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11 May 2009

Crucial question about the new Star Trek movie
Does the new Spock raise one eyebrow, or not?

post by: serena at: 10:26 | 15 comments

Yes, Spock does do the 'one eyebrow raise'.

- first productive event of the day, that is. Oh yeah, bring the rest on Monday. Production! Production!

posted by buzzman 11 May | 10:41

He also straightens his jacket, a la Picard.

Just saw the movie yesterday with mom. Great stuff.

posted by Melismata 11 May | 10:44

I want to see it again and just concentrate on the little references like those. I'm not a Lost or Alias fan but I understand that there are geeky references to those too.

posted by octothorpe 11 May | 11:12

Here's a little reference AND SPOILER:

Scotty mentions performing a transformer experiment on Admiral Archer's beagle. I'm afraid this means that Enterprise "really" "happened".

posted by WolfDaddy 11 May | 11:43

But that beagle would've had to have been ANCIENT to have been the same one?
I can't believe I watched that piece of crap out of desperation. I can't remember a single episode or even a decent scene. What a waste.

posted by typewriter 11 May | 11:46

I was going to make a joke about Quinto not being able to do the one-eyebrow-raise so they had to do it with CGI. Then I came across this:

Zachary Quinto's fingers glued together for Spock's salute in Star Trek

posted by Joe Beese 11 May | 11:53

I wonder if that vulcan salute is something that has to be learned as a kid - I remember struggling with it after I saw the Wrath of Kahn for the first time, but 15+ years later I can do it very easily.

posted by muddgirl 11 May | 11:59

I can't believe I watched that piece of crap out of desperation. I can't remember a single episode or even a decent scene. What a waste.> I actually enjoyed the third season of Enterprise, where the entire season was devoted to an over-arching plot: one lonely Federation craft in unknown space trying desperately to find out why a multi-species alliance is trying to destroy the earth.

And then they blew it so incredibly badly by introducing space Nazis. SPACE NAZIS!!!! There's a year's worth of my life I'll never get back.

posted by WolfDaddy 11 May | 12:04

Could someone provide explanations for the Lost/Alias references, for those of us who have not seen those shows?

posted by Melismata 11 May | 12:42

I really want to go see it again while it's still playing in theatres. The mister wants to see X-men. Decisions... decisions...

I can do the Vulcan greeting without a problem with my left hand. My pinky and ring fingers want to bend forward on my right hand.

Never watched Alias and quit Lost about mid way in the second season. I'll have to see if I can pick up on those easter eggs during my next viewing.

posted by deborah 11 May | 12:56

It's genetic, whether you can do the vulcan thing or not. I can. . my daughter can. . but my wife can't.

Last time I checked, though, my hemoglobin was iron-based, like everyone else's and not copper based.

OK I'm out as a nerd now.

posted by danf 11 May | 13:00

DOUBLE HAND VULCAN SALUTE MOTHERFUCKERS!

\V/ \V/

posted by The Whelk 11 May | 13:02

Just checked - I can do it perfectly fine with both hands. Although, I played violin for 10 years which demands a cetain amount of finger dexterity...

posted by muddgirl 11 May | 13:07

I never made it past the first season of Enterprise, I could never figure out what they were trying to do with that show. The sad thing is that it ended up running for longer than TOS did.

posted by octothorpe 11 May | 13:11

Enterprise always had a lingering starkness about it.
It had -zero- direction to it at times, and although a lot of the characters did look good, the usage of skin shots as time filler was a ?juvenile? plot for TV.

The opening montage and theme song is always motivational. The sequence where it goes from sailing via trig to navigating outer space is the whole Star Trek concept at its finest.

posted by buzzman 11 May | 13:26

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