Comments | dexander: J. J. Abrams' fried egg chutney chili sauce sandwich

dexander

J. J. Abrams' fried egg chutney chili sauce sandwich

May 11, 2009 22:33

In the British comedy Red Dwarf the main character, David Lister, once made a sandwich for his roommate, Arnold Rimmer. Rimmer commented:
I could never invent a sandwich like this, Lister. You see, all the ingredients are wrong. The fried eggs, wrong; the chutney, wrong; the chili sauce, all wrong. But put them together and somehow it works. It ( Read more... )

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two_pi_r May 12 2009, 04:26:57 UTC

To crossbreed fictions, Star Trek's time-travel might not really have changed history, only caused the characters to track different Narratives, or the story could just be an alternate path through the universe's configuration space.

dexander May 12 2009, 14:29:41 UTC

Admittedly this was about as safe a use of history altering time travel as is possible. I still worry a bit about the potential for future movies contacting the old timeline and paradoxes being created. Also it will be interesting to see if the new timeline uses the vast resource that Spock represents. He can give the Federation a 129 year technological jump and has a wealth of intelligence about the Klingons, Romulans, and a bunch of races the Federation hasn't even discovered yet.

artificialpuppy May 13 2009, 00:27:48 UTC

Eh, time travel already butchered the Star Trek Universe as Humans have already been playing with 29th Century Technology since the 1960s, which I suppose explains their Extremely Rapid Progress compared to the rest of the Universe, though the Alternate Universe Terran Empire ultimately gained very little from a similar advantage.

OK, I need to go back to hating the New Star Treks now. =P

artificialpuppy May 12 2009, 13:51:23 UTC

I still think that evil oompa loompa was some sort of short Reman, but Remans shouldn't really exist either.

I can't complain about stealing from Lucas, because Lucas just stole everything from Asimov anyway.

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pflarr May 12 2009, 20:28:52 UTC

I heard the same basic reasoning used to describe Julia Roberts once.

I also enjoyed the new Star Trek movie.

JH here pflarr May 17 2009, 02:14:46 UTC

Those Sulu photos are one of 1,000 examples why the movie kicked such ass. The movie included all the great things about TOS (the characters, relationships, and the setting of a maverick leader) while lacking the weak things: weak 60's TV production/directing/acting. The perfect example is the movie's Kirk: he immitated alot of Shatner expressions but (IMO)never hammed it up. Shatner's swagger was at 110%; this young actor was wise to run at 94%. His performance was believable while keeping the cool things Shatner did.

Switching subjects: sorry, looks like even I could kick TOS Sulu's ass, and I'd spot him the sword.