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jmtorres ([personal profile] jmtorres) wrote2009-05-17 09:27 pm

Star Trek reaction linkspam Part II: THE REVENGE

(Everyone knows why I say Part II: THE REVENGE, right? Everyone knows about Vulcan Love Slave Part II: THE REVENGE, right?)(PS: it's google-able.)

So it looks as if [personal profile] ysobel may have actually gone to see Star Trek: Reboot in the last day or so but hey I've been keeping like eighty tabs open in several windows to write this entry as soon as I had the spoons, so hey, more linkspam.

popculturezoo.com tries to figure out how much series canon this movie negated.

[livejournal.com profile] st_xi_kink has produced a lot of fic, as archived on delicious.

More LJ comms:
[livejournal.com profile] trekfics - says is for all iterations, banner is notably Reboot
[livejournal.com profile] trekanon - I don't actually understand this anon confession meme thing but hey there you go
[livejournal.com profile] kirk_mccoy - title "The Captain and the Doctor" confused me in a Whovian way for a minute there, but is actually re Kirk and McCoy, yes
[livejournal.com profile] trek_news - newsletter, may potentially be making me obsolete here
[livejournal.com profile] chekov_sulu - lieutenants and ensigns need love too?
[livejournal.com profile] newtrekslash - unabashedly all about the reboot
[livejournal.com profile] spock_uhura - another of those "TOS and new movie!" things, with lots of reboot pictures everywhere, gee I wonder what inspired you
[livejournal.com profile] startrek2009 - comm for talking about the new movie

[livejournal.com profile] sineala posts about more comms, links to my linkspam, causing internet-ending paradoxes

More DW comms:
[community profile] startrek_reboot
[community profile] chris_pine_daily
[community profile] singularity

[livejournal.com profile] silviakundera posts vid and fic recs.

[livejournal.com profile] ethrosdemon has criticism of JJ Abrams re: his interview on Talk of the Nation.

[livejournal.com profile] taraljc posts 10 things everyone should know about Star trek (before trying to write pr0n based on the new movie), including which episodes and books to check out.

Relatedly, [livejournal.com profile] cofax7 posts remedial Trek for newbies.

darthmojo@wordpress talks about a lot of deleted scenes and script choices based on a Q&A with the screenwriters Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci.

[livejournal.com profile] talitha78 made a vid called Poker Face.

[livejournal.com profile] ethrosdemon wants to know why we apply modern social norms to a story set centuries in the future.

[livejournal.com profile] apocalypsos spotted women in pants.

[livejournal.com profile] sparky77 has baby Chekov picspam.

[livejournal.com profile] sineala has telegram style squee.

[livejournal.com profile] grey_bard says, "I'm predisposed to like this movie because I liked original Trek and I universally hate Trek movies. Hold up, what?"

[personal profile] thedeadparrot found her love of classic K/S reinforced. She wrote about original flavor Spock.

Pro effects artist posted a combination of new and old Enterprise.

[livejournal.com profile] amireal fanwanks ST:ENT into/out of existence.

[livejournal.com profile] brokenbacktango found the IDIC.

[livejournal.com profile] ethrosdemon is amused at the summary of ST: Final Frontier.

[livejournal.com profile] bethos on a rewatching spree, in DS9.

[livejournal.com profile] ethrosdemon asks for ST links.

[livejournal.com profile] maryavatar has OMG OMG OMG for the movie.

theplaylist@blogspot's 9 Silly Things About Star Trek We Can't Help But Laugh At.

[livejournal.com profile] sineala was tempted by TOS episode DVDs.

[livejournal.com profile] sparky77 contemplates ST wingfic.

[livejournal.com profile] brokenbacktango informs us that Zachary Quinto will read you the novelization.

[livejournal.com profile] imadra_blue writes Sulu fic.

[livejournal.com profile] apocalypsos requests fic recs.

[livejournal.com profile] brokenbacktango found hilarious TAS clip.

[livejournal.com profile] quigonejinn liked the reboot, liked Vulcans and liiiiked Spock.

[livejournal.com profile] ann89103 fangirls and vents.

[livejournal.com profile] brokenbacktango with complaints on n00bs in the anon kink meme.

sfsignal asks if new ST movie will be good for science fiction in general.

kfmonkey@blogspot discusses revelatory vs transformative heroic arcs in hollywood scripts, Star Trek movie.

[livejournal.com profile] amireal would totally make out with Star Trek.

[livejournal.com profile] taraljc likes new Uhura, examines her role.

[livejournal.com profile] redscharlach is making mini icons.

[livejournal.com profile] sineala wrote Sulu/Chekov.

[livejournal.com profile] quigonejinn wrote Spock fic.

