Star Trek: Nemesis Trailer to Premiere Tonight 325
savagexp writes "Dark Horizons is reporting that the trailer for the next Star Trek movie will premiere tonight on Entertainment Tonight and via the official website tonight at 7:30 EST." Makes me wish I could stomach
ET, or at least had some real bandwidth. Hopefully it'll get placed in
front of some of the movies coming in the next few weeks (maybe MiB2?)
Hmm.. (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Hmm.. (Score:2, Insightful)
Movie Format (Score:5, Informative)
Or maybe we will be even luckier and group of
In any case the original article [startrek.com] says:
Re:Movie Format (Score:2)
Re:Movie Format (Score:2, Insightful)
It is true that the codec is not a publish standard, but the file format is! I have read descriptions of the file format and C code that reads it, all from Apple's web site. Perhaps you should do some research before you go on an uninformed tirade.
Re:Movie Format (Score:2)
Solaris Quicktime could have been gif (Score:2)
Re:Hmm.. (Score:2)
QuickTime software sucks and hogs the processor and I don't like the nag screen.
Ok. Now I can sleep again.
Re:Hmm.. (Score:2, Informative)
Looks like it will [startrek.com]: 'The "Star Trek: Nemesis' trailer will then launch online in conjunction with the official movie Web site. Both will go live at 7:30 p.m. PDT/10:30 p.m. EDT Wednesday, with the trailer in the QuickTime format (Courtesy of Apple -- please see link below [it just points to http://www.apple.com/quicktime/]). The trailer will be available in small, large and full-screen sizes (QuickTime Pro 5 required for full-screen viewing). Additional streaming formats will also be available soon. The movie Web site will be accessible via STARTREK.COM."
Dang! I was hoping for a StarWars vs Startrek mooV (Score:5, Funny)
Scene:
Picard: Fire photon torpedo's
Yoda: Diverts torpedo's with a wave of his paw.
Re:Dang! I was hoping for a StarWars vs Startrek m (Score:3, Funny)
Fire photon torpedo's what?
Yoda: Diverts torpedo's with a wave of his paw.
I think you've confused Yoda and Dogbert.
Re:Dang! I was hoping for a StarWars vs Startrek m (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Dang! I was hoping for a StarWars vs Startrek m (Score:5, Funny)
Not really a premier... (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Not really a premier... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Not really a premier... (Score:2)
http://www.startrek.com/news/news.asp?ID=124934 [startrek.com]
Prophecy in the Digital Age (Score:2)
OK, it wasn't a Lucas Star Wars movie trailer, but rather a Star Trek trailer. Nevertheless the point remains
I will continue to voice my irritation at this behavior so long as the slashdot editors continue to engage in the hypocracy of denouncing the behavior of these cartels with one breath, while promoting their products shamelessly with the next.
No slight against Star Trek or Wil intended, rather an expression of distaste of a more generalized problem.
Re:Prophecy in the Digital Age (Score:2)
And I will continue to voice my irritation at people who pick two individuals out of a group, point out their differences of opinion, and call the group a bunch of hypocrites for disagreeing.
If you ever see Michael or Timothy pimping a movie, feel free to come out swinging. They're the ones rallying the troops against Big Media, not Taco or Hemos.
Re:Prophecy in the Digital Age (Score:2)
If you ever see Michael or Timothy pimping a movie, feel free to come out swinging. They're the ones rallying the troops against Big Media
You mean like THIS [slashdot.org]?
I think my point stands rather clearly, as underscored by the actions of the very people you were defending (don't blame yourself, it is their fault for being hypocrits, not yours).
Make it so...Please (Score:1)
I hear ya... (Score:1)
My friend has a Deanna Troy action figure on which the red paint on the chest has been rubbed off.
Heh. I remember rummaging through my old Star Wars toys a few years ago. I had to chuckle when I noticed my Princess Leia figure had indelable smudges all over her chest from my years of fondling her as a child. Hey, let's face it. As a wee kiddie I didn't have access to Playboy. And I had no idea what the Internet was. So groping my precious Leia figure was the only sexual release a poor young GMD could get.
