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Trekkies rejoice

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Written by Sinclair Davidson

December 7th, 2012 at 5:12 pm

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  1. Excellent.

    This one also looks pretty great, if you like zombie shlock:

    http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=GB#

    Abu Chowdah

    7 Dec 12 at 5:24 pm

  2. Aargh, link fail.

    http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=GB#/watch?v=1FVyUL1Q06M

    It’s Warm Bodies. Looks as funny as Zombieland.

    Abu Chowdah

    7 Dec 12 at 5:26 pm

  3. Why am I having flashbacks to “Wrath of Khan”?

    Cold-Hands

    7 Dec 12 at 7:58 pm

  4. Woo-hoo!

    I’ve actually been watching TNG box set the last several weeks.

    It’s cool that the Federation honours Santamaria’s NCC on all their ships.

    C.L.

    7 Dec 12 at 8:34 pm

  5. Thanks Abu, “Warm Bodies” looks fantastic. I’m obsessed with The Walking Dead currently. I’ll keep my eye out for this one.

    CL, what’s TNG?

    Anne

    7 Dec 12 at 8:48 pm

  6. Anne: TNG = Star Trek: The Next Generation.

    C.L.

    7 Dec 12 at 8:53 pm

  7. Thanks CL. Some really good productions coming out of the US recently.

    Anne

    7 Dec 12 at 8:55 pm

  8. “Trekkies rejoice”

    Sinclair outs himself :-)

    Jarrah

    7 Dec 12 at 9:10 pm

  9. “I’m obsessed with The Walking Dead currently.”

    Have you read the comic? More interesting, and much darker.

    Also, do you agree that ‘mid-season finale’ is a contradiction in terms?

    Jarrah

    7 Dec 12 at 9:14 pm

  10. Jarrah – I won the best Shakespeare rendition at our staff party last year when I did a piece in the original Klingon.

    Sinclair Davidson

    7 Dec 12 at 9:15 pm

  11. “in the original Klingon”

    Now I know you’re pulling my leg.

    Jarrah

    7 Dec 12 at 9:16 pm

  12. Now I know you’re pulling my leg.

    Hmmm, no. Came second in the air guitar competition – very disappointed.

    Sinclair Davidson

    7 Dec 12 at 9:18 pm

  13. when is the release data?

    Jim Rose

    7 Dec 12 at 9:21 pm

  14. May, 2013

    Gab

    7 Dec 12 at 9:22 pm

  15. Personally I’m looking forward to this, more than any new Star Trek film.

    Brian of Moorabbin

    7 Dec 12 at 9:23 pm

  16. Enders Game? Awesome.

    Sinclair Davidson

    7 Dec 12 at 9:24 pm

  17. On that note, just finished reading Peter Hamilton’s new book Great North Road. One of his better novels (and the competition is stiff).

    Sinclair Davidson

    7 Dec 12 at 9:26 pm

  18. Have you read the comic? More interesting, and much darker.

    Where do I get the comics Jarrah?

    Also, do you agree that ‘mid-season finale’ is a contradiction in terms?

    Hmmm, a little conflicted about that but will try to carry on…

    Anne

    7 Dec 12 at 9:30 pm

  19. Where do I get the comics Jarrah?

    Ask any virgin.

    Infidel Tiger

    7 Dec 12 at 9:31 pm

  20. Gotta say, watching TNG again, I love Deanna Troi.

    Such hips!

    She’s now 57.

    Still looking good:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Marinasirtis2008.jpg

    C.L.

    7 Dec 12 at 9:33 pm

  21. Anne – depending where you live. Comics r us carry it as does Minotaur in Melbourne and I suspect Galaxy in Sydney would have it too.

    I did read the first volume but was underwhelmed.

    Sinclair Davidson

    7 Dec 12 at 9:35 pm

  22. CL – she looks much better irl than in the tv show.

    Sinclair Davidson

    7 Dec 12 at 9:37 pm

  23. “Gotta say, watching TNG again, I love Deanna Troi. Such hips!”

    It’s the accent that gets me.

    “she looks much better irl than in the tv show.”

