Captain, Life is Not a Dream [Fantastic Fest Spock's Drafthouse Crowd]

There are moments in time that we wish we could be multiple places at once, moments that we wished we had some sort of teleportation device that could beam us from a point of origin to a far away destination and back again. Last night we had one of those moments as we were sipping a cold beer at the Cactus Cafe, listening to the sweet sounds of Southpaw Jones, reading our twitter feed. We saw a message, er, "tweet" from our friends over at Film School Rejects: "I just sat and watched a Star Trek movie of some kind two seats away from Leonard Nimoy. And it was incredible."

"Oh, that's cool," we thought, "Leonard Nimoy showed up for the screening of The Wrath of Khan that the Alamo Drafthouse and Fantastic Fest had set up for last night." We were so naive to think that the Alamo didn't have some subversive trick up its sleeve. Suddenly, our mobile phone exploded as millions of geeks from inside the maroon-swathed walls of the Alamo South Lamar simultaneously flooded the internet with word that, no, Nimoy had not showed up for TWoK, but rather he had shown up with a never-seen-by-pedestrian-eyes print of the soon-to-be classic J.J. Abrams reboot of Star Trek.

What???!!!

Exactly. How much more cruel could our universe be that the *one* Fantastic Fest screening that we skip (Seriously, we've seen TWoK like, a billion times and didn't feel the need to see it last night, especially when there was a Bruce Springsteen tribute to attend) turns out to be a screening of one of the most anticipated films this year, this decade, dare we say this century?!!!

In any case, once the squealing subsided, the attendees managed to not only sit through the film without spontaneously combusting, but also to write really nice and promising things about it afterward, which only makes us burn with that much more envy. And we aren't the only ones, as news of the surprise spread across the internet.

It's official: the Alamo Drafthouse is the coolest place on earth.