Monthly Archives: March 2007

The rumors have finally been made official…I’m still personally worried about a prequel that Spock is at the Academy with Kirk, but we’ll see…this quote is a little reassuring at least from “self-professed Trek nerd” JJ Abrams:

From Abrams’ Trek Launching in Christmas ’08

“If there’s something I’m dying to see, it’s the brilliance and optimism of [creator Gene] Roddenberry’s world brought back to the big screen,” said Abrams.

“Alex and Bob wrote an amazing script that embraces and respects Trek canon but charts its own course. Our goal is to make a picture for everyone—lifelong fans and the uninitiated. Needless to say, I am honored and excited to be part of this next chapter of Star Trek.”

Filling unknowns in the timeline are great, but respecting canon is key! My ever-forgiving plot-hole solving brain immediately comes up with that since they haven’t mentioned Spock as a student at the Academy at the same time as Kirk, it could work out. Canon timing could have Spock teaching at the Academy when Kirk was a student, and they happen to meet Bones somewhere along the line, since he never attended the Academy…I still have some issues with them being such friends for so long, since they seemed less friendly in the early classic episodes, but if they do it right, they could pull it off…Matt Damon = meh but I could accept it, Gary Sinise = inspired casting as Bones, but I can’t hack Adrien Brody as my beloved Spock! 😉

Of course they should call it something other than an odd number somehow…or because STX was a box-office dud does it count as breaking the curse? Since Nemesis was acutally a better film than Insurrection, I define the curse in terms of film quality vs. $$ it happened to make… 😉 They tried getting around the numbers thing before by calling VII just Generations, no number anywhere in the official marketing campaign, but it still wasn’t as good as VI or First Contact (VIII)…

I didn’t feel the earthquake last night, but I was blowing out my voice singing 1st soprano in a Messiah singalong as a favor to and the Silicon Valley Chorale. What is odd is that earlier in the evening I had mentioned that the Loma Prieta earthquake was during rehearsals for the first time I ever sang the Messiah back at UCDavis…very odd that I’ve been singing the Messiah during two earthquakes! 😮

However, even though I haven’t sung the Messiah in full since I think 1992, and only about 4 choruses back in 2003 or something, I nailed every darn thing I’d ever sung before, including all the fun bouncy melismas, and I sightread a lot of the solos without too much issue…but since I was singing alto and soprano plus solos (I even sang along with the bass solos when I could! heh) I had almost totally blown out my voice before we got to the Hallelujah Chorus! That one always kills me because the high Gs are sustained so I took it easy & didn’t hold them all the way through…my favorites are For Unto Us a Child is Born (killer melismas!) and the Amen chorus…and yes, I nailed those high As at the end at the top of my lungs…very satisfying! 😀 Of course I was hoarse afterwards…hehe…none of the ladies around me believed me when I said I was really only a mezzo-soprano…which is obvious since I can’t hack that forever, plus of course anyone can blast up high…a “real” soprano would be able to sing high softly with control for hours on end. 😉