Position onboard?

Commanding Officer

How long have you been a member?

Going on 22 years…

Favorite Star Trek Series?

Tie between Trek Classic and DS9.

Favorite Trek Character?

Capt. James T. Kirk

Favorite Sci-Fi, Non-Trek Series?

Doctor Who

Favorite Movie?

Star Trek II : The Wrath of Khan

Favorite Book or Book Series?

The series by Lincoln Child

Why did you join Challenger?

Seemed like a good idea at the time, especially since I was the leader of the group. <G> Seriously, I had  been a member of Starfleet for several years and was a founding member of the USS Constitution and the USS Avenger. The Avenger at the time was the only chapter to serve residents of New Jersey and was rather large. The time had come, especially since local members like myself were doing so many local activities that we simply establish ourselves as a chapter covering Ocean and Monmouth counties.
The rest as they say, is history.

This Perseus was no pretty boy but a fisherman, played by Sam Worthington who’s had some really interesting roles lately. He seems to be drawn into parts where he plays two roles in one, Terminator: Salvation, (human/cyborg) Avatar (human Marine/alien,) and now playing a demi god. Liam Nielson playing Zeus (and he’ll be playing Hannibal Smith in the movie version of The A-Team in a few months — now there is diversity for you) was outstanding, and Ralph Finnes is used to playing fiendish bad guy roles, and did an excellent job as Hades.

Medusa was just slithering around to — although I’m kind of partial to Uma Thurman playing the snake haired *itch from Percy Jackson. This was a pretty CGI version, though. Oh, the Kraken was pretty scary, and it was saved for last. I don’t think having a black Pegasus instead of a white one as in the original, added much to the story it worked out quite well. There was some humor sprinkled in, but it was all intended humor.

Be it in 2-D — or I’m sure even more so in 3-D — its a good old-fashioned Saturday afternoon popcorn movie (and pretty good for a Friday afternoon too). When I first learned this film was being remade my reaction was, why? Do we really need a remake?

Now I’m glad they did.

Adm.Bob Vosseller
VRC Region 7
CO USS Challenger

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