{"id":701,"date":"2007-11-06T18:36:34","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T01:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/?p=701"},"modified":"2007-11-06T18:36:34","modified_gmt":"2007-11-07T01:36:34","slug":"join-starfleet-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=701","title":{"rendered":"Join Starfleet Academy!"},"content":{"rendered":"

A friend just sent me word of this exciting open casting call. I was seriously considering going until I got to the part where you need to be “thin, athletic and fit.” Sadly, this disqualifies me…and — if I may be so bold — a good number of fellow Star Trek<\/em> fans.<\/p>\n

>Star Trek Casting Call!
\n>
\n>
\n> A casting call has gone out for J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek. Here are
\n> the details:
\n>
\n> Seeking:
\n>
\n> [MALES & FEMALES] – Ages 18-70, any ethnicity: to play Cadets:
\n> young, fresh-faced, Military types: marching experience preferred,
\n> thin, regal talent with BROWN or BLACK hair AND are OK with their
\n> eyebrows being shaved from the arch outward to portray a Vulcan-
\n> type eyebrow shape.
\n>
\n> Talent with interesting and unique facial features such as: long
\n> necks, small heads, extremely large heads, wide-set eyes, bug eyes,
\n> close-set eyes, large forehead, short upper lip, pronounced
\n> cheekbones, over- or undersized ears and\/or nose, facial
\n> deformities, ultra plain-looking people, ultra perfect-looking
\n> people, pure wholesome looks, twins, triplets, emaciated talent,
\n> regally poised and postured talent, or other visually unique
\n> characteristics.
\n>
\n> Everyone must be thin, athletic, fit; wardrobe will be form-
\n> fitting. All hair lengths on males and females welcome.
\n>
\n> Bring: Close-up full facial NON-SMILING snapshot AND a waist-up
\n> body shot in Fitted Clothing.
\n>
\n> Ladies with long hair, PLEASE pull your hair back in a severe
\n> ponytail. Do not wear heavy makeup in your photograph. If your hair
\n> is long, let the ponytail length show over your shoulder. If you do
\n> not have these photos, we will take them of you for free.
\n>
\n> Wear fitted clothing for the photo.
\n>
\n> OPEN CALL INFO:
\n>
\n> Open Call: Saturday, November 10, 2007.
\n> Hours: 2:30-5 p.m.
\n> Address: 3108 W. Magnolia Blvd.
\n> Burbank, CA 91505
\n> (across from Pinocchio’s Restaurant)
\n>
\n> Starring Zachary Quinto, Leonard Nimoy, Eric Bana, Chris Pine, Karl
\n> Urban, Simon Pegg, Anton Yelchin, Zoe Saldana and John Cho, Star
\n> Trek is scheduled to open in theaters on December 25, 2008. Filming
\n> on the Paramount release starts tomorrow, November 7th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A friend just sent me word of this exciting open casting call. I was seriously considering going until I got to the part where you need to be “thin, athletic and fit.” Sadly, this disqualifies me…and — if I may be so bold — a good number of fellow Star Trek fans. >Star Trek Casting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fandom","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}