{"id":658475,"date":"2013-05-16T11:48:41","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T15:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=75871"},"modified":"2013-05-16T11:48:41","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T15:48:41","slug":"talks-to-watch-as-you-buy-tickets-for-star-trek-into-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/658475","title":{"rendered":"Talks to watch as you buy tickets for &ldquo;Star Trek Into Darkness&rdquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, many boldly ventured where no man had gone before: to see <i>Star Trek Into Darkness<\/i>, which opened in some theaters at midnight. The film, which is a sequel to JJ Abrams\u2019 2009 reboot of the classic series, has been highly anticipated ever since its lyrical trailer materialized late last year. Writes critic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/movies\/moviesnow\/la-et-mn-star-trek-into-darkness-review-20130516,0,7503821.story\">Betsy Sharkey of <i>The Los Angeles Times<\/i><\/a>, \u201cSo many things are done right that even with the bombast, <i>Into Darkness<\/i> is the best of this summer&#8217;s biggies thus far. It&#8217;s a great deal of brash fun, and it should satisfy all those basic Trekkie cravings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here, two talks to watch as you buy tickets for the movie\u2019s official opening tonight. First, a talk from JJ Abrams himself, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/j_j_abrams_mystery_box.html\">The mystery box<\/a>,\u201d given at TED2007:<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-ted\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/j_j_abrams_mystery_box.html\" width=\"586\" height=\"329\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>And second, check out this talk from the incredible George Takei, aka the original Captain Sulu. At TEDxBroadway, the actor talks about why he\u2019s created a musical about Japanese-American internment:<\/p>\n<p><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='586' height='360' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cHSQGnhdSi4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;%23038;fs=1&#038;%23038;showsearch=0&#038;%23038;showinfo=1&#038;%23038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;%23038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/75871\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/75871\/\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blog.ted.com&#038;blog=14795620&#038;%23038;post=75871&#038;%23038;subd=tedconfblog&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TEDBlog\/~4\/9dZ5cBk0hlY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, many boldly ventured where no man had gone before: to see Star Trek Into Darkness, which opened in some theaters at midnight. The film, which is a sequel to JJ Abrams\u2019 2009 reboot of the classic series, has been highly anticipated ever since its lyrical trailer materialized late last year. Writes critic Betsy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7344,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}