MEET-UP PLANNING

With the movie starting to open everywhere, now is the perfect time to start meeting with other GQMF's so we can all freak out about the lens flare/Benedict Cumberbatch's ass villain/the whole freaking movie. (I'm definitely warming my nacelles about now...)

This is the weekly post where members can plan meetups for movies, conventions, and misc events.

Just specify the city/country you're in and link to a post in your personal journal where your neighbours can plan the meetup with you. Or else check out the list of communities dedicated to these meet-ups under the cut.
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RECAP

For those of you who were able to document your meetups, please post your pics and recaps here, or better yet link to a post in your own LJ so that the comment pages here don't break the internet.

Even if you didn't take any pictures, please feel free to recount the awesomeness of meeting with other GQMF's, any funny conversations or accidental meeting of other Star Trek geeks fans. lol

Do it!

Well...

It's Friday. Some of you GQMFs have seen the movie. I still have 20 days until I can see it. I'm a moderator of a Star Trek community who hasn't seen the movie and is avoiding spoilers. Somebody asked for the Party Hard video.

I say it's time for a


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Here is the weekly post where you GQMFs can post links to their own Star Trek-themed fan videos, art, fiction, crossover macros, and anything else that you feel best belongs right in here.

We recommend that you comment with a link to your journal/youtube/DeviantArt/tumblr/AO3/etc, where we can all marvel at your talent, as opposed to posting all the pictures/videos/etc in a single comment.

I came across this and thought I'd share with the community :-)


The latest installment of Star Trek warps into theaters this weekend, compressing decades of canon into an action-oriented thrill ride. Regardless of whether or not you like what J.J. Abrams has done with the franchise, he has left an indelible lens-flared mark on it. Among Trekkies like myself, there is a game going around capitalizing on Abrams’ flare for flare.

Let’s play Drink Into Darkness.
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I had the awesome luck to get tickets for Wednesday's sneak peek and the movie did not disappoint. I enjoyed it thoroughly. No spoilers!

As my friend and I exited the theatre, one of the staff members was handing out rolled up posters! I took a picture when I got home to share with friends on Facebook, but decided I'd share here too, since I didn't see it anywhere else on the community:



Luckily, my friend isn't as avid a Trek fan as I am, and she gave me hers as well. ^_^  The poster is about 3-4 feet long, and quite nice. In the upper left hand corner there is a logo for the IMAX theatre, but in the upper right hand corner is the date of the Fan Event, 5/15/13.

Enjoy!

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Back in '87, I was filled with both anticipation and apprehension at the idea of a "new" Star Trek. Having grown up with the crew of the Enterprise, they were like my second family, a group of uncles and aunts I never saw because they were way off having adventures, but heard from every week when they sent back their stories of the cool stuff going on out there. You can imagine the mixed feelings at the idea that some bunch of interlopers was going to take over the ST universe.

So that was my state of mind when the first episode appeared. I'd already known about Patrick Stewart, but was having a hard time accepting the idea of him as a noble starship captain, since the only role I'd remembered him in was the asshat redneck father of Jane Grey in Lady Jane. (Seriously, that guy was a dick.) Okaaay, we'll see. But I got a jolt of delight when William Riker walked in, and I squealed, "Holy shit! It's the babe from The Twilight Zone!!"

See, I'd just caught Frakes a while earlier in an early episode of the revamped Twilight Zone, called But Can She Type? It was a cute, funny episode, and he'd had a great little part as a pickup artist in a bar. He made quite an impression on me, even in such a brief little cameo. He'd been so yummy, in fact, that my one disappointment with Riker was the lack of a beard. SO glad he eventually grew it back!

So here I present to you, Frakes's scene from that episode. Enjoy the sweet, savory grin and slightly skeezy moves of our randy Commander:





Tell me you wouldn't go home with that.

Oh, and it's a great episode, especially if you've ever worked in an office, or for a raging dick of a boss. The series is on DVD; I know Netflix has it. Check it out!

ETA: I found the whole episode! Here it is on Youtube, in case anyone would like to see the scene in context:



But Can She Type?

MEET-UP PLANNING

With the movie starting to open everywhere, now is the perfect time to start meeting with other GQMF's so we can all freak out about the lens flare/Benedict Cumberbatch's ass villain/the whole freaking movie. (I'm definitely warming my nacelles about now...)

This is the weekly post where members can plan meetups for movies, conventions, and misc events.

Just specify the city/country you're in and link to a post in your personal journal where your neighbours can plan the meetup with you. Or else check out the list of communities dedicated to these meet-ups under the cut.
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RECAP

For those of you who were able to document your meetups, please post your pics and recaps here, or better yet link to a post in your own LJ so that the comment pages here don't break the internet.

Even if you didn't take any pictures, please feel free to recount the awesomeness of meeting with other GQMF's, any funny conversations or accidental meeting of other Star Trek geeks fans. lol

Do it!

So I saw this shiny poster for The Motion Pictures a few weeks ago. Was going to share it here, but then I saw it was the first in a series, so decided to hold off and just do the lot in one go. These are from a site called cromeyellow.com, they decided to celebrate the release of the new film by looking back at the films with the original crew, and the 2009 film. But they added in a fun mix by getting some really cool posters made up! Also included are some posters for 23rd Century Starfleet tech, and an interview with the artist, Matt Ferguson.

Some of these are genuinely beautiful posters, I think. So if you like any of them, hit the links to get a HUGE high quality version to gaze upon.



The Motion Picture

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Apologies for the lateness! Have some pretty pictures of Chris, Zach, and Benedict in New York on May 9.


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Sources: Zimbio, UPI, Just Jared