tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6988729.post12997036997210916..comments2024-03-27T11:42:47.601-04:00Comments on Another Monkey: BloodlettingD.B. Echohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797128570217627410noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6988729.post-35291826451464687382011-04-11T13:43:07.073-04:002011-04-11T13:43:07.073-04:00I've been doing some reading on this movie, an...I've been doing some reading on this movie, and it looks like most of these issues have been raised and dealt with in related media: bonus items on the Blu-Ray, official comic books, and so on. (Nero's ship was refitted by the Romulan secret service using captured Borg technology, for example, turning it from an enormous mining ship to an enormous, nearly-unstoppable killing machine.) But that means that the movie doesn't stand on its own.<br /><br />I did like the movie. I liked Eric Bana's totally off-the-wall depiction of a Romulan miner mad with vengeance - "Hi Christopher, I'm Nero" is a great line. (I could imagine John Malkovich doing a similar delivery.) I liked that Sulu wasn't the original helmsman, just a fill-in for a guy with lungworms, since in his first appearance in the series Sulu was the ship's physicist, not the helmsman. Unfortunately they missed an opportunity with McCoy, who became Chief Doctor after the death of "Dr. Pira." Christopher Pike's ship's doctor / bartender in "The Cage" was Dr. Philip Boyce, and it would have been a neat little tidbit to have his absence from subsequent episodes explained here.D.B. Echohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01797128570217627410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6988729.post-51001103208994965622011-04-11T12:23:47.981-04:002011-04-11T12:23:47.981-04:00I just reviewed my review of "Star Trek."...I just reviewed my review of "Star Trek." The bottom line? A convoluted plot, but lots of action and humor to make up for it. Overall, I enjoyed it.Jenniferhttp://jenniferdwade.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6988729.post-63323227852558168532011-04-10T19:06:19.434-04:002011-04-10T19:06:19.434-04:00I'm ashamed to admit that for having read the ...I'm ashamed to admit that for having read the medication list so many times, I can't recall what's on it! This is mainly because I don't take any medications, so none of it applies to me and reading it is merely a formality. BUT...I do recall that Feldene is on the list, and unless the Internet is lying to me, I just read that Feldene is an NSAID. So the NSAID restrictions may dtill apply.<br /><br />No, Nero is a new character, a renegade Romulan miner who has vowed revenge against Spock and the Federation for, as the movie is written, having failed to save the planet Romulus, and his pregnant wife. ("Trying but failing to save" would be less cause for a personal vendetta in my book than "accidentally destroying," but that's just me.) Nero and his jolly crew of pirate Romulans actually look very little like any other Romulans in the series: they look like bulky, bald, pointy-eared humans.D.B. Echohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01797128570217627410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6988729.post-61124107974375507662011-04-10T18:25:35.699-04:002011-04-10T18:25:35.699-04:00I'm curious - do you know if the same restrict...I'm curious - do you know if the same restrictions apply to platelet donation as apply to ordinary blood donations? I used to donate regularly and then I developed arthritis and essentially live on NSAIDs, and you have to be off NSAIDs for 10 days to donate whole blood. I'd consider donating platelets if I didn't have to quit my drugs.<br /><br />And is that the real, original "Nero" in that funky movie or just a made-up character with the same name??hederahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01696592301686568456noreply@blogger.com