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SilverWook said:

Digging the retro TMP style poster. The new trailer has me more optimistic now. And do my eyes deceive me, or was that an NX class starship making an appearance?

Your eyes kind of deceive you? It’s a ship whose design leaked earlier, kind of mid-point between NX (which is seen as a model in Robocop’s office) and JJprise.

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On the original 1979 TMP poster, Spock is drawn with a very somber contemplative expression of longing or seaking something. The Spock on the “Beyond” posted has his angry murder face on.

“First feel fear, then get angry. Then go with your life into the fight.” - Bill Mollison

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It could be his Pon Farr face too? 😉

Where were you in '77?

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FanFiltration said:

On the original 1979 TMP poster, Spock is drawn with a very somber contemplative expression of longing or seaking something. The Spock on the “Beyond” posted has his angry murder face on.

I think that’s just Quinto’s normal resting face, but I understand the confusion.

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Angry Murder Spock would be an awesome name for a band. 😉

Where were you in '77?

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suspiciouscoffee said:

FanFiltration said:

On the original 1979 TMP poster, Spock is drawn with a very somber contemplative expression of longing or seaking something. The Spock on the “Beyond” posted has his angry murder face on.

I think that’s just Quinto’s normal resting face, but I understand the confusion.

Yeah, he’s great in villainous roles but man do I hate his Spock.

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AFTER MUCH CONSIDERABLE THOUGHT, WE'VE DECIDED WE'RE GOING TO WATCH STAR TREK '09 EVENTUALLY AFTER ALL.

WHY, YOU MAY ASK? BECAUSE WE'RE PLANNING ON EVENTUALLY WRITING A REMAKE TO MIRROR, MIRROR, AND WE NEED SOME INSPIRATION FOR OUR TAKE ON THE MIRROR UNIVERSE AND ITS INHABITANTS.

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Don’t do drugs, unless you’re with me.

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IN OUR INTOXICATED STATE, WE'RE MORE AMUSED THAN INFURIATED WITH YOUR ACTIONS RIGHT NOW.

IF ONLY YOU COULD SEE (OR HEAR) US LAUGH OUR ASS OFF RIGHT NOW.

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All I have to say is this: There are good reasons to become a teetotaller.

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Purchased Star Trek II DC today, mostly for the new transfer without the cold blue tint everywhere. Now I have to figure out how to remove this “FREE MOVIE TICKET FOR STAR TREK BEYOND” offer sticker from the slipcover.

Speaking of which, I can’t find said ticket or instructions on how to obtain it. Anyone know how to get it?

EDIT: used hair dryer to remove sticker. Now I shall not ruin any more slipcovers. Code for ticket on back of sticker itself.

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“First feel fear, then get angry. Then go with your life into the fight.” - Bill Mollison

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Happy Captain Picard Day!

Since 2007, fans have celebrated Captain Picard Day on June 16th of each year.

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suspiciouscoffee said:

Happy Captain Picard Day!

Since 2007, fans have celebrated Captain Picard Day on June 16th of each year.

Then Happy Captain Picard Day to all!

“First feel fear, then get angry. Then go with your life into the fight.” - Bill Mollison

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Just saw the news about Yelchin, how tragic. =(

Actor Anton Yelchin, 27, who played Chekov in recent “Star Trek” movies, was killed in a freak accident early Sunday morning, police told CNN.

Yelchin, who also acted in “Like Crazy” and “Alpha Dog,” died outside his home in Los Angeles, according to law enforcement.

Yelchin stepped out of his car in the driveway of his Studio City home at around 1:10 a.m. PT when the car slid backwards and pinned him against a brick pillar and a security fence, causing trauma that led to his death, said Jennifer Houser with the Los Angeles Police Department.

“The victim was on his way to meet his friends for a rehearsal and when he didn’t show up, his friends went to his house where they found him deceased by his car,” Houser told CNN. “It appears that he momentarily left his car, leaving it in the driveway. He was behind the vehicle when it rolled backward and pinned him to the brick pillar causing the trauma that led to his death.”

