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Nov 23 | Chuck returns to NBC with a special two-hour show on Sunday, Jan 10, 2010, before returning to its regular time slot, Mondays at 8pm on the following night. It's return to prime time television can be attributed to a successful fan renewnal campaign last year. CHUCK is a one-hour, action-comedy series that follows Chuck Bartowski (Zachary Levi, "Less Than Perfect") -- a computer geek who is catapulted into a new career as the government's most vital secret agent. This upcoming season will include some special guest stars, including Brandon Routh of "Superman Returns" who will play CIA agent Daniel Shaw in an episode, and the addition of SUBWAY restaurant as a major advertiser to the show. Chuck averaged a 4.0/6 rating last season, about eight percent better than the recently cancelled "Trauma". Ratings-challenged Heroes moves back an hour when Chuck returns on Monday nights. STAR TREK VOYAGER's Robert Duncan McNeill serves Chuck as a supervising producer and director.
Nov 17 | Originally hired as co-executive producer to help with the second half of the show's first season, Kevin Murphy has now taken the reins of Caprica, the Battlestar Galactica prequel on Syfy, according to The Hollywood Reporter. He now serves as an executive producer along with Ronald D. Moore, David Eick and Jane Espenson and oversees the day-to-day functions of the show.
Nov 12 | Star Trek star Zachary Quinto is loosely attached to star in the romantic dramedy Whirligig, reports Risky Business.Quinto would play the lead role in the independent Canadian film, which is aiming to shoot early next year. The movie centers on a man who, in a misguided attempt to woo an older woman, befriends the woman's adopted son.Chaz Thorne is directing the pic, based on a screenplay by Michael Amo, creator of the Canadian supernatural series "The Listener."
Nov 11 | The CNS Foundation, is hosting an on-line charity auction at www.charitybuzz.com. One of the items they are auctioning is a signed movie poster of the new Star Trek movie which has all the cast members and writers. The president of our organization is Carol Abrams, JJ's mother, and she arranged for the donation from Bad Robot Production Company. J.J. Abrams is also a major donor to their organization. The funds raised will go to help find a cure to neurological disorders in children. The auction link is here.
Nov 10 | Candice Bergen, Charles Lisanby, Don Pardo, Gene Roddenberry, Tom and Dick Smothers and Bob Stewart have been selected as the next inductees into the Television Academy's Hall of Fame. They will be honored at a Jan. 20 ceremony at the Beverly Hills Hotel. "This year's inductees have challenged and shaped popular culture, changed television for the better and entertained us royally while doing so," TV Academy Chairman-CEO John Shaffner said. More info at the Hollywood Reporter
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By GustavoLeao / 04:13, 19 November 2008 / Star Trek: Nemesis
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Reviewer and Star Trek fan Jordan Hoffman of UGO posted a detailed review of the Star Trek footage show in New York early this week. While impressed with the 25 minutes of footage, Hoffman also criticizes director J.J. Abrams in his article. Here are few excerpts of his report, including his review of scene 3 :
"J.J. Abrams struts up like the smartest kid in Hebrew school. The first thing out of his mouth - the very motherloving first thing out of his mouth - is "I've never been a fan of Star Trek." the reviewer wrote "WTF?!??! Not only is this insulting and lame, it is rehearsed. He's said this in interviews fifteen times already. Maybe he thinks it is cute, but I just find it rude. J.J. Abrams needs to understand that he is a guest in our house. If he can't be polite, we won't invite him over to play anymore. It's as simple as that."
THIRD SCENE
I think this is actually fourth in the timeline of stuff we saw. Spock is now in control of the Enterprise and he dispatches Kirk on some planet. There he meets someone - old Spock. L-Nim! Leonard Nimoy. The man that makes all of these canon paradoxes okay.
While we weren't given the set up, precisely, of what Spock is trying to do, we know that he must get Kirk back on the Enterprise. To do this, they meet up with Scotty who has been dispatched to some lonely part of the galaxy for killing a chief muckity mucks dog with his intra-warp beaming techniques.
Simon Pegg is terrific as Scotty. In fact, if it weren't for Urban as McCoy, I'd be losing my mind about Pegg.
To make a long story short, Spock gets Scotty to get Kirk back on board. But not before raising an eyebrow, saying, "Fascinating" and slipping out a "Live long and prosper." Also - it would appear that Spock's closely vested emotions will become a major plot point in the story. That Kirk will only be able to save the day by getting Spock to admit that he is an emotional creature.....or something.
a final nod to the audience, Kirk admonished Spock for his plans, saying something to the tune of "Time travel - isn't that cheating?" While this may be a little dig at the screenwriters, Spock keeps it in house, firing back an "I learned it from an old friend."
If you are a true Trekkie, you know haw fantastic it is to see Nimoy as Spock one more time. I don't know if any closure is given to the TNG episode "Unification II" (I kinda doubt it) but the decision to include Leonard Nimoy in this project is without question the smartest decision anyone on the team made. I know for a fact I'll pay for tickets at least four times just to see the scenes he appears in. I should probably erase that last line, lest it gets saved for the commitment hearings that no doubt await me.
The full review of the trailer and scenes 1, 2 and 4, plus comments on the NY screening can be found at UGO.
