Wait, what, LJ had a server move and nothing broke?!

[annathepiper]

Y'all know this already, of course, but yay, back ahead of schedule! Here, have some linkage to celebrate.

I believe the correct word for this is "shiny".

Isn't blackaire's forthcoming cover for Street Magic breaking some sort of Law of Urban Fantasy Cover Art by actually having two figures? Who changed the Cover Art Law when I wasn't looking? (Props to mdhenry for sharing the goodness, though!)

And for the two or three of you out there who might not have actually seen it yet, the first full official trailer is out for the new Trek flick. I have to admit... I'm really rather geeking out about this now. From a worldbuilding standpoint I'm curious to see what they'll keep and what they'll change, and whether it is actually biologically possible for someone to play James T. Kirk and not channel William Shatner. Zachary Quinto looks like he's totally nailed Spock. And I want to see Simon Pegg being awesome as Scotty.

ETA 9:26pm: And in the admittedly cool even if it means your spam can follow you all the way to Mars kind of way, NASA is testing an early-stage interplanetary Internet.

Also, here, have a cat riding a Roomba!

Comments

Re: watched the trailer

[annathepiper]

*snerk* *marks in Do Not Approve column*

Eh, they're clearly going for harder-edged than TOS. I ain't going to hold that against them unless the movie actually sucks. And JJ Abrams does have a decent track record with Lost. (Plus, without going into rumors I've heard of spoilers, there's at least one thing that if true is going to be worth the entire price of admission for me. ;) )

Re: watched the trailer

[annathepiper]

Um, you do get the part where this is a complete reboot of the franchise, yeah? Which means, what we think we know as canon may or may not continue to be true. Including specific details of individual character histories.

Now, that said?

1) Dude, Spock can totally get pissed off if suitably motivated. Hell, Kirk deliberately provoked him into nearly breaking him in half. The episode with the lotus spores, I think--solarbird sez it's "This Side of Paradise", if it's the episode I'm thinking of. And from what I've seen of this trailer as well as the initial teaser and stills, Spock is getting suitably provoked in the flick.

2) This is a much younger Spock than we'll have been used to seeing in TOS. One therefore presumes he hasn't gotten down his Vulcan control yet.

3) It took half a season for Nimoy to really get the portrayal of Spock down cold. First half season or so, Spock was way more emotive than we saw later. Which would be in keeping with him being more emotional and volatile when younger, if you want to try to find a canon explanation for that as opposed to "the Trek producers really didn't know what to do with Spock yet". ;)

Re: watched the trailer

[annathepiper]

solarbird and I have first season TOS on DVD, and we've been rewatching the remastered ones as they show up on Tivo, just for giggles. In fact, we just specifically rewatched "The Menagerie", so Spock's portrayal in there is pretty refreshed in my brain.

And, heh, yeah, 'fair nuff, "I don't want them messing with my beloved thing" is a reasonable reaction. :) I'm willing to give JJ Abrams the benefit of the doubt, though; see previous comments re: Lost.

(Although I will also reserve final judgment until some actual reviews come out, as well as, y'know, the movie. 'Cause the first trailer for Phantom Menace was good, too, and we totally didn't get the movie that thing advertised. ;) )

Re: watched the trailer

[janne.livejournal.com]

Seconded on the emotional Spock... He was definitely a lot more emotional in the early episodes, smiling and socializing and all. Makes perfect sense to me if he spent some time flipping between extremes on the Human/Vulcan axis before finally settling down somewhere near the middle :)

[firni.livejournal.com]

The friggin thing never went down for me, dunno why.

[annathepiper]

Lucky you! ;)

[akadriver.livejournal.com]

I'm certainly willing to give it a shot, and hope that it doesn't turn out to be another Phantom Menace.

However, I rather suspect even if it does suck eggs, I will still happily sit through the movie. Because, um, yeah, I admit, I am a Zachary Quinto fangirl. :)

[annathepiper]

I've now seen the first thing I could actually have an issue with about the movie, after solarbird clued me in. To wit--wait, they're building the Enterprise on the ground?

So the possibility for some Stupid appears to have gone up. But that said--yeah fine I'll be seeing this. ;)

[janne.livejournal.com]

WHEEEEEE! New Trek! WHEEEEEE! Cute Spock! Kirk falling off cliffs! Shiny spaceships!

(... just wish they stayed away from the romulans after the Nemesis disaster...)

Anyhow. WHEEEEEEE!

[annathepiper]

Hee!

Just looked up the Wikipedia page for the new flick. New Boy playing Kirk has been quoted as saying he's looked to Harrison Ford for inspiration. Okay, if he's inspired by Ford, he just got a few more points in my book. ;) (And this also answers the question of 'how do you play Kirk without channeling Shatner?')

'Cause really, as long as they get Kirk, Spock, and Bones reasonably correct, they can rearrange everything else in the movie as far as I'm concerned!

[janne.livejournal.com]

Yes indeed, get that trio right and the rest is just sfx :) Hmm, charming rogue Kirk, I can see that...

[annathepiper]

He certainly has plenty of those moments in TOS, anyway!

I suspect that what this may wind up actually meaning is that New!Kirk's brand of charm will be scruffier than Original!Kirk. Original!Kirk definitely lays in on thicker than oh, say, Solo. But not as much as Jack Harkness!

[janne.livejournal.com]

Ohyegods, now I'm having visions of Jack Harkness wearing the gold...

... Hmm!

[annathepiper]

Dude, I could totally see John Barrowman playing Kirk and never mind his dark hair. If Bond can be blond, hey! Couldn't you just see Barrowman putting his boots on? ;)

[janne.livejournal.com]

Ooh yes! Though, might be getting a bit too old for straight-from-the-academy Kirk, but if they ever move the timeline forward a bit....

[annathepiper]

Oh, I'm just talking in general, never mind these specific movies. ;) If you wanted to futz with the timelines, I'd also take an early-thirties Russell Crowe as an excellent Kirk. Russell Crowe now would have to be a badassed Starfleet commodore!

[backrubbear.livejournal.com]

They had a brief spot on the delay tolerant networking stuff on Wednesday. Neat stuff. :-)

[annathepiper]

Cool!

I was giggling to solarbird about whether they'll have to make a .mars TLD. That would be awesome. I totally want murkworks.mars.