This Week in Trek

[vystral]

Doohan's Ashes Fail to Make Orbit
Over the weekend a SpaceX rocket that was carrying ashes from the late James Doohan failed to reach orbit. This was not the first attempt at this for the Doohan family or SpaceX and there is likely to be another try to send the original Scotty into the final frontier.

First Cut of Star Trek Complete - Paramount Preview Goes Well
Four months after wrapping principal photography JJ Abrams and his editors Mary Jo Markey and Maryann Brandon have finished their first cut for Star Trek. Late last week Abrams screened this cut for studio boss Brad Grey and other big shots at Paramount and according to sources it went very well.

New Official Movie Posters on the Website
And here they are...
Chris Pine as James Kirk:


Zachary Quinto as Spock:


Zoe Saldana as Nyota Uhura:


Eric Bana as Nero:


And a composite of the 4 posters made by TrekMovie.com:

[Sheridan Passell]

I really have no idea which way this movie is going to go. I thought MI3 was over-rated (someone please tell JJ that Mission Impossible was never a boring love story), and whenever Simon Pegg tries to play anyone who isn't himself it's a disaster (see the movie called 'Big Nothing').

Hope it's great. Would be nice to see this back as a regular franchise.

[dalmatianjaws]

I thought Big Nothing was flawed but deeply brilliant! Seriously, that screenplay was full of surprizes!

In JJ's defense, neither of the first Mission Impossible flicks were ANYTHING like the show, and he had the guts to completely ignore the second installment and build on the character laid out in Brian DePalma's version, which was pretty cool.

I don't know what to make of Trek either. I'm actually a huge fan of the movies and TNG, really quite underrated. But his attempts to make it full of cool action and a lot sexier seem doomed to failure.

[Sheridan Passell]

The end of MI:3 where Ethan Hunt's dull girlfriend shows her 'independence' and 'strength' by killing the villain herself... sigh (rolls eyes)

[dalmatianjaws]

honestly, if we ever meet we should just line up our DVD collections and chuck them at each other's faces. First to bleed buys the other a beer. Or two.




Or three.

[dalmatianjaws]

And we all now how it turned out ...