Word: phaser
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...News circa 1983; rockers uncomfortable with innovation, they stick to tried-and-true trends. They trot out the cut-time bridge, the major key resolution to a minor key tune on “The Take Over, the Break’s Over,” the phaser-distorted vocals on “I’m Like A Lawyer with the Way I’m Always Trying to Get You Off.” The variety in the songs depends on how the producer stitches these elements together. Think Newfound Glory, MxPx, Fenix...
...LIKE Holden Caulfield with his phaser set on kill. Phonies beware...
...million in inflation-adjusted terms and earned a collective profit of $1.2 billion. And Nemesis is better--darker, more surprising--than the average Trek. Of course, it won't make as much as, say, Spider-Man. Yet Star Trek has outlasted other brands over the years. (Suck a phaser, Batman...
...want something radically different every few years," says Steve Krutzler, founder of TrekWeb.com. Trouble is, the franchise left more casual viewers stranded in space dock. Many folks had liked the simplicity of the original characters - explorers who were peaceful at heart but willing to make a point with a phaser. By contrast, the Deep Space Nine captain turned out to be a religious emissary for an alien race, and Voyager's Captain Janeway spent most of her trip fretting over human (and other species') rights at the expense of her crew. Ratings plummeted, and by 2001, probably the most financially...
...from loyal crew members overseas, particularly in the U.K. and Germany. And Nemesis is better - darker, more surprising - than the average Trek. Of course, it won't make as much as, say, Spider-Man. Yet Star Trek has outlasted other brands over the years. (Suck a phaser, Batman.) How does Trek survive? The oft-cited answer is that freakish Trekkies - fans who saved the original series with passionate letters and today maintain an eBay market of 25,000 Trek items - still sustain the franchise. Wrong. Trek hasn't been a cult enterprise in years. It is, instead, a humming mainstream...