Nathan Fillion Tweets Trek Love – Simon Pegg Challenges Him To Spaceship Fight February 18, 2010
by Anthony Pascale , Filed under: Celebrity, ST09 Cast, Sci-Fi , trackback
If you haven’t joined the Twitter revolution, you can miss out on some of the fun, including the vicarious celebrity watching, even sci-fi celebrity watching. Today there has been some funny banter back and forth between Firefly’s Nathan Fillion and Star Trek’s Simon Pegg. Check it out below.
Pegg/Fillion Starship fight
This latest exchange started last night when Nathan Fillion, Firefly’s Capt. Mal Reynold’s, sent out a tweet of Star Trek love:
NathanFillion: Dear JJ, Star Trek? Perfect movie. Thank you, Nathan
Although Fillion is showing his Trek-ness, this afternoon Simon Pegg decided to take Fillion on, prompting the following exchange:
SimonPegg: I’m calling you out @NathanFillion. Your spaceship vs my spaceship. Last one to the crab nebula gets the beers in. Spacedock, 1 hour.
Nathan Fillion: Yo, @simonpegg, be reasonable! My ship was a filming set, while the Enterprise is obviously real. Perhaps a drinking contest?
SimonPegg: @NathanFillion You’re on. To be honest, somebody keyed my nacelles so the old lady’s in the shop. I’ll get the first round in. Romulan ale?
Battle of Serenity vs. Enterprise postponed for drinking contest
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Keyed nacelles? That’s a lot of T Cut.
Wonder what pub?
Qapla’
That’s cool. Serenity is one fine ship, if you ask me.
This was awesome! Captain tight-pants and the original engineer! So funny!
By the way did everyone see who won the face off between the ships Enterprise and Serenity? You can vote for the coolest starship at:
http://polls.amctv.com//chart/data/1150-round-1-match-1.html
You might be surprised.
#3 The Enterprise isn’t too bad either :-)
Serenity comes with its own interstellar escort service – Have the drinks on the Serenity
Nathan would make a GREAT Starfleet Captain! =D
Serenity – no weapons. Sadly. No match for the Enterprise either. I love them both.
#6 Oh yeah, well the Enterprise has a brewery in engineering! If things get stressful, just go down and ask Mr. Scott for a cold one! Or you can it yourself if he’s “incapacitated”. :-)
#8
Didn’t stop them from taking on the Reavers though did it? Serenity can kick butt, it’s not the weapons but the people. How many times was the big E outmatched firepower wise, but won because of the ingenuity of the people?
I nominate April as the judge and jury for this here contest, all in favor say “Ahy”
“A pint’s a pound the world round”
Very cool round of tweets.
Two ships that are both beautiful in their own right. However, I’ve always liked the idea of being in a rickety old ship hauling freight from here to there. Just doing my own thing. I could get accustomed to being on board Serenity. The chief engineer is much prettier too.
I really hope I am not the only one that really really liked Firefly. It also made me a big Fillion fan. I will watch anything with him in it. Except that musical he made with the guy from How I Met Your Mother. I’ll pass on that one.
I’ve had drinks with Simon, Nathan doesn’t have a chance.
Good times :)
15 – Nice.
I have to give MAJOR props to Nathan Fillion. He said ALL the right things that a REAL Trekker would.
Enterprise over Serenity, sure. But for a really one-sided fight, Pegg over Fillion in whiskey shots.
the enterprise is the king of ships. forever.
I’d have to go with Serenity on this round..(heh..wonder why) But if it was Serenity vs. The Millenium Falcon, I’d have to think long and hard on that.
Enterprise would win for sure if it was a battle, since Serenity has no weapons at all. Not sure in an actual race though. Serenity seemed to be able to go pretty fast, even if her engine was held together with tape and bailing wire. Thought that’s better then the engine being a bunch of brewery pipes.
Why wouldn’t Serenity win? They built every piece of that ship with love and care from the cockpit to engineering, from the medical bay to the cargo compartment, from the crew quarters to the exterior of the ship. No “money saving” tactics done there like shooting it in a gawd dang brewery and calling it a ship set.
Oh, unlike Han Solo (Well, Han from 97-Present), Nathon always shoots first. Scotty will just try to talk you to death.
#19 “the enterprise is king of all ships. forever.”
And apparently to both Budweiser and J.J Abrams, Budweiser is the “king of all beers”. Forever. :-)
#14 – you’re missing out. Dr. Horrible is pretty awesome.
