Welcome Guest [Log In] [Register]
Welcome to Exterminatus Now. We hope you enjoy your visit.


You're currently viewing our forum as a guest. This means you are limited to certain areas of the board and there are some features you can't use. If you join our community, you'll be able to access member-only sections, and use many member-only features such as customizing your profile, sending personal messages, and voting in polls. Registration is simple, fast, and completely free.


Join our community!


If you're already a member please log in to your account to access all of our features:

Username:   Password:
Add Reply
Star Trek Movie Thread.
Topic Started: Apr 8 2009, 05:19 PM (1,119 Views)
Jeffk38uk
Member Avatar
Everything's great at your Junes.
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
Sabre_Justice,May 13 2009
03:08 AM
I'm interested in STO, if only because I may be able to cruise around the galaxy in a blue spaceship with flames. As a Klingon, hopefully.

Mind you, it's being developed by Cryptic, and currently led by Jack 'Reichsman' Emmert. That guy's a little notorious around the CoH parts.

Is that good or bad? Cause I thought Cryptic was a good developer given they did COH.

But yeh, the ship customisation would be varied in parts, though not something wildly weird, like taking a miranda class starship and configuring it to look like a double decker bus. lol
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Twib
Member Avatar
I want to be the keeper of the Reaper
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
don't mind the anti Jack Bias,

He was responsible for makeing CoH exist and possible. and responsible for some of thee most hated balanceing done to the game (many of wich needed but you know how things go).

but he lacked the gift of PR... He often made it sound like the changes were simply because he said so. without giving complete rationale.

That and he has a tendency to not come through on his promises but hey Peter Moneleux gets by with that all the time
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Sabre_Justice
Member Avatar
Ask me about very angry cats
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
Jack did take the flak for a lot of nerfs that had to be done, but he also gained a bit of a reputation as wanting things his way and not particularly caring what the players thought.

Since he left, a lot of the things that players have been wanting for years- weapon customisation, a flashback system, a mission designer, and now hero/villain side switching- have been coming to fruition. In the meantime, Champions is looking like it's trying to do everything that they tried in City of Heroes but didn't work well in practice- free-form character creation for one. I doubt it's going to be real competition.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Twinbladez
Member Avatar
Freedom fighter
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
That is of course assuming they wouldn't have happened had they continued working on CoH. Then again the game has been around long enough for the idea to be perfected, so the current gang only have to sharpen the Blade so to speak

Edit: This has nothing to do with him proudly displaying my Super Teams Gear
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Pixellated
Member Avatar
Being responsible
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
Woke up Saturday at 4am for £1, 5:20am coach into Leeds, got to Leeds at around 7am. Wandered across the Wharf to Armouries Square, while re-realising that it's the best city I've ever been to. Royal Armouries (best UK museum by far) wasn't open 'til 10am, so I had two coffees, and bought a couple of litres of Blast (my coach back was at 8am Sunday, I intended to stay up all night).

Got into Armouries, wandered round, sorely regretted not taking my camera. Held, loaded and primed an AK-47 after a talk, fascinating stuff. Wandered round a bit more. Left Armouries, visited Leeds Art Gallery, Library and then went to Leeds City Museum. Booked my tickets to see Star Trek at 23:55, as a way of keeping busy, awake and entertained at night.

Now it was about 3pm, and I'd run out of things to actually do. Only form of entertainment for the next TWENTY MIND-CRUSHING HOURS was a copy of Halo: Contact Harvest, and my blank notepad and pens. Read 2/3 of the novel, wrote some random fiction, got into an argument with a drunk guy who was complaining that the toilets were closed.

Went into cinema complex at 23:20, had bag confiscated & searched due to terrorism fears, managed to keep food and drink out. Let it be noted that at this point, all I'd eaten & drank all day was coffee, energy drinks and water, with some sandwiches and biscuits. Diet wasn't good, but necessary to stay awake. Next half-hour was pure boredom. Entered cinema screen at 23:45, Dirty Dancing soundtrack was on. Getting nauseous from poor diet.

Watched Star Trek: excellent film, but a mixture of the flashing lights, bassy sound of the cinema and my current nauseous state made me leave twice to make my stomach less empty than it currently was. Sat in discomfort for the entire showing, but 'least I wasn't bored.

Left complex at 2:30am, made way through various crowds of drunk students to a 24/7 McDonalds to stay safe until the bus station was open at 5am. Finished novel at McDonalds, ate nothing, drank nothing, felt nauseous. Evacuated stomach again twice. Pulse rate at a constant 120 for three hours, nothing I did could alter it.

Made my way to the bus station quickly when it was light & streets were empty at 5:30am. Sat in boredom until bus arrived at 8am, fighting to stay awake. MP3 player no help at this, did Sudoku instead. Too hard on 27 hours awake, but passed time. Got onto coach at 8am, had to stay awake as not to miss Nottingham and effectively waste the 20 hours I'd endured back at Leeds for nothing. Set three alarms (phone, watch, secondary watch) to ensure I wouldn't miss it. Didn't need them.

Got off bus at 10am, staggered back to flat, whumped into bed at 10:30am. Slept until about 3 hours prior to this post. Still nauseous, hungry. Never again. If I want a day-trip, I pay the extra tenner to leave at a reasonable time in the evening, rather than £1 each way and suffer what could well be considered physical self-abuse.

