizing that games are more successful if they let the game developers go through their own creative process. So even if all this speculation about cardassians etc are true for the game, it tells us nothing about the movie.

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  • Feb 11, 2012 4:30:02 AM CST

    There was a definite funk of Mass Effect 2 off of the video!

    by ciderman

    But aren't they kinda hamstrung by the original series timeline when it comes to introducing bad guys?
    Or is Spock Prime busy heading off V-Ger, The whale probe and the rest of the threats with all the lovely intel in the pointy old head of his?

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  • Feb 11, 2012 5:46:58 AM CST

    The best Star Trek game ever is Mass Effect

    by photoboy

    Also, Star Trek TNG on the GameBoy was fucking awesome too.

    The thing that makes Mass Effect such a good Star Trek game is that it gives you the freedom to take your starship to whatever planet you want and it's not always about shooting- often you're brokering for peace or helping people in some way and the conversation trees mean you can actually talk to people instead of just shooting them.

    So if this Trek game can incorporate those sorts of features (and Star Trek Elite Force 2 did do some basic branching dialogue) then it could be really excellent.

    I'm not so keen on the focus on just Kirk and Spock, it would be cool to be able to pick which crew members you take on an away mission based on their skills (although I'd probably always take Spock, Bones, Scotty and Ensign Ricky). Unfortunately based on the trailer the game looks like it might just be a linear shooter, rather than an action/RPG like Mass Effect.

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  • Feb 11, 2012 6:02:44 AM CST

    Getting a Mass Effect/Dead Space vibe which is a GOOD thing...

    by optimusbob

    ...When I played the Original Mass Effect; I thought why didn't bioware just get the Star Trek Licence and make a Star Trek RPG? I mean plot-wise Mass Effect is just Star Trek.

    The Geth are just The Borg and the "Humans-struggling-to-get-a-seat-on-the-council (Federation)" is taken straight from Enterprise.

    Maybe it had something to do with Bioware already having the Star Wars Licence, that they couldn't obtain one for Star Trek?

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  • Feb 11, 2012 6:10:09 AM CST

    OT: check out the latest Prometheus style trailers!!

    by cartmanez.


    Aliens
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkcgkA9xVkY
    AvP(makes it look awesome)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSCK0oe9VbU
    2001(feels like an R rated movie its so scary!)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMTDvlHydss

    also this had me LOLing HARD:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnkrgLkFlZg

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  • Feb 11, 2012 7:24:56 AM CST

    misunderstanding

    by freedom007

    The game's story seems to be standalone. Yes, Paramount confirmed Game will be followed by movie, but I don't think they said that game story will seque into movie story.

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  • Feb 11, 2012 8:12:46 AM CST

    So when does Khan show up?

    by dr_pepperspray

    I know you bitches have him stuffed in there somewhere.

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  • Feb 11, 2012 8:16:12 AM CST

    OK i just spotted something @1.14 whos that landing?

    by cartmanez.

    some alien superbeing?

    a hidden enemy?

    hmmmm...

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  • Feb 11, 2012 8:17:21 AM CST

    sorry it wasnt 1.14 - it was @1.00

    by cartmanez.

  • Feb 11, 2012 8:30:51 AM CST

    looks like some kind of demon...

    by cartmanez.

    has Shatner been helping out on the script?

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  • Feb 11, 2012 8:49:28 AM CST

    Hey now, there are good games based on movies

    by mugato5150

    GoldenEye was a classic on the Nintendo 64. So much so that they remade it for the PS3, even though Daniel Craig wasn't in the fucking movie, you assholes!

    But I digress. Star Wars came up with some good games too.

    Even Star Trek had some good games. There was a decent first person shooter based on Voyager. But Star Trek games should be a little more cerebral, like the old puzzle type Sierra games. Oh shit, forgot Star Trek is about BLOWING THE FUCK OUT OF SHIT now, right Rob?

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  • Feb 11, 2012 8:59:49 AM CST

    This footage is OLD...

    by lambent212

    This looks like the same footage that was shown when this game was first announced, like 6 months ago.

    I don't think the script for the new movie was even finished back then, so I highly doubt anything you see in this video will relate to the movie.

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  • If you don't buy the toys and read the pivotal plot info on the box you have no idea who each character is ect

    Reply to Talkback

  • But let's face it. You paid for the women.