Wil Wheaton also responded to Nathan’s tweet, asking him if the best part wasn’t the voice-overs for the Romulans. LOL.
Agreed, Dr. Horrible=Awesome!
@19. ooba joagfjie “the enterprise is the king of ships. forever.”
King? KING? No, not King – Queen!
“Now I know why it’s called SHE!”
Okay I like the new Enterprise and all, but Serenity is more beautiful, however it’s no 1701-A or 1701-E. Sorry, but there’s NO contest.
Are you all kidding. Serenity looks like a dog. Enterprise hands down all the way! Although I’d opt for the TOS original.
Definitely Enterprise. The Motion Picture refit is my favorite!
I LOVE Star Trek. But I wish somebody would “reboot” Firefly. I love it every bit as much as Trek.
“You buy this ship, treat her proper, she’ll be with you for the rest of your life”
Remember the Enterprise, as Scotty says, “a well-endowed lady”!
I think that may well be the first time i’ve found anything on Twitter funny!
Well done guys- particularly enjoyed Fillions ‘the Enterprise is obviously real’ comment. Takes something to beat Pegg to the best funny line, but he did it there!
Serenity is one of the most beautiful ships ever to fly across a screen (and enjoys one of the most lovingly-realized interiors, too … those little homey touches, the dining room, etc) … but the ST:TMP Enterprise still takes her in a beauty contest, IMO.
The new Enterprise … has a fine Engineer. Simon Pegg rocks.
I think most people are underestimating the crew of Serenity’s resolve. You tell the crew of the Serenity that they’re going to go up against a huge ship with loads of weapons that they can’t possibly fight against, you’ll most likely be dealing with not only Serenity, but the hundreds of Reaver ships cruising behind it that wouldn’t mind taking the Enterprise apart piece by piece. And since the Enterprise’s hull can tear up so easily by a slow moving pieces of debris with it’s shields up, I’d say the Reavers are in for a crazy fun time.
Jayne, the man they call Jayne!
Why are Nathan and Simon tweeting when they should be posting right here on Trekmovie??!
I’d love to see Nathan Fillion in a Star Trek project. He’d be perfect for a variety of roles.
As much as I am not a big fan of the newly designed Enterprise, I got to love that shot of it over Titan.
But the real question is how would Serenity fair against the original universe Enterprise or the Enterprise D?
…ok. Here’s the deal breaker.
Serenity has more women, and unlike Trek09, they make a name for themselves.
Kayee. She’s not only the engineer of Serenity, she’s also the heart of the ship. No sexual groping jokes from her. She also knows what’s best and important for the ship even when Mal sees it as just a minor inconvenience (which later comes back to haunt him). And unlike NuScotty, she’s not labeled as just a comic relief character. In fact, I don’t think Prime Scotty was labeled or treated as a comic relief character either. He just had funny moments here and there just like every other character in Star Trek.
Zoe. Mal’s right hand. Tough as nails, very focused on the job at hand, sticks to her morals and sense of humanity and is less likely to play into a villain’s evil schemes when it comes to making choices. And she does all that while falling for one of the most goofiest but true in heart characters in the whole series. Remember that one episode of Star Trek that had a strong female character that was also second in command to Christopher Pike? Ya, I miss that character.
Inara. The ships companion. Even when you figure out what her usual ‘business’ is, she still comes off as a highly intelligent and far more responsible character than some of the toughest characters in the show including Jayne and Mal. She’s also one of the more positive thinking characters of the show, and I like it how she doesn’t shout “MOVE!” to people who aren’t in her way.
River. The dark, mysterious and ‘not-all-there’ character of the show certainly gives way for concern to everyone that’s around her. Far from a typical two-dimensional character and much more of a character with potential to being really unique in her own way. And the best part? She goes through more changes and developments throughout 13 episodes than most female Star Trek characters do in their entire series run, and it’s neither forced or rushed.
What does Trek09 have?
Uhura. Not only is she a character who whines when she doesn’t get the top position the moment one is given out (Don’t like to work from the bottom up, do you?), her relationship with Spock is tacked on at best. Why is she attracted to him? Who knows. Why doesn’t she go to comfort him when he leaves he bridge after Kirk literally berates him in front of the entire crew? Who knows. But what about her skills!? Well, they say she has skills, but nothing comes of them. Where Kaylee knows a lot about engineering and actually puts her skills to good use, every skill that Uhura is bragged about having is never put to use. You say she can speak Romulan? You’re in luck, because the Romulans speak perfect english. You say we need a communications officer to contact Vulcan and order a planet wide evacuation? Let someone offscreen do it. You say you want to hail the Narada? Let Chekov do it. And yes, all of those commands come after Uhura is assigned to the comms station. I don’t remember Mal telling Zoe, Jayne or anyone else to fix the engine when Kaylee is right there in the engineering room, and I certainly don’t remember Kaylee leaving the engineering room in a moment of crises just so she could hug Simon.
