Klingon propaganda video

[prog]

This is nice:

Interesting pattern develops here, if this is a viral for the next J.J. Abrams Trek film (which it almost surely is, since it looks too polished, and its credit roll is too absent, to be a fan video). It follows the same precedent for superhero-story reboots set by the Nolans' Batman films: in the first installment, pit the hero against a canonical but somewhat lame villain. This keeps the focus on how you've revitalized the hero - or, in Trek's case, the heroic ensemble. If that goes over well, then you can sustain fan-glee by rolling out the arch-nemesis for part two.

rikchik points out to me that the latter-day Dr. Who TV series follows this pattern as well. The first Eccleson episode had him shining as he dealt with the obscure-but-canonical Autons, and they waited a few episodes before the ol' Daleks showed up to steal his spotlight away.

Edit Oh, the glyphs at the end are totally a URL passed through a simple latin1-to-klingon-character cipher. I am too lazy to figure it out though.

Edit 2 OK, fine: it goes here. (Ripped from an IO9 comment. whee...)

Comments

[pseudomanitou.livejournal.com]

If only I could get a translation.

...no tribbles though. That would have been fun to see the troops skeet shooting them or something.

Also -- who said the future of animation will kill 2-D :)
...though, does Flash count?

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

There's a serviceable translation in the youtube comments (amazing, useful content in youtube comments!)

[prog.livejournal.com]

Hah, they've scrolled away for me. All I see is "The pronunciation is AWFUL." Ah... Gene bless and keep you, Trekkies.

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

It's what you'd expect, "Your small arms (NB: weapons) put-down-ness hearts scattered around cause-to-be-open-ness" etc.

[pseudomanitou.livejournal.com]

...that was a translation? I'm more confused than ever. No wonder the those two armies went to war. Next trekkie movie will be about how the war began over a mis-communication during a conversation about the price of coffee beans :P

[prog.livejournal.com]

Or the Federation president will crack a nervous joke about beginning orbital bombardment in five minutes, and it'll all be downhill from there.

[prog.livejournal.com]

I understand "2-D" versus "3-D" animation to describe the visual style of the finished product, moreso than the production techniques used to get there. So, yes, 2-D Flash totally counts in my book.

(I'm also sure there that "2-D animation has been REBORN!!" headlines will nonetheless continue to appear for as long as animation exists as an art form. :) )

[pseudomanitou.livejournal.com]

Good. I fully support the evolution boost that format competition brings about. May the many mutations of 2-D overwhelm their inbred 3-D Pixar predators :)

[radtea.livejournal.com]

That would have been fun to see the troops skeet shooting them or something.

Thank you for the biggest laugh I've had all day!

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

That io9 comment was also by me :) The cipher isn't as lazy as it seems, since "tlh" and "ng" are both single characters.

[cortezopossum.livejournal.com]

This is pretty awesome! I showed it to my roommate and he complained he didn't understand Klingon so he didn't care -- huh?

The web site was appropriate because it took over my computer and I had to ctrl-alt-delete end-process to stop.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Aaaaaand cue the continuity-obsessed fanboys arguing about foreheads.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

In the case of the Doctor Who revival, part of the reason the Dalek didn't show up until late in season one was that it was unclear they'd get the rights to use the Daleks from Terry Nation's estate until production had started on the season. They even had a backup version of the script in which the Dalek was replaced by a one-shot monster; the working title was "Absence of the Daleks".

I was tickled that they started with the Autons, because the Autons were the only Doctor Who monsters ever to actually scare me in childhood. The first time I ever saw the show on PBS, it was one of the Pertwee Auton serials, and I found the idea of mannequins with guns hidden in their hands too disturbing to go back and watch that Doctor Who thing again for quite some time.

Since the first serial broadcast in America was "Spearhead from Space", it's quite possible that I was freaked out by the very first appearance of Doctor Who on American TV.