Comments on: The Embiggening Power of Star Trek ‘09 http://exiledonline.com/the-embiggening-power-of-star-trek-%e2%80%9809/ All the news not fit to print: Gary Brecher the War Nerd, Mark Ames, Yasha Levine, Eileen Jones and the rest of Team eXiled Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:09:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Frank McG http://exiledonline.com/the-embiggening-power-of-star-trek-%e2%80%9809/comment-page-1/#comment-7499 Frank McG Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:01:52 +0000 http://exiledonline.com/?p=8711#comment-7499 Anytime you hear someone proudly crack some joke about "PC nuts", chances are they're an idiot and can be ignored. Unless it's the early 90s in which case they're trendy idiots. All across the board you're seeing a depressing relapse in movies to awful 80s trends: hard right reactionary themes (300, Star Trek) and shitty teen slashers. Anytime you hear someone proudly crack some joke about “PC nuts”, chances are they’re an idiot and can be ignored. Unless it’s the early 90s in which case they’re trendy idiots.

All across the board you’re seeing a depressing relapse in movies to awful 80s trends: hard right reactionary themes (300, Star Trek) and shitty teen slashers.

]]> By: Captain my captain http://exiledonline.com/the-embiggening-power-of-star-trek-%e2%80%9809/comment-page-1/#comment-7417 Captain my captain Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:59:42 +0000 http://exiledonline.com/?p=8711#comment-7417 The right can lay claim to Tribbles. They are about as useless, yet cute, and are fun until they multiply and gum up the works. The right can lay claim to Tribbles. They are about as useless, yet cute, and are fun until they multiply and gum up the works.

]]> By: Alquanole http://exiledonline.com/the-embiggening-power-of-star-trek-%e2%80%9809/comment-page-1/#comment-7313 Alquanole Mon, 08 Jun 2009 07:41:55 +0000 http://exiledonline.com/?p=8711#comment-7313 I find discussing the ethics and morals of an ENTRATAINMENT movie to be profoundly depressing. I'm a Star Trek fan. I went to the movie. I suspended disbelief and enjojed it. I find discussing the ethics and morals of an ENTRATAINMENT movie to be profoundly depressing.

I’m a Star Trek fan. I went to the movie. I suspended disbelief and enjojed it.

]]> By: aleke http://exiledonline.com/the-embiggening-power-of-star-trek-%e2%80%9809/comment-page-1/#comment-6990 aleke Mon, 25 May 2009 20:54:08 +0000 http://exiledonline.com/?p=8711#comment-6990 Star Trek was always a lefty kinda Americanism. That's what I noticed in the new movie, is the very conservative idea of the future JJ Abrams is selling. Particularly, the sense of the military service as salvation for slight transgressions ("repeat offender"), the [though robotic] presence of police is still extremely similar to our present situation, the very American ride-on-the-great expanse. That must be why, too, he's trying to 'sell' it. That's why I suspect him and his writer buddies are professionals and not an artists. Maybe then the right will be able to take him for their own, if JJ Abrams continuous to sell and change Star Trek. Star Trek was always a lefty kinda Americanism. That’s what I noticed in the new movie, is the very conservative idea of the future JJ Abrams is selling. Particularly, the sense of the military service as salvation for slight transgressions (”repeat offender”), the [though robotic] presence of police is still extremely similar to our present situation, the very American ride-on-the-great expanse.

That must be why, too, he’s trying to ’sell’ it. That’s why I suspect him and his writer buddies are professionals and not an artists. Maybe then the right will be able to take him for their own, if JJ Abrams continuous to sell and change Star Trek.

]]> By: NotGodot http://exiledonline.com/the-embiggening-power-of-star-trek-%e2%80%9809/comment-page-1/#comment-6890 NotGodot Sat, 23 May 2009 18:08:55 +0000 http://exiledonline.com/?p=8711#comment-6890 There are like four or five times in the original series when Kirk says "Well I'm in the military so I should have NOTHING TO DO with setting policy because that is how we perpetuate warfare and letting a soldier run thes how would turn us into an empire" So I don't really think the rightist attempt to appropriate the mythos has much weight. There are like four or five times in the original series when Kirk says “Well I’m in the military so I should have NOTHING TO DO with setting policy because that is how we perpetuate warfare and letting a soldier run thes how would turn us into an empire”

So I don’t really think the rightist attempt to appropriate the mythos has much weight.

