beam me up, well not me, a copy of the movie star trek

how wicked cool is this? just because someone is in space shouldn't preclude them from seeing star trek, right?

and here's a question for you. what tv show inspired what person to become an astronaut? hmmmmm

space...............the final frontier..............

Real Live Astronauts are Watching ‘Star Trek’ in Outer Space - Right Now
By Rebecca Cathcart
Right about now in outer space, three men are crouched in a node of the International Space Station, watching J.J. Abrams’ reboot of “Star Trek” on a laptop. They chose the node, said NASA spokeswoman Nicole Cloutier, because it was “dark and quiet” and would be “a good spot” for three “Star Trek” fans to hunker down for the ultimate viewing experience.

“They just ended their crew day,” said Ms. Cloutier, “so they’re watching it now, or just finishing it up. They can go all day without seeing each other, so this is a good chance to get together.”

Michael Barratt, the American astronaut, requested the film before boarding a space-bound shuttle in March, said Ms. Cloutier. He told NASA officials that he was a lifelong admirer of the TV series and did not want to miss this latest big-screen installment while off-planet. It was beamed up to them - really - after being reformatted by NASA technicians in a five-hour procedure Thursday night and beamed up Friday morning.
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michael r. barratt

pretty cool fun fact about star trek

Why The Beastie Boys Made A Star Trek Cameo

By Meredith Woerner

this is great!

Trekkies Bash New Star Trek Film As 'Fun, Watchable'

new warp 11 album coming out

so to tie in with me seeing the new star trek movie, here's the vid from warp 11

i just saw star trek

it's EVERYTHING it's supposed to be. it far outshines any and everything i've seen so far. of course i realize the special effects had a LOT to do with everything and with each passing year they just get better and better. i'm not one to go to the mega-cinema-one-too-effing-many, BUT i decided to go to the 1:10 pm showing. i get out of work early on friday, so i figured what the hell. i knew it wouldn't be crowded and it wasn't. only about 10 or 12 of us. i sat in the back row with my medium lemonade and twizlers. the ticket and beverage and candy came to $12.00. i don't know how much the movie was on it's own.

i also am generally NOT a fan of the mega-block buster movie. i'm more a snob leaning toward the foreign or indie. well of course star trek is always going to be an exception. please don't get me started, because i could and would go on and on and on. i didn't want to go because i knew i'd cry. and yes, i did cry. but i didn't care. the movie had everything. romance (light), humor, villans, heroes, elders, warp speed, transporters, phasers, the enterprise (the FIRST one), humans, aliens. it kept me wrapped up from absolute beginning to absolute end. wait a minute. i take that back. the movie was missing ONE thing. the voice of the computer; majel of course i believed them all. the characters were fairly well rounded and developed. make no mistake. this is a kirk and spock movie. the others were just the icing. even so, they were main parts of the story and you DID see how their (older) characters developed from the young 'uns. i had to wait soooooooooooo long to see scotty but it was damn worth it. yeah, when there was that shot of the crew on the bridge, i welled up AGAIN. i can't and won't tell you about the plot except to say a couple of things. those rogue romulans are mean muthas AND IF THERE IS ONLY ONE THING YOU LEARN in this life or the next one.............. NEVER and i mean NEVER MESS WITH JAMES TIBERIUS KIRK, SPOCK, SULU, CHEKOV, UHURA, BONES AND SCOTTY. just effing DON'T. star trek official site star trek imdb

since i am both a star trek fan (and NOT embarrassed)

and a proponent of peace, i read this with glee!

Aboard the Imperial Star Ship Ameriprise

by William Astore and Tom Engelhardt

TomDispatch

Okay, the new Star Trek film – you know, the prequel with space sex – is premiering in Australia. Go figure. All I know is I'm not beaming there. On the other hand, I've already been in close communication with a Trekkie pal, and she and I have chosen our night here in New York. May 14th. See you then. (I'll be the one wearing the TomDispatch hat.)

In the meantime, retired Lieutenant Colonel William Astore, TomDispatch regular and another Trek fan – okay, it's not exactly War and Peace, but give us a break – was thinking recently about the strange history of Star Trek, the show that took John F. Kennedy's "new frontier" deep into TV space, even as Lyndon Johnson's U.S. was moving ever deeper into its disastrous war in Vietnam. Now here we are again, a new Star Trek forty-three years later, and this time, two "counterinsurgency" wars already growing desperately old, and one, in Afghanistan, heating up to a boil. If only we could stick to the movies. But since we can't, pop that bowl of popcorn, butter and salt it well, and let Astore take you through some wormhole into alternate American universes on that spaceship we're all riding, the USS Ameriprise. Tom

Aboard the Imperial Star Ship Ameriprise

Heading for the Final Frontier
By William Astore

I grew up in the 1970s on reruns of the original Star Trek with Captain James Tiberius Kirk at the helm, backed by that ever logical Vulcan, Mr. Spock, Dr. "Bones" McCoy, and the rest of the intrepid, space-faring crew of the USS Enterprise. During the tumultuous 1960s, that sci-fi series – before being canceled – had pointed to a more promising future in which humanity would be united. Star Trek, after all, offered a vision of a post-racial society in which blacks and Asian-Americans would serve alongside whites as equals, and a post-nationalistic society in which Russian-accented Ensign Chekov could loyally follow a WASPy captain from Iowa...................

Majel Barrett-Roddenberry

go where no one has gone before majel. many series, many computers, ONE VOICE


The best of Majel Barrett-Roddenberry: video roundup
by Adam McDowell

Following Majel Barrett-Roddenberry's passage to the final frontier Thursday, our prime directive is to recognize that she didn't just appear in every Star Trek series at one time or another, she served as a sort of Queen Mum of the franchise. Herewith, a roundup of four of the best Majel moments, as available on YouTube, demonstrating how she earned the title "the first lady of Star Trek."

4. As the prim-yet-snappy voice of the computer

For almost 20 years, Barrett-Roddenberry served as the voice of the computer on various Starfleet vessels, from Jean-Luc Picard's Enterprise to Kathryn Janeway's Voyager, and back a couple centuries to Jonathan Archer's original Enterprise. Hers was the original automated voice of officialdom, at its most obnoxious when at its most polite. Skip ahead to about 1:30 in the video below for best results.