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    Shatner And Khan Together Again. Did Abrams Save The Best For Star Trek 2?

    Choose Your Next Star Trek Villains

    False Advertising In Star Trek Movie Posters: A Complete History

    The Seven Best Torture Porn Scenes in SciFi
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    05/18/09

    In reply to Shatner And Khan Together Again. Did Abrams Save The Best For Star Trek 2?
    No Khan. Let's see some new villains, some new ideas, or at least have some kick-ass unreconstructed Klingons. Plenty of potential for 'splody stuff there, and instead of the "one crazy dude out for revenge" we'd have the whole politics of Federation vs. Klingons.
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    Image of Moff Moff
    05/18/09

    In reply to Shatner And Khan Together Again. Did Abrams Save The Best For Star Trek 2?
    I would like to see them bring back Khan for a movie with the new cast. Except this time...he's a lady!!!
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    Image of NYMinute NYMinute
    05/18/09

    In reply to Shatner And Khan Together Again. Did Abrams Save The Best For Star Trek 2?
    Kahn was a great movie -- in 1982.


    In 2009? It doesn't hold up that well, laughable in places, overly melodramatic in others. That Mr. Roarke guy is still good, even without the midget. RIP, Ricardo.

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    Image of Rasselas Rasselas
    05/18/09

    @NYMinute: Sir or madam, you are on the wrong website.
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    05/18/09

    In reply to Shatner And Khan Together Again. Did Abrams Save The Best For Star Trek 2?
    Possible new Khans for New Star Trek II:


    Benicio del Toro

    Antonio Banderas

    John Stamos

    Gary Oldman

    Christopher Lee

    Samuel L. Jackson

    David Bowie

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    Image of ZephyrMourne ZephyrMourne
    05/18/09

    @Town of the Big House DLJ: John Stamos totally gets my vote, but only if he gets the hairdo from season 1 of Full House.
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    Image of Jacks Bloated Payroll Jacks Bloated Payroll
    05/18/09

    @ZephyrMourne:


    Javier Bardem


    /endthread

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    Image of MinervaAlpaca MinervaAlpaca
    05/18/09

    @Jacks Bloated Payroll:


    Or maybe they could actually an East Indian this time,instead of a Mexican impersonating a Sikh?


    Naveen Andrews from LOST, maybe?

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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    05/18/09

    @MinervaAlpaca: Wasn't Khan all genetically engineered and stuff? So, despite the name, he maybe wasn't Indian.


    That said, Naveen with some crazy hair and his pecs showing would be awesome. Yummy.

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    Image of Rasselas Rasselas
    05/18/09

    In reply to Shatner And Khan Together Again. Did Abrams Save The Best For Star Trek 2?
    Fans, you bloodsuckers. You're going to have to write your own dirty Kirk/Khan slash now, do you hear me? You're going to have! To Write! Your! Own!
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    Image of naugahydeinplainsight naugahydeinplainsight
    05/18/09

    In reply to Shatner And Khan Together Again. Did Abrams Save The Best For Star Trek 2?
    And what actor would be foolish enough to take on the role of Khan in a new movie? Not the relatively quiet TV show Khan, of course, but the all out madman, scenery chewing, long haired, heavy pec'd, over the top whackadoodle Khan in all his leathery Wrath.


    I know ST has had trouble coming up with resonant villains to carry the movies, but maybe the solution is more plots that don't center around some trumped up conflict. Many of the best TV episodes were based on dramatic explorations of an idea, not battles.

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    Image of harlock_JDS harlock_JDS
    05/18/09

    @naugahydeinplainsight:


    What actor would be foolish enough to take the role of Kirk? or Spock?


    Besides we would probably see a Kahn more like space seed not the out for revenge wrath Kahn.

