Randy Pausch in Star Trek movie - DON'T MISS HIM!! (still image)

This is my little tribute to Dr Randy Pausch, who achieved another of his dreams shortly before he died of pancreatic cancer. Randy was invited to cameo on the new Star Trek movie by the film's director himself, J. J. Abrams, when Abrams found out that Randy was a devoted Star Trek fan.

This is a still image showing Randy's appearance in the movie, which happens about 35-40 seconds into the VERY FIRST SCENE of the film. Randy runs across the top of the screen from left to right and says "Captain, we have visual". As Randy said so himself in his blog before he left us, if you blink, you'll miss him!! He only appears for roughly a second!!

Visit http://www.randypausch.com and his day-to-day update page http://download.srv.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/news/index.html . The specific post by Randy about this Star Trek cameo is titled "Star Trek!!!" and has no specified date but is between the Scuba Diving one on Dec 1st (2007) and a previous one on Nov 29th (2007).

* Support Pancreatic Cancer Research. Please visit http://www.pancan.org/ and donate.
* Also, please support the Randy Pausch Memorial Fund, here: http://www.cmu.edu/giving/pausch .

A quote from the Carnegie Mellon website (here: http://www.cmu.edu/homepage/beyond/2008/summer/an-enduring-legacy.shtml ) in reference to the above links:

"The family requests that donations on his [Randy's] behalf be directed to the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, 2141 Rosecrans Ave., Suite 7000, El Segundo, CA 90245, or to Carnegie Mellon's Randy Pausch Memorial Fund, which the university will use primarily to support continued work on the Alice project."

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[JamesTKirkCobain]

Great they put him in the movie but pretty lame they gave him such short screen time. He walks by the Captain in a split second, I mean WTF is that? At least let the guy say a few words, it doesn`t take genius to act.

[MagellanOfBass]

@JamesTKirkCobain you should read this short (1 page) essay about the meaning of his appearance, insightfully explained.

cs virginia edu /~robins/Randy/pausch-star-tre­­­k-essay.pdf

Replace the first 2 spaces with dots, remove the third space, and add the triple w+a dot at the beginning

[KingOfTheBritains]

this is awesome.

[MagellanOfBass]

Heh, thanks KingOfTheBritains!! :) I really liked your video too... Much like Randy's sister Tammy, I was very moved by your excitement when you said you saw him, and how you said it, etc. Almost made me get all teary...!!

[FFSray]

he is a great guy

[jasoniswaleno]

Very moving story all around. Thanks for posting the letter explaining the Star Trek appearance.

[BondFreek]

@Potrimpo. Your an expert of the new film. I'm an expert of TRUE Star Trek.

[Potrimpo]

@BondFreek It shows the picture of the late Randy Pausch who was a devoted Star Trek fan and not only had a cameo, but also a line as well.

It's not too dissimilar to another devoted Star Trek fan who had a terminal condition and was honoured by Star Trek. You've never heard this name before since the name of that young man was Jordan LaForge.

Funny how a novice like JJ Abrams understands Star Trek than a self-proclaimed expert.

[Amused]

I've been searching for him in the movie. Thanks for pointing it out for everyone. :D

[KingOfTheBritains]

Thank you so much. I'm glad you watched it and liked it. His lecture had such an impact on me, i couldn't not get excited to see him living out this dream. :)

Also, thank you for posting the this. I've been showing friends who missed him when they went to see the movie.

[KingOfTheBritains]

Pictures hold no value to you? It's enough for me that they were able to find a still frame. But, ah, to each his own.