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  • Feb 11, 2012 9:14:57 AM CST

    Mugatu: hey man watch your blood pressure.

    by ultratron

    It's ok. Ever since star trek 2 they been pchoo pchoo fighting. Nobody remembers the wide-beam phaser setting that can stun thousands of people at once. If they did there would never be a pchoo pchoo gun fight like in the old west that sucks shit everytime I see one because I remember the wide-beam phaser setting they arn't using because they like to put in filler pchoo pchoo fights instead of writing something intriguing.

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  • Feb 11, 2012 9:16:41 AM CST

    Nobody remembers to weaponize the transporter either.

    by ultratron

    If transporters existed you could link it to your iPhone and de-materialize every enemy in the vicinity

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  • Feb 11, 2012 9:23:54 AM CST

    Hey where is my Asimov commentary?

    by ultratron

  • Feb 11, 2012 10:02:51 AM CST

    I thought this game was gonna be out THIS year! Dammit.

    by chickenstu

  • Feb 11, 2012 10:16:17 AM CST

    I like the lens flare comments

    by starblitzer

    I saw the movie, and seriously didn't notice.

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  • Feb 11, 2012 10:43:40 AM CST

    sure, ultratron

    by mugato5150

    And I get that there needs to be some blasting in your sci-fi movie. No one is going to see Star Trek: The Motion Picture nowadays. Hell, no one saw it then either. But Star Trek used to be about more than that. Even in the movies, Wrath of Khan had two short space battles but the last thing it was about was how much shit they could cram into a shot an get blowed up.

    Star Trek 2.0 was successful because it did everything it could to emulate Star Wars which as much as people love to bash it, puts asses in seats. It's just a shame that they don't hire writers who can bring entertainment into the original sci-fi concepts on which Star Trek is based.

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  • Feb 11, 2012 11:02:58 AM CST

    Cardassians Please nooooooooooooo!

    by norm3

    Don't use anything from Next Gen stay TOS.

    Reply to Talkback

  • That shit pays heed to every writer. Admittedly it's heavy on the Harlin. Fuck it. Harlin was the best.

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  • Feb 11, 2012 11:17:28 AM CST

    Kardashians on the Enterprise?! NOOO!

    by jeespox

    Get them away from the crew.

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  • Feb 11, 2012 11:23:05 AM CST

    ultratron, dude, are you drunk or something?

    by mugato5150

    I thought you were a guy who worked in the business and wrote somewhat intelligent posts. I mean it's okay. I'm stuck at work and am drunk too.

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  • Feb 11, 2012 11:27:06 AM CST

    Star Wars & Trek should be culled. Time for new Mythos.

    by higgledyhiggles

  • Feb 11, 2012 11:46:02 AM CST

    creepythinmanforever, you're not a complete idiot

    by mugato5150

    And you sometimes make intelligent comments but you don't need the caps lock and the "fact!" thing. You don't need to pose as a character to talk with other people on a message board.

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  • Feb 11, 2012 11:57:36 AM CST

    They're gonna re-do the V-ger story right!!

    by wellgoodgravy

    Oh wait, that's a story that CAN'T be done right.

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  • Feb 11, 2012 12:26:07 PM CST

    Mirror Universe anyone?

    by kbarber29

  • Feb 11, 2012 12:43:34 PM CST

    Movies into games... ALWAYS SUCK.

    by mennen

    Hope they can break the lifetime trend.

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  • Feb 11, 2012 12:50:44 PM CST

    mennen, GoldenEye sucked? Really?

    by mugato5150

  • Feb 11, 2012 1:47:32 PM CST

    How many lights do you see?

    by deep13

  • Feb 11, 2012 2:28:40 PM CST

    Star Wars...

    by hughhoyland

    Was after Star Trek, Trek was before Star Wars, so honestly you can say that Wars ripped stuff off Trek! :)

    And I also wrote a spec "script" for a Trek Movie, its still not finished, and its bad actually. Maybe someday I'll finish it and make a million.;)

    I still dont get why some people say Star Trek 09 didnt have an idea behind it, or wasnt "high concept" enough, but maybe its just me.

    As to the trailer, I did see a Cardasian ship at first. But I think that shape was used for several types of vessels. I still cant help but think Khans in this. Its a gut feeling.

