Space, The Final Intellectual Property Frontier
Amusing, Entertainment, Intellectual Property Add commentsWell I’ve been a bit slow getting around to seeing the hottest movie of the moment, but last night I finally got down to the cinema to see the new Star Trek movie. As expected from director JJ Abrams, it’s high octane stuff all the way, but with a bit of raunchiness thrown in for good measure. I’m not sure if there was supposed to be more steamy raunchiness, but it did seem that quite a few scenes were clumsily cut out from the movie to protect the innocence of the Chinese viewers. So I may have to get the bootleg DVD to compare.
It’s a fun ride with a good mix of humour, action and romance that goes back to the days before the original 1966 tv series began, to show how the original crew came together.
One thing that struck me was how alike the new young Mr Spock (Zachary Quinto) and the older original one looks. It’s hard to believe they’re not related. Oh, and guys, look out for Uhura in the lovely revamped Starfleet mini dress and boots – niiiiice!
Oh and while we’re on the subject of Star Trek, there’s been a lot of fuss this week about how the Chinese National Space Administration (China’s NASA) seems to have created its logo using various logos from Star Trek. The logo does appear to be “inspired” by the United Federation of Planets crest and the arrow shaped communicator that the Starfleet people wear on their tops. Those lazy graphic designers didn’t even bother looking at other space TV shows like Battlestar Galactica or perhaps Star Wars!
May 20th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
Love the CNSA logo. Boldly going where no Shanzai has gone before.
May 20th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
No wonder the Enterprise had so much trouble going. They had Harold from Harold and Kumar driving the thing!
(Actually any time you can get Mr. Sulu fighting with a sword, sign me up.)
May 21st, 2009 at 12:29 pm
Eric – Indeed, the puns and joke potentials are endless!
T – Yes, that was a bit unexpected. John Cho certainly brought something a bit extra to the role. Never expected Sulu to be such a tough guy.
May 21st, 2009 at 1:43 pm
Actually Sulu with a sword is a call back (or is it a call-forward?) to the TOS episode “The Naked Time” where Sulu runs around the Enterprise with a sword and kissing Uhura. It’s awesome.
May 21st, 2009 at 1:55 pm
T – Was he on drugs? I must have missed that one or more likely, forgot about it, will have to go get the boxed set which I am sure will be very popular again now.
May 21st, 2009 at 4:28 pm
He gets infected by a strange substance from this crew member who returned from planet’s surface.
May 21st, 2009 at 4:49 pm
T – Starting to ring a bell actually …
May 21st, 2009 at 6:29 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_Time
May 22nd, 2009 at 3:36 pm
I liked it when they were in space
May 22nd, 2009 at 4:07 pm
I imagine Swiss James as a real life version of Simon Pegg. How close am I?
May 22nd, 2009 at 6:44 pm
Does this mean the Chinese are going to change future history and make Sulu the captain of the starship enterprise?
May 23rd, 2009 at 7:37 am
@Bangkok Property – doubtful as Sulu is Japanese (played by a Korean-American and Japanese-American)
May 24th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
@T – can I just point out that Simon Pegg is in fact a real person….an actor…really a person…I know he’s on the tele but that’s when he’s pretending to be other people….pretending to be not Simon Pegg….but in real life….he IS Simon Pegg…..the person…real person…Simon Pegg……
May 24th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
@wiseman – People on the TV are not real.
May 31st, 2009 at 4:01 am
LOL. As long as the CNSA doesn’t take their designs from Star Trek. They should be ok.
May 31st, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Silk Knots – Is this very sophisticated spam?