{"id":2978,"date":"2009-03-13T21:20:15","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T13:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=2978"},"modified":"2009-03-13T21:20:15","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T13:20:15","slug":"sonic-showers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/03\/13\/sonic-showers\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonic Showers"},"content":{"rendered":"

There\u2019re just three \u2018big\u2019 movies on my \u201cMust Watch\u201d list this year: they\u2019re Watchmen, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (!), and Star Trek. The first, Watchmen, has come and gone and I\u2019ve blogged about it here the other week<\/a>. The second and the Harry Potter flick, well, I follow primarily because I\u2019ve got a completist fetish and not really because I think the books were that great.<\/p>\n

Now, the last, Star Trek, because I\u2019m a big fan of; blogged about it here<\/a> several times now too. The trailers look awesome and are quite a visual treat. Ok, so it\u2019s not as though CG work in itself is even very special anymore. But how many CG-laden big science fiction screen movies do we get these days anyway? It\u2019s already been four years since Star Wars Episode III, and the glut of the CG we see on the screens today are off superhero or disaster movies.<\/p>\n

There\u2019re a few things I\u2019ll need to get used to though for sure. For starters, I\u2019ve never liked the collarless T-shirt design of starship personnel that we saw from the Original Series, and in the first few seasons of The New Generation. Seems that the reimagined movie will have the Enterprise crew strut around in the same old \u2013 bleh.<\/p>\n

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Still, in order to prep for the movie, we\u2019ve been dusting off the cob webs from my old Star episodes and films on DVD, and watching them at home. We finished seasons 4 to 7 of ST: Voyager \u2013 that\u2019s about 78 hours of material \u2013 and a week ago began on the films.<\/p>\n

Thing though is that the Trek universe has been around for 43 years now, and there\u2019s a lot of material. Doesn\u2019t help that there are so many Enterprise starships and their individual crews. So, it\u2019s taken a bit of explaining to get Ling up to speed on which crew is which, which timeline is which, and which starship is which LOL.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, Ling\u2019s digesting it all bit by bit and she\u2019s hooked. Heck\u2026 even Trek-ish words and phrases have started figuring into her daily speech. Like how she asked the other day if I\u2019m going to take my \u2018sonic shower\u2019<\/a> first after returning home hot and perspiring from a workout at the gym.<\/p>\n

She still hasn\u2019t said “Darling you are being hailed” when she hears my phone ringing, or \u201cStructural integrity at 18% and failing!\u201d when I\u2019m in the toilet about to poop. But I\u2019m paying close attention \u2013 I\u2019ll give it a few more days.:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There\u2019re just three \u2018big\u2019 movies on my \u201cMust Watch\u201d list this year: they\u2019re Watchmen, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (!), and Star Trek. The first, Watchmen, has come and gone and I\u2019ve blogged about it here the other week.<\/p>\n

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