{"id":5633,"date":"2009-05-13T23:31:23","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T22:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slipserver.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/trekbits-5\/"},"modified":"2009-08-22T08:11:44","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T15:11:44","slug":"trekbits-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2009\/05\/trekbits-5\/","title":{"rendered":"TrekBits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Pine, Smith, Cho, Spock: Reflections, Star Trek Parody Comic, Star Trek Box Office, China and Starfleet?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Chris Pine Explains Kirk<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.2theadvocate.com\/entertainment\/44914377.html\">2theadvocate.com<\/a>, has posted a video of<b> Chris Pine<\/b>, where he talks about playing James T. Kirk.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;James Kirk is everything you&#8217;d want to be,&#8221; he said, listing all of Kirk&#8217;s personality traits. &#8220;The process of the movie is how is this guy going to take all of this disparate energies and kind of mold them into the form of a Captain?&#8221; <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><b>Smith a Pine Fan<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Director <b>Kevin Smith<\/b> credits <i>Star Trek XI<\/i>&#8216;s success to Chris Pine, as reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtv.com\/movies\/news\/articles\/1611192\/story.jhtml\">MTV<\/a>, &#8220;I think what makes that movie work chiefly, aside from, of course, the talents who all came together behind it, is Chris Pine,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That dude is astounding. To be able to invoke Kirk without doing a Shatner impression? That performance was so electric and so wonderful to watch. That dude is an instant movie star. That dude is gonna work forever. He&#8217;s so good and effortless in his delivery&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>Cho Talks Sulu<\/b><\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackbookmag.com\/article\/john-cho-piece-tk\/7560\">BlackBook<\/a>, getting out of the bridge chair was satisfying for <b>John Cho<\/b>. &#8220;I was excited about that,&#8221; he said. &#8220;If I had one small complaint about the original series I wanted to see my man get out of the chair, beam down, mix it up and get into some tussles. That&#8217;s exactly what Sulu does in this movie, and I was really thrilled when I read it. It was a revelation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cho had to learn some martial arts to prepare for his fight with some of Nero&#8217;s Romulans. &#8220;Ironically, I have spent my career trying to avoid martial arts parts because I thought that my time would be better served doing things that people didn&#8217;t expect from Asians,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Come to find I really enjoyed myself. I started from ground zero. I learned Tae Kwon Do. The stunt guys are brilliant. They really tailor our movements to our characters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>Spock: Reflections<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>Spock: Reflections<\/i>, a comics miniseries produced by IDW Publishing, will debut in July. This new series of comics is a follow-up to <i>Star Trek: Countdown<\/i>, but will be set prior to that series in the original timeline. <i>Spock: Reflections<\/i> will explain why Spock ended up on Romulus.<\/p>\n<p>Several examples of artwork from the forthcoming comic have been posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treknews.de\/treknews\/newspro-treknews\/static\/124220851024129.php\">TrekNews.de<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Star Trek Parody Comic<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of comics, a new parody comic series has begun at <a href=\"http:\/\/motionpicturescomics.com\/category\/comic-post\/?tag=star-trek-jj-abrams\">MotionPicturesComics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pine, Smith, Cho, Spock: Reflections, Star Trek Parody Comic, Star Trek Box Office, China and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2401],"tags":[2690,2510,2596,2419,2679,2509],"class_list":["post-5633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek-xi","tag-box-office","tag-cho","tag-comic","tag-pine","tag-smith","tag-star-trek-countdown"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-xi\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: XI<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: XI","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5633"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6909,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5633\/revisions\/6909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}