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This looks quite good. I'll wait in line for this one.

Makes the hair on the back of my.. well my everything - stand up. I hope this breathes life back into the franchise and the genre as a whole.

Sorry about the dupe.

Getting excited about this one but a part of me is still reluctant to embrace it

wow

Still very skeptical, but it's visually impressive.

Sorry, but it does not feel... you know.. Star Treky. =( This looks like it would have been better off creating its own franchise.

Aw well... time will tell.

Vunce agen: http://www.videosift.com/video/Shatner-Reacts-To-New-Star-Trek-Trailer

Hot diggity that's a sweet trailer to watch in delicious HD goodness, very cool music in the background.

Oh and Eric Bana FTW

It is pretty, but I am still loyal to old series. We'll see how the reviews go.

Looks okay but 2 things bug me, one minor the other major...

1. That image they keep showing of the enterprise being built on the surface of the planet... it just makes no sense. Why would you build something like that on the planet surface when it could be built a LOT easier already in space?

2. He sounds NOTHING like kirk... yeah yeah, I know, suspend disbelief. But it just bugs me a LOT. I just can't get over that the kid is supposed to turn into kirk... I think of Ewen McGregor in the SW prequels (which sucked), at least he made SOME sort of effort at sounding vaguely like Kanobi. This actor is just not doing ANYTHING to sound like kirk.

Oh hell - embrace it! Why not? As a huge fan of TOS - I think it looks great!

Oh, and ponceleon - with respect to #1 - this is a civilization that has developed artificial gravity, faster than light travel and matter teleportation (of complex living organisms - consciousness intact, no less!) - what in the world makes you think they couldn't build a spaceship on the planet surface and get it into orbit?

Sure makes life support a hell of a lot easier!

That is some high grade pretentiousness! Didn't like the earlier trailers but this time I'm interested.

Okay Obsidian, I'll give you that one... but he still doesn't sound a damned bit like Shatner and there ain't no damned technological advance that can account for awesome.

What, no green chicks?

Nobody can replace the Shat - you get no argument from me...

The kid's just gonna have to fill the role his own way.

i thought they would build in space too .. but it's interesting to see they're still saving the total spinoffs... i wanted a DS9 movie but the actors are gettin oldish....voyager on the big screens...? but i want data to be there. hah.

Why the Hell do all the God Damn movies have to destroy the Enterprise? I mean, Kirk lost like one, and they found him guilty of destroying Starfleet porperty. Picard lost like 20 or 30, and they kept giving him more. Now this new guy is out there, blowing it up real good.

No respect for the equipment these days...

regarding the Enterprise being built on Earth. Why not? Most of the equipment will be subjected to gravity (albeit artificial) during normal use. Wouldn't it be easier to build and test the equipment in natural gravity? Also, you only build flimsy things in space. The Enterprise is hardly flimsy. The "on earth" idea isn't canon, but I don't have a problem with it.

Hurrm, don't really like star trek, and probably never will, but this film might be rather entertaining.

Sylar as Spock seems distracting.

I'm all in favor of giving Star Trek a reboot. I'm not so sure the idea of Kirk as the unlikely anti-hero is the way to go with filling in his own personal history.

My own spinoff idea was to take Section 17 from DS:9 and make a series centered around one of their new recruits that's serving on a normal Federation vessel with all the normal goody two-shoes.

Like Alias, only Star Trek-ized. JJ Abrams would do that well, I'd think.

If Spock spends the movie 'exploring his emotions', I'm gonna crap a brick. But I just BET Abrams can't help himself.

Yeah yeah sure, I know about pon'farr... this should not be used as a defining characteristic of Spock's character in a film. It is a mere facet of his being and I hope J.J has more talent than to cling to this for dramatic effect.

>> ^ObsidianStorm:
Oh hell - embrace it! Why not? As a huge fan of TOS - I think it looks great!
Oh, and ponceleon - with respect to #1 - this is a civilization that has developed artificial gravity, faster than light travel and matter teleportation (of complex living organisms - consciousness intact, no less!) - what in the world makes you think they couldn't build a spaceship on the planet surface and get it into orbit?
Sure makes life support a hell of a lot easier!


The transporter was a way of saving money and time in TOS of course but it just seems too advanced given the amount of information that would have to be read/stored/transferred and theres' the thorny issue of consciousness (I read the Science of Star Trek years ago!).

