BruceH

"Star Trek: Countdown"? And that is what now? Believe me, I don't expect "good" science from ANY SF movie! But something that has some sort of "fictional" logic, at least with an evocative name, or that makes a dime's worth of sense in that particular universe. I don't think that's asking too much. You got that right!

Some of those 2-fers are pretty tempting.

My wife and I saw this last weekend. It certainly doesn't let you stop and think, which is a good thing, considering the absurdities you're expected to swallow. "Red matter"? WTF? Huh? What is that? Sounds like something right out of the Mort Weisinger-era Superman comic. Quantonium made more sense.

God, she's great.

Yes indeed! The McHale's Navy theme always struck me as a goosed-up "comedic" version of military music. Listening to it now, I can hear the hipness though!

Never heard that one. Frankly, I'm not crazy about the movie, which is perhaps why it never occurred to me to get the soundtrack, but certainly a movie can be mediocre (or just uninteresting for whatever reason) and have a good soundtrack. Come to think of it, a good example of that is A Patch of Blue---the movie's not the greatest thing ever put on celluloid, but the Walt Dickerson album Impressions of A Patch of Blue is one of my favorite film-related jazz albums.

To think, when that show was first telecast, barely one home out of ten had a TV set. Watching anything must have been quite a thrill.

Here's hoping the move goes smoothly and you get hooked up again soon. I mean, y'know, to the internet and all.

I wonder who was on piano---he was good.

Wait, so it was saved AGAIN? How many extra seasons is this show going to get?

So he was married to Lee Meriwether. Hmmmmm..... Lucky guy.

I have a vague memory of that show.

guess you didn't start this thread from the beginning. I think he was simply making a joke.

Thanks for this! Since I don't (or very rarely) read the Wall Street Journal anymore, I would have missed this.

I never thought Cher had much in the way of talent, either. As for looks...(shudder)...not my type.

Ahhhh.... So.

I believe it's "recipe."

So this kid isn't aware of any films made before, what, 2005? Probably would have slowed things down to rope in every damn character from TOS, particularly April, who's mentioned in some of the technical books but didn't even appear in the series. (Though to get really geeky, they made good use of the character in an episode of the Animated Series.) I always really liked Number One in the first pilot, but then I liked Pike too. I think Jeffrey Hunter would have made a better captain than Shatner, frankly. Talk about a road not taken. Who could they get to play Number One now? Jennifer Connelly? Julia Stiles as Yoeman Rand? I actually think both of those would have been great casting choices! Stiles would make a great Rand! This marks me as an even bigger geek than most, but there is a comic book series out right now called "Star Trek: Crew" that details the life of Number One from the pilot episode from her graduating from the academy up to her joining the crew of the Enterprise. Three issues have come out so far and they are excellent! Sounds intriguing. My older son went through a phase of collecting various Star Trek comic books from about the age of 7 to 10, and I must admit, some of the stories were surprisingly good.

Me2. You're square? I wouldn't say that.

So this kid isn't aware of any films made before, what, 2005? Probably would have slowed things down to rope in every damn character from TOS, particularly April, who's mentioned in some of the technical books but didn't even appear in the series. (Though to get really geeky, they made good use of the character in an episode of the Animated Series.) I always really liked Number One in the first pilot, but then I liked Pike too. I think Jeffrey Hunter would have made a better captain than Shatner, frankly. Talk about a road not taken. Who could they get to play Number One now? Jennifer Connelly? Julia Stiles as Yoeman Rand?

But occasionally taking itself too seriously was part of Trek's off-hand charm. "Not looking for supreme art, just a good time" is why enjoyed Monsters vs Aliens so damn much. I may have to see this new Trek film. Maybe. But one big beef just from the previews: They're building the Enterprise ON THE GROUND!! Stoooooo-pid!!!! Any moron knows that you build large starships in orbit, fer Chrise-sake!

I didn't care for the arrangement, either.

That's hilarious...not to mention pathetic.

Wow, that's.....bad.

The problem I had with First Contact was that it broke with the established continuity of the show. The Borg had been profoundly changed during the last few seasons. They had been infected with the individuality of one Borg who had been captured by the crew of the Enterprise. The next time we saw them, they all had names and individual personalities. Moreover, their ship design had changed (no longer big cubes). In the film, no mention of this. Everything was suddenly back the way it was before: Cube ships, hive mind. The new film also breaks with continuity, but it has a reason (this is a whole new universe). Not only that, but Zefram Cochrane looked far older (and taller) than he should have. But I still think it was a good Trek movie, far better than most of the others in the series.