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  • Feb 11, 2012 2:31:49 PM CST

    the ID of the villains is bugging me now

    by cartmanez.

    theres def a DS9 vibe to that trailer but i really hope the actual movie dosnt have any DS9 stuff in it - Cardassian or whatever they called. there was a homage in ST09 - "Cardassian sunrise"

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  • Feb 11, 2012 2:49:45 PM CST

    I don't know if you're joking or not, hughhoyland

    by mugato5150

    Yes Star Wars came after Star Trek but they were completely different takes on sci-fi/fantasy stories with occasional overlap. That is until Star Trek died a twisting, horrible death and they decided to go all Star Wars with the reboot.

    Which is fine, I understand that the audience today doesn't want to hear about any of the deeper sci-fi concepts or commentary on humanity type themes that old Star Trek had. They have a dubiously large budget to make up (I mean $200 mill, really?).

    So copy Star Wars. Trek 2.0 got the shoot 'em up part right but it missed the part of Star Wars where we cared about any of the characters.

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  • Feb 11, 2012 3:19:24 PM CST

    mugato5150 - Good point, buddy - 1 out of a thousand.

    by mennen

  • Feb 11, 2012 3:39:18 PM CST

    Cardassians are ruined for me as a Trek race

    by lv_426

    because of all the bullshit about the real life Cardashians that keeps getting shoved in my face by the retarded media we have in this country.

    Seriously, I can't hear the word Cardassian in Star Trek anymore without being reminded of those Cardashian fucks.

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  • Feb 11, 2012 3:48:27 PM CST

    Star Trek needs the space to breathe that TV provides.

    by pink_skrull

    And there is no reason not to make a new series, especially given how good TV has gotten.

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  • Feb 11, 2012 3:55:55 PM CST

    cartmanez, nice trailers

    by lv_426

    You're right, the Prometheus style trailer edit makes AvP look great, which makes me more worried about the actual full length Prometheus now.

    I still think the original teasers for Alien and Aliens are the better than the Prometheus style with the damn BWAAHHMMMM!!!!!!!


    Alien

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjLamj-b0I8&feature=related



    Aliens

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fheA6Ua_nNc

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  • Feb 11, 2012 4:00:36 PM CST

    photoboy / ultratron -- Mass Effect

    by lv_426

    Same here.

    Why the fuck do I need a non-Bioware made, non action/RPG with dialogue trees Star Trek game when I have Mass Effect.

    Mass Effect 3 in about a month too!

    AICN really needs a video games column, and not just that retro game one, which is great and all, but one on new games. Maybe something a bit like Harry does his DVD/Blu picks of the week list.

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  • i hope to see ones for Masters of the Universe, Lost in Space, Supernova and Event Horizon soon too

    and yes i too was concerned Prometheus might not be an instant classic for abit but then i realised.....theres no way it cant be.

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  • they would work well i think

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  • Feb 11, 2012 5:22:21 PM CST

    It looks like a Dead Space skin job

    by autodidact

    I don't know anything about this game, but from that trailer this looks like this is exactly Dead Space 2 reworked with a Star Trek theme.

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  • I'd love a Trek game done Mass Effect style. Hell when we all play Mass Effect, we compare it to Trek and B5. It's great story and a great game.

    Sad that only a video game is the best "serialized" sci-fi available right now. Or maybe that's the future? The way the genre will thrive? Who knows.

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  • Feb 11, 2012 5:51:48 PM CST

    @Asi

    by mrlongbaugh

    J.J. and his Star Trek are the greatest things to ever happen. FACT!!!! LMAO

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  • Feb 11, 2012 7:57:31 PM CST

    jimmy_009: Good thing you are passing...

    by executor

    Passing on Star Trek is staying true to your Star Trek, since everyone else has been passing on ST until the last movie brought the franchise back to life.

    You keep watching your old stiff didactic morality plays on bad sets. I'll take the new version. Thanks.

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  • Feb 11, 2012 9:04:42 PM CST

    You're right, executor

    by mugato5150

    Fuck old Star Trek and all that cerebral shit! Blowing shit the fuck up is where it's at! And the characters in the old Trek weren't nearly loud and their characteristics weren't even close to exaggerated enough! FUCKING BLOW THAT SHIT UP AND YELL IN CARICATURE ACCENTS!!!! OMGWTF!!!!

