When I heard Diora Baird was playing an Orion Slave Girl in Star Trek, I was rightly tumescent, because Diora Baird’s breasts are made from the laughter of children and that mixture of maple syrup and melted butter that dribbles down the side of your pancakes. Then the movie came out and deflated my wiener with the one-two punch of the lack of beautiful Baird breasts and Zachary Quinto’s intrusive eyebrows. Today, we can finally see the Diora Baird scene that didn’t make the movie. And it’s… an even bigger disappointment than her not being in the movie, somehow. Dear JJ Abrams: you hired Diora Baird for your movie and you kept her fully clothed? You’re worse than Stalin. You’re like Hitler, if Hitler had promised the Jews ice cream before he gassed them, and then kicked a puppy. Yours in undying hatred, Vince.
I also like how the scene involves Kirk apologizing to an Orion Slave Girl for using her. Dude, she’s a slave girl. It’s in the title. You don’t have to treat them like Dilythian Equality Womyn.
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This is a just-released deleted scene from Star Trek. I loved the movie, but this highlights the one aspect I hated — shaky-cam, quick-cut action sequences that give you no sense of the spatial awareness of a scene, just the cliff’s notes cause and effect. Anyway, I’ll let /Film describe the context because that’s easiest for me.
JJ Abrams shot a sequence for the Star Trek reboot featuring a few members of the infamous alien race, the Klingons. The scene featured Nero [Eric Bana] chained to a table being interrogated by the masked, ruffle-headed creatures with Centurion slugs who are looking to find out information on the future. The sequence basically explained what Nero was up to in the missing years. This is one of the deleted scenes in the prison break sequence that has found its way online to promote the upcoming DVD release.
Wait, so this was supposed to be the scene that finally gives us Klingons and now that it’s here they’re wearing a mask the whole time? That’s like paying for sex and then finding out you have to wear a condom. Relax bitch I told you I was clean.
The above video has been making its way around the internet, supposedly as viral marketing for Cloverfield 2, or possibly as a publicity stunt, possibly related to this other video that references Cloverfield and may have been Cloverfield 2 marketing. Bottom line, we don’t really know much about it at this point. But I will say this for it, the whole time I was watching it I was hoping the girl in it would fall down unconscious, and she totally falls down unconscious. Now watch as I attempt to remove the cat fur from my underwear using only my mind. Dang. Still didn’t work.
As originally rumored a few days ago, Hollywood Reporter is confirming that JJ Abrams and Tom Cruise are teaming up to produce a fourth Mission Impossible, which, if Hollywood sequel-naming trends bear out, will probably be called The Mission Impossible. 
Unfortunately, it looks like Abrams won’t be directing (as he did on Star Trek, which was awesome) and it’s unclear whether Cruise will star (though that part isn’t as unfortunate).
Abrams directed Cruise in the third installment of the TV-derived franchise, which grossed $395 million worldwide in summer 2006. Relatively speaking, “MI:3″ was a box office disappointment, since the second film grossed $545 million worldwide and the original raked in $452 million.
Though Abrams is not on board to direct the new “Impossible,” he and Cruise could reconceive it in a way that is closer to the ensemble approach of the TV series. Or they could reconfigure Cruise as Ethan Hunt in a less front-and-center role, as some kind of mentor to the new M:I crew. Then again, no one can rule out Cruise as the guy who will carry the franchise for the duration. [THR]
Or maybe Cruise will do battle with a horde of space lesbians, accompanied only by his masturbating iguana, Reacharound. Gosh, journalism is fun.
J.J. Abrams wrote and directed Mission Impossible III, which was supposed to be a big deal at the time, but it only grossed a disappointing $134 mil domestically on a $150 mil budget (though it eventually made almost $400 mil worldwide). I always assumed that was because by the third film (after a second one directed by John Woo featuring a motorcycle joust fight - God that movie sucked), no one cared about the Mission Impossible franchise anymore. 
Nonetheless, word on the street is that Abrams is back as producer for a fourth movie. From TV Guide (via SpoilerTV):
“I am incredibly honored that Tom (Cruise) has invited me back as a producer on Mission Impossible 4. says Abrams. “Tom and I have come up with a really cool idea we are pursuing.”
That idea? Tom Cruise must travel back in time to find the source of all the lens flares. (Tom’s thinking alien spirits).
Related Asylum Poll: How can JJ Abrams make MI 4 watchable? Mmm, you smell that? I stepped in synergy.
