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Well, I finally got to see Star Trek - the maintenee showing at 11:30 am this morning for $8.50 - this is a bargain in NYC. Right now in the city it is $15, and here, $11.50.
I remember when maintenee's were $5.50 and the regular showing was $8.50. Heck, I remember when it was $1 and the regular was $5.50. Annoying, since movie theaters have just gotten worse as opposed to better, along with the audience - people, please don't check the time by turning on your cell phone. It's like shining a flashlight. It's rude and annoying. I kicked the guy's seat in front of me twice for doing it, he stopped, but couldn't do much about the guy three seats to my right. Honestly, I'm starting to wish they would just confiscate them the same way they do at Golf Tournaments and at Court Houses.
Outside of that? YAY! And okay, am a trekkie. I admit it. I mean, I got an excited chill down my spine when they did the quote at the end and the theme music. Also, really loved the inside bits for true fans. The Kelvin. The Tiberus joke. The Bones nickname. The whole warp-drive bit with Scotty. Sigh. It's a fun movie. My only regret? Damn we're back to the women being sex kittens in mini-skirts and bikinis. Oh apparently Winona Ryder was in this movie - I did not recognize her, but she played Amanda Grayson - whoever that is.
Anywho...after I saw it, I found myself really wanting to see the original trek again, especially Star Trek Wrath of Khan and Voyage Home. This one, of course, is so not in that universe. We are in a very different Trek verse this go around. A parallel one. Which I have mixed feelings about, but it does allow for the characters to have new journeys and a new existence. Also provides the writers with the ability to kill people off, and provide new twists on old tales. But I'm not going to bore you all with a review - since you've already seen it, possibly three times by now, and reviewed it in your own journals. I'm betting you can spell Ururha's name, while I can't.
But enuf of that - a meme:
How Big a Trekkie are you?
1. List the Star Trek Series that you have seen. Indicate if all the episodes or some of them.
Star Trek (all)
Star Trek the Cartoon - came out in the 1970s after the series was cancelled ( a handful)
Star Trek the Next Generation (all but a few during the last two seasons)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (all in the first three seasons, couldn't find it so missed the middle two seasons, caught the last four episodes of the finale season and a few of the season before that)
Star Trek: Voyager (all the episodes)
Star Trek: Enterprise ( a handful)
2. Name your favorite episodes of each series or just what you can remember?
(I can't remember the names of any of them but Mirror, Mirror. Horrid I know.)
3. Name the movies you have seen:
Star Trek - the first one they did which can't remember the name of
Star Trek Wrath of Khan
The one after that one, which can't remember the name of
Star Trek Voyage Home
Star Trek the Undiscovered Country
Star Trek the Final Frontiere
Star Trek First Contact
Star Trek Generations
Star Trek Nemesis
Star Trek
4. Favorite Characters:
Spock
Picard
Data
Lt. Kira
The guy Robert Duncan McNeil played on Voyager (he's the producer/director of Chuck now)
The female Klingon/human on Voyager
Kirk
Kate Mulgrew's Captain Janeway
Odo
Q
5. Favorite Character in the movie?
Kirk
(sorry but I liked Spock better in the series for some reason, I'm guessing that it may have something to do with the fact that I've been watching Heroes and Quinto is good as Spock, but I kept seeing Sylar and having to push that off to the side. Loved Nemoy's appearance. Love Nemoy as Spock - sorry but Leonard Nemoy is Spock in my opinion. While I actually preferred Chris Pine to Shatner's Kirk, odd I know.)
6. Favorite Movie?
Wrath of Khan and the Voyage Home with the Whales. With First Contact - a really close second.
7. Favorite writing team?
Ron Moore in STNG and DS9. (not a huge Rick Berman fan). Also Lindeoff did a good job in this one.
10. Favorite Trek Spoof?
Galaxy Quest
11. Favorite Villian?
Khan
(although Q is a close second)
12. Least Favorite film?
Final Frontiere.
13. Most underrated film?
Undiscovered Country - lots of intellectual political metaphors in that one, plus a murder mystery.
14. Written anything on it, fanfic, anything?
Nope.
15. What got you into Trek?
My parents watched it, then in reruns. I didn't appreciate it then - too scarey, I was 6.
Then in the 1980s, they took us to the movies - which I loved, so I watched the series in reruns religiously, then watched STNG religiously.
16. Have you met anyone who wrote or performed in Trek.
I met one of the writers for DS9 at a party once in NYC. He wrote the episode about the Commander's son as a science fiction writer in the future, who wrote about his Dad, who was caught in a time stream. Can't remember the name of the episode. Or the writer's name, but do remember having this long discussion about the logistics of time travel, temporal anomalies, and Star Trek writing with him.
17. Favorite Series?
STNG (with Voyager and original Trek a close second. I think Babylon 5 ruined DS9 for me. They were on opposite each other for a bit. And I liked Babylon 5 better. Apparently the back story was - or so I'd read at the time, that the writer of B5 had pitched his tale to Star Trek head cheese, they turned him down because he was too dark for their universe and had too much conflict. Then went ahead and did a similar tale with DS9 - the writer of B5 was pissed and claimed copyright infringement, but he didn't win - since you can't copyright an idea just how the idea is expressed, and the shows were different.)
18. Star Trek or Star Wars or BSG?
They are different and shouldn't be placed up against each other. But Star Trek is the most optimistic and comforting. BSG had the most complex and fascinating characters. Star Wars was the joy of my childhood.
