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	munchkinott 2009-04-07 10:39 pm UTC (link)
	Fast forward three years later… …and Kirk’s defeat of the Kobayashi Maru, first mentioned in THE WRATH OF KHAN, is shown, as well as the programmer of the no win scenario, Commander Spock. In the middle of Kirk’s disciplinary hearing, That's it, I want this movie NOW. Yesterday. Dammit, I want the DVD! (Reply to this)(Thread)

	pariforma 2009-04-08 03:05 pm UTC (link)
	IAWTC!!! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	munchkinott 2009-04-08 10:57 pm UTC (link)
	I hope they don't leave it there. I mean really if ever there was an opportunity for a long-running ref-out of hopelessly bitchy proportions it's that. Especially if it results in capslock!Kirk shouting "FOR THE LAST TIME, I DID NOT BREAK YOUR COMPUTER, OK? I UPGRADED IT!" (Reply to this)(Parent)

	notbulgarian 2009-04-08 06:52 pm UTC (link)
	You were right about them setting it one universe over. Thank you, oh Trek-making people, for apeasing me, just this once. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	munchkinott 2009-04-08 11:10 pm UTC (link)
	I love them all so MUCH for this. clings and squees Basically, it's the difference to me between waiting for the DVD to come out and 'I'm taking out a mortgage and seeing this in IMAX WITH some bloody popcorn!' (Reply to this)(Parent)

	erinny 2009-04-07 10:44 pm UTC (link)
	Stuff like this is why my gf and I want to move to Austin. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	sparkysrevenge 2009-04-08 04:50 am UTC (link)
	They sell out SO quickly, though. You have to watch the Alamo website like a hawk. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	erinny 2009-04-08 01:43 pm UTC (link)
	Oooooh. Good to know. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	bigbigtruck 2009-04-07 10:50 pm UTC (link)
	Damn I love the Paramount ~~almost as much as Alamo Drafthouse~~ (Reply to this)(Thread)

	wtf 2009-04-07 11:11 pm UTC (link)
	CAN I MOVE IN WITH YOU PLEASE (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bigbigtruck 2009-04-08 12:49 am UTC (link)
	DO YOU LIKE DOGS AND 108 DEGREE SUMMERS (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	brennalarose 2009-04-08 02:22 pm UTC (link)
	108? WELL, HELL, IT'S PRACTICALLY VIRGINIA (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sorchar 2009-04-08 03:28 am UTC (link)
	ICON LOVE (Reply to this)(Parent)

	b_jellybean 2009-04-07 10:51 pm UTC (link)
	They could fuck everything else up, I don't even care, I just want a good McCoy. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	sgaana 2009-04-08 01:39 am UTC (link)
	Everything I have heard suggests that Karl Urban's McCoy is AWESOME. Which... well, there we go, that's what tips me over into making the effort to see this in theatres. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	msilverstar 2009-04-08 05:03 am UTC (link)
	Whoooo! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	squeakytoy 2009-04-08 01:40 pm UTC (link)
	Karl Urban's McCoy was awesome. I don't know if he matches the original "Bones" McCoy since I never watched the original, but I can tell you that the remake was pretty good to a sci-fi-action series fan who's never managed to quite get into Star Trek. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	nevadafighter 2009-04-09 03:05 am UTC (link)
	McCoy's my favorite and I adore De Kelley, but that clip of Urban's McCoy? WOW. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	lil_miss_stfu 2009-04-07 11:52 pm UTC (link)
	So, this was to stop all the fanboy/girl BAWW-ing because the premiere was meant to be in Oz? If so, good move Paramount :) (Reply to this)

	tree 2009-04-08 12:19 am UTC (link)
	Alamo Drafthouse, Y U SO OSSUM. I want to go back! (Reply to this)

	ladylance 2009-04-08 01:21 am UTC (link)
	So. Freaking. Envious! I'm beyond thrilled that reviews seem to be positive and that Karl is getting so much love. I've been a fan of his gods..10? 11 years now? squees (Reply to this)

Origin of "Bones"
lolcoholic
2009-04-08 06:56 am UTC (link)

http://trekbbs.com/showpost.php?p=2807443&postcount=349

When Kirk & McCoy first meet aboard the shuttle, McCoy has a long ass monologue about all the dangers of space & how easy it is to die in it. Kirk makes the comment that Starfleet operates in outer space. McCoy says that his ex-wife got the whole damned planet in the divorce, and all he, McCoy, has left is his bones.

And, thus, the nickname is born.

The two men share a drink from McCoy's flask, and they introduced themselves to each other.

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	Re: Origin of "Bones" cmdr_zoom 2009-04-08 07:57 am UTC (link)
	Bah. No one today remembers "Sawbones", mostly 'cause the main function of shipboard doctors is no longer battlefield amputation. :p I did like his "disease and danger" rant, though. And he hasn't even gotten to that damned atom-smashing contraption they politely call a "transporter", so you don't think too much about what it does... (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

Re: Origin of "Bones"

munchkinott
2009-04-08 12:31 pm UTC (link)

mostly 'cause the main function of shipboard doctors is no longer battlefield amputation.

That's where I thought 'Bones' came from as a nick along with the massive medical chip on his shoulder. The ex-wife reason makes me wonder if Pike's TWO DAYS from retirement too (for added 80s action movie cliche bingo)?

