Comments on: Report From Mexico City Star Trek Press Conference (w/ Pictures & Video) + JJ Talks Sequel

By: Harry Ballz

Harry Ballz — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:01:01 +0000

Ya snooze, ya lose!! :>)

By: Millennium Vulcan

Millennium Vulcan — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 15:20:56 +0000

98.

Damn! You beat me to that joke.

By: Spock with a Crowbar

Spock with a Crowbar — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 04:52:33 +0000

I’m from Alaska, which is as far from the border in the US as you can get, and even I thought the word Gringo was meant to be harmless.

Maybe sometimes it’s how you say a thing that’s offensive as opposed to what you say. I wish people would lighten up; I’m tired of those who think that they have a god-given right to never be offended by anything, ever.

The freedom of speech can only be fairly countered by the freedom to ignore who’s speaking.

By: Harry Ballz

Harry Ballz — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 03:36:10 +0000

That gringo ate my baby!!

By: Closettrekker

Closettrekker — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 17:48:53 +0000

#85—”Sorry guys, have to agree with CS Lewis on this one. ‘Gringo’ is a racial slur.”

Well, I live in Texas (which has no shortage of Hispanic inhabitants), and it isn’t considered such around here. It is simply a Spanish slang term for “white American”. It is only deragatory if the user holds white Americans in a negative regard. I’m sorry, but if that’s enough for you to classify it as a “racial slur”, then I have a term to describe you—”hyper-sensitive”.

Allowing a minority of people who harbor racial predjudices to commandeer the Spanish language is absurd and unwarranted.

The authoritative ‘Diccionario de la lengua española de la Real Academia Española’ (Royal Spanish Academy) does not consider the word “gringo” to be derogatory or racist, and there isn’t a more credible and respected source on the Spanish language in the entire World.

By: fctiger

fctiger — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 17:29:47 +0000

You know I like the fact that they will just use subtitles since they’ve ALL used subtitles anyway. And the TNG films did away with the numbers a long time ago, so I kind of wish this one had a subtitle as well and keep with the tradition. Its kind of weird just calling it Star Trek, ironically lol. TFB, or whatever wouldve been cool and no confusions for the next few.

By: Trek Nerd Central

Trek Nerd Central — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 17:14:35 +0000

Star Trek: Gringo Wars.

Seriously, guys, relax on the “Gringo” business. It’s the automatic identifier and nickname assigned to any white northerner in Latin America.

It’s not a racist pejorative at all, just a descriptive. And nicknames tend to be rather blunt down there. Be grateful your nickname isn’t “Gordo” or “Flaca”. . .

Yeesh mareesh.

By: Lore

Lore — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:11:50 +0000

Sequal Titles:
1. Star Trek The Wrath of Rick Berman (Berman tries to take over the franchise again.
2. Star Trek 2 and a half men (Charlie Sheen as a renagade Starfleet Capt with his brother and nephew tagging along for comedy relief.
3. Star Trek 2 Attack of the Clones (Vulcans begin cloning themselves to repopulate the species but accidently use the same DNA sample for all clones.
4. Star Trek 2 The Real Jackass Movie (Eddie Murphy guest stars for comic relief, with apologies to Shrek 2.
5. Star Trek 2 Men in black (the whole movie revolves around a uniform change in order to get away from the sixties uniforms.
6. Star Trek 2 Jim Kirk’s day off ( Kirk gets his uptight friend Spock to play hooky and spend the day with him and an Orian slave girl in Chicago.
7. Star Trek 2 Seinfeld version (the sci fi movie about nothing.

By: Christine

Christine — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:25:27 +0000

Awesome!

I think it’s so great that (A) both Orci and Saldana hablan espanol, and also that I could understand about 75% of what they were saying. :3

By: Dom

Dom — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 12:47:54 +0000

Maybe they should use ‘Star Trek’ as the subtitle. In the UK, Star Trek IV was released as ‘The Voyage Home: Star Trek IV.’

Perhaps they could even do ‘Star Trek Part Two’

It’d be a good way to separate the new series of films from the old. The TOS films had numbers and the TNG ones had names. Neo-Trek could have ‘Parts’.