Category: Musings

Not All Of Roddenberry's Ideas Were Good… Star Trek & JFK

A link to an blog posting about Gene Roddenberry’s proposal for a Star Trek movie where Klingons prevent the assassination of JFK and that somehow messes up the timeline. A movie proposal so reviled by Paramount that it was rejected every time Roddenberry tried to submit it for a Star Trek sequel. In fact, I can recall what William Shatner once noted in his book Star Trek Movie Memories, that when Roddenberry got wind that Star Trek IV was going to involve time-travel, Gene applauded the idea, but suggested that his JFK story would be better than what they had.

And after reading the premise for said treatment, I guess I should happy we got the movies that we did because this would have been terrible, especially the bit where one of the Enterprise crew would be involved in enacting a real life assassination of a beloved leader (supposedly) in order to restore the timeline. If The Motion Picture nearly curtailed Star Trek’s return to form as some would believe, no doubt this idea of Kirk meeting JFK would’ve been the death knell for Trek and it’d have no chance of continuing onwards to fifty years worth spin-off series, sequels, and whatnots that the closed-minded Trekkies would believed was TEH RUINZED FOREVAH! by the reboot Trek series.

That having been said, it somewhat surprises me that Roddenberry didn’t try and turn this into a TNG episode or something. Replace Klingons with Ferengi or something… nah, it still would’ve sucked.

Because People Bug Me Over This…

I’m rooting for the Germans to win the World Cup, if only because I want to see if he of the celery will ended up producing a song for his Argentinian team… but honestly, Germany has been pretty strong throughout, especially with the pasting that they gave Brazil a couple days ago. So if they end up winning, it’ll be no surprise.

There. I’ve said my piece. Let me know when all of you are ready to jump off the bandwagon and let the core fans enjoy their sport.

Let's Talk PPV…

Man, it must suck to not have the WWE Network available in your country, because then you wouldn’t have the need to spend sixty bucks on a generally lackluster show. Trust me; I know the feeling all too well.

I didn’t have a problem with Cena winning World Title No. 15 because I knew it’d mean being fodder for the Brock win that everyone sees coming. In fact, given what little depth they have in terms of potential candidates and big stars, Cena was really the only option. Now would I preferred someone else winning the title? Sure, because Cena’s been done to death and his “character” is about as bland and stale as a no-name brand of canned chicken soup. But given their lack of options at the moment, I don’t have much of an issue with Cena winning again.

So I guess I’ll be out of it until Summerslam. Let me know when we’re there.

See me Monday? No… you most certainly won’t.

Amazing How Things Fly By…

Just spent the better majority of yesterday playing Circle Of The Moon on my Game Boy Player. I know this because I have about two DVD-Rs worth of footage recorded in LP mode. That’s roughly eight hours of gameplay… That is a terrible waste of a day that has a boiling sun outside. Thank fuck for air conditioning.

But it’s been a few years since I last played COTM. God, I’d forgotten how good of a game this was.