To boldly go before where everyone’s gone before
Exciting times for Star Trek fans. The prequel, showing the first adventures of a fresh from Starfleet Academy Kirk, Spock, Bones, Scotty and the rest, has been cast. Our very own Simon Pegg gets to be Scotty.
It’s sure to be a tense, roller-coaster of a movie with plenty of jeopardy and an ending that I’m sure nobody will be able to guess. Anyone care to bet which of them won’t survive the battle against the villain, Nero?
Posted on October 18th, 2007 at 10:52am under Culture, media and sport, Miscellaneous misanthropy
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Anyone care to bet which of them won’t survive the battle against the villain, Nero?
But Justin, they all have to survive, otherwise the entire space-time continuu– sorry, logic of the franchise goes belly-up. That doesn’t mean they can’t pull another ‘Spock is dead – oh no he isn’t’ stunt, but in the end they all have to grow up and become William Shatner, et al. Mind you: (a) it’ll be hard to a young Uhura for the noughties given the little she had to do in classic Trek; (b) they really ought to cast someone well known as a security guard in a red shirt, just so s/he can be killed off. (Can we have Tom Cruise, Mr Abrams? Pleeease?)
PS: When are they going to an ‘Evil Empire’ parallel universe Trek franchise?
The person who dies will be wearing a red shirt.
I have spoken.
(And why can’t I be scotty? – Oh, that’s right you can’t have a scottish person doing that gig).
in the end they all have to grow up and become William Shatner, et al
Precisely my point. So we can look forward to a film of the young Spock dangling from a cliff top, the crew having to point the phasers at the dilithium crystals, Kirk risking intergalactic clap from a green chick again, and all safe in the knowledge that they survive to become the old gits they can’t use any more because the selfish bastards are dying off. Sodding prequels.
Redundant adj.
1. See redundant.