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[fredericks]

I took yesterday off in order to attend a job fair/continuing education event at Jacob Javitz. My initial plan was to print out tons of resumes, wake up at the asscrack of dawn to get out there by 8am to sit through the first class, and hit up the recruiters in-between the remaining two class sessions. However, I'd stayed up until 2am Thursday night (my willpower is nothing!), so I ended up not getting up and out there until nearly 10:30 sans resumes (my new Word program doesn't have a template and I didn't feel like putting the effort into putting something together). Which actually wasn't a bad thing, because the only people recruiting at the fair were hospitals or home care agencies looking for staff nurses or nurse managers. No, thanks kindly. There were nursing schools there as well, and I found a perfect program for me at Hunter College: a dual Masters of Urban Public Health/Masters of Public Health Nursing degree. 57 credits and 8 years part-time, but I'm not going anywhere (neither, does it seem, are my loans) so part-time it is.

I also ran into one of my nursing professors at my nursing school's booth. She was quite nice, if good at inadvertently making me feel like crap by mentioning one of my research papers that we'd talked about working on for publication before vanishing into the ether (*snort*, yeah lady, as if my e-mail box suddenly decided to block you; but whatever).

THEN (fast-forwarding a couple of hours) there was Star Trek at IMAX. I think what heightened the experience was watching the movie in close proximity to a number of enthusiastic Trek fans (although I was sort of taken aback at the beginning because these same people cheered loudly at the Transformers preview that played before the movie; I really disliked that movie).

What I didn't like:
* Coupling Simon Pegg's Scotty with a sidekick. Seriously, dude can manage humor without the cute little scaly backup.
* Uhuru. Uhuru, Jesus Christ. Note that I'm not saying Zoe Saldana, because I think it's what she was given to work with and not a slight to her acting ability. I'm not experiencing Joss Whedon syndrome where I expect every female character to be able to KICK ASS and TAKE NAMES, but Uhuru basically did nothing besides intercept that first critical communique and run after Spock. Here we have a reboot of the series and the one prominent original recipe female is kept more or less within her old mold. She was eye candy, and I have a special hatred in my heart for the females that are little more than eye candy. Although she seems to have magical vagina on tap...God, look, don't get me started. Let me move on.

What I did like:
* Most everything else. My ficcer heart near skipped a beat when I realized the plot was essentially an AU time-travel device. And the ships that sailed! Lovely! :)

Will most likely end up taking my brothers to see it this evening. Might be able to type up an actual review after that.

Today is the NAMI walk (thanks big-big to those of you who contributed!). I will take pics, attempt to look for sometimesdee, and have fun walking over the Brooklyn Bridge. :)

Comments

[captainschlumpy.livejournal.com]

I want to see Star Trek! but you know my inability to actually get to a theatre, so I'll end up netflix-ing it, I know!

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

It plays quite well on a large screen if you can catch it in theatres beforehand. So much pretty!

[aearonlinn.insanejournal.com (from livejournal.com)]

It was a totally fun movie! They always fuck something up, but at least the fuck-ups were mostly overshadowed by constant ass-kicking this time. I have a list of shit that I wanted to be better, but it was actually all over so much better than I thought it'd be... fuck it.

I might go again too. I feel like it went too fast and I missed things!

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

Just came back from seeing it again. I completely agree: it's fun, and the plot isn't so full of holes that it became distracting. And the acting was solid across the board (although wee Kirk's delivery of "My name's James Tiberius Kirk" had me wincing...dude gets a pass because he's a child). I cannot wait for Trek 2 (Trek Harder).

Logic issue, aka "my brain won't shut up": having the 1st and 2nd in command going offship on missions is pretty detrimental to, you know, the whole ship running enterprise, isn't it? Gotta love Trek. :)

[aearonlinn.insanejournal.com (from livejournal.com)]

Yeah the acting was all around great (for a sci-fi movie, especially!)-- we can let the kid go. He was cute, and well, that's what kids do best. Trek Harder, here we come! Hahaha!

I know, I kept thinking "Picard would so never let this happen!" And then I thought, "But... Kirk totally did, sometimes..." Starfleet really shaped up in the time between Enterprise 1701 and 1701-D, didn't it? That nagged at me the whole time, but I just placated myself by going, "But this means someone's gonna kick some ass!"

We had an ever-so-deep conversation over dinner last night about Bones and Uhura pretty much just being sidekicks for their respective man-crushes, and I thought of you.

star trek! XD

[army-kitten.livejournal.com]

i really liked it, too!

i did not like the scaly sidekick either. wtf was up with that? mostly because he came across as like, a pet or something instead of an alien. not very star trek.

as for uhuru, i was frustrated for the same reasons. i've got my fingers crossed that, since this one seemed to be all about kirk and spock and the formation of their partnership (*wink wink*), the next movie will be a good chance for uhuru's character to get fleshed out and really kick some ass for a change. i so approve of spockxuhuru, though. and JESUS CHRIST ALL OF THEM WERE SO HOT.

i want to see it again!

Re: star trek! XD

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

Some website or TV show compared Scotty's little dude to an Ewok, and I completely agreed. Thank God they didn't have him saving the day or something.

Ha! Kirk/Spock *indeed*. Tell me I wasn't the only one drinking the Kirk/Uhuru/Spock Kool-Aid. All of them were definitely 10s. I do so love me some Karl Urban.

Re: star trek! XD

[army-kitten.livejournal.com]

YOU WERE NOT THE ONLY ONE.

btw, i've just joined here:

http://community.livejournal.com/ontd_startrek/

where you can find things like



and



and here:

http://community.livejournal.com/pinto_fic/

w/r/t the latter, i'm not a really fan of RLS, but those two are just so wonderfully bromantic in their interviews! and i've seen the odd kirk/spock fic on there, which is what i'm really hoping for. XD

Re: star trek! XD

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

Bwah! Those macros are hilarious. There's also apparently st_xi_kinkthat's an unholy combination of fic prompts, friendings memes, and kink flashfics. AND, also, random funny like Vulcan pick up lines. Fandom as an entity never fails to amaze me.

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[army-kitten.livejournal.com]

somehow, livejournal just ate my comment. wtf. um...

what i said was that it's blowing my mind how my two worlds have collided at warp speed. suddenly new star trek fans are discovering the joy of boy slash, and BL fans are discovering the joy of star trek... boy slash. XD

for example, the head of my scanlation group (dangerous pleasure) has gone totally star trek crazy! she's posting with kirk/spock icons and lots of gifs... as a long-time star trek fan who's been used to keeping it to myself in yaoi circles, well... let's just say my brain hasn't quite caught up to it yet.

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[fredericks.livejournal.com]

what i said was that it's blowing my mind how my two worlds have collided at warp speed. suddenly new star trek fans are discovering the joy of boy slash, and BL fans are discovering the joy of star trek... boy slash. XD
What, there are fans who like Star Trek who *aren't* into smex??? Surely you jest. *grin* The movie really was tons of fun, and I'm not ashamed to say I'd even tolerate gen or (*gasp*!) het fic set in its AU wonderfulness.

And tell me you've seen this lovely bit of Old Skool vs. Reboot Trek wank (http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1207878.html#cutid1).