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  • Of course, it'll be an original enemy made up for the game (99% likely), which is fine. But I'd love to see The Dominion show up, but they're all the way over the Gamma Quadrant and as much as I can buy the timeline being affected by Nero's incursion I really can't see the ripple effects going all that far back. The Borg in the Delta Quadrant and the Dominion in the Gamma Quadrant should be unaffected by all that temporal tinkering. (note: extreme Trek geek musing above).

    Seriously, though, just to keep going, I'm not sure if the Dominion could even show up in the Alpha Quadrant in the JJ-verse at the 23rd Century because they only showed up because the wormhole opened up at Bajor and THAT only happened because The Sisko opened it because the wormhole aliens wanted to talk to him and stuff. But would The Sisko even exist in this timeline? (Maybe one of his descendants got blown up on the Kelvin or got iced when Vulcan got explodey. Not to say The Sisko is a Vulcan, but if a descendant of him was on one of the Starfleet ships that got toasted by Nero.)

    Basically, it'd be interesting to see how the far-flung TNG era races would interact with the JJ-verse characters, but you gotta go through a lot of holes to get to that one. But a good example is the Nero comic where they come face to face with freakin V'Ger, which I thought was awesome. (And, since Nero showed up there you can think of a good "Butterfly effect" excuse why it wouldn't roll up on the JJ-verse in a few years cuz Nero interacted with it and it got it's closure on it's Carbon Based Lifeforms or whathaveyou).

    This is why we need comics and games and books and stuff, moreso set in the JJ-verse just cuz there's lots of areas you can explore that can mix and match both continuities without employing time travel yet again.

    But, in the end, we probably won't get much of it. nice to dream, though.

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  • Feb 11, 2012 11:27:05 PM CST

    WHAT A LOAD OF...

    by johnnyrandom

    ...nig nogs.

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  • Feb 11, 2012 11:39:33 PM CST

    FUCK THOSE BLACK NIG NOGS...

    by johnnyrandom

    ...right up the AIDS pipes. The fucking black sambos.

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  • Feb 12, 2012 12:32:29 AM CST

    just saw this. hope I didn't miss much.

    by boborci

  • Feb 12, 2012 12:36:26 AM CST

    johnnyrandom WHAT.THE.FUCK?!!!

    by optimusbob

  • storywise; can't wait to find out who the enemies are or what the plot is.

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  • Feb 12, 2012 12:45:24 AM CST

    you know us!

    by boborci

  • It's fine, just reset button the end of it. "All Good Things..." reset buttons the hell of out it's ending and it's one of the best damn Trek's ever made. (To a lesser extent, Voyager's Year of Hell does it too and it works cuz it earns it and it has Kurtwood Smith in it) I'm not saying make a movie outta it but it's good fodder for the IDW series / any other games ya got out there.

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  • Star Trek follows Kirk and Spock as they learn to work as a team in the process of trying to thwart the efforts of an infamous enemy race from conquering the galaxy...

    Infamous Enemy Race, eh?

    It is the Cardassians isn't it?...COOL. Because TOS crew never encountered them in the original timeline, so it'll cool to see how that pans out.

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  • Feb 12, 2012 1:09:32 AM CST

    edit: it'll BE cool

    by optimusbob

  • ...where Vulcan used to

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  • ...where Vulcan used to be, thus the Dominion/Cardassian/Klingon/Federation War happens earlier than the original timeline?

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  • It was one of the rare strategy games made from the ST franchise. The game was basically MASTERS OF ORION but transposed to the ST universe. I really liked it. Good times.

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  • Feb 12, 2012 3:48:37 AM CST

    I know who are the bad guys in Abrams Trek 2:

    by asimovlives

    Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, Damon Lindenoff and JJ Abrams.

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  • Feb 12, 2012 3:52:29 AM CST

    With Benedict Cumberbatch as Gary Mitchell AKA The Emissary.

    by optimusbob

    maybe his increased psionic abilities are somehow caused by The Prophets?

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  • Feb 12, 2012 6:55:34 AM CST

    stalkeye

    by asimovlives

    You just gave Mass Effect a faint praise. Because that game is so vastly superior to Abrams Trek it's not even funny. Actually, come to think of it, it is funny.

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  • Feb 12, 2012 6:58:53 AM CST

    Boborci used to be JJ's Doctor..

    by the_dark_shite

    One day, JJ came in with a sore penis.

    Dr. Orci asked "Mind if I numb you?"