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“The first thing out of his mouth - the very motherloving first thing out of his mouth - is “I’ve never been a fan of Star Trek.”
So what!
“Not only is this insulting and lame...”
Please. It’s not “insulting” in the least. You’re just an obsessive dork with an axe to grind about this movie (as your moronic “booo!” demonstrated). Virtually every word coming out of your keyboard has been a reflection of this.
“He’s said this in interviews fifteen times already.”
Because it was relevant to what he had to say, which you of course paraphrased out of all recognition and muddled even further with your idiotic prose.
“Maybe he thinks it is cute...”
Or maybe it’s just a fact and he’s not trying to irritate you because he doesn’t care about you (BECAUSE THIS ISN’T ABOUT YOU).
“...but I just find it rude.”
No you dont. You’re just saying that because you're a drama-queen looking for attention (and, congratulations, it’s working: fan sites are linking to your crap all over the web).
“J.J. Abrams struts up like the smartest kid in Hebrew school.”
*rolls eyes*
You dont even know this man, and you’re slagging on him personally. Sounds like you’ve got some career-envy. You wouldn’t by chance happen to be what most ‘critics’ are, would you? You know, a failed insert whatever profession you cover here--->________?
“...he was so in love with Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman’s script, he wound up saying “yes” to directing it. He questioned himself, “How could I say ‘yes’ to this project?” As if Star Trek had the cooties and was corroded. “I didn’t even know they’d made ten movies already. Who wants to be 11th?” I know who, someone who likes Star Trek!!!! By now my acid reflux is acting up and I am starting to get nauseous. J.J. introduces the first scene, “Where we first meet Spock. No, not Spock - the other one - Kirk. Spock is the one with the...” and he points to his ears. No, I am not making this up.”
Shut. The. Fuck. Up.
“A drunk Jim Kirk is hitting on....Uhura? H-what? It’s ten seconds in and there’s a canon violation.”
No it’s not. Do you even know what ‘canon’ is? There is nothing, NOTHING, in the Star Trek canon that explains how, when, or what the circumstances were when James Kirk met Uhura. NOT. ONE. DAMN. THING.
“Kirk would never be crude to Uhura. It’s not in his nature.”
For someone so obsessed with canon you dont seem to know shit about it. Yes, it is not in the nature of the adult Kirk to behave that way. But this is not the adult Kirk, moron. People change. The start one way. Then they grow up (although maybe not you).
Not only do you not understand what canon is, you also seem to have no comprehension of the “hero’s journey” narrative. Kirk begins as the brash young man that grows into the heroic Captain Kirk. It’s an ancient archetype, the mythic tale of the hero that has recurred over and over in every culture through out history; and there is no reason in the world why the rise of James Kirk cant be (or shouldn't be) that same classic story.
What little we know about Kirk’s youth points to his being quite a charming, though wild, young man (watch Khan again). So this was a great opportunity to take an iconic character and apply Campbell’s “hero’s journey” frame to his early life. It’s classic story-telling and the fact that you dont get that speaks volumes.
How the hell did you get the gig as UGO’s rep for this event anyway?
“Uhura looks at the menu. Dialogue flies by fast, but I caught a reference to Cardassian Ale, Budweiser Classic (ugh - product placement sullying Trek) and (it was later confirmed) Slusho. Now - that’s just the last straw. J.J. Abrams - esteemed author of Gone Fishin’ - has the stones to slip a line to HIS mythology in Star Trek!?!? That doesn’t come across as NERVY to you?!? Unbelievable. Really unbelievable.”
Okay...who’s your editor? I need to have a word with him. I cant believe he publishes your tripe for the world to see.
“Anyway, Uhura, who claims not to have a first name (it’s Nyota, by the way)...”
Again, for someone so concerned about canon, you dont know jack about it. The notion of ‘Nyota’ being Uhura’s first name is apocryphal. At no time in a single frame of live-action Star Trek (i.e. canon) has a “first name” for Uhura EVER been shown or spoken. Meaning that she 1) either didnt have a “first name” or 2) it was just, for whatever reason, never revealed.
“Then Bruce Greenwood as Captian Pike walks in. (Canon violation - Pike and Kirk aren’t supposed to know one another...”
The only mention of this comes from such a throw-away bit of dialogue that it renders the whole notion meaningless. It came in an early episode of TOS when the writers were still getting a handle on things. Just a few weeks before, they were still calling Spock a Vulcanian.
“It may surprise you to learn that Chris Pine isn’t all that bad...”
No. It only surprises you because, like I said, you came into this with an axe to grind.
“I just am having a hard time seeing Kirk as a whiny loser...”
Projection.
“...trying to pick up Uhura in a bar. I can’t accept it. I just can’t.”
Yeah...we covered why that is.
“Her name is Nyota!” I shouted - in reference to the scene where Uhura claimed to have only one name. He may or may not have heard me.”
*snorts*
Idiot.
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"im not married to canon but it is in the menagerie that kirk says that he only met pike once just before he was promoted to being fleet captain."
And Kirk's middle initial is "R" in Where No Man Has Gone Before, and Spock's a 'Vulcanian' in another early episode. ;)
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The autumn days swung soft around me, like cotton on
my skin. But as the embers of the summer lost their
breath and disappeared, my heart went cold, and
only hollow rhythms resounded from within.
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