I'm a bit in love with Bones' rant though. ♥ It's the whole 'you didn't ask for my opinion, but you're going to get it anyway'ness of it. :-D I may die from a glee overdose if he gets up to full rant speed on transporters. Along with the effects and Kobayashi Maru, Bones going off on transporters will give me more movie than my tiny brain can handle. And canon's split/parallel universes for maximum guilt-free effect.

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Re: Origin of "Bones"

cmdr_zoom
2009-04-09 12:09 am UTC (link)

The ex-wife (and estranged daughter) is actually (rather obscure) canon.

I'm glad they do pay some lipservice to it not just being this way all along, but I bet that there will be a lot of changes which aren't plausibly a result of historical tampering, just "we thought it would be cooler". :p

I trust Urban and Quinto to put in some good performances, but I have big doubts about some of the other cast, and even bigger ones about the visual design and "more sex and stuff blowing up!" approach. But I'm just a cranky old fan, who cares what I think?

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Re: Origin of "Bones"

munchkinott
2009-04-09 01:35 am UTC (link)

The ex-wife (and estranged daughter) is actually (rather obscure) canon.

I didn't know that. I always thought Bones got his nick from being an intergalactic naval doctor, I didn't know he got it from getting divorced. But I'm more Trekkie by osmosis, anything I've picked up's been by accident of birth. It just read tagged on in a throwaway 'Mr Backstory meet Mr Accessible Reference Point' way.

I'm prepared to give 'em a break. They've set the whole thing up so it doesn't overwrite pre-existing canon and when the alternative's another Nemesis - I'll take the Doozer-made bridge, roll call of pretty and the Pixellated Shit Blowing Up. In fact, I'll take seconds! *grabs popcorn*

Admittedly I wouldn't be prepared to give 'em as big a break as I am if Spock and Bones weren't there in a 'that's not Stanislavski, that's The Exorcist! O.O' sense.

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	Re: Origin of "Bones" cmdr_zoom 2009-04-09 02:17 am UTC (link)
	no, I meant the divorce was canon, but that's not where he got the name... agh. Sorry. I'll just go wait in the agony booth. (Heh. Doozer construction, very good.) I haven't given up on it entirely, but... :/ (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

Re: Origin of "Bones"

munchkinott
2009-04-09 03:21 am UTC (link)

So I was right calling 80s Action Movie Cliche Bingo time? :-D Maybe it'd make a better drinking game instead? Down a shot every time old skool canon's stitched into the script/plot in 80s Action Movie Cliche style. Two if the only transportation on Vulcan is Mad Max's Interceptor. Three if Sulu's got a murky Black Ops past. Chug if it's Police Academy in Space.

(There's Fraggles on the starboard bow!)

Dude, however bad you think it is. However bad you imagine it could be. Take comfort in the knowledge Will Ferrell and Adam Sandler aren't in it.

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	Re: Origin of "Bones" lirazel 2009-04-09 04:14 pm UTC (link)
	(There's Fraggles on the starboard bow!) I think I love you a little right now. I also want Fraggle Rock meets Star Trek crossover fic. Or at least filk. Darn it! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Origin of "Bones" munchkinott 2009-04-09 04:41 pm UTC (link)
	I just want a manip of the first picture. Nero-Fraggle swap with a speech bubble for Spock and the legend: "I believe it wishes to eat our crunchy-crunchy Doozer-bridge, Captain." Sadly I'm crippled by a touchpad and lack of photoshop/GIMP. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: Origin of "Bones" brennalarose 2009-04-08 02:26 pm UTC (link)
	I'm in love, even if their etymology is buggered. Urban!Bones=/=Classic!Bones, but he's got the bitter, cranky yet lovable thing down. They'd better use his catch phrase. Also, I've had a girl crush on Uhura since childhood and this only reinforces it. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: Origin of "Bones" nam_jai 2009-04-09 01:28 am UTC (link)
	I wasn't sure about Urban's McCoy until he started that "disease and danger" rant, and then, whoah! If nothing else, he has got the voice down. And that made me grin like a happy idiot. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Origin of "Bones" cmdr_zoom 2009-04-09 02:31 am UTC (link)
	Same here. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Meh tree 2009-04-08 04:16 pm UTC (link)
	The Kirk & Uhura clip is not for us non-USians. Thanks a lot MTV, your promotional skills are rad mad. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	Re: Meh jumble 2009-04-09 12:03 am UTC (link)
	This. WANT. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	nam_jai 2009-04-09 01:36 am UTC (link)
	Per MTV: Pine’s new, badass, sexier Kirk Because the original Kirk was famously meek and prudish. Gotta love that revisionist marketing: IT WAS SO OLD-FASHIONED BEFORE, THIS IS ALL-NEW AND MODERN. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	cmdr_zoom 2009-04-09 02:20 am UTC (link)
	Well, mind you - they couldn't show navels, a shot of Kirk pulling on his boots was considered rather daring and risque, and half the South changed channels when a white man kissed a ______ for the first time on TV... (Reply to this)(Parent)

	lidane 2009-04-09 06:09 am UTC (link)
	Karl Urban!McCoy = unf unf unf OMG. I'm still pissed that I missed out on the Alamo screening since I'm here in Austin. After seeing those clips I'm fangirling the film hardcore. (Reply to this)

	munchkinott 2009-04-09 06:10 pm UTC (link)
	THREE CLIPS! Spock! (And it's outside-US friendly) "You will answer meee." ... meep (Reply to this)