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

[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.