Beta testers:
Play team games with an AI ally. Watch the AI to see what it builds, and when it builds it.
Can do Major Stress, and thanks for the update on all of that, plus that is AWESOME that the Lakota upgrade changes all the pre-existing excelsior’s! Kudo's fellas and good call.
Oh and I just watched the new film, what did you guys think of it?
You know, I was just getting ready to come in here and talk about that.
Disclaimer warning: Some events in movie referred to.
Now I know it's a little off topic guys, but I just finished seeing it in IMAX, and I have to say that I personally wasn't very fond of it.
As I have been describing it to everyone else so far, it's like the cliché meets the mundane. They take all the best cliché elements of the movies and TV shows and churn them out like processed meat (I mean, I even knew the guy in the red uniform was going to die when parachuting down to the platform, any good trekkie can tell you the guy in the red shirt who's not a main character ALWAYS dies on the away missions). All that is fine, but the worst thing that I can say that I didn't like about it was the random product placement in the beginning (thanks Nokia, didn't know you made it to the 23rd century, kinda thought they did away with that kind of stuff), and the obligatory Beastie Boys playing of "Sabotage" during the chase sequence, as well as the MANY scenes were the camera was shaking so violently it became hard to see what was going on (I hate it when action movies do that) that made the entire experience feel less like a star trek movie and more like an action movie with some Star Trek elements (I mean, for god sakes even going to warp and transporters are completely different. I'm ok with the transporters looking different, but there is no more zip and shine that warp used to do in every other movie and show. Now they are just there one moment, and then gone the next while the warp sounds like two chestnuts smacking together, kinda like a airplane breaking the sound barrier, rather than the built up charge we have all grown used to, and even the interior view from warp looks completely different).
All I can say is that for once I agree with Ebert. This is more mindless drivel for the masses rather than the kind of movies we have all grown up with. Bang, zoom, bash, crash, kiss, rather than the space opera of the 60's and 90's.
* You know, with all the negative talk about this I did forget to mention that there was one thing that I did like about the movie, and that is the alien races that they showed on screen. Finally, aliens that didn't almost completely look like a guy with some extra holes in his nose or a few bumps on his head. They actually had ALIEN looking aliens.
I still give it a C+, but now you can see why.
