Star Wars droid R2D2 spotted in Star Trek Into Darkness

Guardian ^ | Ben Child

[Morgana]

It could be the last straw for hardcore fans angry at the long-running sci-fi saga's shift into space opera territory: R2D2, the diminutive robot star of the Star Wars films, has been spotted in a second Star Trek movie.

C-3PO's canny little friend was first seen briefly in 2009's Star Trek, which saw director JJ Abrams deliver strong reviews and impressive box office by rebooting the series with an all-action approach plus an entirely new cast as the crew of the USS Enterprise. Now the website io9 has pointed out that the droid can be seen being sucked into space one hour and 17 minutes into sequel Star Trek Into Darkness, which repeated its predecessor's success but has fallen foul of long-term fans.

At the annual Star Trek convention in Las Vegas last month, Abrams' film was voted the worst Star Trek film in the entire canon by "Trekkers". To add insult to injury, it was beaten not only by 1989's much-maligned, William Shatner-directed Star Trek V: The Final Frontier but by sci-fi spoof Galaxy Quest, which is not a Star Trek movie at all.

[Morgana]

R2D2 is moonlighting these days.

[Perdogg]

Due to Obamacare, he can only get part-time roles.

[corlorde]

Bookmarked to view all the anger later-—>haha.

[staytrue]

Funny comment from the comments section:

“This isn’t the droid you’re looking for..?”

I am going to say that all “the next generation” star trek movies were worse.

And Galaxy Quest was pretty good.

[massgopguy]

I feel their pain. I still can’t believe that Col. Klink came out of a window when Batman and Robin were climbing up a building. Not only did batman call address him as Col. Klink, but he told him to say Hello to Col. Hogan and all the men back at Stalag 13.

[SIDENET]

R2, you little whore.

[DFG]

bookmark

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

And Galaxy Quest was pretty good.

Agreed.

[a fool in paradise]

[a fool in paradise]

"HOOOOGANNNNNN!"

[GeronL]

Star Trek fans are not liking Jar Jar Abrams at all

[Charles Martel]

And Galaxy Quest was pretty good.

By Grabthar's Hammer... you're right!

And Sigourney never looked better.

[GeronL]

Jar Jar Abrams has some screws loose

[Morgana]

[Morgana]

[Patton@Bastogne]

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There's a second very ugly cinematic moment in the latest Star Trek "Into Darkness" with respect to it's rival Star Wars.


There is a very brief musical interlude where a snippet of the Star Trek sound track is played ...

Obviously, I can't musically describe it here, but that musical snippet appears in EVERY Star Wars movie made, often 2-3 or times in each movie.

The best way I can describe it is that's a flute-solo that has an errie quality to it.


I'm a dyed-in-the-wool Star Trek fan, with myself and my children (now adults) being able to speak in code to each other via memorized Star Trek movie dialog (from all seven TOS movies).

"Into Darkness" had incredible special effects, and the new cast does an excellent job as the TOS series actors, adding their own appreciated nuances to their roles.

But there was one-too-many parallels and quasi-spoofs to the "Wrath of Khan".



"No One" ... will EVER ... duplicate Spock's last moments in the original "Wrath of Khan".




All I can hope is that J.J. Abrams doesn't FUBAR his remaining Star Trek movies like those "idiot" brothers who did a great job on Matrix One, and then cosmically screwed-the-pooch on Matrix 2 and 3.

It was so baaaadd ... that perhaps even Putin's "Monkey with a Hand Grenade" could have done better.

And that's frightening.



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[GeronL]

Lens Flare is not a special effect, it’s more like a brain aneurysm.

[Fledermaus]

Fans are becoming idiots. The “worst” Trek movie? Not even close. V was awful and X (Nemesis) is unwatchable.

[Fledermaus]

Well, she did have two new friends!

[fieldmarshaldj]

Abrams is to the Trek franchise what Zero is to the Presidency.