saw really good star trek

I haven't seen it in at least 5 years, so I'm just repeating conventional "wisdom."

Khan rocks the Signet Classics.

http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2007/11/gallery_star_trek_monsters/tmsaltvampire.jpg

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i have to see khan again but i have a soft spot for star trek vi, when kirk and mccoy are sent to that slave labor colony and he gets it on with the shapeshifter chick and then kills her. also the chick from sex in the city is spock's vulcan intern, right?

yes. star trek 6 is the next best one.

Felis catus is your taxonomic nomenclature,
An endothermic quadruped, carnivorous by nature;
Your visual, olfactory, and auditory senses
Contribute to your hunting skills and natural defenses.

I find myself intrigued by your sub-vocal oscillations,
A singular development of cat communications
That obviates your basic hedonistic predilection
For a rhythmic stroking of your fur to demonstrate affection.

A tail is quite essential for your acrobatic talents,
You would not be so agile if you lacked its counterbalance.
And when not being utilized to aid in locomotion
It often serves to illustrate the state of your emotion.

Oh Spot, the complex levels of behavior you display
Connote a fairly well-developed cognitive array;
And though you are not sentient, Spot, and do not comprehend,
I nonetheless consider you a true and valued friend.

maybe i'll watch wrath of khan today.

report back w/ commentary!!

Watching Khan NOW. IT HAS BEGUN.

C or D: chasing ian 'round Perdition's flame

the best part of this movie is ricardo montalban's cleavage

he put . . . creatures . . . in our bodies . . . to make us tell lies

gallivanting around the cosmos is a game for the young, Lieutenant

George: What were you saying to the Rosses over there, anyway?

Jerry: Oh, I don't know. I told them her death takes place in the shadow of new life. She's not really dead if we find a way to remember her.

George: What is that?

Jerry: Star Trek II.

George: (identifying it) Wrath of Khan!

Jerry: Right. Kramer and I saw it last night. Spock dies, they wrap him up in a towel, and they shoot him out the bowel of the ship in that big sunglasses case.

George: That was a hell of a thing when Spock died...

Jerry: Yeah...

[For a brief moment, the two become overwhelmed with emotion.]

Stan: Right as Jesus was dying he raised his hand and said, "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few."

Randy: You're right, Stanley. You're absolutely right. Hey, that Bible sounds like kind of a good book.

Stan: It ain't bad. You should try reading it some time.

Kyle: Dude, that was "Star Trek" again! "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" — that was Wrath of Khan!

UGH

"assignment earth" is terrible. no wonder they never made a gary seven show.

also no wonder "leonard six" sucked so bad.

there is some TREMENDOUS acting in "all our tomorrows"

sorry, i mean "return to tomorrow"

i have no idea what "all our tomorrows" is

kirk has like three mega-monologues, including one where he goes "RISK ... IS ... OUR ... BUSINESS!!!" which i plan to use at a conference talk someday

youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWWJuuF_mM0

**The huge hand keeping the Enterprise from moving in the beginning of this episode is, in fact, Gene Roddenberry's.

In Peter David's Star Trek: New Frontier, character Mark McHenry is a descendant of the child of Apollo and Carolyn Palamas (revealed to have been impregnated during the events of this episode), and has at least some of the Apollo's powers.

memory alpha could destroy DAYS of my life.

T/S: Memory Alpha vs. Wookiepedia

Randy: You're right, Stanley. You're absolutely right. Hey, that Bible sounds like kind of a good book.

Stan: It ain't bad. You should try reading it some time.

Hell, I keep forgetting where they got that exchange from. I've heard the "it ain't bad..." bit like once or twice before.

I wonder how many of Shatner's 3 Star Trek memoirs are owned by ian

and what is right, wrath of khan really is the best movie ever.

i was thinking this morning about the episode where kirk fights the guy (trelane? i think that was it) who seems ridiculously menacing and all-powerful but in the end turns out to be a spoiled kid from some Q-like omnipotent race. the way kirk intimidates him in the last scene, before he's even learned the "secret" ("you've got a lot to learn about living...in fact, you've gotta lot to learn about EVERYTHING, haven't you?") is fucking awesome.

That'd be "The Squire of Gothos," featuring one William Campbell as Trelane, who also played a Klingon on "The Trouble With Tribbles."

"You will hang by the neck, Captain, until you are dead, dead, dead!"

Also had a great ending where he dissolves from sight as he is taken back by his alien parents while repeating "I would've won, I WOULD have," reminiscent of the same kind of ending to "Charlie X," with Charlie last words before fading being "I wanna stay...stay...stay."

"why all the . . . mumbojumbo?"

My dad knew William Campbell as a youth in Newark, NJ. (He's also the star of Francis Coppola's first film.)

weird

http://www.startrekofgodsandmen.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Of_Gods_and_Men

nb treklove makes me happy

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ee/TheKlingonHamlet.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/poletti/sets/72157602965392887

wait maybe i came late but OMFG

duuuuudes

There seems to be a bunch of those. I like the (Mego Version).

One where Spock defeats a computer inhabited by the soul of jack the ripper by asking it to compute the value of pi.

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/memoryalpha/en/images/7/77/RikerFrameOfMind.jpg

http://www.fancast.com/tv/Star-Trek/96413/watch-videos

!!!!!

all the souls i have encountered in my travels, his was the most... human.

http://www.plexoft.com/SBF/images/dax.jpg

"trill niggas don't die"

watching the original series in order here: http://www.cbs.com/classics/star_trek/video/video.php. have maybe seen 10% of these.

s01e01 - The Man Trap (hairy salt monster)
Uhura flirting with Spock was good. Kirk excellent. Leonard Nimoy pretty handsome back then. Moral: remember what happened to the the buffalo. 6/10.
Hottest girl:
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f325/caek/Picture2-1.png

s01e02 - Charlie X (weird kid with telekenetic powers)

Charlie's face when using powers is excellent. Kirk removes shirt for first time. Uhura's singing voice is hilarious (and hot). 6/10.
Hottest girl:
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f325/caek/Picture3.png

Oh, moral: Kids need discipline and a father.

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DAMMIT JIM IM JUST A SIMPLE COUNTRY DOCTOR

As I fell asleep last night I found a Star Trek Voyager episode costarring DAN CASTELANETA.

Falls in love with Charles Bronson's wife but Kirk ruins it, though, in doing so, he saves us from more of McCoy wandering about making mint juleps and saying y'all.

McCoy is such a racist douche. This is the one with the exploding poppies, right?

Indeed, though it's Kirk who chucks a lot of inane racist insults at Spock in order to get him angry enough to overcome the deleterious effects of being in love and happy.

in the 23rd century all the nations on Earth have overcome their differences and come together to be virulently racist against Vulcans

Classic episode was just on: Good Kirk/Evil Kirk. The combined scientific and medical knowledge of Spock and Bones insufficient to work out that the way you distinguish between the two is Evil Kirk wears more eyeliner. Warp factor scenery chewing from Shatner.

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see how each reacts when you tear out his hair plugs

Awesome, Spock mind meld with rock/pizza creature on Janus VI - PAIN!!!!!!!! The Chamber of the Ages!