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In May 2009, the new Star Trek movie receives excellent reviews; I think the most notable performance is a small cameo from Randy Pausch, read on to find out why…
I first came across the name Randy Pausch through someone who knew I liked the area of goal achievement. Pausch was a professor at Carnegie Mellon University in the US, who knew that he was going to die very soon of pancreatic cancer.
He gave a lecture called The Last Lecture in 2007, which became and continues to be a huge hit on YouTube.
When you watch it (and I suggest you go to YouTube and search for it) you’ll see why it’s so popular.
Pausch gives a humorous account of his dreams and how he achieved them. He covers some mental attitude techniques, about how you can defeat yourself or help yourself through your attitudes, and ends by saying that the lecture is for his children.
He died in 2008, but after the success of his lecture, in which he had joked about wanting to be Captain Kirk as a child, director JJ Abrams asked him to film a brief cameo for inclusion in the upcoming film.
Pausch did, and that cameo appears in the film; at first, Pausch appears as a member of the crew and says the line “Captain, we have a picture.”
Normally the kind of appearance isn’t worth mentioning, but in the context of his lecture and the theories of what can happen when he performs certain actions, it’s dynamite to watch!
If you watch the movie, try to find it, and like I said before, go to YouTube or Google and search for Randy Pausch, and you’ll see why I think his performance is the most remarkable!