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yes I watched Star Trek again

Since the criteria for being a cast member is still that you're capable of sexually arousing both genders, I'd say it's gonna go the way of action flick with a sci-fi twist.
 
The only thing I objected I hated about the movies was the cliched Hollywood fight scenes that went on too long and no one got any bones broken, concussions, or internal injuries from the pummeling, being tossed or plunging over walkways. I don't find them exciting, I find them too long and unbelieveable.
 
Well, Sherlock is some fairly high-brow stuff. It needs plenty of foot-in-the-balls action to balance it out for the mob.
 
The Die Hard franchise would fill the bill: mystery murder, mayhem, scavenger hunt, spectacular exploding car/truck/airplane chases, hide and seek, endless fight sequences in which Bruce Willis is never sent to the hospital. Have to admit, that's my favorite genre: the indestructible and tenacious hero who is clever, resourceful and knows how to blow things up.
 
So, basically every action hero movie in the late 80's and early 90's with the addition of The Expendables 1 & 2, and everything Jason Statham?
 
Pretty much, except I never watched The Expendables. Somehow, it was less believable watching grandfather heros save the day without going to the hospital.
 
They bring along a few of the kids for the ride. If you like the 90's-era action hero movies, you'd like the Expendables. It's basically an attempt to revive and/or relive the genre.
 
Conchaga said:
Mysticism in trek is a hard subject to deal with. On one hand you have Picard's rant in "Who Watches the Watchers?" against masquerading as a god. On the other hand, you have Sisko actually being and acting like a demigod. It's true that Trek has always been pro-scientific method, but it has always allowed for spirituality and mysticism, too.
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DS9 handled relligion and mysticism very well, as fantasy devices and as social/political issues. Not to mention as damn good storytelling.

Then, John Logan & Stuart Baird gave us this:

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FAIL! lol
 
Ugh... did you HAVE to remind us about that?

Her empathic abilities, enabling her to read the emotional state of people on cloaked vessels hundreds of miles away ALWAYS bothers me.

Truth be told, she's actually really sensitive about the fact that everyone blames her character for crashing the D.
 
Of all the delvings into mysticism it was what they did with the Vulcans in the II-IV arc that I liked the most. It was as though they'd become so intelligent and so in tune with the universe that they'd learnt to use their minds to change it. Bring people back from the dead, swap consciousnesses, and probably many things we didn't even get a hint at. And all without technology.

But this space Buddhism transcendentalism ("he did too much LDS in the '60s") type thing is a bit different from "Ah shit, how do we get Kirk, Scotty and Leonard Nimoy in the same place on some planet even though they don't know eachother exist? Fuckit, we'll just call it 'destiny'").
 
JJ Abrams is a full paid up member of the Illuminati. Those lens flares contain secret messages that make you BUY THINGS YOU DON'T NEED.
 
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