    Except for the first episode. That uniform..!

    Jarrah

    7 Dec 12 at 9:41 pm

  24. Where do I get the comics Jarrah?

    Ask any virgin.

    I don’t know any….

    Anne

    7 Dec 12 at 9:41 pm

  25. Thanks Sinclair, I’ll check out Minotaur. Can’t get them online I suppose?

    Anne

    7 Dec 12 at 9:44 pm

  26. “Where do I get the comics Jarrah?”

    I would definitely not recommend that you go to piratebay.se, it’s a haven for, well, pirates (AKA copyright infringers, arrr) and you might get scurvy. You should go to a comic store and ask them to order it in (they won’t have it in stock), or visit Better World Books if you want online ordering and free delivery of the first volume for $61.43 (info from booko.com.au, the search engine for books).

    Jarrah

    7 Dec 12 at 9:46 pm

  27. CL, those aren’t hips!

    Anne

    7 Dec 12 at 9:46 pm

  28. Thanks so much Jarrah. Much obliged.

    Anne

    7 Dec 12 at 9:48 pm

  29. Can’t get them online I suppose?

    Probably. And cheaper too I suspect.

    If you’re in Melbourne also try the Comics r us in Bourke street and also in Chapel street.

    Sinclair Davidson

    7 Dec 12 at 9:50 pm

  30. Amazon have a paperback and kindle version.

    Sinclair Davidson

    7 Dec 12 at 9:52 pm

  31. Kindle…perfect! Thanks.

    Anne

    7 Dec 12 at 9:54 pm

  32. Q.Why is the Starship Enterprise like toilet paper?
    A. They both glide around Uranus wiping Kingons off.

    An oldie but a goodie.

    Splatacrobat

    7 Dec 12 at 10:18 pm

  33. Sinc: read Iain M Banks’ The Hydrogen Sonata.

    Very good, like all his Culture novels.

    Just re-reading ‘The Wasp factory’.

    Mk50 of Brisbane

    7 Dec 12 at 10:21 pm

  34. Will do. Haven’t read Banks for a few years. He is okay. But not a favourite.

    Sinclair Davidson

    7 Dec 12 at 10:35 pm

  35. CL, those aren’t hips!

    LOL.

    No. No they’re not.

    But trust me, she has lovely hips too.

    C.L.

    7 Dec 12 at 10:39 pm

  36. Firstly, Marina Sirtis — yes please.

    Secondly:

    Personally I’m looking forward to this, more than any new Star Trek film.

    Hell yes! Loved the book. Hope the movie is just as good.

    tbh

    7 Dec 12 at 11:25 pm

  37. The rumour is that William Shatner may reprise his role as Kirk.
    Leonard Nimoy will direct and co star. The storyline will revolve around Mr Spock’s frosty relationship with Kirk.

    Keep a watch out for “Shit my Captain says”.

    Splatacrobat

    7 Dec 12 at 11:38 pm

  38. “Ask any virgin.
    I don’t know any….”

    Not any more. Oops…sorry;-))

    The Beer Whisperer

    8 Dec 12 at 12:19 am

  39. Nice tip on Great North Road.
    It’s on my pickup list.

    Derp

    8 Dec 12 at 12:52 am

  40. What Jarrah meant, Sinc, was that the “original” langugae of Shakespeare was not Klingon. Unless you know something we don’t!

    Abu Chowdah

    8 Dec 12 at 1:17 am

  41. Haven’t read Banks for a few years. He is okay. But not a favourite.

    Ghastly lack of taste exposed. Hydrogen Sonata is his best work in ages.

    mct

    8 Dec 12 at 3:56 am

  42. What Jarrah meant, Sinc, was that the “original” langugae of Shakespeare was not Klingon

    I do believe Sinc is referencing a gag from the Klingon Ambassador in StarTrek VI.

    tylos

    8 Dec 12 at 7:38 am

  43. Indeed.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=340YeUb6P7c

    Sinclair Davidson

    8 Dec 12 at 8:49 am

  44. Why am I having flashbacks to “Wrath of Khan”?

    Rumour is it’s Gary Mitchell, not Khan – an esper-oriented character and close friend of Kirk from TOS – who wigged out when he encountered the galactic barrier… but that could just be misinformation.