19. Create an icon for me?
20. Add your own question
I remember when maintenee's were $5.50 and the regular showing was $8.50. Heck, I remember when it was $1 and the regular was $5.50. Annoying, since movie theaters have just gotten worse as opposed to better, along with the audience - people, please don't check the time by turning on your cell phone. It's like shining a flashlight. It's rude and annoying. I kicked the guy's seat in front of me twice for doing it, he stopped, but couldn't do much about the guy three seats to my right. Honestly, I'm starting to wish they would just confiscate them the same way they do at Golf Tournaments and at Court Houses.
Outside of that? YAY! And okay, am a trekkie. I admit it. I mean, I got an excited chill down my spine when they did the quote at the end and the theme music. Also, really loved the inside bits for true fans. The Kelvin. The Tiberus joke. The Bones nickname. The whole warp-drive bit with Scotty. Sigh. It's a fun movie. My only regret? Damn we're back to the women being sex kittens in mini-skirts and bikinis. Oh apparently Winona Ryder was in this movie - I did not recognize her, but she played Amanda Grayson - whoever that is.
Anywho...after I saw it, I found myself really wanting to see the original trek again, especially Star Trek Wrath of Khan and Voyage Home. This one, of course, is so not in that universe. We are in a very different Trek verse this go around. A parallel one. Which I have mixed feelings about, but it does allow for the characters to have new journeys and a new existence. Also provides the writers with the ability to kill people off, and provide new twists on old tales. But I'm not going to bore you all with a review - since you've already seen it, possibly three times by now, and reviewed it in your own journals. I'm betting you can spell Ururha's name, while I can't.
But enuf of that - a meme:
How Big a Trekkie are you?
1. List the Star Trek Series that you have seen. Indicate if all the episodes or some of them.
Star Trek (all)
Star Trek the Cartoon - came out in the 1970s after the series was cancelled ( a handful)
Star Trek the Next Generation (all but a few during the last two seasons)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (all in the first three seasons, couldn't find it so missed the middle two seasons, caught the last four episodes of the finale season and a few of the season before that)
Star Trek: Voyager (all the episodes)
Star Trek: Enterprise ( a handful)
2. Name your favorite episodes of each series or just what you can remember?
(I can't remember the names of any of them but Mirror, Mirror. Horrid I know.)
3. Name the movies you have seen:
Star Trek - the first one they did which can't remember the name of
Star Trek Wrath of Khan
The one after that one, which can't remember the name of
Star Trek Voyage Home
Star Trek the Undiscovered Country
Star Trek the Final Frontiere
Star Trek First Contact
Star Trek Generations
Star Trek Nemesis
Star Trek
4. Favorite Characters:
Spock
Picard
Data
Lt. Kira
The guy Robert Duncan McNeil played on Voyager (he's the producer/director of Chuck now)
The female Klingon/human on Voyager
Kirk
Kate Mulgrew's Captain Janeway
Odo
Q
5. Favorite Character in the movie?
Kirk
(sorry but I liked Spock better in the series for some reason, I'm guessing that it may have something to do with the fact that I've been watching Heroes and Quinto is good as Spock, but I kept seeing Sylar and having to push that off to the side. Loved Nemoy's appearance. Love Nemoy as Spock - sorry but Leonard Nemoy is Spock in my opinion. While I actually preferred Chris Pine to Shatner's Kirk, odd I know.)
6. Favorite Movie?
Wrath of Khan and the Voyage Home with the Whales. With First Contact - a really close second.
7. Favorite writing team?
Ron Moore in STNG and DS9. (not a huge Rick Berman fan). Also Lindeoff did a good job in this one.
10. Favorite Trek Spoof?
Galaxy Quest
11. Favorite Villian?
Khan
(although Q is a close second)
12. Least Favorite film?
Final Frontiere.
13. Most underrated film?
Undiscovered Country - lots of intellectual political metaphors in that one, plus a murder mystery.
14. Written anything on it, fanfic, anything?
Nope.
15. What got you into Trek?
My parents watched it, then in reruns. I didn't appreciate it then - too scarey, I was 6.
Then in the 1980s, they took us to the movies - which I loved, so I watched the series in reruns religiously, then watched STNG religiously.
16. Have you met anyone who wrote or performed in Trek.
I met one of the writers for DS9 at a party once in NYC. He wrote the episode about the Commander's son as a science fiction writer in the future, who wrote about his Dad, who was caught in a time stream. Can't remember the name of the episode. Or the writer's name, but do remember having this long discussion about the logistics of time travel, temporal anomalies, and Star Trek writing with him.
17. Favorite Series?
STNG (with Voyager and original Trek a close second. I think Babylon 5 ruined DS9 for me. They were on opposite each other for a bit. And I liked Babylon 5 better. Apparently the back story was - or so I'd read at the time, that the writer of B5 had pitched his tale to Star Trek head cheese, they turned him down because he was too dark for their universe and had too much conflict. Then went ahead and did a similar tale with DS9 - the writer of B5 was pissed and claimed copyright infringement, but he didn't win - since you can't copyright an idea just how the idea is expressed, and the shows were different.)
18. Star Trek or Star Wars or BSG?
They are different and shouldn't be placed up against each other. But Star Trek is the most optimistic and comforting. BSG had the most complex and fascinating characters. Star Wars was the joy of my childhood.
19. Create an icon for me?
20. Add your own question