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*Tapes yet another hose, and opens fire*

I did not particularly like Uhura's character. She felt to me like she was just the typical 'strong female character' and she didn't actually do anything. But again, that's just my opinion. I did like the rest of the movie and Nero's ship was scary.

The no-pants thing...well, it's canon. At least for that part of Starfleet history. The time-travelling Romulans probably didn't have much impact on military fashion.

Time travel as opposed to an unexplained retcon? Good thing. Time travel that lets Nimoy!Spock give the Vulcan salute to Quinto!Spock? Good thing. Time travel as opposed to just working with the canon that was already there? Meh, not sure.

Yes, but if someone had shown Nero the Evil Overlord List, he would have killed Spock, and that would have made me very sad. And it would have been a very short movie.

The parts of the movie that deviated from canon were all explained as part of the time-travel thing, which was certainly preferable to just disregarding canon without explanation. And I felt that they did a fairly good job at staying true to what the show really meant.

But I plan to. My mom's a Trekkie minus the cosplay, so I'm bound to. I just know that I'll be spending the entire movie reminding myself that Spock's not gonna slice people's heads open.

What did people think of it?
If it was a fic, what would we, as PPCers, do about/with/for/to it?
Why didn't they give the girls any pants? I'm not allowed to wear skirts that short at my school.
Is time-travel a good thing or a bad thing?
Has anyone shown Nero the Evil Overlord List? I don't think anyone's shown Nero the Evil Overlord List.
I haven't seen very much of the original television series, so I'm not really in a position where I can check the movie against canon. But does Iowa really have huge cliffs in it?

Oh, and... when snogging a guy, make sure your nail polish matches his hair. This is very important.

...and I forgot.
*kicks self*

Neither will I!

*proceeds to try and mound snow around Sedri's ankles to trap her*

The Board itself is independent of the Oddlots site; we just need a page that leads into it, so people can link to that instead of the Board, which occasionally changes its address for no reason. Also, it could give a quick rundown of who the PPC are, for the inquisitive.

hS

*...and traps her in place until she, too, is half-buried in the snow*

I will NOT be defeated! RARGH!

*yanks, causing Trojie to slip and fall*

But I forgot to hard boil an egg. Ah well, there's always next year.

*uses this opportunity to attempt to bury Sedri in the hail-drift of icy sludge that's all that remains of Trojie's fort*

(A basic summary, as I haven't gotten to the part that fully explains what everything does yet)

The Canon Regulation Institute. A highly advanced, trans-dimensional organisation whose job is simple. Stop paradoxes. Reality must not be allowed to contradict itself. The main cause of reality contradictions? Why, those ever glittering bastards, the Mary Sues.
The CRI's Militavy Fleet consists of nearly innumerable Canon Protection Vessels (infinite number of dimensions = infinite resources and technology to leech off everyone else) are spread across the multiverse, hunting down Mary Sues wherever they can find them, and fixing reality contradictions before they can spiral out of control and seriously ruin everyone's day (which they *will* if they go unchecked).
Ironically, they're actually hunting down the prime source of contradiction: the Original Character, but since they can only detect the reality distortions, they only hunt down the 'bad' ones that are, y'know, breaking reality and stuff. The 'good' ones (that don't do the above), are just ignored; the CRI can't detect them, so they just slip right through the nets. The CRI itself isn't too fussed about this, though a few factions within it are.

Sounds all sane, reasonable and normal(ish), right? Well...

Say hello to the CPV Icarus, a somewhat dilapidated old Juggernaut from the old days where the CPVs had to be roughly the size of a small continent to cram all the technology and equipment needed for stable dimensional transitions, reality shielding and so forth. Officially, the CRI is keeping it in service out of respect for the vessel's long and infamous tour of duty. Unofficially, it's the dumping ground for all the people they don't like very much. It's crewed by nutters. The only reason it hasn't imploded itself yet is that its current captain absolutely adores old fashioned ships and would, does and will put her own life on the line without a thought to keep it flying. It's considered something of a bad joke within the CRI... a measuring stick to compare all the other ships against. And yet, it still somehow manages to do its job, capturing and de-Sueing more OCs than even some of its more respectable cousins. Thus, the Icarus keeps flying...

Caught between the idiosyncrasies of its own crew, jealously and irritation from the rest of the CRI and of course the reality-distorting whims of the 'Sues, can it stay that way?

That's the premise. And believe me, a lot of the characters are quite cheerfully mad (in the funny, endearing way). Bizarrely, so far it's looking like the character interactions may get more focus than the whole 'Sue-hunting' thing... this might be because I'm more fond of character-driven stories, mind. And it's not set in any particular continuum; the CPVs are fully capable of trans-dimensional jumping. At the start, they're hanging out in the Harry Potter verse, snagging 'Sues as they try to get on the 'Express (CRI personnel and equipment are invisible to normals thanks to Reality Shielding - this is also how they can get away with sticking a great big continental-sized slab of metal in low-Earth orbit without seriously screwing up things like the tides).

So, what does everyone think? I can post up more (ie Character notes, what I've written so far etc) if anyone's interested. Comments, ideas and criticisms all accepted; particularly the latter. The sooner you spot a problem...

Must... fight... back...

*heroically sprays with blizzard super-soaker*

That is an awsome idea! I couldn't pinch any lilac on my way to work today, I saw some but it was just out of reach! Ah well maybe next year.

It's the glorious 25th of May! And also Towel Day! Let us all wear the lilac in honor of Freedom, Justice, Truth, Reasonably Priced Love, and a Hard-Boiled Egg, and may we always know where our towels are.

There's a movement to wear the lilac on the 25th for Alzheimer's awareness. Kind of cool.

Dakka conquers all! *Ties two hoses together with duct tape and opens fire*

But I grabbed the source codes for everything instead.

Here it all is.

Now, the question is, are we going to have a new homepage for the Board? And if so, where? And will it be an updating one?

I vote for not putting it on the wiki or the LJ community unless we run out of other ideas; it's far too eggs-in-one-basket for my liking.

hS

I saved the links to all the stuff that was only archived on oddlots, and I just went back through the Internet archive and copied it onto my computer. I'll post it to the PPC livejournal comm. as soon as I can. It might take a while, though; it's 208 pages of text.

This includes:

LotR Litmus Test
Buffyverse Basic Charge List
PPC Substance Menu

PPC missions of...
Agent Nath
Agents Kazra and Rich
Agents Kwennyfer and Jane
Agents Rhydux, Honorificus, and Ginmar

Hope that helps!

~Araeph

What else of importance was on there? I can't recall.

Ehhh.... Possibly. XD;; I don't watch Doctor Who. It's a swipe card that you prepay. I noticed going through London this weekend that you now have to put a £3 deposit on them - but that will be your going to Victoria and going back.

Ahh, thank you. ^^; I fail when it comes to sayings.

*POUNCE*

*shoves Assorted Cold Things down Trojie's shirt*