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Star Trek 13 News/Countdown Thread

There can be only one.

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HEY TREKKIE SCUM HERE'S THE TRAILER

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I'll start with the positive: I like that there's new aliens doing stuff on a new alien planet. That's a thing I like about Star Trek.

But on the other hand, there was a report a few months ago that Paramount told them to make it more like Guardians of the Galaxy and I can see that. Kirk listening to Sabotage again? ON A WALKMAN, PROBABLY.

Kirk riding a motobike gives me horrible Nemesis dunebuggy flashbacks.

Idris Elbas is playing a Jem'Hadar? (Not necessarily a complaint.)

And the Enterprise is destroyed seemingly right at the start of the movie. It took me a while to remember that it wasn't destroyed in the last one.
 
I don't like how they always do death-defying acts that mortals can't really do, and always at the last possible second in the last possible circumstance before certain death. In its own way it's quite predictable.
 
While I like to give them the benefit of the doubt, this seemed less like a trailer for a new film, and more a clip show of the best bits of the two previous ones.

Sabotage, check.
Almost falling off a cliff, and holding on and the very last moment, check.
Anachronistic motorbike, check.
Ship getting smashed up, check.
Someone beating up Kirk, check.
 
I do like what appears to be the general idea; the crew eject from a ship as it crashes, land in different areas of a planet and must find each other again and get themselves home. That has a lot of potential.

What we see doesn't look as though it really makes the most of that blank canvas. Why the fuck there's a motorbike on an alien planet I don't even want to attempt to figure out. The aliens don't look much more adventurous in design than what we were seeing 10-15 years ago on tv. Of course they're angry. The planet looks standard. Of course Scotty is now a trapeze artist. Idris Elba is unrecognisable. And don't bother making us think the Enterprise crashes when you deliberately don't show its name and you pulled the exact same switcheroo last time with the Vengeance.
 
Fuddlemiff said:
I do like what appears to be the general idea; the crew eject from a ship as it crashes, land in different areas of a planet and must find each other again and get themselves home. That has a lot of potential.
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Frankly I dont even see the potential in that premise. Lots of traveling through CGI landscapes and dealing with natives that are either hostile or stupid/comic. Campfire scenes...perhaps some Row Row Row Your Boat anyone?

Is it in JJ's contract that he has to be derivative, or is he just another in a long line of outsiders who thinks he's smarter than Gene was?
 
JJ has nothing to do with this one, he is kind of busy with a different film with star in the title.
 
OK. 1) I've never been more underwhelmed by a trailer. 2) The fan edit of TWoK is interesting. I suspect because it is a fan edit, they just didn't have the time to put into the ADHD level of fast cuts. But a good part of me thinks that the pacing of a 1982 film is so different from a 2016 film that you couldn't do cuts that quickly and have it make any sense. I mean listen to how slowly everyone talks. Or the shaky hand reaching over the guardrail. Those shots take time.
 
I know, I know, know, all good and valid points. But, I've been a Trekkie since the series was new on television. Love that in the reboot of this series the actors not only have to portray the characters in the story but the actors who portrayed those characters for decades. They are doing a bang up job. I love Chris Pine as Bill Shatner as Captain Kirk. Of course, he is going to have to really schick it up to replace the image of him singing at the waterfall as Cinderella's Prince in Into the Woods. Karl Urban does a fantastic job as DeForest Kelley as Bones. Zachary Quinto as Leonard Nimoy as Spock is quite good too. Will the story be somewhat predictable? Yes. We know these characters and the universe they inhabit very well. We know how they will react to many given situations. Like, how Kirk will react to the presence of an attractive although unusual looking female alien. Or, how Bones will have a negative snarky comment for just about everything but he always comes through and keeps the story going. And, Spock, stoic to boot, but, there is nobody better to have in your corner when the planet implodes and you don't have a ship or a crew. Scotty will always complain he can't do something immediately, even when he is told he only has five minutes to do it, but it is certain he will find a way to do the thing in four minutes with a minute to spare to save the ship and the crew. Whatever the story is, it always hangs on the characters we know as these stories are character driven.

Anyway, when I saw the trailer at the Star Wars showing I went squee, and squee, and squee, and then squee one more time for good measure. Did not want anybody in the sardine can packed theater where I saw Star Wars in Imax 3D at 9:15 Sunday morning to be in doubt that I was happy to know a new Star Trek movie is on the way.
 
I don't think Chris Pine played it like Shatner. Which was for the best, since it's impossible for anyone to be Shatner but Shatner.
 
Picard's brother Robert. There was a photo of him in the movie but they used a handsome man for it rather than the ugly guy who played Robert in TNG.

(As bad as Generations was, it was still better than Inusurrection, Nemeshit and Into Darkness, which proves nothing ever gets better, ever.)
 
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