How many starships named Bradbury have appeared in Star Trek? (Note: Movies and television only.)
The answer involves a spoiler, so I’ve placed it after the jump.
[Thanks to John King Tarpinian for the question.]
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Should You Read This?
Click through and enjoy “Should You See It? A Curious Consumer’s Decision-Making Guide to Star Trek Into Darkness” by Mark Lisanti for Grantland. As good as this introduction is, the rest of his article is even funnier –
And so we fast-forward to stardate 05.16.2013 (note: not a valid stardate), four summers hence, and Abrams has returned to deliver the inevitable sequel, in fulfillment of the contractual prophecy etched into the wall of a Spock-sheltering ice cave by an advanced race of business-affairs aliens. Can Abrams once again pull off the massively profitable trick of satisfying both the core and summer audiences before tearing off his loosely affixed latex Vulcan ears, slipping into a Jedi robe, and taking stewardship of his childhood obsession? And, most important of all, should you support this latest Trek adventure with your ticket purchase? We’re here to answer some questions and help you make the best-informed decision possible.
While you’re deciding whether to see the movie another factor unmentioned in the article but reported by John King Tarpinian is that the film includes a reference to a starship named Bradbury. (And by attaching that factoid here I can keep up File 770’s tradition of being “all Bradbury all the time.”)
My Idea of a Spoiler-Free Star Trek Post
Loved the special effects in Star Trek: The Middle School Musical, a segment from The Mythical Show.
I’ve learned my lesson – this time I’m not going to reveal any spoilers about Spock’s singing. (Except it’s a musical, get it?)
And I won’t blab anything about the story line. Or about the three redshirts in the crew. Ooops.
[Via Gerry Williams.]
Into Darkness, With Popcorn
Cineholics reviewer (and past TAFF delegate) Jacq Monahan likes the new Star Trek movie:
The iconic Enterprise crew is back again, fresh from a mission that results in an endangered Spock (Zachary Quinto) rescued by Kirk (Chris Pine) in a manner that violates a key Starfleet Prime Directive while on a primitive, volcanically-challenged planet. And that’s just the first ten minutes.
She rates the film a four on a five-point scale.
Trek Movie Premiere
Jean Martin poses at right. Photo by Owen DeLong.
Starfleet International ship members joined the press and promotion winners at a special premiere of Star Trek: Into Darkness on May 15 in Redwood City, CA. Science Fiction/San Francisco’s Jean Martin attended in uniform and wrote up the event for the San Francisco Examiner with this added fashion insight:
For the new movie, “Star Trek: Into Darkness,” costume designer Michael Kaplan used the Original Series Starfleet uniforms as inspiration but made them look a bit more modern and even more figure-hugging. The result is young, hip and ready to be embraced by a new generation of fans and costumers.
And is the film good? Jean says the audience enthusiastically applauded at the end.
Pointy-Eared Pals
Zachary Quinto provided an affectionate video introduction of Leonard Nimoy for Entertainment Weekly’s CapeTown Film Festival earlier this month.
*** SPOILER ALERT ***
Both appear in the new Star Trek movie, Nimoy uncredited.
*** ANOTHER SPOILER ALERT (DIDN’T YOU PAY ATTENTION THE FIRST TIME?) ***
Peter Weller, who had the title role Buckaroo Banzai (discussed here recently), plays a strident Starfleet admiral in the new movie.
[Thanks to John King Tarpinian for the story.]
Dueling Spocks
Leonard Nimoy and Zachary Quinto are hilariously in character in this Audi commercial. (I never expected to hear Nimoy doing the Bilbo Baggins song again this side of Doctor Demento!)
[Via io9.]
Shuttlecraft Galileo Restoration
After Adam Schneider and Alec Peters paid $70,000 for the decaying remains of Star Trek’s Shuttlecraft Galileo they wasted no time getting the relic into the hands of restoration specialists. Ironically, moving the 24-foot-long set piece to Master Shipwrights’ New Jersey worksite nearly put an end to it.
The Galileo arrived at the firm’s Monmouth County, New Jersey facility in time to face destruction by Hurricane Sandy. Master Shipwrights was flooded with two feet of water. “Fortunately, Galileo was up on a trailer and was unaffected!” writes Alec Peters. “How terrible would it have been to make it through 45 years of travel and neglect to suffer a dismal fate in a hurricane?”
The restoration firm, selected for its expertise in working on wooden craft, will finish the job in a few weeks. After its refurbishment is completed, Galileo will be placed in a yet-to-be-named public space, preferably an aviation museum.
The duo have been able to afford this labor of love because Adam Schneider, a collector of Star Trek screen-used ship filming miniatures, is a Principal at Deloitte, while Alec Peters is the founder of Propworx, which has handled studio prop and costume auctions for Battlestar Galactica, Stargate, Iron Man and Iron Man 2, as well as the official CBS licensed Star Trek auction.
Under Where?
Thinkgeek is selling Officially Licensed Star Trek Boxer Briefs –
These Officially Licensed Star Trek Boxer Briefs come in a package of three, so you’ll have one each of Command Gold, Operations Red, and Science Blue. The Starfleet insignia is on your left leg. A black button on the fly enables easy access to your liquid waste removal system for when nature calls. Soft, comfortable, and sexy, these boxer briefs will help you understand why Kirk was so popular with the ladies.
They’re $29.99 a pack and offered in four sizes. (Is Thinkgeek being overly optimistic, marketing a “small” size to fans?)
[Via Gerry Williams.]
Keep Watching The Sky
Star Trek logo formed by lighted drones flying in formation over London’s Tower Bridge.
Drones often make the news when used in warfare, or to stalk reclusive celebrities. Now they have reached the literal nadir of civilized existence — as self-propelled advertising material.
Londoners watching the night sky on Saturday, March 23 saw a fleet of 30 illuminated drones flying in formation as the Star Trek logo. Paramount Pictures staged the demonstration to coincide with Earth Hour.
Did anybody recognize it? How many of you, if you saw that without anyone around to explain it, would say, “Oh, that’s the Star Trek logo!”
Even now when I look at it my first thought is, “Oh, that’s the shape of a typical ATom cartoon character! Who else has legs like that?”
To show you what I’m talking about, compare the drone formation with this illo ATom sent to Avedon Carol. Avedon herself remarked the character’s idiocyncratic anatomy when she posted it in 2004, telling readers “And no, I’m not actually shaped like that. Atom’s characters were, though.”