Gees I dunno why I'm telling you all this. I hope I don't get billed from psych counsuling from CmdrTaco....
GMD
Re:Make it so...Please (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Make it so...Please (Score:2)
For awhile there, I thought Star Trek was doing a good job in starting to portray its female characters more realistically, downplaying the "sex object" angle in favor of smart, tough female characters like Kira Nerys, Jadzia Dax, and Kathryn Janeway. Then I guess someone must have gotten scared that they were losing the 16-25 male demographic, because then we got Seven of Nine and her sprayed-on catsuit, and the "decontamination gel" shower scene on Enterprise. Oh well, win some, lose some...
I think I've fallen into Bizarro World. (Score:5, Funny)
Now you'll have to excuse me, the perpetual motion machine is a little loud, and needs to be oiled.
That's because (Score:1)
Re:I think I've fallen into Bizarro World. (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, wait... this is Star Trek, not the Simpsons... Umm, Heisenberg compensators to full! Engage!
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Damn the Emperor!
Re:I think I've fallen into Bizarro World. (Score:2)
Silly Simpsons writers! =)
Re:I think I've fallen into Bizarro World. (Score:2)
So anyway, at this point in time, there aren't really any energy generating devices that don't essentially rely on **drumroll** "the transfer of heat between mediums."
have a nice day.
Re:I think I've fallen into Bizarro World. (Score:1, Informative)
According to IMDB, Wil Wheaton won't be in Nemesis.
Re:I think I've fallen into Bizarro World. (Score:2)
Re:I think I've fallen into Bizarro World. (Score:2)
Let me guess - yet another transporter accident?
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Re:I think I've fallen into Bizarro World. (Score:5, Informative)
Re:I think I've fallen into Bizarro World. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I think I've fallen into Bizarro World. (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:I think I've fallen into Bizarro World. (Score:2)
I, for one, want to see him in the movie. It was the TNG writers who were incapable of making Wil Wheaton look like anything above a Boy Scout who'd won the "Travel With the Enterprise" contest.
Re:I think I've fallen into Bizarro World. (Score:1)
Brian Ellenberger
Re:I think I've fallen into Bizarro World. (Score:2)
This would probably be ... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:This would probably be ... (Score:1)
Re:This would probably be ... (Score:2, Funny)
Wow, so you actualy watched the Superbowl? [tivo.co.uk]
Re:This would probably be ... (Score:3, Funny)
It's theft. Your contract with the network when you get the ads is you're going to watch the show. Otherwise you couldn't get the ads on a show-supported basis.
I guess there's a certain amount of tolerance for going to the bathroom.
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Hmmm... (Score:4, Funny)
Wow... the IS a use for IPIX
Re:Hmmm... (Score:3, Interesting)
If you want to learn more about them, find a copy of Diane Duane's novel The Romulan Way, preferably at a good used-book shop. It's not canon because it's just a novel, but it's damn good. It explains their form of government. (Incidentally, the "Senate" dates to ancient Roman times, I do believe. Many of the ranks the Romulans used, e.g. centurion, do as well.)
to go... (Score:2)
Re:to go... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:to go... (Score:1)
By using whatever technique it is that Jimmy Doohan uses to get fatter (I'm not sure yet whether he's massive enough to implode into a black hole yet, but he's a damn find candidate for "where is the missing mass of the Universe"
It will air in front of Men in Black II... (Score:2, Informative)
Trailer screenshots already up... (Score:3, Informative)
On Nemesis etymology (Score:2, Insightful)
A source of harm or ruin: Uncritical trust is my nemesis.
Sounds like the Slashdot effect
Retributive justice in its execution or outcome: To follow the proposed course of action is to invite nemesis.
i.e., clicking the link at the launch time is inviting Nemesis...
An opponent that cannot be beaten or overcome.
The unconscious attitude that rests, all the same, with Slashdot readers... that they will get to see the page even though thousands of others are all trying at the same time.
One that inflicts retribution or vengeance.
