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Today’s Watercooler features a shaky-cam, bootleg, cell phone video of the trailer for the Star Trek remake, and it is surprisingly pretty good quality. The trailer itself, though, actually looks… kinda lame. I mean, there is a certain amount of geeky lameness inherent in Star Trek to start with, but this specific Star Trek seems like an Aaron Spelling kind of corny. Kirk looks like a douche and Spock is fucking Sylar from Heroes… which actually ain’t that bad, really.

Oh, and there’s also about a second’s worth of half-naked hotness that almost made me forget how awful the rest of it was. Almost.

Okay, now I know your first question was either “what the fuck was that?” or “Dan, are you crazy?” I admit that it looks like it could be alright, but that Kirk-douche is like when George Clooney was Batman, and I just can’t get past his scroteface. Sorry, but I just can’t.

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Tags: bootleg, Kirk-douche, remake, scroteface, shaky-cam, Star-Trek, The Watercooler

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3 Comments » Tomonoatmeal Cookigaki on November 17, 2008 5:39 am Cookigaki did not see even an ounce of leather except possibly when James Doucheberius Kirk was on motorcycle, but he did not sport indoor shades nor huge boner. Cookigaki does not approve! R on November 17, 2008 10:15 am Spocky-Sylar? Dan Landis on November 18, 2008 3:29 am Yeah, that’s the only cast member I saw that looked good… other than the hot black chick. I can accept that, too. RSS feed for comments on this post. Comment Now Note: Commenting on Ripten does not currently require registration, however to be eligible for contests on the site, you must be a registered user. Name (required) Mail (will not be published) (required) Website Commenting Rules: No hate speech allowed. If you must argue, please debate intelligently. Comments containing selected keywords or outbound links will be put into moderation to help prevent spam. Ripten reserves the right to delete comments and ban anyone who doesn't follow the rules. Thanks. Notify me of followup comments Tired of the Goomba? Upload your own custom comment avatar.