h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I've lost my brain after having read all that.
What's the word for a StarWars Trekkie?
(I'm neither, by the way, I Just watch them occassionally).

So should I go see this film or what? And who can I presuade to go with me?

Well, if you know the TNG characters and have ever enjoyed watching the show, I'd say it was probably worth a look... it's just not going to win any awards, that's all. Not having penetrated your intimate circle (of friends, I mean) I have no advice as to who to go to see it with.

Collective noun for Star Wars fans? I dunno - Warsies? I find these titles tend to be imposed upon fandoms from without - Trekkies famously hate being called Trekkies. Having said that, the Thunderbirds crowd revel in the title 'Fandersons' and West Wing addicts style themselves Wingnuts. My lot don't like being called 'Whovians', they prefer 'enthusiasts' for some reason.

You've lost your brain?!? You're not trying to muscle in on my territory here are you?

Your territory of beain loss?

The problem is that of people I know (at Uni, where I'm going tomorrow, I know exactly where to find meself a friendly Trekkie at home) I'm not sure if any of them watch/have watched TNG at all. So there's no point them going to see this really.

Isn't it obvious?

Hmm, what about down the SF soc? Or did Caves of Androzani put you off them permanently?

Or what about a personal ad on a noticeboard or in the newspaper? 'Vivacious natural sciences student, with occasional sarcastic tendencies, seeks Trekkie for night out at cinema (and absolutely no chance of anything else I might add).' Ooh, life could be such an adventure!

So not happening.
Didn't actually join that soc, although I'm still on their 'interested' email list. Much too busy, y'see. I'll just find someone to drag. I think I'm owed one after seeing Apocalypse Now Redux when our college showed it.

Like, y'know, duh.

Wouldn't mind seeing Redux (Redux = hour longer? <scratchhead&gt. That said, i've had the 'short' version on tape for five years but haven't watched it yet...

I would say 'DON'T', but you might actually like it. I spent some time wondering who it was they were supposed to be shooting and who they weren't, and then just gave up.

Okay, I approve of the bad guy, reasonably attractive for a bald guy wioth funny veins, and dressed stupidly enough that there's no doubt aboiut him bieng a scifi bad guy.

They cloned him from a hair follicle? Where did they find one?

Why haven't I heard of these Remans before, and why do they look like that? I thought they'd be a variation on ther Romulan/Vulcan sort of look, but instead they're practically Orcs.

I'm also very disappointed that Picard didn't die. I was waiting for it to happen (a generation's final journey and all that) and Data goes and does it for him, which is pointless because they already have a replacement Data waiting around.

Hmmm, the Remans have always been one of the great Trekkie mysteries, and this film didn't really clear it up much. Presumably they're the original inhabitants of the Rom-Rem star system, displaced when the ancestral Romulan exiles arrived aeons ago...

Picard's hair! Yes indeed! This film rather naughtily implies that Picard went bald at the same age Pat Stewart did (ie about 20), but the TV series said differently - one episode we see Picard as a young man, with all his hair, and in another we see him delivering Dr Crusher's husband's corpse to her, when he's middle-aged - and he has a ginger combover!

(God, this scares me, it really does. It's what most people do with this brain capacity that makes them normal, I guess...)

I don't think most people do anything with that brain capacity.
If there'd been a young clone with hair, you wouldn't have seen the funny veins, and also we would have all realised that he doesn't look like him very much really.

Mmm, well, maybe. Apparently he had a prosthetic nose fitted to improve the resemblence. But it's the same old Trek obsession with superficialities...

Look at the lips. The young guy has big lips and Picard doesn't have any. At all.