[Translate] Star Trek: Into Darkness is leading the summer blockbuster movie preview race from a content standpoint, as the second trailer for the movie has been released in as many weeks – that and a 10 minute version that’s suddenly flying around the Internet. First, here’s what CNN iReport staffer Henry Hanks calls the “new, new”...
[Translate] Star Trek: Into Darkness is creeping up on us Trekkers in a J.J. Abrams sort of way. The poster for the next installment in the series of J.J. Abrams movies, posted by various publications starting just about midnight PST, has already caused “Star Trek Into Darkness” to appear as a Twitter Top Trend. What this proves, if anyone needs...
[Translate] Klout just gave this blogger another reason to dislike its system, and another reason to stick with Kred. The social media ranking system with the inconsistent and unreliable formula – failing to account for self-hosted WordPress blogs, YouTube video uploads, and the total number of platforms beyond the narrow range it includes – now has...
[Translate] Benicio Del Toro The anticipated sequel to J.J. Abrams 2009 Star Trek movie reboot will not have the legendary Benicio Del Toro playing ‘Khan’ in a remake of the popular Star Trek The Original Series First Season Episode “Space Seed.” As Trekkers will recall, that genius story aired April 2, 1967 and featured the late Ricardo Montalban playing the charismatic super human captain of a ship the Enterprise finds floating, lost in space for, as it turns out, 300 years. The crew of the ship is revived...
[Translate] On Thursday, 45 years ago, I stayed up late to watch a television show that would come to have a dramatic impact on my life: Star Trek. Star Trek has played a major role in the formation of my friendships, many that I still maintain today. It also impacted what line of work we did, or tried to do, as well as our entire World view. Well, at least that’s certainly true for me. And that’s especially true for my long time friends Bill Boyd and Lars Frkyman, and best captured in this video from our “trek”...
[Translate] More at Zennie62.com | Follow me on Twitter! NBC’s Saturday Night Live staff does it again with this hilarious segment featuring Star Trek’s Zachary Quinto and Chris Pine (Spock and Kirk respectively) making an appearance on SNL’s “Weekend Edition” to address the concerns of Trekkers who were upset that the J.J. Abrams-directed blockbuster didn’t follow “Star Trek history.” (Ha. Which includes me. Well, I was only mildly concerned, and not so much so that I...
[Translate] More at Zennie62.com | Follow me on Twitter! YouTube, Yahoo, Metacafe, DailyMotion, Blip.tv, StupidVideos, Sclipo and Viddler Today, I saw Star Trek with my longtime friends Bill Boyd and Lars Frykman at matinee showing at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland, thus following through on a plan we formed almost a month ago and I wrote about a few days ago. It was a cool reunion as I’d not seen Lars for just over 30 years and Bill and I get together for lunch maybe twice a year. Regardless of how little you see...
[Translate] More at Zennie62.com | Follow me on Twitter! Today the long awaited Star Trek movie is out and like any nerdy Trekker, I’m excited. I got our tickets 10 days ago and didn’t have to stand in line, contrary to what you might think. But the real story here is that on Saturday, May 9th, I’m going to see Star Trek with my long time friends Bill Boyd and Lars Frykman. This is an Oakland Trekker story in brief. Bill, Lars, and I met in Oakland in 1976 when we were 14 years old at what was then called...
[Translate] Follow me on Twitter! Also read about SF Giants Opening Day: The Party Economy At SFGate.com I’m looking forward to the new Star Trek movie and the great story and special effects, but I’m not looking forward to how the movie treats San Francisco. It messes up the San Francisco Skyline, making it look like Hong Kong. If you take a good look at the trailers for the movie, they show how San Francisco will look 300 years from today in the J.J. Abrams version of the Star Trek Universe. The scene that I focus...
[Translate] This is from the Star Trek Movie Page on Facebook : AN OFFICIAL MESSAGE FROM JJ ABRAMS Share Yesterday at 3:51pm Dear All Those Who Checked Out the Trek Trailer on Facebook: THANK YOU! We’re just making final tweaks to the movie — we should be totally locked next week. Then we’re going to flash-freeze it so it’s totally fresh for you in May. I can’t wait for you to see the movie. The cast is awesome. The action and effects pushed the stunt team and ILM beyond their limits....
[Translate] I just happened upon this account of a Star Trek Movie press event attended by Dave Itzkoff of the New York Times. J.J. Abrams was the host, and four clips from the upcoming blockbuster were shown. This is the “meat” of what Itzkoff reported (spoilers): 1. The young James T. Kirk (played by Chris Pine) is drinking forlornly at a bar in 23rd century Iowa (where they still serve Budweiser). Without much success, he flirts with a young Starfleet recruit named Uhura (Zoe Saldana) and picks a fight...
