Club Jade

It’s Friday, so please take this video of Zachary Quinto and Leonard Nimoy. It really is kind of cute.

Meanwhile, if you want the actual thing instead of just jokes about it, Star Trek: The Exhibition will be making the rounds to San Diego, Los Angeles, and Arizona this year.

Blast from the past. Newsweek has a fantastic audio slideshow featuring long-time fan Angelique Trouvere talking about Trek conventions of the 70′s. Don’t miss it!

Don’t blink. MTV points out the many cameos in the new film. There was no mistaking Tyler Perry, but who else missed Greg Grunberg? io9 goes into more detail on the various Easter Eggs.

He is Spock. Geoff Boucher has a great interview with Leonard Nimoy.

But everyone’s a Captain Kirk. Elsewhere on the Los Angeles Times site, Todd Martens takes a look at Star Trek in mainstream music.

Speaking of Kirk… You could get your own next time you fly.

Geek reads. Here’s a site devoted to Star Trek books. Huh. (via)

A fanboy moment. John Serba’s ten reasons why Star Wars is better than Star Trek. Can’t we all just get along? (via)

Zachary Quinto, Chris Pine and Leonard Nimoy showed up on Saturday Night Live last night.

Meanwhile, the film seems well on the way to a $76.5M opening weekend.

While the film enjoyed its world premiere in Australia, Texas fans thought they were going to an Austin-area Drafthouse to get a 10-minute sneak peek of the new Star Trek Movie before settling in for a viewing of The Wrath of Khan.

After a bit of “impromptu” theater featuring one Leonard Nimoy, they got to watch the whole friggin’ movie!  Rather annoyingly, the AICN article starts going into story detail (my eyes).  If you can stop yourself, quit reading when he talks about the excitement level in the audience.  If you can’t stop yourself, here’s a much tamer description.  (via)

Bummed you missed the excitement?  You can console yourself during the long wait by getting a Star Trek bridge wall mural.

As the geek world turns:

• The town of Vulcan, Alberta, will have a special pre-release screening of Star Trek, after Leonard Nimoy went to bat for them to the Paramount bigwigs who chose Sydney, Australia for the world premiere. But wait, Vulcan doesn’t even have a movie theater!
• Leonard Nimoy talks about being Spock one more time, and gives a spoiler as to his scene.
• Some new Red Dwarf: Back to Earth photos have popped up, as well as a postcard from Lister.
• NPR ponders: Does the end of BSG mean dividends for Dollhouse?
• Moviehole reports that the ending of Terminator Salvation has been changed since the original ending was leaked online last month. Maybe they’ll put in that line about the Salvation Army? Will this affect the prequel novel “Terminator Salvation: From the Ashes” written by Timothy Zahn that came out last week?
• And with the latest promo material showcasing the cast of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, cinematical wonders where are Ryan Reynolds and Dominic Monaghan?

Leonard Nimoy confirms that the movie is a prequel. (Shock!) But more interestingly, he talks about his photography work.

Is Patrick Stewart about to guest on Dr. Who? I think there are more than a few people in Club Jade who would find that pretty exciting!

Things seem to be getting interesting in Trek fandom; at least in the media.

USA Today speaks to Zachary Quinto (Young Spock) about bonding with Leonard Nimoy (Old Spock) and living the “homebody” existence.

Klingons get the 501st treatment in the papers.

And a paper in the UK says the casting of James McAvoy as Scotty is a done deal.

Stardust may not be out yet, but it’s certainly getting its share of hype. It’s currently getting a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes (from only five reviews, granted) but Neil Gaiman is everywhere.

Really, there ought to be a band

• Speaking of the giants of modern geekdom, Entertainment Weekly snagged the Spocks, Chris Carter and Joss Whedon.

• Sam Raimi to helm Clash of the Titans remake? I’m not sure how I feel about that. Aside from the whole ‘how dare they remaked the crap classics of my childhood’ thing. CLAYMATION FOREVER!
• More viral marketing for The Dark Knight: Rent-A-Clown.
• IGN talks to Wall-E director Andrew Stanton.
• Kevin Costner is still defending Water World. Dude, let it go.
• Pirates 3 DVD details.
• Totally random rumour from Hong Kong: Natalie Portman and Jet Li making Snow White action flick?
• In Portman news that might actually have a chance of being real, the supposed poster for The Other Boleyn Girl. Let’s hope Scarlett Johansson’s English accent has improved since The Prestige.

Videos du jour

• Kevin Smith responds to SDCC jackass.

• On a more positive note, the teaser trailer for Back to the Future is surprisingly palatable for its era.

Zachary Quinto is young Spock. Meanwhile, Leonard Nimoy will reprise his role as original flavor Spock in scenes that will act as a framing device for the film.

Also…

• Friday is sold out

• J.J. Abrams’ other project revealed: It’s a monster movie. Or something.
• DC will publish Heroes comic. The irony is delicious.
• Watchman cast revealed. It’s a veritable lineup of Hey, It’s That Guys. Chances are you might know two of them by name.
• Beowulf trailer. As expected, looks uncanny valleytastic, plus Angelina Jolie’s Natasha Fatale accent from Alexander makes a encore appearance. Poor Neil Gaiman – he deserves better.

Friday is Star Wars day, so keep your eye on the TOSblog and Flickr.

In one of the most horrific acts of cross-fandom pollination known to man, Leonard Nimoy sings about Bilbo Baggins and commits it to film.

The rest of the garbage…
- Gnarls Barkley’s MTV Movie Awards performance.
- One fan’s tribute the Wilhelm Scream.
- James Luceno talks about Dark Lord.
- Mashup: Sith City.
- Harry Potter battles the monster Pubertus.
- Classic Clip: Jedi Hunter. Crikey!