The Star Trek Into Darkness teaser trailer is here!

[Classic Fan]

Woah. My comment went a little far. Lol

My thoughts are basically, if your gonna build a starship, build it so it can do everything, kinda like a Bond car of old. And I also forgot about the holoship.

Imagine the pitch:
Int: paramount offices.
Kurtzman and Orci: So, were on this planet, and we want to monitor Kirk and McCoys progress during a mission. Suggest using a sub for research/exploration purposes pre-installed on the Enterprise.
Paramount execs: Sounds good. Show us what you got...
JJ: HOLD IT! Why dont we use the whole damn ship as a sub? Would be totally frickin awesome.
Orci: What about the science behind such a...
JJ: fuck science! We want entertainment and awesomeness. This shit sells, guys.

Personally though, that image of it slowly rising looks awesome.


Oddly, this popped up on my twitter timeline a minute ago. Pretty apt.

[King Daniel]

JarodRussell wrote:

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So had they submerged the Enterprise-E inside the lake for whatever reason in that film, you would have said "Ok" ?

I didn't have a problem with the Holoship going underwater, and all Federation ships have nigh-on the same capabilities.

[Franklin]

King Daniel Into Darkness wrote:

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I didn't have a problem with the Holoship going underwater, and all Federation ships have nigh-on the same capabilities.

I have less of a problem with it than a Klingon bird of prey floating in TVH.

[Classic Fan]

Franklin wrote:

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I have less of a problem with it than a Klingon bird of prey floating in TVH.

BOOM!

[Carcazoid]

Franklin wrote:

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I have less of a problem with it than a Klingon bird of prey floating in TVH.

It wasn't floating, it was sinking.

[JarodRussell]

Professor Farnsworth: Good Lord! That's over 5000 atmospheres of pressure!
Fry: How many atmospheres can the ship withstand?
Professor Farnsworth: Well, it was built for space travel, so anywhere between zero and one.

[Chemahkuu]

JarodRussell wrote:

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Professor Farnsworth: Good Lord! That's over 5000 atmospheres of pressure!
Fry: How many atmospheres can the ship withstand?
Professor Farnsworth: Well, it was built for space travel, so anywhere between zero and one.

That's about the 5th time that shit has been posted here and it's not any more relevant now than it was the first time. The Planet Express ship is part of a comedy cartoon, it's not meant to be remotely realistic and changes it's properties every week.

And since it's been seen taking severe structural damage from things as simple as a baseball bat, me thinks the Professor penny pinched on materials (assuming he was even telling the truth about building it himself in the pilot).

[ITL]

Chemahkuu wrote:

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That's about the 5th time that shit has been posted here and it's not any more relevant now than it was the first time. The Planet Express ship is part of a comedy cartoon, it's not meant to be remotely realistic and changes it's properties every week.

And since it's been seen taking severe structural damage from things as simple as a baseball bat, me thinks the Professor penny pinched on materials (assuming he was even telling the truth about building it himself in the pilot).

Well, he was already in his pyjamas.

[Chemahkuu]

So are most of Starfleet

[JarodRussell]

Starfleet engineers had to design this ship for both space travel and underwater travel, two completely different environments, even if the likelyhood for a mission having to take place under water is like... almost zero? Poor engineers. What else did they have to think of? Maybe the Enterprise can indeed transform into mega maid.

[Ovation]

Clearly they consulted the Xindi Aquatics. There. Problem solved.

[cooleddie74]

It makes one wonder if the Xindi are already members of the Federation in the new, altered timeline. I don't think the Xindi joined in the Prime reality until much later than the Kirk era but who knows...Daniels was extremely vague about when the Federation and the Xindi teamed up.

It might be cool to see a Xindi-Reptillian as an Enterprise crew member at some point as a wink to the audience. "See, kids? They weren't all villainous bastards!"

[Chemahkuu]

SantaEddie74 wrote:

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It makes one wonder if the Xindi are already members of the Federation in the new, altered timeline. I don't think the Xindi joined in the Prime reality until much later than the Kirk era but who knows...Daniels was extremely vague about when the Federation and the Xindi teamed up.

It might be cool to see a Xindi-Reptillian as an Enterprise crew member at some point as a wink to the audience. "See, kids? They weren't all villainous bastards!"

Or, they could finally do something like what they had planned for TNG and have an area in the saucer devoted to aquatics.

Only not Earth ones, but sentient crew members, you could do two shout outs in one there. Have not only the race from Titan, but a Xindi aquatic swim past. The audience would just see cool aliens, we'd get the injoke, lots of fun, like 5 seconds of screentime.

Of course, it won't happen but it would be fun.

[cooleddie74]

Nah, it wouldn't. But it's a neat little idea in any case.

I wouldn't mind hearing the Xindi attack on Earth in 2153 referenced at least once during the course of the Abrams films as a nod to one of the most traumatic events of the warp era. You know, Kirk and McCoy are drinking and enjoying some social time together and one starts reminiscing about their old professor or classmates at the Academy. "Boy, Dr. [insert name here] was such a pain in the ass about Starfleet history. It was bad enough Professor Gill never shut up about the Xindi probe attack...."

That kind of thing. Again, who knows if it'll ever happen but Enterprise is now the only series that exists in both the Prime and Abrams timelines so the history is shared by both.

[Mach5]

Classic Fan wrote:

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Oddly, this popped up on my twitter timeline a minute ago. Pretty apt.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...um/image-1.jpg

"Genesis device" - a missile that magically creates an oasis of flora and fauna literately out of ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, in a matter of minutes... No one flinches.

A starship designed to operate in vacuum and traverse huge distances by bending the very fabric of space gets submerged under water... "Blasphemy! Jihad! Behead the infidel!"

Trekkies <3