Details of 9 Minute Preview Revealed *SPOILERS*

[Franklin]

SalvorHardin wrote:

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Well the planet does seem to have some sort of big volcanic eruption issues.

Besides, I'd rather see some new cool ocean-Enterprise shots than see standard orbit or hide behind a moon shots.

But it does beg the question, "Why?" Especially when there are shuttles for traveling down to a planet. It just seems "awkward," too. Parking a starship in the ocean? The Federation obviously needs to invest more in developing a cloaking device.
Oh well. It is what it is. As long as we don't see Scotty looking out a window, seeing a fish swim by, and doing a double-take.

More importantly, every report I've read so far about the nine minutes is very positive. The footage is said to look fantastic in IMAX 3D. I'm hooked. Big E underwater or not.

[bullethead]

Franklin wrote:

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But it does beg the question, "Why?" Especially when there are shuttles for traveling down to a planet. It just seems "awkward," too. Parking a starship in the ocean? The Federation obviously needs to invest more in developing a cloaking device.

Yeah, especially since it doesn't seem like these natives have any sort of telescopes or whatever that would allow them to see the ship in orbit.

[SalvorHardin]

Franklin wrote:

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But it does beg the question, "Why?" Especially when there are shuttles for traveling down to a planet. It just seems "awkward," too. Parking a starship in the ocean? The Federation obviously needs to invest more in developing a cloaking device.

Maybe the shuttle isn't good enough. Maybe they need the Enterprise & its instruments to be very close for whatever they are doing to that volcano to work.
We'll have to wait and see the movie to know if it's just for coolness, if it's for plot or a combination of both.

[Tosk]

Coolness is just fine by me so long as it's not idiotic.

[The Mirrorball Man]

Franklin wrote:

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But it does beg the question, "Why?"

And the answer is: this is cinema and it's something we've never seen before.

[EyalM]

I really like how this seems to link back to Pike's speech about starfleet being a "humanitarian armada" (or something to that affect), since they seem to be on a rescue mission on behalf of the natives.
I also like how this throws to the garbage bin TNG's approach of "we must stand by while the pre-warp aliens are horribly killed due to the prime directive".

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Detailed description of the trailer, with some dialogue, below:

Even now, at the end of the nine-minute presentation, I cannot conclusively tell you who Benedict Cumberbatch is playing. We do meet him very early in the footage, though. The film starts with an alarm clock going off, waking a married couple played by Nazneen Contractor and Noel Clarke. They quickly get ready, peeking out their window at the rainy cityscape of London in the year 2259. They drive to the London Children's Hospital to visit their little girl, who appears to be aging prematurely, sick and near-bald, completely unresponsive. Clarke walks outside to catch some air and try to pull himself together, and someone steps up behind him to say, "I can save her." Clarke turns around and we get our first look at Cumberbatch.

Clarke asks, incredulous, "Who are you?" and before we can get the answer to the question, we cut away to a Class M Planet called Nibiru, where we catch up with the crew of the starship Enterprise. We were asked not to provide a complete blow-by-blow of what you'll see, but I can tell you that much of the footage you saw in the announcement video last week was taken from this early part of the film, including Bones and Kirk (Karl Urban and Chris Pine) fleeing through a strange red jungle, chased by a group of aliens because they evidently stole a sacred scroll from them. At the same time, Spock (Zachary Quinto) is onboard a shuttlecraft piloted by Sulu (John Cho), getting ready for his descent into a volcano. While the Prime Directive is definitely a primary concern for the crew, they are determined to stop the volcano from extinguishing an entire race of aliens who are not yet ready for space travel, and Spock's the one who has to actually descend into the active and about-to-erupt main crater.

And where's the Enterprise during all this? Hidden underwater in one of Nibiru's oceans, of course.

The stuff with Kirk and McCoy is very funny, and a nice reminder of just how strong the chemistry is with this cast. Same with the stuff between Uhura (Zoe Saldana) and Spock. The moment they bring in the main theme by Michael Giacchino is perfect, lovely and thrilling at the same time. I really love the look of these films, and the alien world is beautifully realized, as is the London of the future. I like that we pick up with the crew in the middle of an adventure and we see how they've come together now with the time that has passed since the end of the first film. Abrams and his screenwriting team, Robert Orci, Alex Kurtzman, and Damon Lindelof, all seem to get the dynamic that makes Kirk, Spock, and McCoy such great archetypes, and it really crystallizes in a moment where Kirk asks McCoy what Spock would do if it were him inside the volcano in peril in a situation where any effort to help is going to violate the Prime Directive. McCoy growls," He'd let you die," and there's no arguing his point.

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[SalvorHardin]

Franklin wrote:

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Oh well. It is what it is. As long as we don't see Scotty looking out a window, seeing a fish swim by, and doing a double-take.

Hmm

In the meantime, my "Star Trek" loving movie buddy tonight, my seven-year-old son Toshi, picked his favorite moment from the nine-minute prologue. It involves Scotty (Simon Pegg) and a fish, so keep your eyes open for that

http://www.hitfix.com/motion-capture...WvSsytlyP3G.99

[MadMan1701A]

My Name Is Legion wrote:

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It's not Garth and it's not Mitchell.

So it's Khan, then?

[King Daniel]

Wouldn't stopping the volcano from erupting and saving the primative natives be a prime directive violation?

Not that that sort of thing has ever stopped Kirk before, of course

[Admiral Buzzkill]

EyalM wrote:

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I also like how this throws to the garbage bin TNG's approach of "we must stand by while the pre-warp aliens are horribly killed due to the prime directive".

Kirk gets in some trouble with Pike for one thing that he does here.

[lurok]

Franklin wrote:

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As long as we don't see Scotty looking out a window, seeing a fish swim by, and doing a double-take.

A fish would be stupid and predictable. It has to be a whale.

[JarodRussell]

The Enterprise parked under water.


If this were fan fic or tie in lit...

[Admiral Buzzkill]

And so you learn the difference between them.

[DarthTom]

It's interesting that on and off the "internets," there is so much controversy as to weather a star ship can go underwater. In the Voyager Episode Thirty Days, Paris takes the Delta Flyer underwater for a protracted period of time. So why couldn't another ship also go underwater?