Decorate Next Year’s Christmas Tree With Spock’s Painful Death by Radiation
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Not every scene from a beloved movie is necessarily holiday appropriate, even if it does boast a sub-theme of friendship and collective good. You don’t see Disney busting out “Death of Bambi’s Mother” ornaments, even though it’s one of the company’s most famous moments. Amid all the Scarface merchandise out there, I have yet to see a mini-diorama of Tony Montana snorting cocaine or exploding in a hail of bullets. But Star Trek? Once again boldly going where no merchandise has gone before.
Maybe, just maybe, it’s a clever ploy to make you forget the terrible revised version of this scene from Into Darkness. In which case, I have to admit I approve.
h/t Eric Diaz via Alan Spencer
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Luke Y. Thompson has been writing professionally about movies and pop-culture since 1999, and has also been an actor in some extremely cheap culty and horror movies you will probably never hear much about (he is nonetheless mostly proud of them, as he met his wife on one). As editor of The Robot's Voice since 2012, he can take the blame for the majority of the site's content, all of which he creates because he loves you very, very much. (Although he loves nachos more. Sorry.) Prior to TRV, Luke wrote for publications that include the New Times LA, Los Angeles CityBeat, E! Online, OC Weekly, Geekweek, GeekChicDaily, The L.A. Times, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, and Nerdist