WRUP: Live long and Ulduar edition
by Elizabeth Harper 
May 9th 2009 at 9:00AM
- Adam Holisky: OMFGSTARTREK.
- Alex Ziebart: Waiting patiently for the winners of the fan art contest to check their e-mail and get back to me so I can announce the winners. Hint hint. Was I supposed to say Star Trek?
- Allison Robert: /afk Star Trek.
- Amanda Dean: Despite my Klingon tattoo, I will probably not be going to see Star Trek this weekend. We're a little bit behind the curve, but my plan is to achieve Sarth 1D on 25 man and 2D on 10. We still don't have Maly down, but we'll probably see that dragon dead on 10 man this weekend as well. For Pony!
- Chase Christian: Ensign Chase, reporting for duty!
- Dan O'Halloran: There will be Star Trek. Or there will be divorce.
- Daniel Whitcomb: I am definitely watching Star Trek. Also, getting on track with Argent Tournament dailies again now that the Holiday rush is over.
- Elizabeth Harper: I don't know about you guys, but I'm thinking about spending the weekend watching Star Trek over and over.
- Matt Low: Star Trek.
- Matthew Rossi: I'm probably just going to decouple the secondary matter infuser and use it to reverse the polarity on something, myself. Captain, the polarity is reversed but now I have to get to the ODM bypass in the Jeffries Tube. Instability is continuing in the antimatter containment field, so we may have to go to our backup plan and kill Yogg-Saron this weekend instead.
- Michael Gray: My fiancee are going to a local waterfallish kind of place to go rock climbing and celebrate a Shetland Rogue's birthday. If we get some WoW time, the Arena beckons. [And, being unable to leave Trek jokes well enough alone...] Bolvar to the Alliance: I have been, and ever shall be, your friend. Live long and prosper.
- Michael Sacco: Yogg-Saron and my four-piece Elemental bonus.
- Nick Whelan: Watching Star Trek over and over.
- Robin Torres: Star Trek and Mother's Day feasts.
- Zach Yonzon: Boldly going where no man -- no one -- has gone before. Alright, that's not true, but I'm finally getting Battlemaster after abstaining from Alterac Valley for months because losing 9 out of every 10 makes one physically ill. And just like everyone else, I've got my phaser set to stun. All aboard the NCC-1701!
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Odds and ends
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Thyrandel May 9th 2009 9:23AM
Star Trek is made of win. Pure and simple. It was a great movie, and not just a great Star Trek movie, but a genuinely great movie. A thrill to watch for Trekkies and non-Trekkies alike.
Xerone May 9th 2009 9:29AM
I fully agree. My girlfriend, who has never watched or read anything about Star Trek, really wanted to go and she loved it. I did too!
Faar May 9th 2009 2:50PM
Star Trek's a good summer sci-fi action romp type picture, I'm a little split over how good a STAR TREK movie it is, I may be too deeply vested in Next Generation, which I started watching around 1989-90ish, and it's of course hard for a two-hour movie to measure up to all the high-points that TNG scored over the course of seven years...
Nevertheless, it's a great movie, not too much technobabble, casting was great with excellent portrayals from most of the actors. The badguy was perhaps the movie's weak spot, though it seems movie critics didn't hit it for over 9000... :P The handful of reviews I've seen have all given the movie 3/5 or better, which is Very Good for a Trek movie.
I myself would have preferred a more sinister badguy with more screen time assigned to him. He feels rather undeveloped, and his reasons and motives don't become clear until quite late in the movie, unlike say, Khan, whom is much more colorful, and you get a good grip of as a character right from the very beginning even if you never watched the original Star Trek episode where he first appear.
Umrtvovacz May 10th 2009 10:26AM
So, do you guys think I should go and see Star Trek Movie even I never seen or read anything about Star Trek? Wouldn't it be kinda COnfusing for me?
http://umrtvovacz.blogspot.com/
Nick May 9th 2009 9:27AM
my guild finished 10man military, plague, and construct (guild first) last night, and today we're going to do arachnid then try for guild firsts of sapphiron and KT. I know we're kind of behind the times, but for a tiny casual guild that took over a year to get thru karazhan, we're doing much better on naxx.
