Movie Night: Star Trek 5/8/09

[Amidala Starkiller]

The Hollywood is having an advanced showing of Star Trek on the 7th. Joe and I have tickets for it at 7.

Joe has to close on the 8th so we cannot go on Friday. But if everyone wants to go on Thursday night, go without us on Friday, or wait until Saturday it's cool.

[DarthMaximus]

There's a 7 o'clock advance screening?? That's cool. Misty can probably make that showing. I'll let her know this evening.

[Amidala Starkiller]

Is anyone up for an IMAX showing?

Joe and I will be heading up some time maybe next weekend.

And also I read on the Austin FanForce forum that a Lego store has opened in Plano

[DarthMaximus]

Probably can't do an IMAX showing this weekend, but maybe another weekend would work.

[Amidala Starkiller]

This weekend is out for us too.

Right now we are looking at Friday the 15th for both the IMXA and King Tut.

King Tut will leaving Dallas on the 17th

[Jango-Joe1]

The Star Trek prequel comic...Star Trek Countdown has released all 4 issues and deals mostly with the villain Nero, played by Eric Bana in the new movie.

Here is what has happened in the 4 issue arc that will tie into the new movie...

Set eight years after Star Trek Nemesis, the Romulans have become less xenophobic since the death of Praetor Shinzon, and Spock now acts as official Federation ambassador to the Romulan Senate. Spock warns the Senate and the Romulan praetor that the Hobus star is going to turn into a supernova, and that the Romulans must take the valuable Romulan isotope Decalithium to Vulcan, where it can be processed into an exotic material known as red matter and used to create a black hole that will consume the Hobus star. Though refuted by the still suspicious Senate, Spock is supported by Nero, the President of the Romulan Miners' Guild, who witnessed Hobus consume a planet firsthand. Nero offers to go on a covert mission with Ambassador Spock to bring Decalithium to Vulcan, explaining that though he could be imprisoned if caught by the Romulan authorities, it is better than leaving his wife and unborn son to be killed by a supernova.

Nero's civilian mining starship, the Narada, is attacked by the Remans, but they are rescued when the USS Enterprise-E appears under the command of the android Captain Data who had been resurrected after he had successfully uploaded his own memories and personality into the earlier android B-4. With the Narada's drill damaged, Data allows Nero to take the Decalithium from the Reman ships, which amounts to 78 percent of the amount needed for the red matter weapon. Nero and Spock board the Enterprise while repairs were made. Nero browses the ship's library archives and reads about the exploits of the twenty-third century Starfleet Captain James T. Kirk, with whom Spock had once worked. The Enterprise and Narada arrive at Vulcan, where Data, Spock and Nero greet Jean-Luc Picard, the Federation ambassador to Vulcan.

The Vulcans, displaying cold logical rationalism over compassionate charity, refuse to lend their device to the Romulans, fearing that they will then use it as a so-called "weapon of mass destruction," although Hobus threatens civilizations across the entire galactic quadrant--Romulus is just the first major world in the supernova's path. Nero swears that if Romulus is destroyed, he will hold the Vulcans responsible; he departs on the Narada to aid the Romulan evacuation. Nero arrives at Romulus when Hobus goes nova and destroys the planet.

With the loss of his family and homeworld, Nero is consumed by grief-driven madness. When three Federation hospital ships arrive requesting to transport any survivors, Nero mistakenly assumes that the Federation actually wanted Romulus to be destroyed so that it could claim Romulan territory. Nero agrees to transport survivors but instead beams explosives originally designed to be used for mining operations aboard the Federation vessels and destroys them. He then get receives a distress beacon from the surviving Romulan senators from the Senate's Ruling Council--including the Romulan praetor—and beams them aboard the Narada and kills them for not listening to Spock and staying on the planet to die. Nero takes the praetor's trident – the ancient Debrune Teral'n, a great symbol of Romulan authority – for himself by killing the Senators, and in an act of mourning, he and the crew shave their heads and apply tattoos. It is an ancient Romulan tradition to apply bodypaint when grieving, and the mourning period ends when the temporary designs fade from the skin. In this case, however, the crew's anguish over the death of their world will never end so the rune-like markings are made permanent.

