Comments | kajivar: Star Trek

kajivar

Star Trek

May 18, 2009 15:40

OK, so, Star Trek.

I was highly skeptical and downright flaily as the movie was announced and cast and developed. The cast seemed good talent-wise, but this was Trek, dammit. Leave it as it is and GET OFF MY LAWN. I watched the original series en utero, for crying out loud (thanks, Mom!). Then I watched it in syndication over and over and over ( Read more... )

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kajivar May 19 2009, 02:32:36 UTC

HAHAHA that is awesome.

silway May 18 2009, 21:25:18 UTC

Well, Kirk is 25 when Nero captures Spock since it's a 25 year gap and Kirk was born the day Nero came back in time. Which means Kirk gets the ship only about 4-5 years earlier than before (my memory tells me he got it when he was 29 in the original timeline, but that's from a non-canon source I think). So not as early, but still notable.

Makes you wonder how this would affect all the subsequent galactic events that hinged on Kirk or his followup captains showing up at a particular place at *just the right time*.

Silway

kajivar May 19 2009, 02:34:51 UTC

Oops, 25, right, for some reason I had 22 stuck in my head.

malinaldarose May 18 2009, 21:37:08 UTC

That boy was supposed to be Sam? I did wonder what happened to him. Was he an elder or younger brother (I don't recall, obviously) -- because if younger, it does make an interesting alteration to things.

mpoetess May 18 2009, 21:41:55 UTC

Randomly, did everyone else hear the unspoken "bitch" at the end of Spock's "Live long and prosper" to the Vulcan council after he rejected their offer of enrolling in the Vulcan Science Academy? HEE.)

...unspoken?

Oh, you meant not by me, after poking maeyan.

Live long and prosper, beyotches! samiraalthores May 19 2009, 00:25:44 UTC

I so totally nailed this at the movie and cracked the audience up.

sideofzen May 18 2009, 21:46:36 UTC

Is Nyota really fanon though? I heard it first appeared in a Trek novel, and got approval by Roddenberry and Nichelle Nichols. That sounds pretty like canon to me.

kajivar May 19 2009, 02:39:52 UTC

Nichelle Nichols favored Nyota, but the tabletop game system had her name as Samara, and in other places it was Penda. Nyota was the most popular option, but the movie is the first time it was ever said in canon and absolutely verified.