The Glade 4.0

Silly naming convention continues, but I hope hope hope it's better than the execrable Into Darkness.

I also hope it's better. It's a great trailer, but that's what you'd expect from the makers of the Fast and the Furious. Much shiny, but substance?

This... this is not Trek :\ I want a Trek movie, not a stupid Fast and the Furious movie

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The Space and the Spurious.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Yeah, this isn't Star Trek, I've given up on it being anything like the Trek that we love. It's entertaining, but it's not Trek.

I'm hopeful the series Paramount is developing is going to be more like TNG/DS9 and less BANG BOOM everyone run EVERYWHERE ALL THE TIME.

I liked Into Darkness.

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Holy shitsnacks!

Both Star Trek movies thus far have been decent Sci-Fi action movies that have only a passing resemblance to Star Trek. In fact, they felt more like Star Wars. (Which bodes well for a certain other movie J.J. Abrams directed afterward that comes out this week.)

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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What movie is that?

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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So did they sit back and say, "its the third one, we have to destroy the Enterprise."

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Raell Kromwell

Why would they stop now? I mean, they've been destroying the Enterprise this whole time, to various degrees, right?

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

My theory is that they have no cleaning team in the alternate universe future, so they have to destroy it before it gets too dirty to use.

Did you print out and place that? Because that is AWESOME! Well done Mr Sky.

Well, when's the last time you saw janitorial staff on the Enterprise in any iteration of Trek?

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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So, this has given me a bit more hope...

Ah, no, that's just me photoshoppin'.

I'll just leave this here... Its kinda bad when The Frantic doesn't make you look any sillier

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

What's sad about that is I liked all of those actors in their roles. You could not have cast those movies any better than they were cast. Those guys did a magnificent job of representing the old 60's star trek cast.

It's the script and directing that was so frustratingly NOT STAR TREK.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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Don't act like Star Trek can only be what you want it to be :/ Things need to adapt.

Unless you'd prefer the Trek franchise to fade off into obscurity and never be recreated for a new audience.

Yeah, it's not exactly like anything since TNG captured the public consciousness, except in unification of belief that the Enterprise theme song sucked balls.

Abrams did the impossible and made me interested in Star Trek. He then kinda blew it, but still.

Nonsense.

Star Trek always was fairly solid speculative science fiction, whereas Abrams reboot was a Space Opera.

Battle in Star Trek was generally patterned after WWII submarine suspense movies, as opposed to an action movie. Abrams reboot is just a Sci-Fantasy action flick.

Note there's nothing wrong with Sci-Fantasy, Space Opera action flicks. I've always preferred the Star Wars, which is all of those things, to Star Trek. But making Star Trek into it as well is clearly against the entire spirit of the franchise. It'd be like turning James Bond movies into a Sherman Brothers musical with dancing cartoon penguins. You can claim "Things need to adapt," but anyone who said it was still a James Bond movie would be smoking something strong.

As for "capturing the public consciousness," well, that's hardly a prerequisite for any of this. The new ones didn't, either. Let's just say Browncoats like you and I, FarSky, are far, far fewer in number than Trekkies, by a factor of hundreds, perhaps thousands, and yet we will heap only praise on Whedon's masterpiece. And someone who tried to make a live version of it "on ice" would not be regarded fondly by either of us.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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You owe me half a dozen brain cells.

http://www.dailydot.com/geek/star-trek- ... ead/?fb=dd

Guess they're going to recast Chekov. RIP.

Yeah, this is just... so, so sad. I think he was already a great actor, and had lots more potential. RIP.