Michelle May 9th 2009 9:30AM
I'm playing the work game this weekend. :-/
Laynne May 9th 2009 9:49AM
I want to see Star Trek this weekend, but I don't think it's going to happen :(
Zarfay May 9th 2009 10:01AM
I don't like ST or sci-fi in general.
Except maybe Doctor Who...
Tenny May 9th 2009 9:58AM
Star Trek...
Two Thumbs Up, 4 Stars, whatever you want to call it, it was awesome...it will satisfy hardcore fans and new comers alike.
And for the hardcore...try to punch holes in it, I dare you!
Ilnara May 9th 2009 11:20AM
Saw Trek last night, it was good, no doubt.
Fans of Lost will instantly understand how
J.J. pulled this off using the existing canon
of the series.
If you're a fan of either series, I recommend seeing this film.
I still swear I saw Dr. Peter Chang in Engineering.....
(On the Kalvin)
SuckItTrebek May 9th 2009 3:34PM
Holes to punch:SPOILERS AHOY
Stars don't suddenly go supernova, but let's pretend something triggered it (ala Generations). A supernova will not destroy an entire galaxy, ever. Also, the explosion is limited to the speed of light (unless every little particle has it's own warp engine!), so the only solar system in danger is the one directly in front of the exploding star. Everyone else in the galaxy? At worst, they have hundreds of years to worry about it, more like thousands. WHOOPS.
Hey, we have to stop this catastrophe with our supersecret supercool weapon which we managed to develop in an unspecified amount of time during this monumentous galaxy destroying explosion. Ohwait, so IS it a threat or not? Oh, we don't have time to worry about facts, the important thing is that the OBVIOUS best solution for implementing our salvation weapon is.....a single pilot in a shuttle. In fact, let's get an aging ambassador to make this Star Trek equivalent of a Death Star run. Why? BECAUSE IT'S TEH DRAMA!!!
Hey, how about that superweapon, eh? Red matter? When I pull things out of my ass, it's not a made up matter. Nice of them to give Spock an entire TUB of the stuff, though, since you apparently only need a drop of it. How does it work, where does it come from, etc? No, no, thinking bad.
This movie really made me want to join Starfleet, and from the looks of it, it's REALLY easy to join Starfleet. Step one, find out where they are building a ship not designed for atmospheric flight. Apparently the most sensible place is on the ground in the midwest-oh, right, we needed that melodramatic shot, sensibilities be damned. Step two, drive RIGHT UP TO IT and just hop on a shuttle. Yes, in the future everyone is so trustworthy that the government has no security or anything, just come right on up!
I don't think they'd let me into Starfleet, though. While I'm a pretty bright fellow, at 17 I wasn't able to outperform a SUPERCOMPUTER on mathematical and physical calculations....and certainly not by hand. Oh, but it gives Chekov something to do and it's SO DRAMATIC! Just like Sulu pretending he's a Jedi, with his little pocket sword and backflips high in the sky on a moving platform.
Speaking of transporting things, maybe I missed a line, but why couldn't Spock's parents and the council be beamed out of that cave? Oh, right, we needed the dramatic image of Spock reaching out for his mother, doesn't matter if it makes sense or not. What was she doing there, anyway, as neither Vulcan nor elder?
Odd that Nero knew where/when Spock was going to pop out. Psychic! He really must have been driven batty by spending so many years just floating around in space-he decimates a massive Klingon fleet, obliterates a top of the line Federation fleet in mere minutes, and then we he thinks about approaching Earth he's suddenly worried about defenses. Um. Why? Oh, right, so that we can have an OH SO DRAMATIC rescue and shoot out scene. Gotta give the boys an excuse. How's that brain stem, by the way, Captain Pike? Oh, you forgot about that? It's ok, the writers did too.
That's just off the top of my head, shall we continue? The movie should have been called Star Trek Troopers:a lesson on how to take a property known for intellectualism and social commentary....and turn it into pretty teenage drama and explosions. It's dumb, gorgeous entertainment, and nothing more.
Also, Beastie Boys=instant fail for any movie, especially a sci fi flick.....but hey, Kirk is the go to guy for product placement in the future, I guess. Nokia, Budweiser, Jack Daniels, contemporary pop music, you name it, he'll shill it!