    "Go ahead", said JJ.

    "Num num num num num".

    I'm here all week.

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  • Feb 12, 2012 7:23:24 AM CST

    'an infamous enemy race'.....the Eymorgs?

    by cartmanez.

    they the most infamous villians in history of ST

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  • Feb 12, 2012 7:34:39 AM CST

    'an infamous enemy race'... The Star Wars fanboys.

    by asimovlives

  • I can't believe it only cost 12 mil. It's now my favorite comfort food sci-fi movie ever. Good god man. That is the hottest Asian chick. The movie is better than any star trek except the first film. I can make any excuse for it. It's just geektastic. The wave gun they put sunglasses on when they fire is the most powerful looking thing since the death star. This movie is more fun than not watching it. I can assure you of that.

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  • Feb 12, 2012 9:19:43 AM CST

    the_dark_shite

    by asimovlives

    Reality was probably something even more salacious.

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  • Feb 12, 2012 10:36:15 AM CST

    BobOrci, please give us a Cardassian named Kim in the movie.

    by kbarber29

  • Feb 12, 2012 10:52:15 AM CST

    Star Trek:Prometheus

    by cartmanez.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBSf6ooInJg&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Ftrekm

    fuck the rights - just make this into movie!

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  • Feb 12, 2012 11:09:16 AM CST

    It's not a mystery. It's Trouble with Tribbles.

    by hesiod2k7

    Sorry to blow the lid on this thing, but Simon Pegg tweeted about being on the set with Tribbles stuffed in his pants.

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  • Feb 12, 2012 11:10:12 AM CST

    Infamous enemy race=Klingons

    by hesiod2k7

    It's Trouble with Tribbles.

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  • Feb 12, 2012 11:16:35 AM CST

    no doubt - thats a cardassian ship

    by rkdn

  • Feb 12, 2012 11:23:19 AM CST

    also, simon pegg's tweet was meant to fool morons

    by rkdn

  • Feb 12, 2012 1:50:37 PM CST

    Don't think Pegg's tweet was meant to "fool" anyone

    by hesiod2k7

    ...moron. If anything he was just joking around.

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  • Feb 12, 2012 2:21:04 PM CST

    Lensflare is getting work on Fringe too.

    by v3d

    Great performance last Friday. He always brings his A game.

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  • Feb 12, 2012 3:38:45 PM CST

    kbarber29..Not Mirror Verse...Not Showing the abs

    by conspiracy

    Watch Mirror Mirror again...Nichelle Nichols body was fuckin ROCKIN the abs. It is no wonder Gene couldn't keep his hands out of that cookie jar.

    Mirror Verse ROberto...and Bring back the Orion chick...you kept her alive in the script...so bring her back you bum.

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  • Feb 12, 2012 5:08:38 PM CST

    quantize

    by asimovlives

    you are hurt!!! so sory!

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  • Her sexiness helped brough more the black and white races together then all the combined efforts of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. How many whiteboys got their first sexual crush on Nichelle Nichols? Oh yeah!

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  • Feb 12, 2012 5:12:22 PM CST

    your = her

    by asimovlives

  • Feb 12, 2012 6:30:22 PM CST

    I am around tonight, losers, if anyone wants to fight.

    by boborci

  • Feb 12, 2012 6:53:08 PM CST

    I'll fight Bob...

    by hughhoyland

    What do you wanna fight about? I'm ready dude!

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  • Feb 12, 2012 7:03:16 PM CST

    Hughhoyland - well my favorite fight is with

    by boborci

    The morons who think Lee Harvey Oswald kilked JFK, but i am game fir anything. I need a complaint!

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  • Feb 12, 2012 7:13:34 PM CST

    But Bob...

    by hughhoyland

    People who believe the "official" version that LHO killed JFK dont want their delusion to be shaken! Then they'll have to question another "official" truth. Then another, and another on and on! :(

    'Waving' at the DHS 'waving' Hi! :)

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  • Feb 12, 2012 7:20:59 PM CST

    Bob

    by hughhoyland

    I have to commend you on taking stands on these topcs man.

    I dont see many (if any) in your line of work do so. At least openly. Keep up the fight, but you do realize it may get rough right?

    BB dont like when people get out of line.