Houser says Yelchin’s family was notified by the friends that found him. She did not know whether the car was running when he was found.

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Welp:

Remember how J.J. Abrams said the lawsuit against the ‘Star Trek: Axanar’ fan film had been dropped? Not quite.

If anyone in Hollywood would have the power to beam away a lawsuit involving sci-fi fans, J.J. Abrams, as a key custodian of both the “Star Trek” and “Star Wars” franchises, would be that guy.

At least that’s what you might think.

Late last year, Paramount Pictures and CBS filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the makers of a crowdfunded fan film called “Star Trek: Axanar,” news that hit diehard “Trek” fans like a photon torpedo. At a fan event in May for the upcoming movie “Star Trek Beyond,” Abrams – who directed the 2009 “Star Trek” big-screen reboot and its 2013 sequel and is producing the new Justin Lin-directed film – announced that with both his and Lin’s blessings, the lawsuit would soon be dropped.

“[Lin and I] started talking about it and realized this was not an appropriate way to deal with the fans,” Abrams told the crowd. “The fans should be celebrating this thing. Fans of ‘Star Trek’ are part of this world. So [Lin] went to the studio and pushed them to stop this lawsuit and now, within the next few weeks, it will be announced this is going away, and that fans would be able to continue working on their project.”

Abrams’ surprise announcement was welcome news to the makers of “Axanar.” Yet one month later, the lawsuit shows no signs of going away anytime soon. Last week, lawyers for Paramount and CBS informed a federal judge in California that their legal action was still pending, rejecting the defendants’ claims that the film was protected under fair use. For now, the fate of “Axanar” remains in limbo.

“Nothing has changed,” Robert Meyer Burnett, who is set to direct “Axanar” if it ever goes into production, told The Times last week. “It has been going through the court system exactly the same way it had been before [Abrams] made that announcement…. I think, unfortunately, the outcome ultimately is not going to be favorable to us and certainly not for our fans and our donors.” (A spokesperson for Paramount did not respond to a request for comment.)

Studios have long tolerated, and sometimes even supported, fan-made films as long as they don’t attempt to capitalize financially on copyrighted material. While such fan movies are usually decidedly modest, homemade affairs, the team behind “Axanar” raised more than $1.2 million through a crowdfunding campaign for what they billed as “the first fully professional, independent ‘Star Trek’ film.”

Still, despite those lofty ambitions, Burnett, who was not personally named in the suit, insists that the makers of “Axanar” have never sought to earn any money from the project. Those who donated $25 or more to the crowdfunding campaign were promised a digital download of the film, and all funds received were to go to production costs. “Ultimately, it was a movie that was paid for by donors that would be given away for free on the Internet,” said Burnett, a lifelong “Trek” fan who directed the 1999 film “Free Enterprise” and has written and produced behind-the-scenes extras for home video releases of the series “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and “Star Trek: Enterprise.”

Nor did they see the project competing in any way with a film like “Beyond.” “No matter how good ‘Axanar’ could be, I don’t think anyone would ever mistake it for an officially released ‘Star Trek’ movie that cost $150 million,” Burnett said. “If anything, we were going to make the ‘Sex, Lies, and Videotape’ of fan films, all the while honoring the ‘Star Trek’ franchise. No one is ever going to compete at the level that a Hollywood production can muster, although I’m very flattered to see that they’re threatened by us, because it makes me think we were doing something right.”

The “Axanar” lawsuit has divided the “Star Trek” fan community, with some cheering on what they see as a scrappy David taking on a corporate Goliath and others seeing the project as an overreach that threatens the entire world of fan films.

“Everyone thinks that because of this we might bring the era of fan films down to a crashing end – we’ve nuked fan films forever,” Burnett said. “To me, that’s the worst thing in the world if people think that of us.”

Still, he holds out hope that in the end, the “Axanar” team will be vindicated both in the legal system and in the court of public opinion.

“If they can point to us and say, ‘These guys pursued their dream relentlessly in the face of overwhelming odds and stayed together as friends and colleagues and were able to succeed’ – what is more ‘Star Trek’ than that?”

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