It will be in Quicktime no doubt and everyone will be seeking their Wine, so maybe that should be re-distribution (changing distro?) so that they have better Quicktime support in friendly RPM format (yes I'm getting tenuous now)
Nemesis Greek Mythology. The goddess of retributive justice or vengeance.
Godesses... Rather than cite any myself (OK, I always fancied a bit of Deanna Troi [startrek.com] actually) I invite you to comment...
Re:On Nemesis etymology (Score:3, Funny)
Do you know what "nemesis" means? A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent. Personified in this instance by an 'orrible cunt... me!
Uhh.. (Score:5, Funny)
Why does CmdrTaco want to eat a cute, cuddly alien?
Re:Uhh.. (Score:2)
EST eh? (Score:2, Funny)
Data: Captain, although
Picard: Well put, Data. That is precisely why the Federation uses the Stardate time standard.
Guinan: More oil, Data, honey.
2,4,6,8...? (Score:1, Redundant)
Odd -
Motion Picture - Tried too hard for artistry
Search For Spock - it just blew!
The Final Frontier - Spock's Half Brother? Gah!
Generations - They could have done so much between the casts and didn't
Insurrection - I just couldn't buy those alien bad guys.
Even -
Wrath of Khan - Rocks! Gotta love Kirk yelling KHAAAAAAN!
The Voyage Home - So many great lines. Merged the comedic aspects very well. Nuclear wessels!
The Undiscovered Country - My personal Favorite. Gotta Love the zero grav scene. Guess who's coming to Dinner.
First Contact - Time Travel... Gotta Love Time Travel. Now if they would only set a Star Trek Movie in the Mirror, Mirror Universe.
Nemesis - ?
I have high hopes this pattern will not disappoint me on this Tenth movie.
Re:2,4,6,8...? (Score:2)
Re:2,4,6,8...? (Score:3, Funny)
Screw that - what made Generations so bad was a plot hole big enough to fly the entire Federtion fleet through all at once.
Let's see, distress call at station, Enterprise goes to help, bad guy abucts Geordi and blows up star, getting away. Eventually, they track him down, Picard goes to planet, fails to stop him, sucked into Nexus. While in Nexus, Picard can travel to ANY point in time? Does he go back to back in orbit, knowing where to use torpedos/phasers to destroy the launch site? Does he go back to just when the star explodes, so they can head STRAIGHT to the destination planet, beating the other ship? Or, even more intelligently, does he go back to when they first arrive at the station, so they can toss the bad guy in the brig, search the station, find the torpedo set to destroy the star, and prevent the whole thing?
OF COURSE NOT. We go back to just a couple minutes ago, with an overweight, horrible actor playing a previous Enterprise captain, at a time when they still have a really tough time defeating the enemy - never mind that they could be totally aware that, should they screw up, they'd go back into the Nexus to try again, and again, and again.
Why go back to that moment? It makes absolutely no sense, unless you're deliberately trying to make stopping the bad guy as DIFFICULT as possible.
Oh, and BTW, First Contact's huge plot hole? The Borg could simply have sent the probe back in time at some other place in the galaxy, not having alerted the federation to their plans, therefore, not having had any challenge to their assimilation. But then again, adding time travel instantly makes it insanely difficult to prevent plot holes, due to the way things can work out.
I thought Insurrection was the best of the three because of the comparative lack of plot holes.
Re:2,4,6,8...? (Score:2)
Perhaps he was afraid going back too far would cause problems in the timeline. Also, I'm wondering if there'd be an issue with two Picards and Kirk suddenly being aboard Enterprise. Although, I suppose the Picard returning from the Nexus must replace the already-existing Picard, since Kirk and he didn't run into himself on the planet's surface.
I thought the entire concept was cheesy, though, so what am I doing trying to defend it?
Oh, and BTW, First Contact's huge plot hole? The Borg could simply have sent the probe back in time at some other place in the galaxy, not having alerted the federation to their plans...
I got the impression the Borg were just planning a full-scale assault on Earth, and the time-travel idea was hatched after they realized they were going to get blown up. Remember, Picard was supposed to be watching the neutral zone. Had he not defied Starfleet orders, the Borg cube would probably have wiped out the fleet in short order, and then begun the process of assimilating Earth.