So in conclusion, Firefly/Serenity makes Trek09’s depiction of female characters look like a direct-to-video sequel of American Pie. All eye-candy, victims of sexual humor and no consistent traits or interesting development arcs. At least the real American Pie movies had actual development in the relationships instead of, you know, just having a relationship pop-up out of nowhere that doesn’t add anything to the characters.
@30. Canon Schmanon
It doesn’t need a reboot… it needs a continuation.
Scotty will drink him under the table and over the table and any way you want. But what ever you do. Keep the green stuff away. Oh well. Scotty will take him down. Ok. I like the Big E. It’s Exciting!!!!.
Ok. as much as I live the Big E. From Either Prime or J.J. Universe. Nothing compares to the I.S.S Enterprise from the Terran Empire. Scotty from the Terran Empire would out drink him and just simply blow up that little ship of his just beacuse he was bored.
NIce to see someone attached the the franchise who doesn’t have a stick up his @$$ about it…..
This is awesome! Brent Spiner’s posts are also often hilarious. So cool to read their posts directly and not through PR.
45
Brent Spiner is such a funny guy in person, its cool that his twitter messages reflect that.
* Nathan Fillion would make a good Fleet Captain Garth. Gathering the fleet at the Laurentian System, about to take on the Klingons at Axanar. Yep.
* NOW we know why Scotty says “I like this ship”… he knows it’s got an on board brewery! This is why Pike described Starfleet as a peacekeeping armada… it was going to keep the piece by bring BEER to planets throughout the Federation. Imagine the armada of beer ships, yielding wheat-y, hops-y, yeast-y joy throughout the universe. THE joy machine, with her ample nacelles. :)
I love reading this! Serenity wins all. I never loved Enterprise, even when I liked the passengers aboard her. Serenity touched my heart and head both from day 1!
Would the new Enterprise use beer to channel the matter anti matter reaction instead of the dilithium crystals?
LOL
I think the New Big E instead of firing Photon Torpedoes should instead fire Photo Beer Torpedoes. The Klingons would then just get drunk and we can take over. If we are not to drunk as well.
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#1—YES…keyed nacelles…as in ‘Sulu flew the ship into the wreckage of Starfleet ships while approaching Vulcan’ LOL;)
50
I like
This goes for all our favorite spacegoing ladies:
Love. You can know all the math in the ‘Verse, but take a boat in the air you don’t love, she’ll shake you off just as sure as the turning of worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down, tells ya she’s hurtin’ ‘fore she keens. Makes her home. -Malcolm Reynolds
I loved the Star Trek movie and all…..but I will always be a Browncoat first. Serenity TOTALLY wins! As long as there are no weapons involved. lol. Serenity is more of a character herself. AND…..Kaylee is a kick-ass mechanic!!
~Stay shiny and LOVE EVERYBODY!!
Tough choice maybe? Enterprise will prevail however Capt Reynols will need a new ship. I agree give Nathan his own Starship @ command. He’l do fine. Just sober up 1st! LOL
My bet’s on both Pegg and the Enterprise. Is it even POSSIBLE to beat a Scott in a drinking contest? I think not….
As for the ships, the E is still onscreen after 45 years, much less 14 hours…
Juuuust sayin’…..
Don’t get me wrong, I loved Firefly. But Trek is just… well, better.
As much as I love, absolutely LOVE the Enterprise, Serenity would run circles around that thing. While Sulu is an exceptionally skilled pilot, Wash is simply better.
And I think that either Mal would win the drinking contest, or it’d be a draw. And then Kaylee’d go aboard the Enterprise and in a matter of minutes disassemble and reassemble Engineering and the ship’s efficiency would go up 150%. ;-)
This made my day! I was recently introduced to Firefly and instantly fell in love.
Could we get a Nathan Fillion cameo in Trek? Pretty please? And Kaylee and Scotty teaming up would be awesome and adorable at the same time.
@47: Brilliant idea — all you have to do is modify one nacell to emit Klingon Bloodwine, and peace throughout the quadrant is assured. ;)
@31, 54: I see your quotes, and raise you:
“Well this is a new ship, but she’s got the right name. Now you remember that, you hear?….You treat her like a lady, and she’ll always bring you home…”
I’m more worried about Spock vs River. She can kill you with her brain, after all.
