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Our First Clear Look At Props From The New TREK Movie!!

I am now authorized by Baron Karza	Jan 8th, 2009 10:46:23 AM
To view this page
Me too. by henrydalton	Jan 8th, 2009 10:46:46 AM
That was a bit weird...
Hardly considered Aint it Cool by mistergreen	Jan 8th, 2009 10:47:31 AM
Looks like something I pulled out of my car. FIRST!!!!!
And that tricorder looks like a lightsabre. by henrydalton	Jan 8th, 2009 10:47:36 AM
Just sayin...
Or a fancy corkscrew by skimn	Jan 8th, 2009 10:47:58 AM
for that fine Romulan ale.
I feel better for being authorised by palimpsest	Jan 8th, 2009 10:49:27 AM
It gives me a sense of enormous well-being.
I AM NOW AUTHORIZED !!! by TheCap	Jan 8th, 2009 10:49:54 AM
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 ?
Ain't it Meh... by WIBoomer1	Jan 8th, 2009 10:50:12 AM

DAMN IT by Sluggolicious	Jan 8th, 2009 10:50:48 AM
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!!
The communicator by Nuck81	Jan 8th, 2009 10:51:52 AM
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?
LOL Good one Merrick! by MRJONZ72	Jan 8th, 2009 10:58:42 AM

I thought this movie was set in the future? by mode_7	Jan 8th, 2009 10:58:52 AM
Those gizmos are fucking crap. I got better shit than that now, and I'm fucking poor.
It's that 70's future...you know...the one with... by Darth Macchio	Jan 8th, 2009 11:02:45 AM
..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.
I want that laptop. by gotilk	Jan 8th, 2009 11:03:52 AM
So strangers larger than me will randomly beat me up.
This movie might be ok by kwisatzhaderach	Jan 8th, 2009 11:05:45 AM
if we cover our ears and close our eyes.
Yeah, inflatable women generally don't need 'em by V'Shael	Jan 8th, 2009 11:16:07 AM
Zing!
We will need to hold our noses too... by bobjustbob	Jan 8th, 2009 11:16:22 AM
... or at least that's the feeling I get...
Darth Macchio by Paul Bucciarelli	Jan 8th, 2009 11:17:29 AM
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.
also a future where you put clothes in by rben	Jan 8th, 2009 11:22:57 AM
and they come out neatly folded and inside plastic wrap. kudos to Lost In Space!
WATCHMEN Trailer Parody - METEORMAN by Docbrowneye	Jan 8th, 2009 11:24:13 AM
http://tinyurl.com/8c9sg7
Authorization is sweet. by kbass	Jan 8th, 2009 11:29:41 AM
Looks like a mini-lightsaber.
ST90210 by huggerorange	Jan 8th, 2009 11:36:03 AM
the trek looks like star trek 90210...why's everyone so young and preppy looking?
New tricorder > salt shaker by floydjoy	Jan 8th, 2009 11:36:12 AM
Just sayin'. Looks like they're combining the traditional Spock-like tricorder with the salt shaker Bones used to scan patients with. I like.
Bones has a lightsaber by Abominable Snowcone	Jan 8th, 2009 11:36:29 AM
that's what it is.
by huggerorange	Jan 8th, 2009 11:38:20 AM
i meant this new startrek movie looks too dawson's creek-ish...wheres the picards and shatners?
The Cap by Pope Flick	Jan 8th, 2009 11:43:35 AM
has it nailed. That's the scanner to the unseen box.
huggerorange by kwisatzhaderach	Jan 8th, 2009 11:50:50 AM
It looks like Trek 90210 because it's made by idiots.
Can you stick it up your arse? by brock landers baby	Jan 8th, 2009 12:03:00 PM
Well??????
Scanner... by diverdan	Jan 8th, 2009 12:05:23 PM
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?
Cool shit by Wrecks	Jan 8th, 2009 12:07:05 PM
All retroey and awesome. Haters will continue to spout bullshit after relaase, but inside they will feel the pain of wrong, wrong, wrong.
Holy Fuck by fuck.wit	Jan 8th, 2009 12:07:09 PM
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
Kirk's communicator by Deus X Meshuga	Jan 8th, 2009 12:13:03 PM
Looks a bit beefier than in TOS. Kinda like the transistor radio I got for my 6th birthday. Works for me! :D
Dammit Jim, I'm a Doctor not a Jedi Knight! by photoboy	Jan 8th, 2009 12:13:04 PM
Bones must be popular with the ladies when it's time for their physicals...
merrick by drturing	Jan 8th, 2009 12:16:53 PM
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.
