I was originally going to do something with Nimoy!Spock. Just Spock. Because that's how I roll 99.99% of the time. But then, for no apparent reason, I ended up doing XI Spock/Uhura. *shrug*

Title: Afterglow in Blue
Characters/Pairings: Spock/Uhura
Series: XI
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: non-explicit nudity, large image (1200x1200px)
Notes: Credit to Tacostock for the photo reference.

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My next post will have Actual Content™ (maybe even icons) - I promise!

In the meantime, the vid-spamming continues. Quinto, Cho and Pine on C4's Vodafone Select Live show. Links again, because I can't embed.

[1] An interview in which the guys get, um, close.

[2] An illogical, but entertaining, game show (of sorts).

Okay, I know this is getting kind of spammy now. My only excuse is that I've got caught up in the snowballing hysteria now that we're less than a month out from the movie's release. *shrug*

TV3 did an interview with Zachary Quinto and Chris Pine which you can see here. Watch it. It's funny. And 20 minutes long. Huzzah.

They also did one with John Cho and Karl Urban here. Also funny.

Hopefully, the videos should play outside of NZ. I heard that the TVNZ ones I linked to yesterday might not play overseas, so I edited the post with YouTube links.

I really need to make some Trek movie icons.

After the premiere in Sydney a couple of nights ago, the Trek cast have beamed down to Kiwiland to repeat the whole red carpet gig in Auckland (still too far away for me... *cries*). The local media are all over it because of Kiwi!McCoy... and probably because NZ doesn't get a lot of glitzy Hollywood-type events with Real Hollywood Stars™!

Here's a couple of interviews from TVNZ (links because I can't seem to embed them):

Karl Urban and John Cho on Breakfast
Watch it on YouTube

Karl Urban and Zachary Quinto on One News
Watch it on YouTube

What they haven't included in the second clip is the two newsreaders Vulcan-saluting back to the reporter interviewing Karl and Zach. A shame, really; it was kind of cute (I think Simon and Wendy are kind of cute anyway, but we don't need to go there).

EDIT: Added links to YouTube for anyone who can't see the videos on the TVNZ site.

Clearly, I fail at keeping resolutions (especially that one about more fandom participation *koff*) - but I couldn't let Mr Spock's Nimoy's birthday go by without mention.

Happy Birthday, Leonard Nimoy! You may not have Spock's ears ('cause he's, y'know, Vulcan and you're only, y'know, human), but you certainly have the same, very lovely um... package ... well, everything other than the ears. And the eyebrows. And the lack of smiling ('cept when he was being illogical). And all that other Vulcan stuff.

If you need help blowing out those 78 candles, give me a call.

Because someone had to do it.

The scary thing is, once I matched the two pics for size, the nose, the lips, the hairline, everything lined up automatically. Although, Quinto has wider eyes and they still haven't quite tamed the Sybrows.

If I'd spent more than 5 minutes on it I might've tried to match the colours/contrast better... but a) I couldn't be bothered and b) I kinda like it. Oh, and c) when I did blend the faces a bit more it actually looked weirder.

Everything's taking forever because I'm borrowing my family's dial-up account (I'm on holiday, yay), but I posted 107 Spock icons over here.

So there are some sneak peeks already - despite the reportedly sooperdooper tight security.

Shots of ZQ as Spock are here. And there's some more stuff here, including a video (which is pretty hard to make out... but that's the nature of spying and long-range lenses, I guess).

Also, there are a couple of sources of supposedly insider gossip describing possible plot elements for Trek 11. They're... interesting. Some of the things I was hoping for are there. Some of the things I was hoping there wouldn't be aren't there. But, y'know, it's still only gossip.

Standard warning for those who don't want to be spoiled (even by rumours*): DON'T CLICK

[POSSIBLE] SPOILERY LINK THE FIRST
[POSSIBLE] SPOILERY LINK THE SECOND

* You know how the 'T' key is right next to the 'R' key? Yeah, the Typo Genie struck again. Don't get spoiled by tumours.

Oh, and whatever you think of ST11 (if you think anything of it at all), there are some pretty good reasons to watch. Slurp.

Not the least of which is the Nimoy!Spock factor, of course.

I was going to post these this morning before work, but my internet broke.

Spock, Kirk, McCoy and Denny Crane in one icon post over here.

I know. My brain can't handle that either.

'Tis the season to be logical. 8 Christmassy Trek icons over here.