Tenny May 9th 2009 7:41PM
/cry for the jaded among us...
SuckItTrebek May 10th 2009 1:28AM
/cry for the inattentive
/cry for what that does to those of us who pay attention
If you didn't catch those plot/logic holes, you really aren't paying attention and could probably be entertained by Ass:The Movie. I'm sorry that YOU have no standards, but I'm sick of having to be talked to like a toddler for your sake.
Great rebuttle, though, you really stepped up to the plate when I answered your "dare" to punch holes in it.
Nicole May 10th 2009 1:30AM
Angry nerd is angry...
Tenny May 10th 2009 1:56PM
*Cracks Knuckles for Extended Keyboard Action
OK...to start, my comments were directed at the Lore Geeks out there who would try to take exception with how the movie fits into their already existing universe...but since you decided to see fit to use you uber-techno-nerd wisdom to punch holes in the technical aspects of the movie I shall endeavor to respond.
WHAT ABOUT STAR TREK IS REAL? It's a damn science FICTION movie smart guy! Since antigravity and warp drive and a thousand other made up things in the Star Trek universe do not exist, or do not yet exist, or will never exist, your silly techno idiocy is just one more foolish attempt by people with more brains than imagination to try to rationalize something into reality that can never happen. I feel sorry for you small minded people as it never occurs to you to suspend disbelief and just sit and enjoy a movie...rather you most likely spend your time trolling the forums like a pack of calculator wielding chess club douches looking for people to try to talk down to when you should realize that the rest of the world doesn't give a rats ass whether supernovas travel at 12 miles an hour or 12 times light speed...we went to Star Trek to be entertained, you obviously went with a mental shotgun ready to blast it apart because you have no joy in your life.
As to all of your wasted typing I merely glazed visually trying to read it as obviously your mental skills at 17 are so vastly beyond the rest of us as to allow you to tell us about your physics and math skills and supercomputer crud that WE WILL NEVER RESPECT because respect is earned not bragged for.
And suddenly just because you haven't heard about it or thought about it or dreamed about it or imagined about it...it can't exist right? Who cares...your analytical mind may get you into MIT, but your lack of imagination and your narrow-minded attitude to only adhere to a reality that you cannot escape from only serves to leave you following the work of others instead of setting out towards those new frontiers that real visionaries find.
I didn't think I needed to respond to your arguments in my previous comment in any other way because I judged the movie based on it's story telling merit and not on it's scientific and technical merit...because when I think of science it doesn't generally go hand in hand with storytelling and entertainment. If, God forbid, they ever make a sci-fi movie that adheres to every last aspect of Physics and Math and Quantum Theory etc. I won't be there because I don't need a movie for that...it's called REAL LIFE!
Speaking of which you should get a real life before your brain expands too far and blocks out the sun and I am forced to use my warp ship to go elsewhere...Oh wait that can't happen because a the skull couldn't contain such expansion and the body couldn't nourish such a large organ and the weight of the huge brain would be such as to crush the rest of your body right?
Dammit I hate the technically righteous, they could suck the fun out of sex...if they ever got any.
yokumgang May 9th 2009 10:16AM
@Ziebart
Yes.
Leon May 9th 2009 10:59AM
Medieval 2 Total War
Trying to revive my shattered empire.
I was invited to go see that thing on Tuesday, i declined as it holds utterly no interest to me what so ever.
Quite a number of people i know wont shut up about it, and i have a feeling that its going be a boring topic of talk for the next while
Serrat May 9th 2009 11:50AM
If I didn't take the wife to see Star Trek it was divorce here as well :)
Made the kits sit through it too. Though my son wasn't too impressed we did convert our daughter.
Muahaha!
Serrat May 9th 2009 11:52AM
Oh yes, it was brilliant too!
(Though there were a couple of plot holes you could fly Borg Cube through)
Chad May 9th 2009 11:53AM
JJ Abrams was only able to use "existing canon" (if you call it that) and have few plot holes because he used the time-travel gimmick to create a completely alternate timeline so he could do whatever he wanted. This was explained in the movie.
He did things that would completely change existing Trek canon had it not been for his "alternate universe" gimmick.
Other than that, I really enjoyed the movie.