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OK. So, sitting here at 5am listening to the birds chirp outside rather loudly, I will try to go over the star trek movie I just saw.

Summary: Uhm... I didnt catch anything in the movie. Ok, so not nothing. But there were a lot of things that you would have to actually be a fan of the series for it to make any sense - or for you to catch on at all.

Me, being one who has only watched one or two star trek episodes my whole life, well, I didnt understand about 90% of the story.

********Caution, a few lines of spoilers here.******

So this is what I understood.
Kirk is the son of a famous captain, which fought a losing battle against an alien ship. The alien ship is from the future, controlled by a renegade soldier who is hell-bent on destroying all the planets because someone forgot to pull the trigger on a weapon that should have saved their homeworld. Said alien ship attacks federation, and federation gets beat down - and one of the planets obliterated by means of a black hole generating weapon. Somehow kirk wakes up on a snow planet, and randomly runs from aliens, and bumps into a good guy from the future. Somehow (again) they transport onto the ship, kirk becomes captain, and they chase the alien ship and blow itup, ironically using the same black hole weapon employed earlier. Everyone celebrates.


********end of spoilers******

OK. I probably missed out a few things here and there since it made no sense to me. The nuances of gestures here and there, and the "V" finger thing, and catch-phrases (which some old lady discussing throughout the movie - rather loudly too) all made no sense to me.

My verdict: If you are a fan of the tv-shows, go watch it. If you know your aliens from dudes with pointy ears and other dudes with tattoos and no female counterparts, it probably will all make sense. If you are like me, and do not know anything about Star Trek, this is probably a waste of your time and money - unless you don't care any for plot or character development. Then by all means, go! =D

And...whatever happened to the Klingon? They are so iconic even I've heard of them - and I believe there was only one or two references to them the whole movie.

Hey douchebag! Got suckered into thoughtswapping as well? Hehe O.o Thoughtswap is a spelling error! Oh noes!

So.  Wow.  Huge tournament in Ripon, California, USA.  70 teams and 1500+ players and personnel.  Not quite as large as the 125-team Trouble In Vegas tournament with all of its 2500 players, however, I must say wow.  Played out in beautiful California, there was little else to say about the location and quality of teams that showed up. (Except for the weather!  The morning was a frosty 3 celcius, and I had snow/frost on my shoes for the first couple hours.  Mid-day was frikin 18 celcius and BLAZING sun.  can you say sunburn?)  Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the organization of the tournament.

Granted, every tournament has its flaws, however small, but I have heard nothing but negativity when it comes to C-Ultimate.  If you do not know (And I am not quite clear on it myself...) C-Ultimate is a new organization with the aim to turn college/university level ultimate into a longer season, where tournaments actually count, and one bad showing does not ruin the teams ranking or eligibility to win the season.  Think about instead of having 2 qualifying tournaments to get to the top tournament (The style run by Ultimate Players Association, UPA) there is some sort of idea that each result will gradually give teams points so they would take the top x number of teams, similar to the NHL playoff races. (since I dont watch other sports...)