70's ancient? by Darth Macchio	Jan 8th, 2009 12:17:11 PM
...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!!
And Christ on a Fucking Cracker! by Wrecks	Jan 8th, 2009 12:21:15 PM
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.
Dark Knight gets DGA nod by Zeegloo	Jan 8th, 2009 12:26:10 PM

DGA nominees are... by Pennsy	Jan 8th, 2009 12:27:17 PM
Christopher Nolan, TDK; Gus Van Sant, Milk; Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire; David Fincher, Curious Case of Benjamin Button; Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon
About these props... by PITCHPERFECT	Jan 8th, 2009 12:27:32 PM
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.
DAMMIT ZEEGLOO! Beat me by 7 seconds! by Pennsy	Jan 8th, 2009 12:27:41 PM
;)
by huggerorange	Jan 8th, 2009 12:27:52 PM
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!
Dammit Jim, it's a scanner, not a dildo by I Dunno	Jan 8th, 2009 12:30:27 PM
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.
People who've lived a full life... by Wrecks	Jan 8th, 2009 12:34:11 PM
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.
Can't we just release this fucking mess DTV already? by conspiracy	Jan 8th, 2009 12:36:49 PM
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.
God bless you J.J. by Jodet	Jan 8th, 2009 12:42:36 PM
And Godspeed. I want FRESH TREK.
The whole thing looks overwrought by Rickey Henderson	Jan 8th, 2009 12:52:54 PM
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?
WHAT A DUMB BATCH OF PROPS by ArcadianDS	Jan 8th, 2009 12:56:04 PM
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?" stupid stupid stupid.
One other thing... by PITCHPERFECT	Jan 8th, 2009 12:59:09 PM
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.
TURNS OUT THATS NOT THE TRI-CORDER by ArcadianDS	Jan 8th, 2009 12:59:58 PM
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.
That's what some of us have been saying... by PITCHPERFECT	Jan 8th, 2009 01:04:05 PM
It's the scanner not the tricorder! Jeez!
Black knee high GOGO boots... by Darth Macchio	Jan 8th, 2009 01:04:43 PM
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!
Young People vs. Old People by MattmanReturns	Jan 8th, 2009 01:06:28 PM
Most interesting old people are interesting because of what they experienced in their youth.
But when they were young.... by terry1978	Jan 8th, 2009 01:08:07 PM
they didn't appreciate what they were experiencing, ironically.
I love how every story on this site has a sexual inuendo by SomaShine	Jan 8th, 2009 01:08:52 PM
Because we all know the people that get the most are Star Trek loving nerds and Aint it Cool News reporters
So let's watch old people by Wrecks	Jan 8th, 2009 01:12:18 PM
Sitting around reflecting about all the cool shit they experienced when they were young... awesome.
Darth Maccho by Paul Bucciarelli	Jan 8th, 2009 01:19:32 PM
Hey! I think i was sitting next to you.
wrecks... by huggerorange	Jan 8th, 2009 01:19:40 PM
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
Ageism! by PITCHPERFECT	Jan 8th, 2009 01:20:36 PM
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.
Wrecks by Paul Bucciarelli	Jan 8th, 2009 01:27:40 PM
It is awesome. Try it sometime when you're not pulling your air out studying for your SATs.
I meant by Paul Bucciarelli	Jan 8th, 2009 01:31:55 PM
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.
Modern Tech by yomomma	Jan 8th, 2009 01:33:02 PM
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.
Star Trek 902010 by yomomma	Jan 8th, 2009 01:36:20 PM
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.
Paul Bucciarelli by Wrecks	Jan 8th, 2009 01:45:50 PM
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.
Not the military! by Wrecks	Jan 8th, 2009 01:47:28 PM
God, didn't anyone watch the show.
Space Vibrator by Kentucky Colonel	Jan 8th, 2009 01:50:20 PM
Energize Me!
nope by cineninja	Jan 8th, 2009 01:57:56 PM
I know the guys that built the med tric for this movie and that aint it. Somebody fucked up on that display
STINO!!!!!! by swivile bobble fizz fizz	Jan 8th, 2009 02:04:32 PM
Star Trek In Name Only!
STINO!!!!!! by swivile bobble fizz fizz	Jan 8th, 2009 02:04:47 PM
spread the word
swivile bobble fizz fizz by cameron1975willi	Jan 8th, 2009 02:21:13 PM
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.
