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.

Preview:


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This arrived this morning (of course I was at work and didn't get home until after 7pm... *grumble*):



I opted for the 2-disc DVD set - in its shiny steelbook case!¹ - after looking longingly at the Blu-ray set and finally coming to the remarkable realisation that buying it would also require the purchase of a Blu-ray player.²

I think a movie night is in order.

1. Shiny steelbook case took approximately 3.76 seconds to get smeared in fingerprints and become unshiny.
2. This may actually happen at some point. In the future. When I stop spending all my money on DVDs.

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.

All that chatter in my last post about creating your own movies with CGI reminded me of this site. It's obviously pretty cartoonish - and potentially objectionable material (sex/nudity/violence/etc) isn't allowed - but it still looks like a heap of fun. And for extra fun, there's already a Star Trek channel. Awesome.

So, about that new Star Trek movie they're bringing out next month...

I'm especially curious about the reactions of Pine, Quinto, et al. to the last sentence.

ONE: For the Star Trek artists (and fans of Star Trek art), there's a new community for people to share all kinds of Trek fanart. ⇒ startrekart

TWO: For the busy, the lazy, and the logical people who like stuff to be organised, eponymous_rose has the perfect way to keep up with all the Trek happenings on LJ. ⇒ trek_news, a fandom newsletter.

THREE: For the lovers of good TOS genfic, eponymous_rose (two pimps for you in one post!) has written a Kirk-Spock-McCoy banter!fic full of all the things that make the triumvirate so awesome. Click, read, enjoy. ⇒ Daybreak

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.