Comments on: Hummer Boldly Goes Trek In New Ad

By: Steve 0

Steve 0 — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 22:51:19 +0000

does anyone know the song that is played in this commercial?

By: Orbitalic

Orbitalic — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 16:38:03 +0000

#12, 13 and 14.
I understand your concerns, I saw was an amusing commercial built around an imaginative image from many people’s experience.. driving through the snow “at the helm of the Enterprise”.
#14…. In 1989 there was a series of commercials for Oldsmobile built around the theme of “this is not your father’s Oldsmobile.. the new generation of Olds” They featured Doohan, Shatner and Nimoy and their kids. I really got a kick out of those. My point is… does anyone recall if there was reaction from Roddenberry on those? I am sure he was alive at the time.

JimJ!!!
It was very good to meet you at the hospital on Dec 29. I hope you are feeling better. A happy new year to you and yours.

By: trekkerguy

trekkerguy — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 01:08:17 +0000

Awesome, can’t wait what other kind of media exposure Trek will get leading up to the new film.

By: Disgusted viewer

Disgusted viewer — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 23:12:19 +0000

I’m revolted. I see enough Hummers to know that virtually all are driven by pretentious affluent idiots who are too busy yakking on their cellphone to watch the road.

What person at Paramount (or elsewhere?) sold out the theme to a classic TV show that promoted the promise of a future, not the destruction of the environment?

Gene Roddenberry is rolling over in his grave.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 20:30:20 +0000

No one commented on what I said above (and that’s fine – I wasn’t expecting it or trying to start something), but after re-reading it, I realized it didn’t sound quite right. When I said, “We’re just going to have to give up some of our freedoms for the greater good,” I wasn’t implying that I am for that, but was being sarcastic. That is the attitude of the globalists (which includes the leaders of both branches of the single political party in the US): Our problems are too big to solve as individuals or even nations, so we are going to have to give up some of our freedoms, and subjugate ourselves under some organization like the UN which will destroy liberty and prosperity in the process. Sorry for any confusion.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 21:43:01 +0000

#2 – baloney. The whole “ozone hole,” global warming, HIV causes AIDS, and all the rest of the “scary science” nonsense is simply left-wing propaganda to destroy individual freedom and national sovereignty, because only an all powerful world government can fix those “problems.” We’re just going to have to give up some of our freedoms for the greater good. The phony “war on terror” and Newt Gingrich’s recent statement that freedom of speech will have to be curtailed to fight terrorism are two recent example.

As great as Trek is, Rodenberry and some of his followers/successors can’t see that liberty cannot co-exist (in any time period – past, present or future) with global government. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Some aspects of the future depicted in Trek are incompatible with each other.

By: Old School Trek Nerd

Old School Trek Nerd — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 04:40:31 +0000

Re: #5. I saw warp speed in the driving snow as well.
Just saw the commercial on television. Sad they didn’t do the fast fly by with the Hummer flying at and then away from the camera in 1/2 a second. That would’ve been fun.

By: Marcus

Marcus — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 02:31:23 +0000

I say the hummer is the doomsday machine. It would be nice to see a flying hummer cgi’ed into that episode. What parody. (LOL)

By: JohnnyMoo

JohnnyMoo — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 02:01:08 +0000

Driving a militaristic vehicle that destroys the planet, a perfect match with Star Trek’s ethos. ;-)

By: TomBot2006

TomBot2006 — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 01:12:33 +0000

Re#2: So, Adam, if we buy a HUMMER, we got our very own PlanetKiller? *winks* Cue, canned Star Trek tension music… *eg*