OT: (barely) New Star Trek Movie on its way - Page 2

PvK · #11 April 24th, 2006, 07:48 PM

I'm racist against Gungans only. Or, against George Lucas' portrayal of them. I'm not sure what southern cultural group exactly Lucas' folks imitated in creating Gungan dialect, but I sympathize with them that it was used to make an utterly annoying sci fi space alien culture. Imagine being told you talked like a Gungan...

... as for why GL would do it, it was just a sarcastic joke about GL's tendency to mess stuff up with stupid overdone pointless CGI, like the extra flying robots in the new and abused edition of Star Wars Episode IV.

Artaud · #12 April 24th, 2006, 08:26 PM

I don't know why they don't base a movie on one of the ST books.

I've become a big fan of Trek novels over the last few years. There are many that qualify as great sci-fi, not just great Trek fiction. I'm amazed at the quality of some of the writing.

Caduceus · #13 April 24th, 2006, 11:18 PM

Why not do a "Dark Mirror"/"Mirror, Mirror" movie with the Borg? That'd be cool.

Suicide Junkie · #14 April 24th, 2006, 11:46 PM

Hippie Borg?!?

That would be even scarier than the regular borg!

Urendi Maleldil · #15 April 25th, 2006, 01:39 AM

Maybe Borg that only want to be your friend.

I'm not sure how they're going to pull off Kirk, Spock, and the rest of them with new actors. And the old ones are um... old, fat, or dead. Nimoy and Shatner are still great actors (just look at Boston Legal and the um... Priceline.com commercials). But A Trek prequel without them?

Startrek Episode 1: The Phantom Frontier

Ugh.

Startrek needs a re-imagining along the lines of the new Battlestar Galactica.

On the other hand, I'd also love to see a Trek movie about Khan.

Black_Knyght · #16 April 25th, 2006, 06:34 AM

PvK :

I have to agree with AT on this one !!! I'm from the south myself, and have many friends and relatives in and about New Orleans who are in dire straits right now. Your comments sounded VERY callous and rascist to me, too. And to be honest, your attempted justification didn't help your case much, either.

I'm not trying to stir up an argument here, but I did feel I needed to express my thoughts about your careless commentary.

dogscoff · #17 April 25th, 2006, 08:49 AM

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Urendi Maleldil said:
Nimoy and Shatner are still great actors

Shatner... great actor... Shatner... great actor....

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Does not compute - Does not compute - Does not compute

*Dogscoff head explodes messily, spraying beer-soaked positronic matrix all over the place.

(As for the whole Gungan/ New Orleans thing, all I'll say is that after reading PvK's comments on these boards for several years now I find it very hard to believe he would have written anything intentionally derogatory about the ppl of NO.)

Azselendor · #18 April 25th, 2006, 09:50 AM

Geroge Lucas was making fun of Caribbeans with the gungans. Jar Jar I believe has a jamacian islander accent.

However, Atrocities, the displaced population of New Orleans and Katrina-Disaster zones are refugees. They've had a terrible disaster hit their homes and communities and lives and are now scattered. We american's don't like to call them refugees, but that's what they've been reduced to. My home town here has recieved a number of them - for what reason I cannot fathom because we are in a hurricane strike-zone.

Anyhoo, Star Trek The Beginning - a trilogy following Tiberius Chase (One of Kirk's Ancestors) in the romulan wars and the actual formation of the federation script was apparently greenlighted and then shelved by the new regime at paramount in favor of stand-alone film, apparently the Star Trek Academy film.

I hope they reconsider, the trilogy was supposed to be the reboot film.

Urendi Maleldil · #19 April 25th, 2006, 03:01 PM

Quote:

dogscoff said:
Shatner... great actor... Shatner... great actor....

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Does not compute - Does not compute - Does not compute

*Dogscoff head explodes messily, spraying beer-soaked positronic matrix all over the place.

Well, I didn't mean 'great actor' as in Paul Newman, or even Johnny Depp, but his Danny Crane is one of the best characters on non-cable TV.

PvK · #20 April 25th, 2006, 11:17 PM

BK, I'm sorry if you got upset about what I wrote. I didn't mean it in any kind of a racist way. I was trying to sarcastically comment on the way public figures and media companies try to cash in on the suffering of others in really stupid ways. I didn't mean to peeve anyone except maybe Lucas.