Merrick is over compensating for his lack of sexual ability by awepittance	Jan 8th, 2009 02:22:39 PM
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?
"It's true, this man has no dick." by cameron1975willi	Jan 8th, 2009 02:24:52 PM

"had to create a design that didn't jar too much with the origin by I Dunno	Jan 8th, 2009 02:27:20 PM
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!
Not the military? by yomomma	Jan 8th, 2009 02:31:03 PM
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.
Merrick and vibrators by yomomma	Jan 8th, 2009 02:33:08 PM
Prostitutes just want to be paid, you don't have to please them.
"That sounds like a pretty sorry way to defend your people" by cameron1975willi	Jan 8th, 2009 02:34:06 PM
You voted for Bush, TWICE! Didn't you?
"but as I had a life..." by Wrecks	Jan 8th, 2009 02:37:17 PM
Says the guy posting in a science fiction movie prop talkback.
It isn't the age...it is the Orci/Flames on Optimus vibe by conspiracy	Jan 8th, 2009 02:38:32 PM
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.
umm...when I saw this..... by Dallas1701D	Jan 8th, 2009 02:38:38 PM
my first thought was that it was a Universal Translator.....
Age bullshit by Wrecks	Jan 8th, 2009 02:47:36 PM
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.
Actually... in Khan as well by Wrecks	Jan 8th, 2009 02:48:55 PM
young young young trainess.
You can view them screen testing by Abominable Snowcone	Jan 8th, 2009 02:50:45 PM
the Tricorder prop in this video http://tinyurl.com/2xzdvd
AND! by Wrecks	Jan 8th, 2009 02:52:57 PM
Karl Urban: 36, Simon Peg: 38. perfect.
What mean "expendable," Rambo? by Abominable Snowcone	Jan 8th, 2009 02:54:35 PM
Well, let the guys from Star Trek show you: http://tinyurl.com/8yv4aq
Chris Pine : 28 by Wrecks	Jan 8th, 2009 02:58:02 PM
Zoe Saldana: 30, John Cho: 37, Zachary Quinto: 31. yeah 90210 right.
WTF do you mean Starfleet wasn't the military? by I Dunno	Jan 8th, 2009 03:02:13 PM
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.
The Starfleet Insignia on Kirk's Communicator? by Leto III	Jan 8th, 2009 03:02:42 PM
Isn't that a bit too "meta"? As in, "Spaceballs: The Lunch Box" and "Spaceballs: The Flame-Thrower"?
I dunno by Wrecks	Jan 8th, 2009 03:05:39 PM
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.
Holy Shit by Rat Fink	Jan 8th, 2009 03:14:43 PM
This is some pathetic news!
Not Military? by Darth Macchio	Jan 8th, 2009 03:15:41 PM
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.)
And it's Earth that doesn't use money by Wrecks	Jan 8th, 2009 03:15:55 PM
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.
Ever play the Star Trek Racism game? by Darth Macchio	Jan 8th, 2009 03:26:21 PM
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!!!
Which one is Prop #8? by thebearovingian	Jan 8th, 2009 03:27:48 PM
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
Darth....Great Game! by conspiracy	Jan 8th, 2009 03:29:48 PM
I take a shot every time them mention those rascally Chin....er, I mean Romulans
Darth Maccho by Paul Bucciarelli	Jan 8th, 2009 03:43:53 PM
And let's not forget the chosen people: The Bajorans.
Props by mos6507	Jan 8th, 2009 03:50:18 PM
They can't even name the props right? EPIC FAIL!
They have cool keychains in the 23rd Century by Arcangel2020	Jan 8th, 2009 04:11:04 PM
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? This looks like one of those key chanin laser pointer things
Dubay and ST military by yomomma	Jan 8th, 2009 04:25:32 PM
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!
by huggerorange	Jan 8th, 2009 04:35:15 PM
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.
Your father... by REDD	Jan 8th, 2009 04:48:27 PM
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.
And Christ on a Fucking Cracker! by Boborci	Jan 8th, 2009 05:02:09 PM
Totally agree with you, especially when calling it "Melrose Space" is more clever.
yommomma by Paul Bucciarelli	Jan 8th, 2009 05:07:32 PM
Whoever said that it wasn't the military?
Wrecks was picking Trekker nits by yomomma	Jan 8th, 2009 05:38:51 PM

Uhura to Kirk: by br1947	Jan 8th, 2009 05:42:03 PM
"Is that a tricorder?" "uh... yea"
Not a nit by Wrecks	Jan 8th, 2009 06:02:45 PM
To fans of the series, it's a pretty basic fact.
