There's a Italian/Mexican place down the street from me. (It also has some small smatterings of Greek.)
And there used to be Carlos O'Brian's Mexican Restaurant, in Lancaster, NH, which I always really liked, in terms of interesting melting pot experiences. Never ate there, mind you...
Also, while I don't really /like/ how he dealt onscreen with the Kobayashi Maru, it's quite consistent with how it's described in STII.
Then again, I thought it was a problem when he recounted the story in STII, too.
Having just seen this, I have to agree with some things, and disagree with others.
First of all, yes, Uhura, while we're told she's smart, mostly stands around and has men compete over her and/or lean on her emotionally.
Mind you, I really /like/ her relationship with Spock. Among other things, she's not, one might notice, offended at his control of his emotions, she merely asks if there's anything she can do. That scene in the elevator was actually quite sensitive, or anyway, sensitive in the context of a movie that was mostly big explosions and/or fight scenes.
But still. If she weren't in such a stupid costume, /she/ could've been in an explosion and/or fight scene. But noooo.
Also, Zoe Saldana is SKINNY. And /tall/. (This is so completely minor as to be ridiculous, but it nonetheless kept throwing me out of things. Nichelle Nichols is far curvier, and I think shorter.)
The fanservice scene in their bedroom really bugged me, since it was /yet another/ in a long line of fanservice scenes in Trek pilots/movies, where the nudity/sexuality is just shoved at you, with very little actual character development reasons behind it. I well remember the scene during _Enterprise's_ pilot episiode, where they slathered decontamination cream all over each other. It was irritating and it made me turn the damn thing off.
On the subject of Spock... The books that I most love in the Trek franchise (and glancingly some of the episodes/movies) deal with the Vulcan control of emotion by articulating that it's just that, control. Not suppression, not rejection, but control (and/or mastery of). Kolinahr is an extreme of the control of emotions, and it's by no means for all Vulcans. If one is me, one can see Spock's journey in the show and in the movies as one that recognizes his own emotional core (/as/ a Vulcan) and his own way of expressing it, eventually. (With false starts and backs and fills -- His decision to try for Kolinahr was clearly in reaction to /something/...)
So it's a journey, and a journey for someone who is, yes, explicitly not human, and conflicted about that, and working through that to realize he doesn't need to /be/ human.
My main problem is, you had SpockBeta making the journey that SpockPrime made over the course of decades in the space of 2 hours (or, you know, a week, in-story), and that's just... shoddy. Or ridiculously compressed, at the least.
Another thing that turned me off about this movie was less the Victory Of Emotion Over Logic (since for me to even vaguely be OK with it, I had to transform it into something else), but the violent way in which they went about it. (Hell, the violent way they went about /everything/. Where'd the nerve pinch go, people?) Someone upthread said Kirk should have mentioned the regulation involved to Spock, and that was /exactly/ what I was thinking. Sure, great, the pushing him around will be great for a lot of K/S fanfics (no, seriously, you have no idea), but it was really... lacking in the humanism, yes.
@lori --
Amazon customer services phone number: 1-800-201-7575
An Amazon corporate phone number, which may not be as relevant: (206) 266-1000.
@avram -- Well, and Serdar Argic = Usenet kook, yes? Or... spam related, somehow... oh, wait, that's the joke. Er. Ignore me.
Considering that (ABC told me that) Teddy Roosevelt used no I's in his speech, I don't think that's accurate.
But ABC might be wrong.
Teresa: That has been on my mind for the past week. And I have been saying it to people /frequently/. Thank you for linking it, because I am going insane over here. (In Boston. Superstitious? Me?)
Hey, go Shaheen.
I don't live in Colebrook, but my folks have a house in North Stratford, and I read the News & Sentinel, and, well.
Eff off, Vin.
For me, I read the books after I read the series. Er, watched, that is.
The books aren't any great literature, although Blish wrote a full-length Trek novel or two, not based on episodes. *looks* Oh, only one. I recall it being somewhat cracked out, but entertaining.
The episodes... I think honestly if you weren't fond of them to begin with, they don't stand up very well. Might try a few specific ones and see. (Netflix to the rescue.)
I suspect, Fade, that you read James Blish's short storyizations. (How would one put that? Novelization, short storization? Something.)
Alan Dean Foster did the Animated Series version of that.
I find perspectives interesting. Me, Never-guy, I /don't/ use my (full) real name on the 'net. But on the other hand, having a, for lack of a better word, persona which I can hang my hat on, a presence in a community, seems reasonable to me.
So yeah, I don't hand out my full real name, or my main email address... But I do have a consistent personality and (when I choose to be part of a particular community) a consistent experience in that community.
You seem to have a stake in not fully participating in online communities. Is this accurate?
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