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The Secrets of Star Trek Keep A-Comin’

The Secrets of Star Trek Keep A-Comin’

By May 13, 2009 Movies 0 Comment

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Unofficial Star Trek week continues at TR and around the goddamn planet with two tidbits that I think you’ll find interesting:

? The infinitely better budgeted io9 talked to Trek screenwriter Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, who revealed the scene that would have brough shatner’s Kirk into the pic, and it would have been swell.

Kurtzman: The very last scene when Spock and Spock meet each other, finally. And elder Spock is convincing young Spock that he couldn’t interfere, because it would have diverted [Kirk and Spock] away from their friendship. And that their friendship is the key to the whole sort of shebang.

Orci: He gave him a recorded message from Kirk.

Kurtzman: He [elder Spock]said, “Don’t take my word for it.” And he handed him [younger Spock]a little holographic device and it projected Shatner. It was basically a Happy Birthday wish knowing that Spock was going to go off to Romulus, and Kirk would probably be dead by the time…

Alas, as we all know, the scene was sabo-taaaajed. Check out the rest of the brief interview here.
? Apparently, neither Chris Pine nor Sylar can make the Vulcan salute. Quinto actually had to have his fingers glued together, while Pine had his tied down with fishing line. If you loathed the movie, you could do worse than point this out to every fan you meet, I suppose. And yes, that is the irritating leaky-eyeballs chick from season 2 of Heroes mocking him above. (Via FilmDrunk)

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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.