So, yeah. Star Trek was the best part of my day besides the Royal Armouries and the short walk in empty Leeds at the start of the day. Cracking city, cracking film. Cracking headache still.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Jeffk38uk
Member Avatar
Everything's great at your Junes.
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
Better than what my friends told me, he slept through the film, and he snores....loudly. He did the same during Fast and Furious and I had to kept nudging. I didnt go with them to watch ST this time, but it seems he snored even louder that other viewers kept bugging him to shut up.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Kaempfer
Member Avatar
Boop beep boop
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
Saw it on Friday and enjoyed every minute of it. I wasn't sure about Simon Pegg and Anton Yelchin before I saw it as they didn't really look like Scotty and Chekov to me, but they turned out to be quite entertaining to watch. The only character I didn't care for was Sulu. He just didn't seem very Sulu-ish (if that makes any sense) almost like a different character. The actor looked enough like Takei, but the characterization just seemed off to me.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Pixellated
Member Avatar
Being responsible
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
Favourite part was probably (hilite) the first drill sequence. You know the crazy, unintroduced character in red is going to bite it when he doesn't deploy his 'chute until 1000m, and "What kind of combat are you trained in?" "Fencing".

Yes.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Ed Sigma
Member Avatar
Science is your friend!
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
Pixellated,May 17 2009
09:06 PM
Favourite part was probably (hilite) the first drill sequence. You know the crazy, unintroduced character in red is going to bite it when he doesn't deploy his 'chute until 1000m

Ah, the old Trek tradition of the red shirt death! Come to think of it, overall the movie kept to all the classic Trek cliches pretty well, it pretty much ticked all the boxes including Kirk making it with a weird alien babe... who then dies horribly not long afterwards.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Jeffk38uk
Member Avatar
Everything's great at your Junes.
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
I don't think it was really shown that the orion babe ever died....although she was on the other ships in the taksforce....that was then destroyed by the Narada....


...yeh she's dead.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Pixellated
Member Avatar
Being responsible
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
Now I feel a right tit for finding that I could've gone back at 7pm for £6. Sigh.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Quillian
Writer
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
Well, I just saw it earlier with my friend...

...and I was COMPLETELY BLOWN AWAY. :blink:

I mean, goddamn, I'm not even a fan of Star Trek in general, and I thought it was spectacular. :D

I also see how they really reinvented the wheel in this series, and really made some new and different changes. Was also as bold as hell in some places (such as a certain planet and most of its population going the way of Alderaan, if you get my meaning).

If they come out with a new series or whatever based on this particular movie, I think I'd gladly follow it.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Pixellated
Member Avatar
Being responsible
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
To be honest, I can't say the overall character plot was at all original.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
el-b
Member Avatar
under your bed
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
i hated leeds personally when i went there for a week. sure, it had a massive rocker population but its like, 90 percent near vertical slopes outside the city centre where i was staying lol. seriously it was like, 4x4 territory.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
HAL OVER 9000!!!
Member Avatar
The Cardinal of Win.
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
Pixellated,May 17 2009
05:06 PM

Posted Image
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Razzie
Sad, Sad Bastard
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
Scary Takei is FUCKING SCARY! :o *will have nightmares from now on*


At least I managed to enjoy the film. Scotty was hawtsome!
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Quillian
Writer
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
Not sure if this is enough "new info" to justify bringing back this thread, but I thought I'd share this... The Captain's Ball
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Jeffk38uk
Member Avatar
Everything's great at your Junes.
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
Quillian,Jun 15 2009
01:21 PM
Not sure if this is enough "new info" to justify bringing back this thread, but I thought I'd share this... The Captain's Ball

Sorry, have to correct you there. The Prime universe has not been erased. Tha'ts a misconception. The new film is an alternate universe branch from the prime series.

It's been stated numerous times from the director, writers, and in part, Paramount.

http://trekmovie.com/2009/06/14/time/

ST Online made a simple timeline to show. As for the Mirror Universe. Just imagine another long line running parallel to Prime.

Posted Image
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Quillian
Writer
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
Jeff,

Don't worry, I knew THAT. I was just linking to the latest Trek-related LilFormers comic.

I still wonder if they'll ever revisit the original timeline at ALL. Maybe one last glimpse before leaving it behind for good...

-Quillian
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Jeffk38uk
Member Avatar
Everything's great at your Junes.
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
Quillian,Jun 15 2009
07:17 PM
Jeff,

Don't worry, I knew THAT. I was just linking to the latest Trek-related LilFormers comic.

I still wonder if they'll ever revisit the original timeline at ALL. Maybe one last glimpse before leaving it behind for good...

-Quillian

Certainly wouldnt mind a Star Trek Enterprise: The Romulan Wars miniseries.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
el-b
Member Avatar
under your bed
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
'As for the Mirror Universe. Just imagine another long line running parallel to Prime.'

with more goatee beard.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Sabre_Justice
Member Avatar
Ask me about very angry cats
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
Quillian,Jun 15 2009
07:17 PM
Jeff,

Don't worry, I knew THAT. I was just linking to the latest Trek-related LilFormers comic.

I still wonder if they'll ever revisit the original timeline at ALL. Maybe one last glimpse before leaving it behind for good...

-Quillian

If Cryptic keeps STO updated with the same regularity as City of Heroes, then we'll keep seeing the plot being steadily moved forward, don't worry.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
ZetaBoards - Free Forum Hosting
Free Forums. Reliable service with over 8 years of experience.
Learn More · Register for Free
« Previous Topic · Audio/Visual Briefing · Next Topic »
Add Reply