oh, it totally would!

Because the effects were so clunky to start with... if they wanted to make stuff look like older technology, as compared to the Christmas tree lights and cardboard boxes of the original series, they'd have Sulu plotting courses on a pocket calculator.

Not nerds, geeks.

geeks bite the heads off live animals.

just saying.

Not sure I believe that. Are you gonna tell me that Ozzy Osbourne is a geek?

Alas, it's true. A geek was a circus sideshow act. He or she would bite the heads off of live animals for entertainment and shock value.

geek  Slang.
–noun 1. a peculiar or otherwise dislikable person, esp. one who is perceived to be overly intellectual.
2. a computer expert or enthusiast (a term of pride as self-reference, but often considered offensive when used by outsiders.)
3. a carnival performer who performs sensationally morbid or disgusting acts, as biting off the head of a live chicken.


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1915- 20; prob. var. of geck (mainly Scots) fool < D or LG gek
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By that definition OO is more of a geek than me. Oh! The shame!

i thought it was actually a dove he bit. and not a bat after all.

Article says both. At different times.

He thought the bat was rubber. It was just dead. I'm sure we've all made that mistake.

But Sundae, there were non-Merkins on the Enterprise in ST TNG...not least Captain Picard.

I'm delighted at their choice for Spock. I love that actor.

My bad all round. I was reacting simply to the trailer, and my memory of finding out Deanna Troi naturally has an English accent - like it was some flaw which had to be airbrushed out.

Turns out we get a real Scotty in this film too - good old Obi Wan himself!
Silly for accents to bug me, when I loved Ewan as Alec Guinness and Tennant as an English Doctor.

Why do I hate America?

been talking to a certain aussie amerihater?

Tcha, stop baiting. Typical bloody American war-monger.

I think I must secretly be in love with America. I think I'm in denial. No Cairo jokes plz.

They didn't get Ewan McGregor for Scottie. They got Simon Pegg (the guy from Shawn of the Dead)