{"id":1725,"date":"2009-05-22T15:36:50","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T15:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1725"},"modified":"2009-05-22T15:36:50","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T15:36:50","slug":"net_crap_the_final_frontier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2009\/05\/22\/net_crap_the_final_frontier\/","title":{"rendered":"Net Crap: The Final Frontier"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Friday, and it’s looking like my workload today is going to be pretty light as run up to the long weekend, so you know what that means… I’m in the mood for some time-killing netcrap! In keeping with the theme that’s most preoccupied my mind (and this blog) for the last couple of weeks, I’ve put together a special all-Star Trek<\/i> netcrap edition, starting with this clever little clip that points out the similarities between J.J. Abrams’ Trek<\/i> movie and another well-known and much loved sci-fi flick… and I don’t mean the one that featured Ricardo Montalban:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.collegehumor.com\/video\/4026025\/deja-view-my-favorite-movie-star-trek-vs-star-wars<\/p>\n

I found that one over at one of my regular political reads<\/a>, oddly enough.<\/p>\n


\nIncidentally (and continuing the Star Wars\/Star Trek<\/i> connection), I’ve learned that everyone’s favorite astromech droid R2-D2 supposedly appears somewhere in the new Trek<\/i> movie. Seems J.J. Abrams is an SW fan. Paramount has decided to capitalize on this friendly nod to the eternal Wars\/Trek<\/i> rivalry by offering a prize to whoever finds him and gets their name drawn in a sweepstakes. Details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Moving on, some clever guy out there decided to do something more than bitch about that troublesome lens-flare issue. He made a video called “I made old star trek look like new star trek!”<\/p>\n

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Here are the top ten things you never hear on Star Trek<\/i>, brilliantly read by Leonard Nimoy himself:<\/p>\n

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This observation just hurts:<\/p>\n

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Yeah, thanks. Thanks a lot. Damn kids.<\/p>\n

And now, on a slightly more serious note, ubergeek (and former Star Trek<\/i> actor, in case you didn’t know) Wil Wheaton had some interesting comments<\/a> about the new flick. He liked the movie more than I did and he’s more disparaging of the Star Wars<\/i> prequels and Indy IV<\/i> than I am, but he certainly shares the apprehension any fan feels when something we love is about to be revisited, the dread that it’s going to be mishandled and cheapened, and the awful, crushing sensation of a small part of us dying because some suit somewhere did not get<\/i> it. Wil’s always worth a read, even when I don’t quite agree with him.<\/p>\n

And finally, if you’ve followed the development of Trek<\/i> 2.0 at all, you no doubt remember the time when it seemed like every other day brought news about William Shatner’s involvement in the movie, i.e., was he going to appear in it or not? Well, here<\/a> is an interview with the screenwriters that finally clears up just exactly what was discussed and why it didn’t happen. Personally, I think the idea they had to get around the fact that Shatner’s Kirk was officially dead four movies ago would’ve worked pretty well. But then I also thought they should’ve had him read the famous voiceover at the end, the “Space… the final frontier” speech, instead of recycling Nimoy’s Wrath of Kahn<\/i> recording of it for the umpteenth time…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s Friday, and it’s looking like my workload today is going to be pretty light as run up to the long weekend, so you know what that means… I’m in the mood for some time-killing netcrap! In keeping with the theme that’s most preoccupied my mind (and this blog) for the last couple of weeks, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}