@30 – “I LOVE Star Trek. But I wish somebody would “reboot” Firefly. I love it every bit as much as Trek.”
NO NO NO NO NO! I love Firefly they way it was. I would not watch a reboot, only a continuation. But the movie kinda F’ed that up by killing Wash and Shepherd Book. It would still be good, but wouldn’t be the same.
@58,
Good quote, but I can’t get past the continuity error of Generations making Scotty’s comment in Relics about Jim Kirk pulling the Enterprise out of moth balls to come rescue him look dumb. Kirk is supposed to have died and Scotty watched it happen.
Oh well.
#59. Brain and Brain. What is Brain!!!. Oh. You mean her Brain and not Spocks Brain. Hmmm. Who would Win.
Ok. This being Friday. I proclaim this day as Star Trek Drinking day. All in Favor say Get Drunk.
#40: “But what about her skills!? Well, they say she has skills, but nothing comes of them.”
She gets to use them in the movie and they have a plot effect, but it’s all pushbutton and never challenging to her … She’s never challenged in her skills and she’s never challenged as a person … just shows up, pushes the plot-advancing buttons labeled “Uhura” while the others in the ensemble push the buttons with their names printed on them, and that’s it; show’s over. It was very Galaxy Quest in that way :)
But yeah, Firefly let women be real characters, real people facing challenges at every level. One of many, many reasons to celebrate its existence and mourn its untimely end.
I agree with Chris Doohan on this one, Simon Pegg has the other guy beat, remember Peggs a Scottsman, which is very close to being Irish, I am sure he can out drink him under the table. GO IRISH/Scottish. :)
To think Firefly was cancelled and Voyager was given a full run .
I always said that if it’d been “Star Trek: Firefly” it would have had chance to fulfil it’s potential …
Fillion versus Pegg?!? Fillion but only JUST.
James Doohans Scotty on the other hand would wipe the floor with BOTH OF THEM!!!
I loved “Firefly!”
But, unfortunately the Serenity wasn’t capable of true faster than light speed and only had a weapon on it when the crew stuck an artillery gun on top in the film. I don’t think she even had shields of any kind!
So unfortunately the Enterprise would have torn Serenity to pieces with the first volley, but I love both ships!
#67: “To think Firefly was cancelled and Voyager was given a full run.”
I’d want this on a t-shirt, but then I’d just sit wearing it and sobbing :(
@59 ;)
“You paid money for this, Sir? On purpose?”
I imagine Nathon Fillion would make a fantastic Capt. Matt Decker. A guy who knows these Klingons like the back of his hand and how his ship stopped them from getting control of the Doomsday Machine. Enterprise is sent to bring Decker back but he has other plans…And maybe the klingons do have designs on Doomsday…
That shouldnt be hard to turn into a great story.
@65: On the other hand at least Firefly has 13 episodes to work at the character development, as opposed to cramming it into a 2-hour movie, while still allowing time for the big action set pieces.
If there’s another Trek series in the future, and Uhura just gets used as a plot advancement device, then I would definately concede the point.
On the other hand, it could just be Jeyl being an old grump. Again.
@71: That would be cool, but I’ve never seen him do crazy, I find it hard to picture…
That is so funny! I need to join Twitter. I have a dear friend in Florida who is on Twitter and follows both Simon and Nathan.
I now live in Scotland and have seen Scots drinking prowess first hand. My partner is Irish and believe me he can really put it away. I am seriously outclassed when it comes to drinking amongst my female friends and relatives. I am afraid Scotty would drink Mal Reynolds under the table.
Scotty vs Mal
If it’s Jimmy Doohan then it is Scotty all the way
See someone agreed with me concernig Nathan Fillion being a starship Capt Matt Deker good choice
I have a good idea. How about Nathan Fillion as Gary Mitchell in the next trek sequel?…. I think he’d be great in the part.
@72. “If there’s another Trek series in the future, and Uhura just gets used as a plot advancement device, then I would definately concede the point.”
Well, given Bob and Alex’s track record, I can guarantee you that will certainly happen. Remember, Star Trek to the studios means “Kirk and Spock”, and this is being written by the writers of Transformers. They killed off the only female transformer.
And let’s just look at it from the Star Trek/Firefly point of view. At least Malcolm always brought Zoe with him on assignments without giving her gender any thought. Uhura is literally given a scene where she sees the men off to do their ’saving the galaxy’ stuff while she stays behind and does absolutely nothing. So I can either have this new Star Trek that has just the men going out and doing stuff, or Firefly/Serenity where both the men and the women go out and do stuff.
