Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Star Trek: The Onion review
As a lifelong -- well, since I was seven -- fan of Star Trek, this offends me. But that does not make it any less funny.
Trekkies Bash New Star Trek Film As 'Fun, Watchable'
4 Comments:
By 
Christopher Chambers, at
Tue May 05, 07:45:00 PM:
I guess the 23rd Century is uber post racial, for casting Zoe Saldana as young Uhura is well...I can thing of 5 black actresses who could have nailed this a little better. Zoe looks and sounds like a Valley Girl w/a deep tan is this incarnation of Nichelle Nichols. In her shopping mall cadence she pronounces the name with little feeling or pride. The name, per the late and harsh Gene Rodenberry, is derived from the word "uhuru," meaning freedom.
Uhura isn't supposed to speak like Lil Kim, or Solange Knowles (utterly over exposed Beyonce's little sister). Someone closer to Nichelle's bearing would have been MUCH better: Kerry Washington, for example. Even Gabby Union. Joy Bryant. Carmen Ejogo. Rosario Dawson. Kimberly Elise. Sanaa Lathan and Thandie newton are in their late 30s now but could pull off a Star Fleet cadet who's barely 20. All well trained, attentive to craft. Zoe's no slouch. I just would have cast someone else.
On another note, when will we see "more" of Jolene Blaylock (T'pol) from Star trek: Enterprise?
By 
, at
Tue May 05, 08:04:00 PM:
Chambers you forgot Nona Gaye, daughter of Marvin Gaye, who was in several big flicks like the last Matrix films, Crash etc., TV and a very good dramatic actress. I'm shocked!
By , at
Wed May 06, 09:36:00 AM:
From Link:
Star Trek and Obama -- it's all connected. I wrote what follows back in June, after I did my own internet digging ... after figuring out that Obama had been a target of Prosecutor Fitzgerald's Rezko investigation ... a story no major media organization would cover.
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I used to think Obama was just passive aggressive conniving. Now I know he's a devious scumbag. He shouldn't get elected ... he's dangerous. The following is revealing about Obama's character and Axelrod's methods.
There was an open fight for the Illinois Senate seat in 2004 because the incumbent Republican had dropped out. An unknown guy named Barack Obama got the Democratic nomination after the Chicago Tribune published ugly details about the leading Democrat's divorce. David Axelrod -- Obama's campaign manager then and now -- had been the head political reporter for the Tribune.
Obama's Republican opponent was Jack Ryan, a golden boy who had left Goldman Sachs to teach in the inner city. His ex-wife was Jeri Ryan -- the hot chick on Star Trek with the big knockers who played ex-Borg Seven of Nine. She was Miss Illinois and a National Merit Scholar -- quite a package. The couple had grown apart and divorced years before -- it didn't help that she was strapping the producer of Star Trek. They were both from Illinois, but the divorce was in Hollywood.
Axelrod stirred up the Jeri Ryan divorce story with Chicago reporters. You can see the angle for the reporters -- putting pictures of Jeri on the front page sells papers. Her pictures even made the front page of the New York Post, all the way from fly-over Illinois. Axelrod got the Tribune to send a reporter to Hollywood to unseal the child custody proceedings ... and a friendly Democratic judge accommodated them, over the objections of both Jack and Jeri.
In their 1999 custody battle, Jeri had claimed that Jack took her to sex clubs so he could show her off and pressed her to have sex with him in front of these strangers. She said this in response to her admitting affairs, including with her Star Trek producer.
Jeri Ryan made the following statement at the time:
"We maintain a good relationship and I consider Jack a friend. In response to the rumors that have been circulating, there was never any physical abuse in our marriage--either to myself or to our son--nor, to my knowledge, was he ever unfaithful to me. Jack is a good man, a loving father, and he shares a strong bond with our son. I wish him all the best, both in his life and career. I have no doubt that he will make an excellent senator."
The month before, Obama had said "This is going to be a contest of ideas."
As it came out: "On April 2, 2004, Barack Obama changed his position about the Ryans' soon-to-be-released divorce records, and called on Democrats to not inject them into the campaign. The Ryan campaign characterized Obama's shift as hypocritical, because Obama's backers had been emailing reports about the divorce records prior to Judge Schnider's decision."
Ryan dropped out ... he was vulnerable because he had developed a squeaky clean image ... which didn't fit with claims that he had asked his wife to perform fellatio on him in front of strangers ... and Obama got to run against a last-minute lame Republican replacement. The rest is history.
After Ryan dropped out, Obama said: "What happened to him over the last three days was unfortunate," Obama said. "It's not something I certainly would wish on anybody. And having said that, from this point forward, I think we will be continuing to talk about the issues."
So much for a new kind of politics.
By John, at
Wed May 06, 02:45:00 PM:
