Girls.

Hey! Geek girl here!

I'm a geek girl too but I still have problems with girls who don't get it. I've also caught myself referring to myself as a "fanboy" so maybe I'm a bad example.

There's "girls" as in "not male physiologically" and there's "girls" as in "don't get boy stuff." They are not necessarily the same.

I've known many (straight, even) boys who are "girls".

And, to be fair, many girls (straight, even) who are "boys" by which I mean "don't get girl stuff".

At that moment Aimee and Jen were Definition Two "girls".

Nice save, dude.

I go over to his place and he excitedly shows me the Star Trek movie trailer, where it's just guys building the Enterprise. Welding, sparks flying and stuff...neat.

And I turn to him and say "Are they building that thing on a planet?"

Waitaminute - isn't the Enterprise planet-side at the beginning of 4 - where are the "nuclear wessels"?

Waitaminute - isn't the Enterprise planet-side at the beginning of 4 - where are the "nuclear wessels"?

Nope. Kirk blew up the Enterprises in 3, and they flew a Klingon Bird of Prey...a much smaller ship, capable of atmospheric re-entry and landing in a gravity well...back to 1980s Earth.

The nuclear wessel was, of course, the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Enterprise. Which is not a spaceship.

t /dork

t /dork

Fucking tag won't close...

Nice save, dude.

Yeah, you like that one? That was close.

Just so the Star Trek geeks know, Patrick Stewart's "Macbeth" is transferring from the theater at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (where it has been completely sold out) to Broadway for a limited run. So if you're coming to / in New York and you want to see Captain Picard play a Stalinesque monarch, this is your chance.

Well isn't it pretty much canon that Kirk and Spock DIDN'T meet at starfleet academy, or on their first missions? Spock was with Pike first time out. Can't remember if Kirk had a command yet or was still in academy.

So - I'm thinking this is going to make the Sarah Connor Chronicles continuity issues look like a minor retcon by comparison. Hey - it's JJ - what do you expect?

Steve and I talked about this. We figured out...look, Steve's a big ol' ST geek. Got the "History of the Future" book and the Tech Manual and everything.

So, by the time Kirk gets ahold of Enterprise in The Original Series, she's already fifteen years old. She's been on two five years with her first captain, Robert April. Then another five years under Pike, during which Spock was his XO and held the rank of Commander. Then he stayed aboard under Kirk for Kirk's five years.

I can't remember exactly, but I think Steve and I established that Kirk was a lieutenant aboard the Farragut during April's second tour because ten years later Kirk would re-encounter some blood-sucking fog monster that he first met when he was forced to assume command of the Farragut when said fog monster ate his captain. I think. The Farragut was Kirk's first deep space assignment right out of Academy. So Spock being a Commander just a few years later would mean that either Spock was ahead of Kirk in Academy or Spock was a fast rank-climber. Which, hey...Spock. So...

Bones was already older than Dirt when Kirk assumed the center chair on Enterprise. If Bones was a contemporary of Kirk's at Academy then Starfleet must have a nifty Adult Education program, or Bones was a severe slacker.

Scotty might've been Kirk's contemporary. They seem about the same age and I can easily wank that Scotty wasn't exactly interested in fast-tracking his career if it meant he might have to leave his precious bairns.

Sulu and Chekov should not be in the movie. They are, but they shouldn't be. Especially Chekov, for two reasons: 1) he was probably just discovering that his penis was for more fun stuff than pissin' when Kirk was already in space and 2) Chekov is useless.

I still cannot get that dork tag to close.