Longtime Trekkie Reacts To New Alien Movie Trailer: “Where Are All The Romulans?”

Longtime Trekkie Theodore L. Pinkus was interviewed by local media and expressed his excitement for the upcoming Alien: Romulus motion picture. The latest attempt by FOX to inject new life to the Alien franchise after several failed attempts was met with approval from the longtime Star Trek fan.

“You know, it was a well-done trailer,” Pinkus stated, “Looked really dark and scary. This might be the first Alien movie in a while that actually looks like it could be good.”

Pinkus did note one aspect of the trailer that got to him and he couldn’t quite put his finger on it until the last moment.

“Where are the Romulans?” he decried. “If you’re going to name your movie Alien: Romulus and you’re going to have it take place on Romulus, it only makes sense that there should be Romulans in this movie!”

“Instead, it’s just a bunch of humans. Boring.”

After a brief pause, the interviewer decided to – calmly and politely – explain to Pinkus that the Romulans are part of Star Trek, which has nothing to do with this movie. He also had to explain to Pinkus that Romulus was referring to the historical figure Romulus.

Pinkus stared at the interviewer blankly, trying to process what was just told to him. After what seemed like five minutes of uncomfortable silence, Pinkus finally mustered the energy to respond.

“Will there be Klingons, at least?”

Section Dookey-Von

So… Section 31… eh…

Yeah, I’ll be frank; this looks pretty bad… not just as a Star Trek thing, but just as a thing that exists. You’d have a better chance of getting me excited if you just remade Earth: Final Conflict into a Tee Vee Movie instead.

I wasn’t sure what I was expecting out of Section 31… but this sure ain’t it. But at least I can say that this looks bad whether it’s a Star Trek thing or not because it just looks terribly generic.

But then I saw the SNW clip and…

I need a bit more time on that one, kids.

Tony Khan Considers A Stupid Idea

Source: https://itrwrestling.com/news/tony-khan-admits-hes-open-to-divisive-ring-of-honor-rebranding/

At a recent ROH PPV Media thing, Tony Khan considered the idea of rebranding the ROH brand that he bought in 2022 and is generally considered an afterthought by anyone but the most hardcore of AEW fans to rebrand the show as AEW Ring Of Honor. The idea being to bring the two promotions closer together… which is what most people who stopped watching AEW DO NOT WANT.

Tony Khan bought Ring of Honor in 2022… and to say that he has done a great job with the promotion would be a bit of a fib. It exists, it provides a platform for wrestlers to work and earn a payday, and there’s occasionally good stuff happening on that show – Athena, I’m told, is a highlight and I’m happy for her that she’s getting the limelight on a show nobody watches. In fact, it’s quite sad that the most ROH stuff I’ve seen was on AEW television and that’s usually so that they can lose to the bigger AEW stars, even the champions.

One of my reasons for no longer watching AEW – and there are plenty of reasons, let me tell you – is that there’s more than a bit too much focus on ROH that could’ve been used to spotlight some of the other AEW talent that got signed, showed up on TV for a few weeks, and are now sitting on the sidelines. In fact, I could tell you that AEW really started falling off the rails the instant they started interjecting more ROH stuff on the program and the ROH stuff is often the worst part of the show. It certainly doesn’t help matters that ROH brings about another set of belts on top of AEW’s already inflated collection of championships that nobody could possibly care about… compared to when the promotion first started when they only had a handful of titles that were treated with some reverence.

On top of all of that, however, the idea to rebrand Ring Of Honor as AEW Ring Of Honor in hopes of getting more people interested? Does anyone remember when WWE revived ECW in 2006, where they teased you with a couple ECW tribute shows on PPV and then when the weekly series came along, they tried to turn it into a lesser third brand for developing talent? Because the last time I checked, that went over like a full-blown orgy at church. And also last time I checked, WWECW eventually died after a few years so that they can make way for NXT, and even that took a few years before it became what it is today. I would think that Tony Khan, who supposedly has an encyclopedic knowledge of wrestling history that almost comes across as a detriment in his booking, of all people, would know how rebranding a dead brand by associating it with your bigger brand would turn out.

