What’s the Deal with this Klingon Cartoon?
Three days ago, someone uploaded the above video to YouTube. It is the user’s only video, and he labeled it “A transmission recently received from an extraterrestrial source. Prepare for battle.” as opposed to something like “A really fucking goofy Klingon cartoon my friends made.” Now, io9 suggests this might be a viral for the next Star Trek movie, which, as far as we know, doesn’t have a script or a release date or anything. While my initial reaction was that this was far too stupid and early for a Star Trek 2 viral video, I suddenly remembered how utterly insane the viral shit for the first Star Trek movie was, and now I figure I can’t rule it out. Dammit.
I will say this, though — I would much rather Star Trek 2 be about fighting Klingons than a re-hash of Wrath of Khan. I think for Trek to survive as a movie franchise, it needs some new stories, and can’t just keep trading off the old ones. Now, maybe they could re-do Khan by movie 4 or so, but right now, I’d much prefer them set out on their own; and I think fighting the original Star Trek bad guys, the Klingons, is exactly the way to do that. But I’m also not even close to a hardcore Trekkie. What do you guys think?
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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.