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  • ...by the trajectory of the bullet, he would have to be dangling by his feet from the window ledge of the depository... maybe a couple of pigeons held his ankles in mid-flight...You know its believed there were pro-Castro pigeons conspiring in a bar on the morning of the assassination; they were heard to have been shouting Coup! Coup!... (crowd groans)...FUCK YOU! You're not above puns!

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  • Feb 12, 2012 7:36:48 PM CST

    Optimusbob

    by hughhoyland

    If he shot him he must have had four arms and two rifles! And fired from three different directions.

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  • Feb 12, 2012 7:39:41 PM CST

    Sorry BobOrci...

    by hughhoyland

    Looks like no fighters tonight, they must have played to much Skyrime and are now tucked safely in bed.

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  • Feb 12, 2012 7:42:55 PM CST

    Quiet night i guess. Lets just have a virtual beer together

    by boborci

    I just landed in New Orleans.

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  • Feb 12, 2012 7:49:55 PM CST

    hughhoyland

    by optimusbob

    It's like you said those that believe the official version of events are deluded; they aspire to a nothing-to-see-here-go-back-to-sleep philosophy which is mind-numbingly ignorant and idiotic.

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  • Feb 12, 2012 7:50:35 PM CST

    Whats going on in N.O.?

    by hughhoyland

    If I can be nosey. And a beer sounds good!

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  • Feb 12, 2012 8:02:48 PM CST

    optimu

    by hughhoyland

  • Feb 12, 2012 8:04:49 PM CST

    Optimusbob

    by hughhoyland

    You nailed it! If the people actually knew what has happened (and is continuing to happen) I honestly think their would be mass panic.

    But since most are content to go on with their heads in the sand and fool themselves I dont see things changing much...yet.

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  • Feb 12, 2012 8:28:31 PM CST

    In NO for Ender's Game and Now You See Me.

    by boborci

  • Feb 12, 2012 8:48:29 PM CST

    Enders Game

    by hughhoyland

    Will be AWSOME!

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  • Feb 12, 2012 9:56:33 PM CST

    Never been to N.O., and not in the mood to fight/debate

    by conspiracy

    Not in a fighting mood...too much Malbec in my system...and anyway, we don't fight much anymore unless it is about that abysmal fucking film series Transformers.

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  • Blah, I came to the depths of the AICN talkbacks for some Gladiator style throw-downs between BobOrci and AsimovLives. "Are you not entertained?!"

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  • Like, it's not as if I take my laptop outside and download pornography while shoveling snow, that would be weird. It's, like, set up the download, then go shovel. That's the ticket.

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  • Feb 13, 2012 1:19:35 AM CST

    Anyway, yay Cardassians!

    by tallboy6t6

  • Feb 13, 2012 2:27:23 AM CST

    Bob

    by hughhoyland

  • Feb 13, 2012 2:27:49 AM CST

    is chillin in NO

    by hughhoyland

  • Feb 13, 2012 3:59:51 AM CST

    Cardassians--annoying sub-enemy

    by corplhicks

    Their ships were always lame in fights until into the dominion war -- sttng fight w enterprise was brief and Picard shirked and w one volley had them
    On defense. Please.
    They were an aggressive arrogant but weaker enemy.

    Btw ds9 rules !!!

    Garakt and bashir's talk at end of war said it all. They lived by arrogant aggression and betrayed the entre alpha quadrant and basically their 800+million dead was them getting what they deserved. Their fleet decimated. Capital planet in ruins. Demoralized. New future hopefully of peace.

    Love the DS9 war Arc

    By end of war
    Federation is militarily way smarter and more advanced and when their fleet is rebuilt up
    It will be quite badass

    Klingon fleet very depleted but same

    Romulins--fleet not as decimated. Still the smartest most insidious enemy but now warmer to Feds

    Breen--very depleted and hated in quadrant

    Dominion - fleet decimated. Jem Hadar decimated in alpha quadrant. Still strong in their quadrant

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  • and the only one unfortunate enough to get caught. And nyes, there had to be 3 assassins. The sole assassin scenario is not very plausible.

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  • Feb 13, 2012 4:45:05 AM CST

    I'd fight William Shatner.

    by asimovlives

  • Feb 13, 2012 8:05:24 AM CST

    I did fight William Shatner.

    by the_dark_shite

    His name was William Backed-Upner until he met me.

