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I used to do this, and now I've started, again! (Yeah, I occasionally get bored.) http://virus-x.livejournal.com/391408.html

I'm hesitant to say too much about either, for the sake of those that haven't seen it. As for Star Trek, yeah, I wish he would've tried to actually make due with the canon, but, at least he did clearly establish that it wasn't the canon, and actually not the people we know. As for the rest, dude, I could barely sit still from beginning-to-end. There was not a single down moment in the whole frigging movie! Even the music was a complete departure, which (even though I do like Star Trek's music) was a complete and pleasant departure! As for the Terminator TV show: P-U!

Ok, my take on Star Trek? I thought I'd have a bigger problem with the changes in the storyline, but now that I see how JJ Abrams did it; now that I see how he explained the big changes in things like the ship, the characters, the organizations, the planets, etc., I can easily get past that, and I love it. Now, I admit I don't want to see a new series based on that, but I do like that formula. A new series with that kind of energy, with that kind of attitude: THAT I can handle. Terminator: Redemption? It took me a couple of days to really get a handle on the storyline. I saw it on the annaversary of a very hard day for me, so that took a lot of the wind out of my sails and enjoyment out of the movie, right off the bat. Then, there were the little things that weren't explained in the movie. Such as why Skynet was doing anything it was doing, in the first place. Maybe it was explained, and I didn't catch it, but I had to make a lot of suppositions about the movie. In any event, I loved 'em both, and I'll be back. Furthermore, after only paying $4 bucks to see Terminator, that helped a whole lot! Paying 4 smackers to see a sneak preview is always a bonus (unless the movie sucks, which they didn't)!

Hey, there are 3 women I love to death. In order, there's the Logical One, the Reasonale One, and then there's the Irrational One. What do they have in common, aside from breathtaking beauty? A genetic predisposition to uncooperativeness, increasing in severity the further from the Logical One I stray. Yes, we love them. But don't forget the rufies, man. SECOND LOOK AT THE RUFIES!

Actually, when Enterprise got the new writing staff, it was fantastic, but too late. They showed the first meetings with Humans and Klingons, Romulans, etc. They answered the question formally posed in DS9 about "is that really a Klingon". Yeah, the trailers won me over, too, so I'mtaking a chance on it. Roddenberry I hated, though.

I am shooting for a Saturday, actually.

In a way, its both. They're changing the timeline an the characters. Most of these guys never met until they were posted on the Enterprise, but this movie is making them look like academic contemporaries. Sulu was born in2237; Spock matriculated in Starfleet Academy in 2249, and Kirk in 2250. Sulu didn't even get in, until 2255. Spock and Kirk were OUT in 2253 & 2254. Hell, Uhura didn't even get IN until2257. They're messing the already established story up (as well as their ages), as a cheap, fast (but maybe not good) way to get the 'faves' all in 1 place, as youngsters. That's what I'm still leery about.

Now thats compassion. The woman I love is far South of perfect, herself, and I only hope I can be as compassionate and understanding as you are. However, if she just WILL NOT cooperate, I'm pretty sure I can get you a line on some good rohypnal.

Uh, you might not be the biggest...! And ethics, schmethics! I want to see advanced electronics, avionics, astronautics, physics AND THINGS BLOWING UP!

CALCULATING...CALCULATING...CALCULATING...

I call Chief of Security position!

YIPPER!

Ok. There're skating get-togethers, there're concert get-togethers. Is there going to be a DGN Star Trek get-together?!

Certainly better than that crappy movie!

Ah, thanks!

Have to agree with you, there. Remakes are a tricky business, at best, and pretty easily messed up.

TNG's already failed miserably. That's why they're not doing them, anymore. DS9? Without The Sisko, count me out.

Y'see? You can find anything on the Internet!

Comics, especially. They take a minute to read. When writing a screenplay, you EMBELLISH the story with detail enrichment. you don't rewrite the story. Spawn was a BIG offender, while Sin City was a lot better, though it LEFT OUT a lot of stuff.

Hey, I'll take you WITH me, to MAKE SURE you get pulled into the insanity!

There is NO WAY IN HELL I will voluntarily wait for anything past OPENING DAY for this. Hell, if there's a sneak preview, guess where I'm going to be...

HA! TOP GEEK AGAIN! HAAA! Oh, wait a minute... HEY! Uh, in any event, years ago, Lucas (in speaking of ILM [industrial Light and Magic, his private SPFX firm]) said that they don't create special effects anymore; they create reality. I was inclined to agree with him. I think this was even prior to the release of Episode 1. As for my purity insistations, I'm a writer. I write, and if I do happen to get something on the big screen, it'll be quite the event, because I will not allow neither screenplay "writers" nor "directors" to mess up what I created by trying to turn it into their own story. That's a big problem Star Trek has, too. If you look at Star Trek 6 (the Final Frontier), it was pretty unimpressive. However, be aware: Willy Shatner is a FANTASTIC writer, and the book was GREAT. He, however, caved and allowed those monkeys in Hollywierd to re-write his labor of love, and he got his pound of flesh for it (cashola). That, and a crappy movie associated with his name, forever.

Y'know... When it comes to Star Trek, comics, novels, etc., I am an ultra-purist. I do not like any unreasonable deviations from the base storylines, and when it happens, it pisses me off, mightily. When I heard about the new movie, I was far South of thrilled. The TNG movies, by and large, didn't do a whole lot for me, and when Nemesis came out, the fate of Data REALLY turned me off. Now, compound this with the director of the new movie and Bad Robot productions house saying they really didn't care that much about the old fans, and that this was a reboot to bring in the new fans. Instant alienation. No pun intended. So, I automatically hated the movie, refused to see it, and didn't like the director anymore, either (in spite of the fact that I liked Cloverfield and still watch Lost). I disliked the casting choices, thoroughly, and couldn't imagine how he could do more to pre-emptively make the movie worse. Then, the trailers started creeping in. Dudes and dude-ettes, I have more hooks in me than that guy did at the end of the first Hellraiser movie, who thought he could duke it out with Pinhead. With each and every passing trailer, I've been getting more and more hooks driven through me, to the point that I have completely, COMPLETELY jumped ship, and joined the MUST SEE camp. This is such a big and anticipated thing to me, that I'm making a VXFC outing on it. I plan to have my SUV totally PACKED (meaning I may have people all the way in the back, in the payload area). I CANNOT miss this movie. Hell, I'm even in love with the cast, now! Zach looks great as Spock, and the Kirk guy even has my vote! Scotty, I was more than a bit leery about (and McCoy), but leery no more! Dude. Seriously. Some of these commercials give me the chills. I CAN'T WAIT for the moment when Kirk sits in that chair, for the first time... My opinion of this movie, now: BRING IT ON.

I've heard of it, but that's it. Synopsize me, Kind Sir!