Merrick - have you ever actually seen a vibrator in real life? by gruntybear	Jan 8th, 2009 06:07:09 PM
'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.
John Cho is 37? by CountryBoy	Jan 8th, 2009 06:25:09 PM
That's really surprising.
HEY BOB ORCI by BringingSexyBack	Jan 8th, 2009 06:58:54 PM
How goes it. Fist bump
If Starfleet isn't the military by I Dunno	Jan 8th, 2009 07:33:27 PM
are you contending that the Federation has no military?
this goddamned movie by Star Hump	Jan 8th, 2009 08:09:07 PM
Makes Superman Returns look like Laurence of Arabia
John Cho 37 by antonphd	Jan 8th, 2009 08:13:58 PM
30s are the new 20s. 20s are the new teens. Teens are the new toddlers. Toddlers are all kids with autism or adhd.
Don't wanna look...don't wanna see them... by Token	Jan 8th, 2009 10:58:36 PM
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! I just don't get the current enthusiasm for spoilers and obsessive questing for details before the movie comes out.
by Supermans	Jan 8th, 2009 11:28:20 PM
So this is uhuras vibrator?
Looks like... by Motoko Kusanagi	Jan 9th, 2009 12:36:35 AM
...I can replace that with the tentacle, right Mr. Franklin T. Marmoset?
That Tri-Corder... by my liege	Jan 9th, 2009 03:55:15 AM
...looks more like a Sonic Screwdriver to me.
It's funny how cheap and flimsy the props by Dingbatty	Jan 9th, 2009 05:29:27 AM
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.
YES, Starfleet IS the military by DeanCubed	Jan 9th, 2009 07:30:40 AM
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.
Dingbatty by Paul Bucciarelli	Jan 9th, 2009 07:45:53 AM
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.
That's not big enough by Abominable Snowcone	Jan 9th, 2009 07:54:48 AM
to be Uhura's pleasure dong
McCoy's Vibrator by Geekgasm	Jan 9th, 2009 09:02:20 AM
DeForest Kelly is buzzing in his grave.
Kirk uses the Tricorder as a vibrator during his... by Leafar the Lost	Jan 9th, 2009 09:47:47 AM
...sex scene with Uhuru. I can't wait to see, and hear, her squeal.
It's a hand-held exotic drink mixer by Abominable Snowcone	Jan 9th, 2009 10:33:04 AM
bend over, Spock--it is only logical
Surprised no one mentioned... by Darth Macchio	Jan 9th, 2009 12:17:03 PM
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!
And there are vibrators that look like that... by Darth Macchio	Jan 9th, 2009 12:19:29 PM
..they're just not the kind that "insert" if you catch my drift.
Don't they have like by Abominable Snowcone	Jan 9th, 2009 12:56:21 PM
Uhura's thong or something more sexy than the Star Trek equivalent of a 2nd grader's back-to-school pencil kit?
Wrecks, name ONE time that it was stated by I Dunno	Jan 9th, 2009 01:16:57 PM
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.
Tricorder??? Looks like a LIGHT SABER! by Kikstad	Jan 9th, 2009 04:05:15 PM
I think J.J. Abrams might be mixing franchises here!
Scanners used to be modified Salt Shakers by Kikstad	Jan 9th, 2009 04:07:21 PM
The official tricorders should still be cool looking "man purses." Um, wait...you know what I meant.
Wow by Smashing	Jan 9th, 2009 04:09:55 PM
How amazingly awesome.
"Uhura's Communications Unit" by Kikstad	Jan 9th, 2009 04:12:51 PM
Now THAT looks like...okay I'll stop.
Ahh, it looks like a sonic screwdriver. by AnnoyYou	Jan 10th, 2009 01:13:17 AM
And it's complete: my Doctor Who fannishness now eclipses all others.
McCoy's original instruments were made of cake decorators! by Catbarf the 12th	Jan 10th, 2009 09:42:40 AM
like, to apply frosting with. True story. I don't think a vibrator would have got through the censors anyway.
catbarf by cineninja	Jan 11th, 2009 04:51:52 AM
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. I know the guys that built the med trics and that aint it.
OK, c-ninja, but at least one source says... by Catbarf the 12th	Jan 11th, 2009 08:06:05 AM
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?
Hrm, maybe that was some other prop by Catbarf the 12th	Jan 11th, 2009 08:09:46 AM
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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