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  • Feb 13, 2012 8:22:04 AM CST

    meh

    by dangerdave

  • Feb 13, 2012 8:41:03 AM CST

    Careful Asimov...tis a dangerous path you tread...

    by conspiracy

    get involved in talking about that, or any other conspiracy theories; and you, like I, might find out Roberto seems a pretty decent guy (fucking horrible Transformers films not withstanding).

    And it is hard to bash, to violently anyway, people you come to respect.

    My advice...stick to talking Trek...it'll keep your hatred spring fresh; Detente is so boring from a spectators point of view.

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  • Feb 13, 2012 8:48:05 AM CST

    Harry - Which is it?

    by the starwolf

    Your comment states "1st quarter of 2013". Game says "2012". Which is it?

    Not that it matters unless they have a key to toggle to 1st person. I generally dislike third person games.

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  • Feb 13, 2012 9:44:15 AM CST

    Yeah, asimov, dont agree with me. Agreed?

    by boborci

  • Feb 13, 2012 11:13:30 AM CST

    Think About it...All good productions need a Ying and Yang.

    by conspiracy

    a protagonist and an antagonist...something to play off.

    If we all got along all the time this place would be as as much fun as sitting and watching an Amish Sewing Circle.

    Now dude...The Orion Girl lived in the script, bring her back! Give the People What They Want...Green Broads!

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  • Feb 13, 2012 11:31:24 AM CST

    Bob, take some time to enjoy the Mardi Gras activities in N.O.

    by darth_meh

    I was at Mardi Gras twice in my younger party years.

    Great times.

    Have a Hurricane and a Po'boy for me.

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  • Feb 13, 2012 12:41:58 PM CST

    You guys filming in N.O? Ya gotta save a bundle back there...

    by conspiracy

    ...plus I'd think the working environment might actually make the days/nights more productive...away from the L.A. Scene.

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  • Feb 13, 2012 1:07:12 PM CST

    Interesting thing I've noticed about Conspiracy Theories...

    by conspiracy

    While American's and most Europeans by and large, Left, Right, Red, Blue, buy their "sides" Official view of the world without question...people who were not raised in the "1st world" always view ALL Government with some suspicion and distaste.....and rightfully so.

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  • Oh please pleas please let it happen somewhere.

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  • Feb 13, 2012 5:56:05 PM CST

    conspiracy

    by asimovlives

    people in the 3rd world have excelent reasons to distrust and be suspicious of their governments.


    As for conspiracy theories, most of them are just sily shit. one of my favorite to despise is thye stupid bullshit of the moon landing hoax. it's hillarious, it's stupid beyond belif.

    The people with so many conspiracy theorists is that they presume just because they have an anti-goverment attitude they are automatically smart and good guys. which is just bullshit. it takes far more then just that. if anything, so often the conspiracy theory circles invite the type of people who do not think. who take things as dogma, and will not change their mind even if faced with hardcore facts. like the aforementioned moon landing hoax crowd.


    As for the kennedy assassination thing, it's as facitul the notion that there was just one shooter as the notion that Lee Harvey Oswald had nothing to do with it. LHO was one of the shootists, among others. They got one, 2 or 3 others escaped.

    Fun fact, there's some who think that one of the other shootists was one hitman called Charles Harrelson. He was Woody Harrelson's father. Died in jail in 2007 of coronary and advance age where he was serving life sentence for the assassination of Judge John H. Wood, Jr in 1979. On a very uncanny note, that assassination is mentioned in both the book and movie NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, the later which stared Woody Harrelson. Mind boggling, hem?

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  • Feb 14, 2012 12:14:20 AM CST

    that one scene of the ship moving away, you ....

    by corplhicks

    see the back of the ship as it flies away from you, it clearly looks like a Cardassian ship as seen in DS9.

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  • Feb 14, 2012 7:18:06 AM CST

    The problem with lens flare is ...

    by the starwolf

    Lens manufacturers have spent MILLIONS over decades developing rare earth lens coating to reduce or eliminate lens flare, only to have demented directors ignore this and deliberately reintroduce flare because they think it's 'artsy'. Feh. Ditto the MILLIONS spent developing image stabilizers only to have directors ignore this in favour of 'photography by epileptics' (a.k.a. 'the highly irritating 'shaky-cam').

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  • they're added in post production via iMovie's video filters.

    I actually would have less of a problem with them if they were generated naturally via a lens and light. At least there would be some art involved.

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