The Star Trek XI Teaser Poster

Star Trek Nemesis: The Movie That Never Was

(I strongly urge you to ignore this post like any other if you absolutely have no interest in the subject. It will bore and cornfuse you.)
You know, I don't typically review movies from 3 years ago that I've seen a billion times but after tonight's viewing I had some thoughts. The movie tries, really tries to have the excitement of First Contact but I have decided that it's not desperate enough. Shinzon's ship is supposed to be so unstoppable but it almost seems that it suffers Lucas's backwards-thinking "tell don't show" policy. There's supposed to be this fleet on the other side of the super-bad danger zone that we must fly into but I think they should've played it out. It would make the Scimitar much more deadly and the situation much more perilous if the fleet had arrived and become decimated by the awesome power that is 20-something disrupter banks and a kagillion photon torpedo tubes. This would've also corrected another tacky aspect.

After the Enterprise gets the crap kicked out of it, it seems like the crew completely runs out of ideas until some anonymous ensign in the back says, "Hey...what about smashing our ship into his? That might work, right?" Now if a fleet of ships and Romulan assistance could not stop this thing, it would justify crashing into it and attempting the self-destruct. Because now they really are the last thing between this behemoth and the deaths of everyone living on Planet Earth.

Anyways, if you haven't seen this entry into the 24th Century, it's not a bad watch at all. It has one of the neatest space battles seen on screen. Not kidding, it's really cool and fun it just seems that Picard et al have become more impulsive in this movie. The Borg are essentially unstoppable and ships are blowing up all over the place and he doesn't consider ramming the ship in First Contact. Thanks to Star Trek V, there can never be a crappier movie! Thanks for lowering the bar so low.

Happy First Contact Day!

Star Trek IV has come to pass!

I went to the Sci-fi Farscape marathon today and Jodie said that someone at Pepsi said that they may be bringing back Crystal Pepsi. The catch is that they would like it to be in clear cans. The answer: Transparent Aluminum, the formula Scotty gave that engineer back in 1986. Teehee! It's all a weird coincidence and all of this conversation is pure hearsay but it's interesting.

Retro-prise

T'Pol in a TOS-era uniform from the upcoming "In A Mirror, Darkly"

These Are the Voyages...

Aww, there's little time left. Startrek.com released a production report for the last episode of Enterprise. But it sounds fun. Riker and Troi are back along with Shran and other plot-spoiling characters. No, there's no time travel, it's a holodeck in TNG-era. Riker will be dressed as a crewman, MACO, and another that they won't say...Degra? Hehe, wishful thinking. They're also going to Rigel X, where Enterprise went on its first mission. I've always said that a cool finale would have Bond-iose references to every season along at some subtle point in the episode. You never know now. However, it sounds like a nice and fitting bye-bye.

I've been slacking

Well, the big news is that the new theatrical Episode III Poster is out! Looks great, check out a huge version here. I've always said that sometime I wanted to get all the theatrical posters of the Star Wars movies (probably the special edition posters for the classics becaus those don't bother me) and have a wall dedicated to those posters up in Wayne, but that's money. And where I'm at, both StarWars.com and StarTrek.com are down, so I'm kinda limited on my super-official news.

I also want to throw this in: According to TrekToday, SpikeTV is interested in Enterprise for a new season but Paramount isn't talking...

Now I'm Depressed

Well, it's official! UPN finally cancelled Enterprise. It was so close to cancellation last year but they made it another year. I wish there is something I can do, but here we get UPN on Saturdays so we don't count toward ratings. SaveEnterprise.com is currently in Tactical Alert to try to help the show and EnterpriseFans.com is currently on bandwidth hiatus. I guess it would be good for Star Trek to take a break and work on getting back to its core. You never know, the DVD sales might help it pull a Family Guy. I know BnB were hot rocks to make a prequel movie probably dealing with the Earth-Romulan War. And then there's syndication...

I really think UPN needs to realize that it's such a crappy network. It is the network that launched Voyager so I'm not suggesting leaving necessarily, but they're always trying to compete with the other major networks who are broadcasted nationally when they need to take what they are given. It gets low ratings because it's up against major shows on major networks and they were all upset that Battlestar Galactica on Sci-Fi got better ratings.

Well, some good final episodes are coming up including the conclusion of the Romulan arc, the Klingon forehead arc, and the Mirror Universe arc, with the untitled series finale.
TrekToday - UPN Cancels 'Star Trek: Enterprise'

TNG on Family Guy

TrekToday - Stewart Heads Up CIA On 'American Dad': "Although Star Trek: Nemesis was the last official outing for the Next Generation crew, [Patrick] Stewart hasn't hung up his Starfleet uniform just yet. McFarlane announced that Stewart (Jean-Luc Picard) and Marina Sirtis (Deanna Troi) will be appearing in an upcoming episode of Family Guy's fourth season. '[They] did a cutaway gag for us where they played Captain Picard and Counselor Troi, which was pretty fun,' he said. "

Something Cool Is Going Down

TrekToday has a preview of an upcoming episode of Enterprise. Season 4 seems to be all about the 3 episode story arcs and this one sounds good. The first part is about the Andorians and the Tellarites on their way to forming the Federation, but this episode deals with the Romulans.

The Romulans sabotaged an Andorian ship in part I. They have to keep themselves hidden because they don't want Enterprise to find out that they are related to Vulcans. They better keep themselves hidden! We're not supposed to see a Romulan face until Kirk's time. There is some nice continuity with Star Trek: Nemesis with the Reman guards and Captain Valdore. Sounds like a good episode and a nice prelude to the inevitable Earth-Romulan War before the formation of the Federation.

TrekToday - Romulans Take Centre Stage In 'United'

Storm Front

OK, I decided if I was going to do any review of the new Enterprise season, I would do the opeining two-parter as one story. It wasn't bad. There were a LOT of unanswered questions that seemed to be whisked away at the end. There is one thing that did really get to me...

(spoilers: highlight to read)
At the end they showed a huge fleet of Earth, Vulcan and other ships escorting Enterprise back to Earth in the correct time. My annoyance is: Where were all those ships when a weapon was in orbit trying to destroy the planet? All Archer had was a peon Insectoid ship he was given and Shran's Andorian vessel. Go back to even "The Expanse" when Enterprise was under attack by Duras in the Sol sector, there were 3 Earth vessels that came out of nowhere. Drove me nuts! (end spoilers)

Other than that, it wasn't a bad two hours of my life. I'll probably Torrent them when I get home next weekend where it isn't blocked. I couldn't help thinking that with this whole alternate timeline thing that someone wouldn't appear and say, "Ziggy says you can't leap out until you stop the Nazis." Oh well, I ranted. And this was also a flimsy pretext for testing out my ability to post spoilers.

Enterprise Season 4 Tomorrow

A new reason to stay up in Wayne for a couple weeks. "Storm Front, Part I" will be debuting on KMEG Channel 14 tomorrow at 11:30 pm, not 10:30 like last year. It actually premieres tonight on UPN, but we don't get that. After all the fun of the Xindi arc it's time to figure out what exactly happened at the end of it.