So within the Star Trek universe building a ship on the ground might be feasible but still, why? They spend most of their time in space anyhow and you'd have to expend considerable energy getting it off the planet (how do the thrusters work again?). And IIRC the first Enterprise is built in space during the opening credits of Star Trek: Enterprise. I guess this one is simply there for the SFX eye candy it offers.

Ehh...

I hope it's good. I really do. Mostly because if it's not, It's (to me) incredibly disrespectful to Gene Roddenberry, who faught this idea tooth and nail when it was pitched as an idea for a movie when he was still alive.

Captain kirk is a man's man, and making him all angst-ridden just doesn't seem right.

Still, it looks like it has some cool effects, and I'm usually down for anything that has lots of spaceships crashing into each other and planets blowing up.

>> ^Deano:

So within the Star Trek universe building a ship on the ground might be feasible but still, why? They spend most of their time in space anyhow and you'd have to expend considerable energy getting it off the planet.

The escape velocity of Earth is 11.2km/s, or ~0.00004 times the speed of light. Considering what the Enterprise can do, the energy required to get off planet is pretty insignificant (like 1 millionth of the energy it takes for the Enterprise to accelerate to full impulse).

Also, if the materials, equipment, personnel used to build the Enterprise originates from Earth, you'd actually save energy building it on Earth.

Why does Hollywood have to redo everything. Aren't there any new ideas floating around? I'd rather watch one of the old movies (haven't watched half of them yet)...

>> ^Deano:And IIRC the first Enterprise is built in space during the opening credits of Star Trek: Enterprise.

That's just the spray booth.

Well Star Wars is easily the 'greatest space adventure of all time' IMHO

But.. trailer gave me goose bumps. I cant wait.

Upon second viewing, I have to say that this is one of the better trailers that I have ever seen. The sound, editing, and cinematics are really beautifully done. It's hard to imagine this movie being terrible if this level of craftsmanship is consistent throughout the movie. But a trailer doesn't tell you that much.

They should really let the people who make trailers make feature length movies. You let a director shoot a 20 hour movie, then edit it down to a 90 minute trailer

doesn't sound like kirk? you understand kirk's not a real person, and "kirk" sounds like whoever is cast to play him right? Shatner is not kirk. kirk is not shatner. it's called a "re-boot" for a reason. it's new.

Ignore any Star Trek name in this sci-fi and pretend that it's its own movie. That way, it might be this year's "Independence day" instead of a huge, computer animated and digitally enhanced middle finger to Gene Roddenberry.

>> ^mentality:
>> ^Deano:
So within the Star Trek universe building a ship on the ground might be feasible but still, why? They spend most of their time in space anyhow and you'd have to expend considerable energy getting it off the planet.
The escape velocity of Earth is 11.2km/s, or ~0.00004 times the speed of light. Considering what the Enterprise can do, the energy required to get off planet is pretty insignificant (like 1 millionth of the energy it takes for the Enterprise to accelerate to full impulse).
Also, if the materials, equipment, personnel used to build the Enterprise originates from Earth, you'd actually save energy building it on Earth.


I bow to your figures
What if they used a space elevator though to move stuff up to the building platform?

>> ^BoneyD:
If Spock spends the movie 'exploring his emotions', I'm gonna crap a brick. But I just BET Abrams can't help himself.
Yeah yeah sure, I know about pon'farr... this should not be used as a defining characteristic of Spock's character in a film. It is a mere facet of his being and I hope J.J has more talent than to cling to this for dramatic effect.


Has anyone else noticed that we seem to be in the thrall of fanboy directors these days? I can think of JJ Abrams and Zack Synder for a start and I bet there are more coming. Guys who are obsessive about the detail of making a film and the script but can't actually make anything with emotional depth or substance? They're going to make Tarantino (their lord and master) look like Francis Ford Coppola.

I agree with mefa, it doesn't feel like Star Trek at all. It looks like a standard Hollywood space sci-fi flick. It might be a good movie and go down well with the general audience, hopefully kick start a new series, but I think this is going to disappoint a lot of Star Trek fans, myself included.
I think it was the perfect time for a Voyager movie.

I want this to be great.
Edit/ If the drill instructors were Vulcan, I'd gladly join the Marines. Otherwise, probably not.

I'm a rather big Star Trek fan, and while I'll admit that the trailer looks pretty, I just can't get into it. I'll have to see the movie before I can judge.

As for the construction of the Enterprise, it was built on Earth (San Francisco) but assembled in space. (See the Making of Star Trek.)

I like Star Trek and this looks awesome. I never really liked TOS, but again this looks pretty sweet.

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