    Fleeced

    8 Dec 12 at 11:30 am

  45. I’ve actually been watching TNG box set the last several weeks.

    I’ve been re-watching DS9 of late – only a season and a bit to go… DS9 wasn’t everyone’s favourite, but I liked it. Not a patch on Babylon 5 though ;)

    Fleeced

    8 Dec 12 at 4:39 pm

  46. Just watched the trailer for the first time, and my god films these days are going overboard on the constant blue/orange contrast. It’s like they’ve discovered a new rule of thirds and don’t have the imagination to break away from it.

    Jarrah

    8 Dec 12 at 6:57 pm

  47. MMM DS9, gotta love a show with a ballsy lil ship like the USS Defiant. The A10 Warthog of the Star Trek universe, ugly but tough. Have got the box set of DS9 and have just finished watching Babylon 5 from start to finish. Tis a good way to entertain oneself when on long road trips out in the back of the black stump when moving big mining tonka toys around. You get sick of watching Austar and Springsteens 52 channels and nothings on is a common occurance.

    Tator

    8 Dec 12 at 7:49 pm

  48. Sinkers,
    you would love my favourite Tshirt. All Red with a Starfleet emblem in the appropriate place and in big letters on the front “UH OH”, then there is my water bottle which has a Gorn chasing a redshirt with “Run Redshirt Run” under it

    Tator

    8 Dec 12 at 7:51 pm

  49. Jarrah – whatever they’re doing, it looks awesome.

    Tator – yes, sounds good.

    Sinclair Davidson

    8 Dec 12 at 8:15 pm

  50. B5 was an awesome show Tator, even if some of the acting and dialogue was wooden (not to mention the woeful Byron arc in season 5). But it had more than enough good points to overcome it’s weaknesses, not least of which includes G’Kar and Londo.

    It was torture watching it on free to air back in the day – so many delays.

    Fleeced

    9 Dec 12 at 12:12 am

  51. G’Kar and Londo.

    If you can make it through the patchy acting and occasionally awful dialogue in other parts, the respective story arcs of those two guys make it all worthwhile. Fantastic stuff.

    wreckage

    9 Dec 12 at 1:36 am

  52. Sinkers,
    you would love my favourite Tshirt. All Red with a Starfleet emblem in the appropriate place and in big letters on the front “UH OH”, then there is my water bottle which has a Gorn chasing a redshirt with “Run Redshirt Run” under it

    While on the subject of sci-fi t-shirts, let me put in a recommendation for the online store Last Exit to Nowhere (based in the UK) for all your nerdy culture needs. I got a couple of Blade Runner themed shirts, plus another from the movie High Fidelity.

    http://www.lastexittonowhere.com/

    tbh

    9 Dec 12 at 1:49 am

  53. Rumour is it’s Gary Mitchell, not Khan – an esper-oriented character and close friend of Kirk from TOS – who wigged out when he encountered the galactic barrier… but that could just be misinformation.

    It’s hard to see Benedict Cumberbatch, the new villain, as a “close friend of Kirk”. Even with the new timeline, he’d have to get to the Galactic Barrier to transform into the potential villain. If not Khan himself, he is more likely to be another survivor of the Eugenics Wars like Khan, genetically engineered to be superhuman.

    Cold-Hands

    9 Dec 12 at 9:48 am

  54. Cumberbatch is only a few years older than Pine… An Augment coming out of stasis is certainly a possibility (even Khan himself)… in fact the timeline would be about right for when Enterprise discovered them the first time (in original series) – but it wouldn’t work as well as Wrath of Khan movie, since there’s no personal connection with Kirk, as Kirk hasn’t sent him to exile.

    Fleeced

    9 Dec 12 at 10:25 am

  55. FLat and Londo, many a laugh was had when those two “clowns” interacted, then again my fab was Garibaldi. As for DS9, best episode was “Trials and Tribblations” cross over with the original series

    Tator

    9 Dec 12 at 8:52 pm

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