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Tag: Star Trek

  • The All-Important Soundtrack

    An excellent soundtrack will work so well that you aren’t aware of how it’s manipulating you.  Oh, you’ll hear it and perhaps enjoy it, but you aren’t truly cognizant of how essential it is to the experience until you see raw footage and realize most of the emotional thrust of a moment was the music. …

  • But what happens when you watch Next Generation in this house?

    I should think this might prove a little problematic.

  • Podcast 11: Iron Man 3 and Star Trek Into Darkness

    Erik Burnham and I finally get to review two summer hits, Iron Man 3 and Star Trek 2, er, Into Darkness.  Includes my discovery of the key difference of J.J. Abrams’ version of Star Trek, and our proposal of how Wil Wheaton can save Star Trek.  We also talk about MCBA FallCon, which we will…

  • Shatner continues the ear punching

    William Shatner, now 97 years old, continues his fight with the gorn. At least he’s recreating a fight where he had his shirt on!

  • Podcast 7: Our 2009 Christmas Gifts (Lost Podcast #1)

    In January 2010, Erik Burnham and I recorded a fun discussion of what we had gotten for Christmas.  And then, for reasons technical and personal, editing took forever and then they fell by the wayside…but were not forgotten!  Just in time for Valentine’s Day 2013… it’s “What did you get for Christmas 2009?”  This is…

  • “New” Star Trek series blasts off in September

    IDW is going to head up the continuing adventures of the “alternate universe” crew of the Enterprise, spinning off from the 2009 movie. The best part is that they will be filling in the gaps left unexplored by future movies as they retell some of the classic Star Trek stories in a more modern fashion,…

  • Hate Star Trek: TNG? Only for the holodecks.

    If there’s anything truly, fundamentally wrong with Star Trek: The Next Generation, it’s the holodecks. The rest I can stomach. Holodecks were a terrible idea.  They eliminated the need for shore leave on a real planet, where a cabin fever-ish crew can get off the ship and provide the plot with whatever they encounter on…

  • Plinkett Reviews Sith – coming soon!

    I’m psyched! Are you psyched? I didn’t realize he’d done a Star Trek ’09 review. Here it is. Language warning, of course. http://www.redlettermedia.com/star_trek_09.html

  • Podcast 4: Chatting about Movies and Star Trek

    This started out as a test of my new equipment to see if the sound quality improved (it did). Unfortunately, you should not get two guys with extensive video store clerking experience chatting about random movies. We talked for about 50 minutes! We learn that Erik pronounces “bio-pic” without the hyphen. I tend to be…

  • RedLetterMedia’s ST: Nemesis review (hilarious!)

    I know I didn’t like Star Trek: Nemesis, but this really helps bring to light that I only thought of half the reasons it sucked.