star trek music video

my new fav thing.... thanks @creightonc

season 1...check!

finally made my way through season 1 of tng! (6 more to go) i'm trying to balance that and my new obsession for lupin the 3rd (need this show in my life, so i'll prob buy dvd set at some point).

the 2 trekkies i know keep telling me i don't have to see the series in order, but i've grown acustomed to the tng cast so i'm ok with sticking with them for a while...though no one beats tos cast :)

star trek movie: my initial thoughts

so my thursday consisted of me waking up in chicago... presenting at program meeting and board meeting... running to a taxi... running to check in at ohara...hopping on flight...hopping off flight at reagan... running to baggage claim...hopping into smoe's car...driving to movie theater at gallery place/chinatown... saving seats for folks at midnite showing of star trek...actually watchin the movie!

1st reaction was that i'm super jealous at the relationship spock & uhura had in the movie- i wish i could date that vulcan :) smoe shook his head after i said this. in addition to smoe, saw it with my trekkie friend & his lady friend. he gives it 3.5 stars


looking on twitter kept reading super great reviews about how awesome it was and super fantastic... actors did a great job, especially the folks who played spock, scotty, sulu & mccoy! i purposely went into the movie with no expectations. overall the movie was good. it wasn't 100% true to star trek's core, but it did its job of bringin the franchise back in a major way and, maybe more importantly, introducing it to new generations (or folks who never woulda seen the show, but liked the hollywoodize movie).

bc i wasn't the movie's #1 fan like everyone else i felt out of place and like i missed something, so asked my trekkie friend his thoughts. he said that he was a lil worried about the updated version bc star trek isn't about action. the graphics and high energy was cool, but it's supposed to be philosophical and thought provoking.

i totally agree and think something gets lost in translation... however overall jj abrams did a good job and i'm oh so glad star trek is back in everyone's thoughts, hearts and conversations!

saw the following clip from the onion on friday & thought it was hilarious bc i'm turning into 1 of these people:


Trekkies Bash New Star Trek Film As 'Fun, Watchable'

tim "the vulcan" geitner

meant to post about this a while ago, but kept putting it off. seeing as i'm back in star trek mode in preparation for the movie (yeaaaaah!), wanted to know is it just me or does timmy geitner look like a vulcan??


....timmy & spock (aka leonard nimoy)

....timmy could def be a member of spock's fam bam. pictured: amanda grayson, ambassador sarek, spock. friend just told me he too thinks timmy is a vulcan and thinks obama has some vulcan tendencies as well. well, guess that solves it!

song o the day: the lovely mr. nimoy sings as the ladies do cute hobbit dances...

ok, ok maybe i AM a trekkie...

2 words... MAY 8TH!!!!

just finished all 3 seasons of the original star trek series... yep, after spending many a days & nights in front of my laptop i've completed all 83 episodes!!!

THANK YOU HULU!! YOU (& my coworker who was the last straw to convince me to watch the series) HAS CHANGED MY LIFE FOREVER!!

i'm sooo hype/ready for the movie now :) thankfully the movie wasn't released this month! between the watchmen & star trek, i don't think my heart would have been able to handle the excitement... no pressure jj (abrams) but this movie better be totally awesome!... and not have an uncomfortably long, slow, cheezy sex scene like the watchmen.

thanks!

song o the day: (more like noises of the day) background sound to the star trek movie trailer:

2 videos...

courtesy of my boyfriend:
"glorious battle"




courtesy of my bro via facebook:

the dance ACTUALLY isn't that bad, but the fact that it's called "stanky leg" is hilariously ignorant & entertainingly awful


...ok enough of this, off to watch star trek :)