The Narada travels to a secretive Romulan military research base thanks to the Romulan Senate known as the Vault. The base's commanding officer is sympathetic to Nero's desire for revenge and she agrees to provide the maddened miner with the Vault's technological secrets. Unlocking the Vault with the Debrune Teral'n, the now-insane miner decides to avenge the destruction of Romulus by outfitting his starship with stolen Borg technology, transforming his once innocuous mining vessel into a massive Romulan/Borg hybrid gunship. He decides to use the Borg weapons to kill everyone he encounters without discrimination, even innocent civilians, as his act of vengeance for the destruction of Romulus.

With the adaptive Borg technology, the Narada's mining drill is now able to penetrate the core of a planet and destroy it. Nero decides that his ultimate course of action will be one of genocide, destroying all of those planets that stood by and let his world be destroyed--starting with Vulcan.

During its subsequent rampage against the perceived enemies of Romulus, the Narada destroys and assimilates Federation, Klingon and Cardassian starships without discrimination as it moves towards Vulcan, before being attacked by a fleet led by the Klingon General, Worf, who had given up his position in Starfleet to serve in the Klingon Defense Force at the request of Chancellor Martok. Meanwhile, Spock decided to take the Jellyfish, a small, experimental vessel developed by Geordi La Forge that could withstand extreme warp speeds, on a suicide mission to detonate red matter within the Hobus supernova.
In battle with the massive Romulan vessel, General Worf's Klingon fleet was overwhelmed by the Narada, which had the advantage of being able to fire when cloaked--a trick the Romulans had copied from their former Klingon allies. Nero demanded that Worf board his ship to discuss terms of the Klingons' surrender. Worf agreed to go over, to the horror of his executive officer, who shared the basic Klingon belief that warriors always fought to the death. Worf's parting remarks to his fellow Klingon officer indicated that he had no intention of actually surrendering.

As he heads over, Worf and his crew cut through the hull of the Narada to gain entry to the massive starship. He and his men viciously slaughtered most of the Romulans in a merciless bloodbath. Soon only Nero and his right-hand man, Ayel were left alive. Using the Debrune Teral'n, Nero surprises and impales Worf.

Captain Data races to Worf's aid with the Enterprise-E, but arrives too late, only to be met by a graveyard of shattered Klingon starships. Worf is, at this point, revealed to be still clinging to life. Nero offers to hand him over to Data, on the condition that the Enterprise lowers its shields and surrenders. Picard and Data confer that if they lower their shields Nero will attack. The Enterprise lowers its shields and Nero beams Worf over and then starts attacking the Enterprise, which raises its shields and fires back. Spock, in the Jellyfish goes into warp. The Enterprise receives heavy damage to the warp drive, as the Narada goes into warp after Spock.

Spock, meanwhile, reaches the expanding Hobus supernova in the Jellyfish and fires the red matter into its core using a torpedo casing. As he does so, Spock is surprised to see Nero's Narada drop out of warp. As Nero prepared to fatally attack the Vulcan, both were sucked into a temporal rift created when the red matter interacted with the Hobus supernova to produce a black hole, sending both starships back to the middle of the Earth's twenty-third century.

[Jango-Joe1]

I also picked up the 4 Star Trek glasses Burger King is giving away. I'm suprised they are glass.

[DarthMaximus]

They're glass?? Wow, never thought I'd see any like that again.

[ObiWanFTW]

real glass? wow amazing that they would spend that much since evreyone is so tight with the economy as it is right now.

[Jango-Joe1]

I got our tickets for the 1:30pm showing at the Cinemark IMAX in Dallas for Saturday.

[ObiWanFTW]

have any of you seen star trek yet? I heard it was good but good by today's standards is just average.

[Amidala Starkiller]

We've seen it twice and the movie is great.

[ObiWanFTW]

I wish I could go to the IMAX showing with you but I have to be at a birthday cookout