Sunday, July 18
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Saw this on Hulu…Looks pretty awesome…
Trek Nation – Director’s trailer — Fall 2009 from Scott Colthorp on Vimeo.
Sunday, July 181
Saw this on Hulu…Looks pretty awesome…
Trek Nation – Director’s trailer — Fall 2009 from Scott Colthorp on Vimeo.
I can’t think of a worse week to open a new attraction in Central Florida…the same week Universal Studios opens Harry Potter’s Wizarding World???
Really guys…TIGHT work. You really couldn’t of held it a week?
Anyway… (In case you missed it…)
Star Trek Live, a new interactive stage show made its worldwide debut at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex on Friday, June 11, 2010.
“Each 30-minute show will combine special effects, audience interaction and an exploration of real space-age technology. Guests will also see on-screen appearances from Captain Kirk and Spock.
“In the show, the audience portrays new Starfleet cadets assembled for the first day at the Starfleet Academy. As we are introduced to the Academy, the Earth itself comes under attack from a renegade Romulan, leaving the fate of the future itself in the hands of our cadets. The new cadets will have to learn the intricacies of living and working in space, modern space travel and the latest in communication and technology.”
Here’s a gallery of images from the Star Trek Live show
Star Trek Live makes its debut at Kennedy Space Center | Orlando Attractions Magazine Blog.
This is a true geek test. If you watch this and get chills, you know you’re a true geek:
Because he’s in love.
YouTube – Captain Kirk is climbing a mountain, why is he climbing a mountain?.
I have only seen a couple mentions lately about the television project, Boldy Going Nowhere by Charley Day, Rob McElhenney and their fellow It’s Always Sunny in Philadephia crew. (Hi Glenn)
Announced last year, Boldly Going Nowhere is a sci-fi show set on a spaceship and, according to Variety, is a “high-concept comedy set in the future and focused on the mundane world of a spaceship captain when he’s not on a mission.” But according to Comic Mix, “McElhenny, Day and Howerton do not consider the series as science fiction, but rather a unique twist on the workplace sitcom.”
David Hornsby, who Sunny fans know as Rickety Cricket, stars in the show along with Arrested Development’s Tony Hale (who plays a character named Robot).
I would just like to say…for the record…that this project sounds a lot like a project idea I submitted to Paramount during a Star Trek screenwriting contest a few years back. I called it Star Trek: The Night Crew, which is a half hour sci-fi comedy about the “Second Stringer” crew that works the helm of the Enterprise when the primary characters are off duty. Instead of fighting the Klingons they have to deal with mundane everyday problems like the ship’s toilets getting backed up or the Captain’s chair getting a stain on it. The last thing they want to do is ever have to call a RED ALERT and wake up the Captain and the first string crew.
As for Boldly Going Nowhere, apparently a pilot was made and they weren’t all too thrilled so Fox ordered a second pilot and brought in heavyweight Larry Charles (Borat, Bruno, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm) to presumably make it better (and possibly more Sci-Fi-ey).
Where is it now? Unfortunately according to io9, Glenn Howerton, doesn’t really know if this “pet project” will ever see the light of day. Hey guys…if you’re stuck…I have a few ideas 
I came across a post by Matt Bailey called Analytics According to Captain Kirk. In it, he points out that in Star Trek, the Enterprise has a crew of 430 in its original five-year mission. 80 episodes were produced, during which 59 crewmembers were killed (13.7% of the crew).
* Yellow-shirt crewperson deaths: 6 (10%)
* Blue-Shirt crewperson deaths: 5 (8 %)
* Engineering smock crewperson deaths: 4 (6%)
* Red-Shirt crewperson deaths: 43 (73%) <<< RED SHIRTS ARE EXPENDABLE!!!
from the Star Trek Inspirational Posters site.
In Philip K. Dick’s novel, “Do Andriods Dream of Electric Sheep” (the book on which the film “Blade Runner” was based), technology has advanced to the point that humans can build very realistic-looking (and acting) synthetic animals and androids. Some of the androids escape and walk among the human population undetected, which is against the law. The main character, Rick Deckard, is a bounty hunter who is charged with hunting down rogue androids and, um, “retiring” them.
In the novel, the latest and greatest androids are practically indistinguishable from humans in any way. No white-blooded Data-skin R2-D2 droids here, Deckard is a one-man death panel and has to ensure they are NOT humans before he can, gulp, “retire” them. Which leads the book to explores the issue: What does it mean to be human? It drills to the very core of human thoughts, emotions, religion and morality.
Unlike humans, the androids possess no empathic sense. They have no emotions at all, and some are not even aware they’re NOT human. This makes for some interesting reading, which is probably one reason why Philip K. Dick’s writings were the basis of Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, Paycheck and many other films. He’s got the steak and the sizzle.
So how do you tell if someone has no empathy? You have them watch something like this and you watch them very carefully for empathetic reactions:
If they didn’t start crying, they’re most likely a robot.
Oxford scientists have created a transparent form of aluminium by bombarding the metal with the world’s most powerful soft X-ray laser. Of course, you remember in Star Trek IV, Scotty traded the formula for ‘Transparent aluminium’ to get the plexiglass needed to store the humpback whales in the Klingon Bird of Prey. But the real material is an exotic new state of matter with implications for planetary science and nuclear fusion.
“What we have created is a completely new state of matter nobody has seen before,” said Professor Justin Wark of Oxford University’s Department of Physics, one of the authors of the paper. “Transparent aluminium is just the start…which may one day allow the power of nuclear fusion to be harnessed here on Earth.”
Stewart Moss deserved an Emmy for this scene from Star Trek – The Naked Time.