Star Trek

Warning: There are some spoilers below so if you have not seen the movie yet then please stop reading now.

Yesterday we went and saw the new “Star Trek” movie and I must admit I liked it a lot. I am a big Star Trek fan but I never watched the original series with Kirk, Spock and so on. First of all I never liked Kirk and second, I could never get over the ancient “special effects”. I don’t know, I just didn’t like the series. But otherwise, I have watched all the other Star Trek series and movies, several times each actually.

All that considered, I liked this movie. It was a little bit weird to see Zachary Quinto (Sylar from “Heroes“) play Spock, I kinda expected him anytime to make a flicking move with his hand and open up someone’s skull. But I got over that after a short while. I also liked the whole alternate timeline twist. It’s not messing up with the old Star Trek universe while allowing for future movies to be released. I’ve read some rumors which said that three more Star Trek movies will be made, I hope they are true.

Anyway, a movie highly recommended for everybody, Star Trek fan or not.

Utrecht

First impressions about Utrecht, Netherlands: cold, cloudy, windy, depressing.

Yesterday was my first course day at the Experteach building, about 15 minutes bus ride from my hotel. The trainer is from London, funny guy who seems to know his stuff. We are only three people in this class, it seems this SNRS course is not so popular but I am happy with it so far. At the training location we have free wireless but unfortunately the building’s provider must be blocking VoIP calls. I have tried from my Nokia E51, which has a built-in VoIP client, but it’s not really working. It registers fine with Sipgate, my VoIP provider, I can call but I can’t hear anything and I am not being heard either. I think I have to hack the settings a bit and use a proxy, I will see today.

At least wireless is free there, unlike at the hotel. Here there is only a Swisscom hotspot available and for 7 days you are charged 68 euros. Ridiculous!

As a curiosity, one of the students looks almost exactly like Commander Tucker from “Star Trek: Enterprise“:

It happened to me lots of times before to notice people who look almost identical, as if they were “made” from the same model. Who knows, common genetic material perhaps;-)