I recently saw Star Trek (2009), the XI movie in the Star Trek continuum. Or should I say fuxx0red continuum. For those of you who don't know Star Trek series usually move in a continuous timeline. Starting with TOS (The Original Series), to The Next Generation, and so on and so forth. Now this movie is a reboot, which involves time travel, where Spock goes back in time with some Romulans and screw up the time line. This ends up making all the other Star Trek series probably not occurring at all. So I kinda just wasted high school. Don't get me wrong I loved the movie, but I couldn't stop worrying about the rest of the cannon.
At first I was pretty pissed, but after sitting on the crapper I figured out a way for everybody who saw the movie to be happy. Well first since Prime Spock did travel back in time and was able to exist in the same parallel universe with Spock that means that two universes are able to exist at the same time. Which gives us the first alternative that the universe Prime Spock came from still exists (YAY ^_^). Or we can go with the other alternative and live in ignorance pretending this movie never happened by labelling it non-cannon, which has been done with many anime series (ex. Macross). Or we can go with (god forbid) choosing to ignore all the previous Star Treks and go with the current new rebooted movie and future incarnations.
Now some of you must be wondering "why da fuck is he making such a big deal outta this?". First if you blow up Vulcan you kill a lot of important Vulcans, Tuvok for example, might not exist when Star Trek Voyager happens, if it at all happens now that the time line is fuxx0red. Tuvok was the vulcan science officer of Voyager and he solved a lot of problems, A LOT. Voyager would be seriously fucked without him.
Secondly this is probably the second time through time travel a person in the past received a formula for improved technology in exchange for a favor (BOTH TIMES INVOLVED SCOTTY!). In Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Scotty gives some manufacturer a formula to make transparent aluminum, in exchange for materials to make a tank to hold some whales. Now Prime Spock just gave Scotty his transwarp formula in exchange for a transwarp transport onto the Enterprise. WTF SCOTTY STOP TRADING TECH YOU CAN'T PLAY GOD!
Thirdly Uhura and Spock? WTF?!?! He's not even in pon farr (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pon_farr), how can he get horny with Uhura?!? The movie portrays him as more human than Vulcan. But yea, props to him for gettin some of that hot ass.
Lastly why didn't she get more screen time:
But yea this movie was really cool, very shiny, had phasers *pew pew*. And having Leonard Nemoy (Prime Spock) was ultra cool. I can't believe I watched The View just to see him and Whoopi Goldberg. It stayed true to being Star Trek and at tries very hard to fit into the continuum while staying fresh.
"I have been and ever shall be your friend."
-Captain Spock, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Work, Obsession, Accounting
"You single-handedly stole my heart away. This feeling is without a doubt love! But if it transcends love, it becomes obsession!" -Graham Aker (Episode 25, Gundam00)
This is the hardest working weekend I've ever had. An accounting assignment that no one gets. I've spent 12+ hours on this crap. Taking breaks only to watch Code Geass, We Got Married and Macross Frontier. So many hours put into this insane assignment. A four man group assignment which I took on single handedly. I cannot believe I did all this work for a measely 5%. What is worse is that there is no guarantee for that 5%. There is only pain and suffering in the end or the glory of obtaining 5%. I'll tell you all right now I am not smart. I only work hard. I think I even broke one of the principles of accounting. The Cost-Benefit principle. Did the benefit outweight the cost? Maybe not, but I will satisfy this obsession. For the numbers.
SO AS I PRAY, UNLIMITED SPREAD SHEET WORKS!!!