From darkhorizons, Some small bites of news on J.J. Abrams upcoming cinematic reinvention of the "Star Trek" franchise today.
Actor Kelvin Yu has already filmed his speaking role as a Starfleet medical technician, whilst Holland-born boxer turned actress Lucia Rijker will begin shooting her role as a Romulan communications officer.
Space.Com reports that NASA planetary scientist Carolyn Porco, leader of the Imaging Science team on NASA'S Cassini mission at Saturn, has joined the film's production team to ensure the scientific accuracy of the movie's astronomical scenes.
A report about the toy tie-ins for the film is up at AICN and describes both the new look Enterprise and an alien ship - "It's a little more 'organic' than the original one and I think the two warp engines and the 'bite' taken from the central body are a little bit bigger. The floor of the new transporter room is red, by the way. Also shown was another spaceship. It resembled an octopus and could have appeared in one of the Matrix sequels."
Finally, Eric Bana has confirmed that he hasn't shot his role of the villain Nero in "Star Trek" yet - "I haven't even started yet. I just go in at the very end and do my cameo."
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The best and most unexpected news is that Lauren came home from the gym last night RAVING about The Naked Time which she watched while on the treadmill! I was still in the planning stages of my Trek campaign and she made it easy for me. Now I don't have to watch them on my own time like I do my KISS bootlegs. We're set now to watch the whole damn series chronologically.
Wow, file that under, "It's never going to happen"!
I'm still in the middle of The Naked Time myself. I watched some on my bike ride to work this morning. They're so much fun to watch on the IPOD because of the bright colors and space sounds in the headphones. But I realize I need to give them proper DVD attention. (I just added the entire series into my Netflix queue.)
But I love how despite Spock's emotionless Vulcan nature, he can't help taking McCoy's bait.
BONES: Your pulse is 242. Your blood pressure is practically nonexistent, assuming you call that green stuff in your veins "blood".
SPOCK: The readings are perfectly normal for me doctor, thank you. And as for my anatomy being different from yours, I am delighted.
I need to just bite the bullet and purchase this damn series once and for all. It's shameful that I don't own them.
That is so excellent!
Yeah, Spock is clearly blurring the line of "emotionlessness" during his time amongst humans.
The bond between McCoy and Spock is incredibly strong, although neither wants to admit it. They totally love each other, and express it by needling each other (in a way that always brings out some philosophical issue).
That's true JPX, Trek is noticably absent from your gargantuan DVD collection. Maybe they'll eventually go down in price like the Flying Circus series did? Or you could start pecking away by buying them one-at-a-time used. Or you could just suck it up and buy them all. You are a doctor, dammit.
I'm a doctor not a millionaire!
I love that Joe Tormolen gets to hang out with the Captain, Spock and McCoy in sickbay and hear them bickering etc. just because he was up for landing party rotation or whatever. I like to imagine the lower-level crewmen excitedly discussing rumors of what's going on amongst the officers, etc. ("Spock was totally taking McCoy's bait in sickbay!" "I'm so jealous that yo got to hang with them.")
The TNG episode "The Lower Decks" explores this concept pretty well.
The McCoy/Spock relationship is an example of the subtle nuances I'm only beginning to appreciate. And I admit I was guilty of dismissing it as "camp" a la Adam West Batman...
Another example:
In "Miri," Spock is struggling to understand what's happened on the planet. "Illogical; it does not follow," he begins. The adults are dead and the children are alive, "but children become adults."
Kirk says, "They have up to now." Watch Spock's face, right then: in a way that must absolutely fascinate him, Kirk has hit on the crux of the matter, using intuition, e.g. lateral thinking. Spock reacts very clearly; he is startled, and then pleased, because Kirk (his human friend, which is a novelty) has helped him understand the logic.
He's so pleased, in fact, that he walks over to McCoy for no other reason than to make conversation. "Quite a museum piece you have there. Optical type microscope etc."
"Spare me the analysis; it's enough that it works!" McCoy says, exasperated. Spock raises an eyebrow and walks away. You can just tell he's still thinking about Kirk's insight and the "forbidden fruit" of humans' thinking patterns and emotional triggers; so alien, and so endlessly interesting.
That Spock analysis is so funny and astute I'm at a loss for words!
JPX, you need to try to post Trek stuff on a regular basis. Well I suppose you already do.
I just learned that a guy I work with is a HUGE Trekkie. He just talked my ear off about Wolf in the Fold.
ooh, wolf in the fold is so creepy! goosebumps.
"Astute," maybe, but remember that I've been watching these 79 episodes since I was eight years old.
I've always posted all Trek news; as recently as today!
Jordan, have you ever heard any of the original cast speak live?
I just found this tidbit,
40th Anniversary remastering
This episode was remastered in 2006 and aired September 30, 2006 as part of the 40th anniversary remastering of the Original Series. It was preceded a week earlier by "The Devil in the Dark" and followed a week later by "The City on the Edge of Forever".
Aside from remastered video and audio, and the all-CGI animation of the USS Enterprise that is standard among the revisions, specific changes to this episode also include:
The planet Psi 2000 has been updated appearing more realistic.
The matte painting of surface now includes the research station structure.
When Scotty uses a phaser to burn through the bulkhead, the phaser beam has been properly added.
When the Enterprise begins to fall into the planet's atmosphere, a fiery glow appears on the view screen from the friction.
The archaic mechanical clock has been replaced with a digital readout.
The time travel effects have been enhanced.
Nobody should watch those special editions until they see the originals. I don't like them, but that's just my opinion. But you've got to see the originals first.
No, I've never heard them speak live. You?
I'm going to see the originals first because I'm going to buy them!
Over the years I've seen them all speak live except Scotty. what totally sucks is that I was going to go see Scotty speak at a convention, but I woke up on the day of the convention after working late at the movie theater and I said, "I think I'll skip it, I'll see Scotty another time"! I mean, Jesus, I even have Janice Rand's autograph! I saw Shatner and Nimoy speak on the same stage and they were hilarious! From the other shows I've only seen Major Kira and Seven of Nine.
Wow, Jeri Ryan. Hubba hubba.
She looked the same in real life!
(except for the Borg parts).
Here's another funny thing. When I saw Bones speak he was sick with a cold and sipping from a water glass. My friend stole the glass at the end of his speech and he caught Bones' illness. I think he was actually proud of this fact!
I had Sulu sign that picture of himself from The Naked Time.
for some reason *ahem* i'm thinking of that snl sketch in which shatner adresses the assembled trekkies....
by which i mean addresses.
what a chatty bunch we have been today!
Here's a hilarious thing Jordan once said. We were talking about Original Trek, and he described the way in which the episodes generally concluded:
"Kirk makes some kind of solemn observation, Spock chimes in, McCoy tells Spock to go fuck himself and then the episode's over."
Ah, that still cracks me up.
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