Joe Amato: Glen Bannon

Quotes 

• Glen Bannon : Turning to entertainment, Star Trek fans are decrying the latest film in the long-running series as a fun and watchable action-packed thrill ride.

• Glen Bannon : Bree, is this Star Trek as riveting as the fans are complaining it is?

  Bree Lindsay : Oh, Glen, early reviews are calling it a delightful action-adventure movie and surefire hit.

  Glen Bannon : No wonder the fans feel betrayed here.

  Bree Lindsay : Apparently there isn't even one scene set at a long table in which interstellar diplomacy is debated to endless detail.

• Glen Bannon : A lot of fans are saying this movie sullies the vision of someone called Gene Roddenberry.

  Bree Lindsay : Right, yes, Gene Roddenberry was the hack who created the Star Trek television show way back in the forties or something.

  Glen Bannon : So is Paramount doing anything to combat all this negative press Bree?

  Bree Lindsay : Yes they are, they've announced the DVD release will feature a special cut just for the Trek fans with three hours of extra footage in which characters stand around debating the merits of saving the Andorian Ambassador from the surface of Cylax Four until you just wish everyone was dead.

  Glen Bannon : Well, that should be some consolation.

• Glen Bannon : Moving on now, an elderly black woman is still following President Obama around and shedding a single tear whenever he does anything.