Re:2,4,6,8...? (Score:4, Insightful)
Oh, time travel is so hackneyed, especially in the Trekverse. But more importantly, First Contact ruined the Borg. Well, OK, "I, Hugh" began the degeneration, but First Contact was the final nail in the coffin.
The original Borg was/were the only truly alien aliens in Trek. Their ships were ungraceful (for a reason). They violated bilateral symmetry. Their motives were so alien as to be impossible to even recognize as motives. They were implacable, nigh-omnipotent, and -- most important of all -- not like some subset of humanity with a bad nose. Indeed, they were a reasonable (sort of) extrapolation of Net technology, an honest answer to a what-if question, the best element of sci fi.
What made them stand out was their communal decemtralized mind... a true unified consciousness, something emergent from the individual entities contained in the Borg net. What did First Contact do? It fell for the cliche "hive mind", took a weak metaphor (social insects) and expanded it, somehow, into a concept even weaker. A Borg Queen? Please! The true Borg would have no truck with a queen, a king, a president, or anything that makes one part more significant/important than another.
Let's say it again, class: The true Borg are decentralized and distributed. A "Borg Queen" is the exact antithesis of what the Borg were.
Arrgh. It bothers me every time I think about it. Grrr.
Re:2,4,6,8...? (Score:3, Interesting)
Windows 2000 domains.
Any flaming aside, Windows 2k has something called FSMO ("fizzmo") roles. Short for "Flexible Single Master Operation", the roles correspond to tasks that only one machine in the entire enterprise can do. This is to avoid any sort of duplication/collision of effort for certain important roles. Now, unless you actively do anything, the first box you bring up handles all the tasks (Schema Master, Domain Naming Master, PDC Emulator, RID Master, and Infrastructure Master if you're curious). Any machine can take over any or all of the roles, but there must be only one box handling a role. However, aside from the FSMO roles, all domain controllers are logically equivalent in terms of importance to the domain.
So, how does this correlate to the Borg? Well, assuming that there are a number of roles to play that are essential to the operation of the collective and that destruction of the master would cause a disruption in the collective mind until regeneration (think of a lost token in tokenring) so you'd choose a protected unit. This would be the "queen". Ideally, however, the system would be such that any unit could take over any or all of the roles quickly in case of danger.
Of course, why she'd be all slinky and with a removable head is beyond me.
Bandwidth gotcha down? (Score:1)
Re:Bandwidth gotcha down? (Score:2)
This calls for a Wil Wheaton post! (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:This calls for a Wil Wheaton post! (Score:2)
Re:This calls for a Wil Wheaton post! (Score:2)
Sshhh! Be careful, his wife Anne might find out.
Re:This calls for a Wil Wheaton post! (Score:2)
I'm pretty sure Paramount has made it even worse after the whole thing with the ending of Generations...
Re:Wil Wheaton dead at 30 (Score:2)
Screw Star Trek, the T3 teaser is coming (Score:4, Informative)
Heh.. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Heh.. (Score:2)
That's a tough one. Some philosophers believe that the term 'funny' is used when one says something that makes another laugh. Others believe that the term 'funny' is used when a spoken sentence paints an image that illustrates broken logic.
The answer to this question may come to you if you remove all conscience thought. If you need help doing that, ask yourself this question:
"If a Linux user's computer breaks, does Slashdot make a sound?"
The Ribbon Returns! (Score:3, Funny)
MiB2?? (Score:2, Interesting)
Jedi Trek Of The Rings (Score:4, Funny)
Synopsis: A band of gay space gnomes, aboard the U.S.S. Fellow Ship (get it, fellow, ship, heh heh) team up with the Lucasfilm Muppets(tm) to kill the one guy on the bridge of the Enterprise which nobody knows (and hence won't miss when he dies).
A splendid time is guaranteed for all!
I'm not excited (Score:2)
I'm Trailer Trash (Score:3, Insightful)
Odd or Even (Score:3, Funny)
Enterprise... (Score:2)
So, you only need to catch it on ET if you absolutely must see it @7:30 rather than @8:00 or if you are one of those unlucky few without a UPN station.
