{"id":69,"date":"2006-04-23T08:36:18","date_gmt":"2006-04-23T12:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=69"},"modified":"2006-04-23T08:36:18","modified_gmt":"2006-04-23T12:36:18","slug":"beam-me-up-young-james-kirk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/23\/beam-me-up-young-james-kirk\/","title":{"rendered":"Beam me up: young James Kirk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the evil <a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/news\/articlenews.aspx?type=filmNews&#038;storyid=2006-04-21T071334Z_01_N20133512_RTRIDST_0_FILM-LEISURE-STARTREK-DC.XML\">Reuters<\/a> Viacom apparently think they can squeeze a few more bucks from the Franchise, apparently:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Daily Variety said the action would center on the early days of &#8220;Star Trek&#8221; characters James T. Kirk and Mr. Spock, including their first meeting at Starfleet Academy and first outer-space mission.<\/p>\n<p>The paper described &#8220;Star Trek&#8221; as Hollywood&#8217;s most durable performer after James Bond, spawning 10 features that have grossed more than $1 billion and 726 TV episodes from six series.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to think whether I ever saw <em>Nemesis<\/em>. I know I didn&#8217;t see it at the theaters, but I don&#8217;t think I even checked it out of the library.<\/p>\n<p>Young James T. Kirk. I assume the sales pitch sold it as a sort of &#8220;Harry Potter without the scar and Hogwarts in space.&#8221; With Spock as a sort of Hermione character. Scotty would be Hagrid. Chekov would be Krum. Bones would be, um, someone else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the evil Reuters Viacom apparently think they can squeeze a few more bucks from the Franchise, apparently: Daily Variety said the action would center on the early days of &#8220;Star Trek&#8221; characters James T. Kirk and Mr. Spock, including their first meeting at Starfleet Academy and first outer-space mission. The paper described &#8220;Star [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-17","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}