From what I've seen on Trek boards lately, yep. When they're not arguing about whether it's possible to construct a starship on a planet's surface, they're trying to ponder what the final product will look like and taking polls as to whether the new movie will "rape their childhood memories" or not.

Those aren't questions, they're just Standard Fandom Dipshittery. Questions, at least in the vein of those raised by the Cloverfield teaser, would be more along the lines of, "Well, that's nice and all, guys, but what the fuck is this movie about?" (admittedly a hard dollar when you're starting from the premise that it's a Star Trek movie) or, "Who? I've never heard of any of these people," or possibly even, "Was that Lance Henriksen?"

As for the matter of raping childhood memories, of course it will. If you're the sort of person who asks that question when confronted with a new film based on an old franchise, the answer is automatically yes.

--G.
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Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Admin
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/

I'll take it if it just rapes the bad taste of the last few middling movies. And I *worked* on Nemesis.

They've cast Spock perfectly, fwiw.

	Chad Collier Smirking Kilrathi The Captain of the Gravy Train

I'm still waiting for the trailers to see how much I like that bit of casting. As it is, I'm still trying to keep myself from imagining Spock eating Kirk's brain. And, more seriously, I hope Quinto can speak in a much deeper, more resonant voice akin to Nimoy's, as opposed to the high-pitched, creepy Villain Voice he uses for Sylar.

- Sean
"All tribal myths are true, for a given value of 'true.'"
-- Terry Pratchett, from _The Last Continent_

Hey, I liked nemesis, but it, and first contact definately stood out as being very good whereas the other two nextgen films... made me long for the sheer poetry of
the final frontier.... o_O

At least that had Jimmy Dohaan nutting himself on a low hanging beam...

Yeah, but what makes that scene was the line about knowing the ship like the back of his hand right before that.

"I think this new ship was put together by monkeys. Oh, she's got a fine engine, but half the doors don't work."

--G.
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Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Admin
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/

which can only provoke a classic video response...

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=JZAkGfJY05k

Ard Sumhenner
that Janice chick
Usual Suspect and general menace

He's Not This Movie's Demographic. In fact, I believe he may be one of the single biggest arguments for the need to reboot the franchise.

Worse, he's not even the Star Trek Geek at my old office. I actually worked at the same place as the guy who's a bratty-assed 14-year-old Pedantic Trek Nerd in Trekkies, who went on to be the Star Trek Geek on Beat the Geeks. He's all grown up now and a much better person, and I think he may even be OK with Kirk and Spock going to the Academy at the same time.

Ard Sumhenner
that Janice chick
Usual Suspect and general menace