Re:Enterprise... (Score:2)
Or, if you don't want to watch the rerun of Enterprise. Unless it's one of the 2 or 3 I missed, I'm skipping it. Please, let the new season start soon!
Re: (Score:2)
Oh well... (Score:2)
Trailer's up if you can't wait until 7:30 PM PT... (Score:3, Informative)
man this is sad (Score:2, Funny)
1) 7pm the carpool is lifted, and
2) it's only a "half hour" wait, and
3) office connection is about 1.8x that of the DSL at home.
i am so glad there is no "pathetic loser" mod.
Other site (Score:2, Informative)
It can be found here http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/star_trek
Doesn't allow saving? (Score:2, Informative)
http://a1536.g.akamai.net/5/1536/51/979a9ce9df5cd
Enjoy. BTW, if this goes 404, just follow the procedure that I use listed above.
Re:Doesn't allow saving? (Score:2)
Re:Does Data die in the trailer? (Score:2, Funny)
So they have the blue screen of death in the 24 century still?!!!!! Sheech.
At least they wont need a planet this time to reactivate him!
Re:Please no Quicktime! (Score:1)
Re:Please no Quicktime! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Please no Quicktime! (Score:1)
Re:mpaa? (Score:1)
Re:mpaa? (Score:3, Informative)
First, the site isn't anti-MPAA. Many of it's users are. The site is a news and discussion forum.
Second, not all Slashdot readers are Anti-MPAA. Some don't give a rat's ass about the issue. Some, like me, realize the issues and have come to an internal compromise. Some users haven't bought a movie ticket or DVD in years. You have to realize that there are many thousands of posters, and not all have the same opinions about issues.
Just remember,
Re:mpaa? (Score:2)
Re:mpaa? (Score:5, Insightful)
If none of us liked movies, the MPAA couldn't piss us off.
Re:mpaa? (Score:2)
Re:mpaa? (Score:2)
No I would definitely mind if it happened that way. I don't think it would, though. The cause of the SSSCA proposal was that people were trading movies. People weren't trading movies just for shits and giggles, they were doing it to acquire the movies. Hence, demand for movies because they're popular. Had the movies not been popular enough to trade, no SSSCA.
:P
I dunno why I wrote all that, I think you're just pulling my leg. Heh. Fun stuff.
Re:Odd or Even? (Score:1)
I assume you meant Generations. But yeah, the odd and even theory definitely still holds true.
misunderstanding... (Score:2)
also (and here's where the confusion is), the trailer will premier on the internet at 7:30 PM PDT...in other words, you can watch it at 7:30 (local time) on ET...or wait till 7:30 PDT to see it on the internet...obviously, they can't release it on the internet in conjunction with the 7:30 PM EDT showing on ET, because then everyone on the west coast would just download it, and that would ruin the premier on ET on the west coase...
well, anyway, that's the way i understood it from their web site...
Re:Check your times (Score:2)
Re:Don't bother -- it's an even numbered sequel. (Score:2)
You got that backwards, surely.
No one of sound mind could rank The Search for Spock above the much-beloved Wrath of Khan.
Or the soul-shudderingly bad The Final Frontier above... well, anything on film, Star Trek or not!?!
Re:Don't bother -- it's an even numbered sequel. (Score:4, Insightful)
Let's look at the evidence:
Re:Don't bother -- it's an even numbered sequel. (Score:2)
Well, darn it, I did, too. Since there haven't been any new TNG episodes in a while, anytime they crank out a new movie with Picard's crew, it's a Good Thing. It just wasn't as strong a movie as First Contact, IMHO, is all. There were TNG episodes I liked that weren't as strong as the strongest ones, yet they were still good episodes, just not as strong.
There were problems with STV that started way before they went to the center of the galaxy. For instance, it looked like they were trying to shove Scotty and Uhura into a relationship, and that just doesn't make any sense to me. And don't get me started on Uhura's fandancing...
All my opinion, of course.