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    Image of naugahydeinplainsight naugahydeinplainsight
    05/18/09

    @harlock_JDS: I think it comes down to the difference between a continuing character and a one-time appearance. New Kirk and Spock will have a (sorely needed) chance to develop over several movies. Khan, I presume, would come back once. If it's a Wrath retread, abandon all hope ye who enter here. If its Space Seed or some "new" Khan, well, why not boldly go. . .
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    Image of able-x able-x
    05/18/09

    In reply to Shatner And Khan Together Again. Did Abrams Save The Best For Star Trek 2?
    NO. No one else is Khan. Ricardo Montalban is Khan. Leave it at that.
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    Image of naugahydeinplainsight naugahydeinplainsight
    05/18/09

    @able-x: Yeah. What you said, in more words, below. I understand rebooting the series regulars -- financially and dramatically -- but revisiting a one-off like Khan takes lazy pandering too far.
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    Image of themightypig themightypig
    05/18/09

    In reply to Shatner And Khan Together Again. Did Abrams Save The Best For Star Trek 2?
    Shatner's Kirk is dead. Without employing a flashback via Spock Prime (as they considered for the first film), there is no context for bringing him back.


    Why can't everyone just move on?

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    Image of dirtybacon dirtybacon
    05/18/09

    @themightypig: That is my same argument for "Spock Prime". Can't we all just move on?
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    Image of Chip Skylark of Space Chip Skylark of Space
    05/18/09

    In reply to Shatner And Khan Together Again. Did Abrams Save The Best For Star Trek 2?
    ...and what about Mudd's Women?!? ...and the Tribbles?
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    Image of ShadRS ShadRS
    05/18/09

    @SteverMan: Now thats what I'm talking about. Give us Harry Mudd!
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    05/18/09

    @ShadRS: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Mudd!
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    Image of TrueCrime TrueCrime
    05/18/09

    @Grey_Area: R.O.A.C.H.: Harcourt!
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    05/14/09

    In reply to Choose Your Next Star Trek Villains
    Crystalline entity!
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    05/14/09

    In reply to Choose Your Next Star Trek Villains
    NO BORG.


    Klingons (old-skool TOS badass, not the later kind) yes.


    Something entirely new, yes.


    Doomsday Machine, yes.


    BORG NO.

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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    05/14/09

    In reply to Choose Your Next Star Trek Villains
    Three words:


    Harcourt

    Fenton

    Mudd!

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    Image of Quilt Quilt
    05/14/09

    In reply to Choose Your Next Star Trek Villains
    An wholly unattractive, middle-aged women. How would Kirk possibly cope?
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    Image of Jim Topoleski Jim Topoleski
    05/14/09

    In reply to Choose Your Next Star Trek Villains
    I am telling you Doomsday Machine could be worked into an adventure TMP could only DREAM of being with very minimal work. AND could bring in the much needed exploring strange new worlds by making the Weapon more of a moving generation ship thats lost its crew than just a literal cornucopia of death.
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    Image of NefariousNewt NefariousNewt
    05/14/09

    @Jim Topoleski: That one has merit. There were very few truly scary episodes of the original series, but The Doomsday Machine was definitely one.
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    Image of Jim Topoleski Jim Topoleski
    05/14/09

    And you could make it SO much better with a movie budget.


    Make Decker less crazy, make the whole crew actually split between people who want to follow decker in battling the weapon and people who want to follow Kirk and Spock.


    Have not only Kirk and Scotty beaming to the nearly destroyed Constellation, BUT have them or maybe Spock and some of the crew beam to the weapon it's self and try to explore a way of disabling the thing without trying to destroy it in a hopeless one on one battle like Decker wants to do. At this point they find out about the alien race who developed it, but no information as to why its in our universe or what killed them.


    End with a ending close to the one we got with maybe Decker himself destroying the ship with his, instead of Kirk making Decker a lot more sympathetic a character especially since he was the reason his crew was killed than the bag o crazy the original was.

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    Image of NefariousNewt NefariousNewt
    05/14/09

    @Jim Topoleski: [taking notes]
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    Image of Daveinva Daveinva
    05/14/09

    In reply to Choose Your Next Star Trek Villains
    Two words: Clint Howard.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    05/14/09

    @Daveinva: Slusho is the new Tranya.
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