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May 11, 2009 
A little detour into entertainment…
I went and saw Star Trek with my 13-year old son yesterday and it was great fun. And it stayed very true to the series as well… For me, this was kind of like watching the last Star Wars episode (Revenge of the Sith) as the last half hour or so as they were filling in all the pieces of the puzzle to setup the story that we all know and loved…
Each time one of the beloved Star Trek characters would arrive, it was like another piece of the puzzle falling into place… Kirk, Spock, Bones, Chekov, Uhura, Scotty… I thought they did a good job with the backstories too. And the effects and the overall plot was very entertaining (except for the fact that they violated one of the major no-no’s of science fiction which only Sci-fi and StarTrek purists will likely care about. I can’t say more without spoiling the plot)
They even kept the most annoying (yet endearing) feature of Star Trek- whenever there is danger, the absolute top leaders head off to battle the leaders of the enemies usually hand-to-hand… As if World War 2 was won when FDR and Churchill swam the English Channel, gained the beach at Normandy and then marched to Berlin to finish off Hitler personally in a sword fight.
Highly recommended, and it makes a few good business points as well—
If you know you are right, fight for what you believe in.
There is always a little more that can be had, even when you are being assured that they’re “giving her all she’s got”
Never back a Romulan in an important business negotiation.
And then last night was the bloated three-hour finale of The Celebrity Apprentice which was a pretty entertaining season until the final five minutes when the despicable exceuse for a human being Joan Rivers won. (even though Joan had already lost repeatedly over the prior weeks because of Godwin’s Law which states that when you compare your opponent to Hitler, you lose automatically)
I used to respect Joan’s business acumen although I never liked her (and her talentless daughter Melissa’s) red-carpet schtick or Joan’s version of shrewish comedy… But Trump crowned her the winner over poker champion Annie Duke who mopped the floor with Joan Rivers the entire season. Annie raised 3x as much money for charity in the final challenge– $465,000 plus vs. $150,000—yet she lost. Trump is a buffoon, and this show lost all credibility for me—it is nothing but a scripted drama as far as I am concerned. I hope they go back to real people on this show, the Celebrity version is pretty much dead for me…
Grrr…
Rob
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• May 11, 2009 @1:30 pm
I thought the new movie was very true to Gene Roddenberry’s vision for the series and it is definitely in my top ten favorite movies.
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