Oh, just hit him already, Spock.

16 Nov

Right, so, I’m a nerd.

I grew up religiously watching Star Trek with my dad, but obviously The Next Generation. I loved the older one too, though, as ridiculous as it struck me sometimes (as ridiculous as early TNG strikes children right now, no doubt), there was always something amazing and fresh about it, decades after the whole thing began. There’s still a bumper sticker on my bedroom door at my parents’ that says “Starfleet Academy”, and I had a poster of Geordi LaForge (my favorite character!) on my wall next to the Beatles/Stones/etc. ones.

So when I say that I was hesitant about the idea of a Star Trek prequel-movie, you’ll understand that it was with a touch of that deep and abiding suspicious, protective fangirl/fanboy fear. (Thank you, George Lucas, for proving that sometimes that’s very well founded. You jerk.) Don’t pretend you don’t know what I mean. But after seeing the proper trailer before Quantum of Solace yesterday, finally, I gotta say that I’m a lot more hopeful. To use comic book terms, it strikes me as being a bit like the Marvel Ultimate Universe… if there were actual continuity between Ultimate and 616, anyhow. Ultimate in feeling, back before Ultimate-verse got just as jacked as 616.

It’s not my dad’s Trek, is what I guess I’m saying. But I bet he’s going to like it as much as I do, no matter how much that turns out to be! Here, have a bootlegged trailer:

There’s just no saying no to Simon Pegg as Scotty, though, is there? I mean, really.

(Quantum of Solace = score 2 for Craig As Bond. I did miss Eva Green though. Oh man.)

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3 Responses to “Oh, just hit him already, Spock.”

  1. Aaron Polson November 16, 2008 at 3:09 pm #

    I lurv Simon Pegg. I lurv Star Trek. They might actually get my eight-fifty to see this one in the theater.

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  2. Natalie L. Sin November 16, 2008 at 3:33 pm #

    When I was little I thought Spock was Chinese. He was my favorite : )

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  3. KVTaylor November 17, 2008 at 10:37 am #

    Aaron, yes. It’s so sad how we have to be stingy about the movies we check out these days– Netflix is king. But in this case, it just might be highway robbery. Trek love, for the win!

    You know, Natalie, I can see where you’d get that. He sort of has that old school Shaolin monk who surprises you with his rad kung fu skillz thing going on.

    Spock is undeniably awesome, but I was always a Bones fan. I love me some grouchy southerners.

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