]]> By: twentyeight http://exiledonline.com/the-embiggening-power-of-star-trek-%e2%80%9809/comment-page-1/#comment-6842 twentyeight Fri, 22 May 2009 21:19:37 +0000 http://exiledonline.com/?p=8711#comment-6842 If it doesn't involve Shatner taking hits from flechette rounds I'm not watching it. If it doesn’t involve Shatner taking hits from flechette rounds I’m not watching it.

]]> By: Homer Erotic http://exiledonline.com/the-embiggening-power-of-star-trek-%e2%80%9809/comment-page-1/#comment-6724 Homer Erotic Mon, 18 May 2009 04:45:38 +0000 http://exiledonline.com/?p=8711#comment-6724 The new Kirk is a lot more geuninely fuckable. ;-) The new Kirk is a lot more geuninely fuckable. ;-)

]]> By: Copeland http://exiledonline.com/the-embiggening-power-of-star-trek-%e2%80%9809/comment-page-1/#comment-6709 Copeland Sun, 17 May 2009 02:39:26 +0000 http://exiledonline.com/?p=8711#comment-6709 One person's homage is another person's plundering of the vintage Trek. But I found the film satisfying enough for the acting and the relationship of the characters. I am afraid that like Spock, we will all bump into our future selves in this dystopia where we live. I hope to still enjoy a film like this every once in a while, because I remember "the darkening LBJ years" and they left a mark on me; and the morality plays in the old Star Trek series are the stuff that dreams are made of, naturally, in this PTSD world. In these days, under the reign of beasts, it takes strength to remember that we still have a chance at coming out of the nightmare. The Trek stories do say somthing about friendship maturing over time, about improvisation and never giving up, the rejection of despair, about some compassion as an improvement of our species. And of course there is lots and lots of over-the-top hormonal action and hand-to-hand combat; but there was from the past to the present some reminder in these voyages about the limitations of our more brutal instincts. And I say good for Star Trek; it has become on balance a good contribution to our shared memory. One person’s homage is another person’s plundering of the vintage Trek. But I found the film satisfying enough for the acting and the relationship of the characters. I am afraid that like Spock, we will all bump into our future selves in this dystopia where we live. I hope to still enjoy a film like this every once in a while, because I remember “the darkening LBJ years” and they left a mark on me; and the morality plays in the old Star Trek series are the stuff that dreams are made of, naturally, in this PTSD world.

In these days, under the reign of beasts, it takes strength to remember that we still have a chance at coming out of the nightmare. The Trek stories do say somthing about friendship maturing over time, about improvisation and never giving up, the rejection of despair, about some compassion as an improvement of our species. And of course there is lots and lots of over-the-top hormonal action and hand-to-hand combat; but there was from the past to the present some reminder in these voyages about the limitations of our more brutal instincts. And I say good for Star Trek; it has become on balance a good contribution to our shared memory.

]]> By: Matt http://exiledonline.com/the-embiggening-power-of-star-trek-%e2%80%9809/comment-page-1/#comment-6676 Matt Fri, 15 May 2009 06:17:50 +0000 http://exiledonline.com/?p=8711#comment-6676 The Sulu swordfight is a h/t to old school Sulu when he went barechested and crazy with an epee. George Takei took fencing lessons for the episode. I know this not because I am a trekkie, but because I fence. The Sulu swordfight is a h/t to old school Sulu when he went barechested and crazy with an epee. George Takei took fencing lessons for the episode.

I know this not because I am a trekkie, but because I fence.

]]> By: Ahmed, kabulhusbandwifeblog.com http://exiledonline.com/the-embiggening-power-of-star-trek-%e2%80%9809/comment-page-1/#comment-6673 Ahmed, kabulhusbandwifeblog.com Thu, 14 May 2009 20:59:17 +0000 http://exiledonline.com/?p=8711#comment-6673 Thank G-d i'm not American Thank G-d i’m not American

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