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    Britain Goes Fannish Over New Trek Footage

    New Star Trek Trailer Offers Topless Uhura And Fun Scotty
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    Image of RAHfanboy RAHfanboy
    11/11/08

    In reply to Britain Goes Fannish Over New Trek Footage
    Apparently no minutia is too minute, no trivia too trivial. Wow. Wait until we actually see the movie!
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    11/11/08

    In reply to Britain Goes Fannish Over New Trek Footage
    Would it have been too mentally taxing to add a spoiler alert? Leave it to IO9 to again bring down the overall level of online journalism and integrity.
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    11/11/08

    @aixelsyd: STFU. RTFA.
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    11/11/08

    @RAHfanboy for one, welcomes his Marxist overlords.:


    OMFG, ROFL


    ...sorry had to join in.

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    Image of Winston Smith Winston Smith
    11/11/08

    In reply to Britain Goes Fannish Over New Trek Footage
    Here's the problem-


    Nero changed everything by detroying the Kelvin.


    Kirk's father couldn't help design Enterprise, thus Enterprise design changes and delay in commissioning.


    Kirk's father dead, thus Kirk doesn't go into the Academy at sixteen, but later. Now Kirk's lost a few years head start on Sulu, Uhura, and Chekov.


    Enterprise commision is delayed - April gets different assignment.


    All of these changes to canon have a canon explanation- Nero went back in time and changed things.

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    11/11/08

    @Winston Smith: So you think they gonna blow up Vulcan for good?
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    11/11/08

    In reply to Britain Goes Fannish Over New Trek Footage
    Feeling vaguely nauseous. And mildly stabby.
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    Image of Alexis Alexis
    11/11/08

    In reply to Britain Goes Fannish Over New Trek Footage
    As a fan of Star Trek, but not the Original series, I don't know what to make of this version. It seems promising, and I'm holding out for a great remake, but what about the fans? Seems like no matter what JJ does they're going to lampoon it.
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    11/11/08

    In reply to Britain Goes Fannish Over New Trek Footage
    Spoiler Alert much?
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    11/11/08

    @Jacks Bloated Payroll:


    I says "New Footage." Read the headline first.

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    11/11/08

    @Evlsushi:


    *it*

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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    11/11/08

    @Jacks Bloated Payroll: a@Evlsushi: It also has a spoiler warning right at the end of the first paragraph, which is how we do things around hereabouts.
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    11/10/08

    In reply to New Star Trek Trailer Offers Topless Uhura And Fun Scotty
    aaand I'm out.
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    11/10/08

    In reply to New Star Trek Trailer Offers Topless Uhura And Fun Scotty
    "Space isn't suppose to be fun, it's aliens and phasers and death!"


    Sounds like the young Dr. McCoy is being played by Boober Fraggle.

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    11/10/08

    In reply to New Star Trek Trailer Offers Topless Uhura And Fun Scotty
    Full disclosure: I'm a Black male.


    But I am somewhat apprehensive about finding out the Uhura character is going to be "naked" in one form or another. It seems exploitative.


    Is this sort of thing getting old or am I getting older and more grumpy?


    To me, Uhura, in just being on the show, was a victory in race relations. It just seems to belittle it in having the character this way or having it in the trailer (without any reason as if to say, "hey this flick might have boobies!!!") as "cheesecake" to sell the movie.


    Meh...I'll wait to see it myself.

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    11/10/08

    @johnnyichiban: It can't be worse than the scene in Star Trek V, right?
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    11/10/08

    @Kishi: Good Point. I just thought of that.
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    11/10/08

    @johnnyichiban:


    As a black female, I think it's just cause she's hot.

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    11/10/08

    In reply to New Star Trek Trailer Offers Topless Uhura And Fun Scotty
    well if they action it up a bit and take away all the hippy crap i hate about trek (like DS9 did) then i'm down.
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    Image of NotArthurPDragon NotArthurPDragon
    11/10/08

    @GreyHammer: I love when people want to take away the core of a concept in order for them to like it. It's like when people want Superman to be darker. If you want a dark Superman, then you don't want Superman. And if you want a Star Trek that doesn't have an optimism about the future with all races coming together for a greater purpose, then guess what? You don't want Star Trek.
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    11/10/08

    @NotArthurPDragon:
    You, sir, don't read nearly enough Elseworlds graphic novels.
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    11/10/08

    @NotArthurPDragon: Exactly. It's actually sad - and it sounds like the Michael Bay-ing of Gene Roddenberry's imagination.
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    11/10/08

    @GreyHammer: Tell you what, just for you, let's call it Explosions Trek. No? Maybe Star Tits?
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