Earlier this week a slew of images from J.J. Abrams‘ Star Trek reboot, reimagining, redo, do over, what have you hit the web, and today an accompanying article from Entertainment Weekly talks to the actors and reflects on the footage shown to the magazine. Since we weren’t able to see that same footage (why not show it to everyone, Paramount?) we’re basically left to conjecture on the images themselves, and pat our inner fanboy on the back in consolation.

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• Amy Winehouse swears the producers of Quantum of Solace will be sorry that they hired Jack White and Alicia Keys to record a Bond theme instead of choosing her, still-unrecorded tune. Without giving Amy too much credit, Vulture points out that the wrong bond songs have been left behind before. If Amy’s in a club with Scott Walker and Pulp over one with Madonna and Sheryl Crow, she should probably keep her mouth shut.
• From Mental Floss’s list of “4 Alfred Hitchcock Secrets”: why Hitch’s initial plan for the end of North by Northwest was foiled, and how Hitchcock came to be okay with it.
• The TakePart Blog points to the above Star Trek spoof, in which Kirk deports illegal alien Spock, and then, when he can’t figure out how to do anything for himself, lives to regret it.

Last year’s 2007 Comic-Con featured a massive Paramount Pictures panel, which did everything from give us a live broadcast from the set of Indiana Jones (where we found out Marion Ravenwood was in the picture), to introduce both Leonard Nimoy and Zachary Quinto as Spock in the new Trek film. However, Paramount’s only presence this year was a Tropic Thunder screening outside the Con, and some freebie Trek posters on the show floor. Where was the most cinematic representation of the Comic-Con audience to be found?

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