Talk about living the dream!!

Isn't Putting garbage into space against the genivia conventiom? I bet i'm gonna get a lot of flack for that comment. I remember when Treker had a sence of humor. We had to.

The question outstanding is whether Atlantis was privy to this feed?

I guess with the death of the space shuttle fleet in the year 2010 there will never be an actual operating Space Shuttle Enterprise. What a shame. There was once a chance, I read, that we could have had one. But instead, spare parts of Atlantis and Discovery were used to create the Endevor.

I wonder if we'll get a movie review from space

@jdluntjr - The very first shuttle launched was the Enterprise.

What a film! Absolutely stunning 99.9% perfect. If you hate Star Trek you'll love this, this is Star Trek with some real balls. I've got to go see this again in IMAX.

I haven't seen it yet, but plan on it. As far as seeing in IMAX hope Sci-Fi Si isn't too disappointed, chances are that version will leave something out that would normally be shown in regular theaters and more so if the disc is uncut.

The problem that I see for an IMAX version of this film is that Abrams and his DP constructed everything on 35mm film. They Digitally Remastered from the 35mm film print for the current IMAX release.

Other than the immense size that the IMAX presents there's not much more benefit to an IMAX DMR of the film's 35mm master. Abrams didn't use an IMAX camera. So none of those benefits will be present.

I'm guessing that 3 mos before the BD pressings they'll start tinkering with this film's edit for the Blu-ray release. At that time they may also redo the IMAX version so that the CGI scenes will use the raw CGI HD. By the time of the BD release the film will be out of general theater circulation. So a new IMAX release could be used to drum up BD sales. The campaign could go something like "See STAR TREK in IMAX and Blu-ray better than it has ever gone before." or some other marketing silliness.

Train13, if you are referring to the rumor that an IMAX theater has to cut EVERY movie to fit its platter, thats false. They did that back in the day for STAR WARS 2 but the technology has grown. Even WATCHMEN was shown in its entirety at IMAX. So was STAR TREK.

And go in IMAX. The sound is better too and the size of everything will blow your mind. I grinned from ear to ear watching STAR TREK there opening night

@Sci-Fi Si- The shuttle Enterprise was never "launched" . It's role was atmospheric testing, it was carried aloft by a 747. Columbia was the first shuttle launched and the first orbiter.

Paramount gives a copy of the movie to Mission Control and then Mission Control makes a copy, which is then transmited over their network to another computer. Sounds like piracy to me.

jezra, if Paramount authorizes NASA to transmit the film to the space station for the intended screening in the space station, that is called a license. It's actually the exact opposite of piracy. Really, if you're going to pro-piracy spam, know what you're talking about.

Steve Truit reports Atlantis indeed got a copy of the movie.

Marty B.,

It's not as simple as that. DMCA doesn't give you a license to decrypt just because the copyrights have ben cleared. While it is almost a certainty the MPAA won't prosecute them if they play the movie file on their Linux laptops, giving them a legal copy of the file only permits that it may reside on their Linux computer's hd but in no way confers the right to decrypt to play.

Son of a Maui Portagee, that's probably the funniest thing I've read in a while from a "free culture" flayer. NASA's film library on the space station and on the shuttle, are in fact licensed. If NASA or its members were using its computers to trade those files on something outside of NASA network, that would be something legally actionable, but it's not an issue since the film industry doesn't have a problem donating its film to the space program for use during downtime on missions, and so licenses its films so they may be used in that fashion.

Seriously, man, get a law degree and try to tilt at your CREATOR endowed windmill or whatever you called it. Maybe then you'll finally learn the world is not in your image, kid, and there's a much more thought out landscape to this situation than the back jacket of a Lessig book.

Marty B said "Son of a Maui Portagee, that's probably the funniest thing I've read in a while from a "free culture" flayer. NASA's film library on the space station and on the shuttle, are in fact licensed."

I never contended that they did not have a copyright license, only that the right to decrypt is separate from the copyright and that individual copyright holders do not have the power to license or transfer the right to decrypt CSS. That takes another body other than solely Paramount.

My other observation was the fact that NASA does indeed use Linux. If those boxes have the license to use DECSS it should be a matter of public record. Show me.

Word to the IMAX wise:

"But investors were jarred briefly when actor Aziz Ansari of NBC's "Parks and Recreation" complained in a Twitter-fueled blast that he felt duped into thinking he would be seeing "Star Trek" on a giant screen, only to discover its digital screens were close to conventional size. Ansari noted he paid a $5 premium to see the sci-fi actioner in an Imax auditorium."

hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i23722e25472e38b48e5dd5bd93ec0102

Marty B.

"Fixing Hubble: No sweat; Watching a movie: No way"

google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jjSTaV7YG-47suvakTvBgvaCMZSwD98BF9182

Story's link needs a refresh

"Fixing Hubble: No sweat; Watching a movie: No way"

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30890904/