{"id":622,"date":"2007-08-14T06:36:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-14T13:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/?p=622"},"modified":"2007-08-14T06:36:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-14T13:36:00","slug":"cruise-pike-christmas-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=622","title":{"rendered":"Cruise. Pike. Christmas 2008."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the rumors are indeed true, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allheadlinenews.com\/articles\/7008187801\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Cruise will cameo<\/a> in J.J. Abrams&#8217; Trek film as Christopher Pike, then this picture gets exponentially more intriguing.<\/p>\n<p>Friend to Alert Nerd Steve was discussing this with me the other day&#8211;he saw the casting as a possible sign of cautious optimism. I&#8217;m enthusiastic about someone like Abrams doing a &#8220;soft reboot&#8221; of the Trek franchise, but I&#8217;m a bit more realistic. I&#8217;d like to believe that Abrams and his writers will somehow manage to make a movie that is both incredibly cool and incredibly respectful of previous Trek and its arcane &#8220;continuity,&#8221; but that seems almost too much to ask.<\/p>\n<p>As I told Steve&#8211;It&#8217;s like the Rolling Stones playing in your living room. It will probably kick ass, but if you think Keith Richards isn&#8217;t going to get stoned and break a few lamps, you&#8217;re a bit daft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the rumors are indeed true, and Tom Cruise will cameo in J.J. Abrams&#8217; Trek film as Christopher Pike, then this picture gets exponentially more intriguing. Friend to Alert Nerd Steve was discussing this with me the other day&#8211;he saw the casting as a possible sign of cautious optimism. I&#8217;m enthusiastic about someone like Abrams [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}