And don’t forget!
“I’m Bill Pardy”
#72 :On the other hand at least Firefly has 13 episodes to work at the character development, as opposed to cramming it into a 2-hour movie, while still allowing time for the big action set pieces.”
That’s entirely fair and true (and it’s one of the reasons, I think, why it will always be a long wait before Star Trek really feels like it has made a successful transition to film from its native medium) … but there _are_ two-hour films (a fairly meaty handful of them) where a cast of characters is presented, developed, challenged and characterized within the space of that two hours … even several with sizeable ensembles. So, it can be done, given the skill, the will, and the means. They had the means.
#78: “Well, given Bob and Alex’s track record, I can guarantee you that will certainly happen.”
I’m no great defender of these two gentlemen as writers (indeed, I’m not convinced it’s an accurate term for them), but I think that’s overstating things. They’ve done TV before and it’s a different beast, and they approach it, I believe, in differently beastly ways. Plus, even if they were showrunners, they wouldn’t be the entire writing team. You have to be JMS to be nutty enough to do a whole TV season alone (give or take a Neil Gaiman episode here and there).
God, Simon Pegg is hilarious! ( : He’s clearly finding his “Scotty legs!”
As for the Firefly in the Trekverse? Well, it DID cameo in the pilot miniseries of Battlestar Galactica in 2003! That Mal sure gets around for a guy with a sub-light spaceship…
That is so awesome. I’d bar hop with those cats anytime.
- 24thCRS!
#7 – I admit I don’t know very much about Serenity, but from what I’ve seen and read about it, I agree with you. He’s got what it takes to be one of the service’s finest. And Defiant isn’t the only “tough little ship!”
I think you’ve got to love how much Simon appreciates and enjoys being Scotty!
@68: “So unfortunately the Enterprise would have torn Serenity to pieces with the first volley, but I love both ships!”
With Wash at the wheel?? It would be frakkin’ hard to hit a leaf on the wind. Unless maybe if during the next refit they upgrade the phaser emitters to shoot giant toothpicks.
RIP Wash (Wheedon, you bastard!)
Serenity over TOS Enterprise, but only just barely.
@85: Your post is all glowy with stuff I agree with.
@40
I have to weigh in on the Uhura vs. Zoe argument.
…Especially when, as usual, the fact that she is black *does* make a difference and is largely overlooked by ~*colorblind~* people who have the privilege to do so.
I really freaking hate when white feminists use black women as example- argumnets in feminism without realisizing that black women simply don’t apply to your standards because we simply aren’t in the same place as white women are.
Zoe is typical of black female portrayals, in all aspects (that is the epitomy of “STRONG BLACK WOMAN”) but one…
…She’s married.
That’s what elevates her and makes her better than the norm for us. This despite the fact that, as usual, her paramour is waaaay beneath her looks-wise.
(…Of course after Serenity, she went back to completely embodying that stereotype). :-/
As for Uhura? That argument about whining to get her way, is sexism at it’s best. It’s been repeated several times, but apparently it still hasn’t sunk in….
She demanded what she’d earned, what Spock was holding her back from because of appearances. That’s not whining, that’s standing up for your due.
Notice she was still toiling in the bowels of the ship, even *after* that.
Uhura is one of the few black female characters I’ve seen who is actually paired with an equal, in looks, intelligence and ambition.
…Monster’s Ball, anyone?
He’s not goofy-looking, bumbling, and lovable because he make jokes.
He’s not the second-tier side-kick left-over, we usually get (in the rare instances we get paired with anyone, *at all*).
He’s the hot, desireable, capable male lead.
That’s a big deal, because it never happens.
…Heck, check Gina Torre’s resume. See how often that gorgeous actress has been paired with lead actors as hot as she is in a relationship that lasts.
And this last I say as a hardcore Browncoat:
Though, I like Zoe better, (we’ve had more time developing her) Uhura in the reboot > Zoe when it comes to advancing black female characters from stereotypes.
#87: “This despite the fact that, as usual, her paramour is waaaay beneath her looks-wise.”
Which is a triumph against those who’d judge by looks … a triumph over a profound and fundamental form of bigotry.
So, a massive, top-of-the-line ship that can go so fast it’s speedometer measures by how much faster than lightspeed it’s going, versus a tiny, long-outdated ship that can barely make it from one planet to another in one piece? Anyone else think this would be a VERY unfair race?