[personal profile] ellen_fremedon fanwanks the two Delta Vegas.

[personal profile] niqaeli has started rewatching TOS.

[personal profile] laurajv wrote fic about Spock and Sarek.

[personal profile] ingridmatthews likes the new pairing.

[personal profile] jmtorres wants to talk about specific references to TOS. LAZY-WEBBING FTW.

[personal profile] lizbee found Picard's scrapbook.

[personal profile] butterfly posts fic recs.

[personal profile] niqaeli talks about Kirk's special snowflake status.

[personal profile] niqaeli is rewatching TOS. If a science officer dies, is it still red-shirting?

[personal profile] niqaeli finds TOS Spock fascinatingly broken.

[personal profile] mecurtin has achieved star trekkin'.

[personal profile] ysobel (hi, love!) is totally not writing fic (and why not!). (Also in that entry: fanwank for making the macguffin more sensible.)

[personal profile] ysobel's first brush thoughts.

[personal profile] ysobel totally claimed to be half Vulcan as a child.

[personal profile] blueraccoon's exploding squee.

[personal profile] zvi is pissed about fic disappearing Uhura.

[personal profile] butterfly has a hotness deathmatch poll.

[personal profile] butterfly made a vid.

Wil Wheaton finds new movie spectacular.

Henry Jenkins was nearly a Klingon extra, part I and part II.

[personal profile] niqaeli points out the special of the stunned romulan on aisle 7 (broccoli test: pass with unexpected flying colors).

[personal profile] dayblaze wants slash recs.

[personal profile] niqaeli writes fic about Vulcan blood.

[personal profile] laurashapiro pissed off at 'bromance' rather than slash in mainstream media.

[personal profile] sarah was squeeful.

[personal profile] panthea has a comment re Kirk getting punched in the face.

[personal profile] niqaeli on obsessive tendencies.

[personal profile] niqaeli points to her delicious for ST fic finding.

io9 talks about a cut Shatner scene.

[profile] catalysticat wishes for more real space exploration, real military, real ethical, political, social, and religious issues.

[personal profile] abyssinia has a lot of problems with the new movie.

[profile] jooj has some links, especially re novels.

[personal profile] revolutionaryjo has fic recs.

[personal profile] seperis talks about the reboot, canonical AUS and how Trek and other shows have dealt with them in the past.

Wil Wheaton with embedded Onion video on how Trekkies bash new film as fun and watchable.

[personal profile] mecurtin, before having seen the movie, talked about the social and political milieu of the sixties vs now and Trek's relevance thereto.

Henry Jenkins with lots of interesting meta.

[personal profile] laurajv with 5 things you should know about (original flavor) Uhura and how awesome she is.

[personal profile] musesfool liked it! she even didn't hate Kirk!

[personal profile] zvi on dreamcasting women who didn't appear in this movie, in poll form.

Racialicious gives the movie a positive review despite some ridiculousness; thinks Uhura and Sulu did well in this version.

[personal profile] niqaeli has picspam of one of Karl Urban's previous roles. Prepare to giggle.

[personal profile] flourish understands where the K/S comes from now.

[personal profile] inarticulate is happy with Trek and with Uhura.

[personal profile] cesperanza questions casting a Korean as Sulu.

[livejournal.com profile] taraljc's star trek tag.

[personal profile] niqaeli is a bad person. She likes porn!.

[personal profile] niqaeli's love of space and science fiction and wanting it to be now.

[personal profile] butterfly's detailed list of adoration, re her third viewing.

[personal profile] minotaurs makes economic jokes out of the naming of Spock Prime.

[personal profile] niqaeli talks about Vulcan colonies and the nonexistence thereof.

[personal profile] niqaeli's early squee.



I WAS POTENTIALLY GOING TO POST MORE OF MY OWN REACTIONS BUT I HAVE TO GET OUT THE DOOR BY SIX TOMORROW MORNING TO CATCH A BUS SO I THINK I WILL SAVE MY ENERGY AND VID INSTEAD. Really, if I manage to get the vid done, vid should say every goddamn thing I want to say about this movie. Really.
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[personal profile] ocea 2009-05-18 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
Am I the only person in the US that hasn't seen this movie?

[personal profile] ex_wicker969 2009-05-18 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
Holy crap I was going to be productive tonight but maybe I'll just be over here instead. This is awesome.
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[personal profile] dayblaze 2009-05-18 06:58 am (UTC)(link)
Hooray links! *scours*
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[personal profile] thedivinegoat 2009-05-18 07:03 am (UTC)(link)
I don't see the film til Friday, so thank you so much for doing this.
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[personal profile] mecurtin 2009-05-18 03:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Have you spotted anyone making a list of Star Wars references in ST:TOB?