I know some people like ROH. I know some people are happy to see ROH out there. I know some people want to see ROH succeed. I certainly don’t want ROH to fail. I just don’t want it on AEW television. This isn’t a spur of the moment thing that came out of the blue. I’ve been saying this for years now. The association would’ve been fine if it helped ROH in the slightest, but it really hasn’t. If Tony Khan wants people to care about ROH enough to get it on proper TV, then a simple rebrand isn’t going to cut it.

No, I Did Not Watch Deadpool & Wolverine

I’ve been busy prepping for the road trip. Hell, by the time you’re reading this post, I’m probably long gone by now.

I liked the Deadpool movies just fine. They’re funny stuff and Ryan Reynolds pretty much owns the role to the point where I tried to play the ol’ Deadpool game from a decade ago (has it really been that long?) and hearing some other dude voice the character – as good as he was – simply felt wrong because he wasn’t Ryan Reynolds. It’s almost like having someone else besides Cal Dodd or Hugh Jackman play Wolverine feel wrong, no matter how good they try to play the role. You simply couldn’t imagine anyone else doing the role justice.

That in mind, there’s a possibility that I might see it down the line. If not in theaters, then wait until it hits home video like I did the other Deadpool movies. That way, when my phone rings, I can pause the fucking movie and answer said phone… or take a fucking piss… which is more likely than answering the phone because it’s eternally set to Do Not Disturb, which is most of the time.

I hear it did well, so good for them, I suppose.

House Repair = Further Delay

Hey, kids. Hope all is well.

Here… eh, not so much.

Long story short… the home base is undergoing repair due to some water damage that occurred. Unfortunately, this affects my “base of operations” where I normally do all the video stuff. Good news is nothing has been lost save for some boxes and stuff, but there are drywalls needing to be replaced. So while I can do some blogging and record some video, when it comes to audio dubbing… yeah, that’s out of the question at the moment.

Needless to say, videos are going to be stalled for the foreseeable future. The only video close to being ready to go is Power Blade 2 and that still needs a bit of work before it’s ready to go. Fortunately, I’m going on a road trip this week where I should have a nice quiet place to set up shop for a couple days and do some quick audio. Who knows? We might make it into an adventure of sorts for the channel. Perhaps a audio program for the future?

Anyway, there’s other stuff coming up on the blog side of things, but the video stuff… we’ll see about getting that up to speed soon. It all depends on how repairs go around here.

Sorry about all this folks. I wish I had better news on this wonderful summer period. Hopefully, things will get better soon… maybe.

AEW Dynamite (July 24th, 2024): Bored And Gortz

So it’s BLOOD AND GUTS III… featuring the All-New, All-Different ELITE (Bucks, OKADA, Hangman Page, and Jack Perry) up against the AEW team of reigning World Champion Swerve Strickland, reigning ROH Champion Mark Briscoe, resident Crazy Man DARBY ALLIN… and the Acclaimed. All due respect to the Acclaimed – they are/were an entertaining act – but two of these things are not like the other. And if you want to toss Jack Perry into the mix, then make it three.

It’s been no secret that the build up to Blued and Goots has been underwhelming. The EVP Elite storyline that’s been going on is kinda lame, Jack Perry comes across as more of a geek than the next big star in the company whose push is seemingly designed as a proverbial FU to Phil, who is apparently much happier in WWE these days when he isn’t getting injured. And other than the World Champion and maybe Darby Allin, the team opposing your big heel faction seems to be pulled out of a hat. Are we that low on big stars that we need to fit the Acclaimed in there? Again, no disrespect intended, but they didn’t exactly get me hyped for this match.

And when all was said and done… well, the match was already, but as others have noted, the ending was underwhelming.

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