A challenge to all the JJ Trek haters

See, Turkey has learned to defer to my authoritah.

I dunno...
billions of workers that only receive sustenance and a bunk after working 16 hour shifts.
hostile takeover of resources.
only a select few enjoy the benefits of this growth.

sounds like a robber baron's utopia to me.

Which is differentiated from Socialism only by the lack of pointy-headed ivory tower dwellers lying about it.

Oh, well, as long as there's not that, exploit away.

There's also this quote from C.S. Lewis: "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

It's eerie. This post was almost a year ago, and it came true.

I can see the future!

*Hand wave*
Yeah, I don't consider him...a lifeform.

The Official Red Room Bitch About People Who Don't Like Star Trek Into Darkness Thread!

The butthurt from all the drooling fanboys warms the cockles of my heart.

Re: The Official Red Room Bitch About People Who Don't Like Star Trek Into Darkness Thread

Yes. Yes it does.

I hope this movie becomes the smash-hit of the summer. I can't wait to see all the butthurt that will ensue.

Re: The Official Red Room Bitch About People Who Don't Like Star Trek Into Darkness Thread

It's already the most highly promoted movie of the summer so far. Even Iron Man 3 hasn't gotten this much promotion.

Re: The Official Red Room Bitch About People Who Don't Like Star Trek Into Darkness Thread

I'm not sure why something being popular ought to change anyone's view of it. It may have escaped your notice, but a lot people are stupid, and pay for all sorts of rubbish.

Re: The Official Red Room Bitch About People Who Don't Like Star Trek Into Darkness Thread

Ricky is paraphrasing Dayton.


Will wonders never cease?

What? Are you suggesting that whatever comes out of the mass-market pop culture machine is always good?

This film will do much better financially than TWoK. In your head, will that make it a superior movie?

Is there a word for the "anti-fanboy"?
That is, the one who's obsession with the negative view is every bit as irrationally strong as the fanboy's is for the positive?

Bizzaro Fanboy maybe?

Nope, didn't even imply that.

Nope, didn't even imply that.

I was just amused that you of all people would be siding with Dayton on anything.

The horror.

Good old fashioned "Hater", works for me.

No... the proper term is, in fact, "fanboy".

Captain X keeps using that word. I do not think it means what he thinks it means.

Seeing as he's all deceased-like, you're probably right. Nevertheless and irregardless (Hi, Tamar!) it's a perfectly apt quote.

...when I rip it a new one.

Nah, you're just too much of a pussy to admit what you are.

No, but anything Dayton doesn't like is by definition good and worthy.

I think this irrefutably proves the case in the argument over the definition of "fanboy":

Your honour, the prosecution rests.

I wonder what Paramount would say about the trademark infringement in that image? I can only imagine what would happen if a website using that logo were reported to the Trek legal department.

They'd steal the web-site and hire Stephanie Meyer to take over writing the fanfic.

Because, as JJTrek proves, that's what they do now.

Here's what I'll be doing as soon as I've seen the film:

I'll be sticking to the particulars ofthe film, plot points and effects and whatever. I WON'T be trying to prop up my arguments with schoolyard name-calling and rhetorical distractions.

I invite all who are willing to join me.

Sounds good to me, poopy-head!

I'm not falling into that style over substance nonsense. I'll make perfectly solid points which, because of the vulgar obscenities I present them with, will be roundly ignored and derided. Because that's what I do, and I like it like that.

Considering that all of that's been sorted out and settled during the Web 1.0 days, absolutely nothing, as long as I'm not claiming Star Trek as my own and I'm not selling anything using that name.