http://design-newyork.com/blog/2009/05/20/star-trek-movie-review-might-have-spoilers-prepare-yourself/ The musings of J. Rothman. Mon, 21 May 2012 18:26:32 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://design-newyork.com/blog/2009/05/20/star-trek-movie-review-might-have-spoilers-prepare-yourself/comment-page-1/#comment-15775 snorth Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:01:05 +0000 http://design-newyork.com/blog/2009/05/20/star-trek-movie-review-might-have-spoilers-prepare-yourself/#comment-15775 Ok, I'm FINALLY catching up on your weblog and I lub eet for myriad reasons. One being that I literally LOL while reading it. Ok, that aside, here's the Trekkie nerd part of me to fill you in (although someone might have done that for you already. Actually, maybe you and I talked about it. But you know me and remembering...): Kirk and the green lady is a reference to the original series (hereafter known as TOS). That was way back when Vulcans and Romulans looked pretty much the same and Klingons all looked like Ghengis Khan. Budgets were LOW and special effects were CRAP so things like, "how can we make this lady look like an alien?" "Well, boss i found this bucket of green paint in the back of my garage..." actually worked. I hated the Spock-Uhura thing A LOT. Mainly because I totally wasn't buying the chemistry between them. And I love TOS Spock A LOT. So I also wasn't keen on the new actor guy whatever his name is. He's no Leonard Nimoy circa 1967. Kirk and Uhura's kiss on TOS was forced through mind control by some evil guy for said evil guy's evil amusement. Evil. I forget all the details because I saw it so long ago, but I think it was an ancient Greek themed planet or something. ALSO an interesting factoid, the actors didn't actually kiss. It was shot in such a way that it looked like they were, but censors were concerned about actual lip on lip action. Even so, I think they got threats from the KKK or something crazy. I have more Star Trek geekiness that I may inflict upon you, but I'd like to remain your friend so I'll stop there. Bloomin' onion... LOLOLOLOL!!!!! Ok, I’m FINALLY catching up on your weblog and I lub eet for myriad reasons. One being that I literally LOL while reading it. Ok, that aside, here’s the Trekkie nerd part of me to fill you in (although someone might have done that for you already. Actually, maybe you and I talked about it. But you know me and remembering…):
Kirk and the green lady is a reference to the original series (hereafter known as TOS). That was way back when Vulcans and Romulans looked pretty much the same and Klingons all looked like Ghengis Khan. Budgets were LOW and special effects were CRAP so things like, “how can we make this lady look like an alien?” “Well, boss i found this bucket of green paint in the back of my garage…” actually worked.
I hated the Spock-Uhura thing A LOT. Mainly because I totally wasn’t buying the chemistry between them. And I love TOS Spock A LOT. So I also wasn’t keen on the new actor guy whatever his name is. He’s no Leonard Nimoy circa 1967.
Kirk and Uhura’s kiss on TOS was forced through mind control by some evil guy for said evil guy’s evil amusement. Evil. I forget all the details because I saw it so long ago, but I think it was an ancient Greek themed planet or something. ALSO an interesting factoid, the actors didn’t actually kiss. It was shot in such a way that it looked like they were, but censors were concerned about actual lip on lip action. Even so, I think they got threats from the KKK or something crazy.
I have more Star Trek geekiness that I may inflict upon you, but I’d like to remain your friend so I’ll stop there.
Bloomin’ onion… LOLOLOLOL!!!!!

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