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Star Trek Pic Reveals Slaughter Waiting to Happen
Star Trek Pic Reveals Slaughter Waiting to Happen
By Rob Bricken
March 18, 2008
Movies
Some fan snuck this pic of the still-in-progress Star Trek movie while it was filming at Cal State Northridge. Given the huge crowd or red-shirts in the pic, Forever Geek has a theory that it’s some kind of Starfleet Academy graduation scene or something. My theory is that since so many expendable characters have come together, they’ve summoned a large asteroid, which will annihilate them shortly. Of course, they could also have banded together to kill all the movie’s main characters, in hopes of a few of them surviving.
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.