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Star Trek: The Metrosexual Generation

Posted by Dirty Harry on Sunday, August 10th, 2008

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32 Responses to “Star Trek: The Metrosexual Generation”

1. PerfectTommyon 10 Aug 2008 at 4:07 pm 1

   Siomon Pegg is the only one that seems at all tolerable. And wasn’t Bones always a senior citizen?

2. Katoon 10 Aug 2008 at 4:23 pm 2

   Except for Simon Pegg, looks like an Abercrombie & Fitch ad.

3. spiffon 10 Aug 2008 at 4:33 pm 3

   Karl Urban played Eomer in LOTR trilogy…after that, I don’t seem him as a metrosexual. But a beard definitely makes him look tougher.

4. HeartbreakRidgeon 10 Aug 2008 at 4:51 pm 4

   Show me film and I’ll make a judgment, I’m not going to slam or praise them on a freaking poster!

5. Sharon Fergusonon 10 Aug 2008 at 4:55 pm 5

   No DeForest Kelley was a bit older than the rest of the cast but he was by no means elderly when he was in the Original Series.

   Will be interesting to see how Urban plays my favorite Southern Doctor…

6. Katoon 10 Aug 2008 at 5:03 pm 6

   Heartbreak, we’re critiquing the poster, not the movie. Sheesh.

   I got another one: Looks like the album cover for a boy band’s comeback CD.

7. Carolynon 10 Aug 2008 at 5:11 pm 7

   What dewy-eyed little dears. Oh, my. Don’t even have to put your phasers on ’stun’ - just looking at them will bore you to death.

8. amzarakon 10 Aug 2008 at 5:11 pm 8

   Kato,

   “Looks like the album cover for a boy band’s comeback CD.”

   LOL! I was thinking the same thing.

   I have a bad feeling about this one.

9. steevyon 10 Aug 2008 at 5:14 pm 9

   What do you expect them to look like?They come from that socialist paradise,the United Federation of Planets.

10. Templaron 10 Aug 2008 at 5:24 pm 10

    Siomon Pegg is the only one that seems at all tolerable.

    Until you realize that they passed up Paul McGillion in favour of him…

11. Megon 10 Aug 2008 at 5:36 pm 11

    Yeah, that doesn’t make any sense, but Pegg might be a draw for some people who otherwise might not care about Star Trek.

12. Stephanieon 10 Aug 2008 at 5:40 pm 12

    A boy band. I just want to know where the hell Kirck and Spock are?

13. maatkareon 10 Aug 2008 at 5:48 pm 13

    Fascinating.

14. Templaron 10 Aug 2008 at 5:51 pm 14

    I just want to know where the hell Kirck and Spock are?

    Don’t ask. That question has inspired far too many fan-fiction writers…

    *shudders*

15. HeartbreakRidgeon 10 Aug 2008 at 6:02 pm 15

    Maybe I should rephrase and say that I don’t care one way or the other about the poster. Better? Sheesh.

16. GMKon 10 Aug 2008 at 6:47 pm 16

    >Don’t ask. That question has inspired far too many fan-fiction writers…

    Oh, far worse than that my friend.

    http://wired.st-and.ac.uk/~chris/humour/sound/lovetrek.wav

17. Tommy Von 10 Aug 2008 at 7:25 pm 17

    I don’t care one way or the other about the poster either.

    But I do care whether or not you know if I care or not about this poster enough to actually post how I don’t care.

18. Steve M.on 10 Aug 2008 at 7:39 pm 18

    A boy band, you say?

    http://nonagon.homestead.com/files/st09postcho1.jpg

19. Kiton 10 Aug 2008 at 8:10 pm 19

    I agree that 3 of them look like members of a boy band. Pegg, however, might be good. He played a macho role (though a somewhat comically overplayed one) in HOT FUZZ (Which I enjoyed).

20. hailstateon 10 Aug 2008 at 8:13 pm 20

    Karl Urban was a good baddie in the second Bourne movie.

21. hailstateon 10 Aug 2008 at 8:15 pm 21

    John Cho seems like a weak link in this chain.

22. bvorkaon 10 Aug 2008 at 8:25 pm 22

    I think Pegg and Urban are close to inspired casting. This is especially so when compared to the rest of the cast. Winona Ryder as Spock’s mom, for crying out loud. (gag)

    Not that I have any hopes for the film given who is producing it. Feh.

23. Kiton 10 Aug 2008 at 8:29 pm 23

    bvorka,

    Hey! I like Winona Ryder (her personal life notwithstanding).

    Urban might be good.

24. NeoConJedion 10 Aug 2008 at 9:10 pm 24

    I just saw the rest of the posters on IMDB. They’re okay, I guess.

    And Templar’s right … Paul McGillion would’ve been awesome as Scotty.

    Karl Urban is great — I’m excited about seeing this.

25. John Drakeon 10 Aug 2008 at 10:59 pm 25

    This film is going to suck some serious a$$.

    RIP Star Trek.

26. USS Benon 11 Aug 2008 at 1:45 am 26

    Uniforms designed by Gucci and Calvin Klein.

27. wfon 11 Aug 2008 at 5:34 am 27

    I´m not too optimistic, but it´s really too early to tell. Remember, some people thought Daniel Craig was too wimpy to play Bond based on a couple of pictures and quotes…

28. Sheldon Gilmanon 11 Aug 2008 at 6:52 am 28

    Geez…all this energy wasted on metrosexuals–and what are they anyway? and who could possibly care? Ads in beauty parlor magazines have looked like this forever—boys will be boys and pretty boys will be pretty boys…

29. nightflyon 11 Aug 2008 at 11:47 am 29

    The shot of Yelchin looks like a recycled poster of early Dr. Bashir. (Alexander Siddig was good in that role, but hmmm….)

    Isn’t Zachary Quinto doing Spock in this thing?

30. John MCLainon 11 Aug 2008 at 1:04 pm 30

    Whats next? A Kirk that wants to get in touch with his feminine side?

31. Thom Bon 11 Aug 2008 at 5:42 pm 31

    This poster may be firt only for a tin-plated dictator’s garbage scow, but judge the film when the real Coming Attractions arrive. The clips with acting as opposed to the teaser will be the clincher. Yes the revisioning is unfortunate but mismanagement made it inevitable. McCoy’s age and Shatner’s replacing can provide vital insights.
    McCoy being older than the bridge officers was originally due to DeForest Kelly being older, but it came to have plotting. DC Fontana developed ideas that “Bones” was originally “just a country doctor” but became disillusioned with civilian life for personal reasons. He then goes through an Officer Candidate School to join Starfleet. That is why Kirk in one episode tells McCoy “You took an oath long before you joined this ship,” and in “Friday’s Child” McCoy goes over one previous assignment. Leonard McCoy though having an amorous side, wears a wedding bann all-through that Original Series. According to the script for “Joanna,” McCoy meets up with an eponynomous, out-of-control daughter. (What was a poignant episode became the horrible “Way to Eden” complete with “space-hippies” as the villains.) But originally think Ronald Reagan and Patti Davis. Remember just as much as Kirk was JFK, eager to lead, McCoy was cynical and emotive. The family was breakdown was presient by Roddenberry. He was personally a flawed man, but he was a card carrying member of the Old Left; though later in life he started to hold water for some New Left ideas. (He had lost direct control of the franchise by then.) Trek had many Liberal ideas but was strong against the Soviets as far as the Cold War went on (think of “A Private War” wherein it turns out the Klingons are directly backing natives just as the US always thought the Soviets were acting in Viet Nam) at the time. But as for the reimaging, this seems to have changed chronology with regards to Starfleet Academy…

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