Description of the teaser trailer...SPOILERS, Dude

[Dale]

Just sayin...

[Brutal Strudel]

Here's something, though: isn't linking the construction of the E so closely with late 1960s space program sound bites falling into the very nostalgia trap so many posters around here so vociferously oppose? It's not like the opening of ENT, which showed exploration from the high seas through the ISS and into the 22nd Century (a great concept, lousy theme notwithstanding--pity they included no Russian footage); this is all 1960s. Personally, I dig it, as Trek to me is about the 1960s far more than its about the 23rd Century, just as Philip Dick's novels are about the US in the 1960s and 1970s and not whatever half-baked (meant lovingly) future world he put them in. But I know many around here don't share that view.

So... what gives?

Oh, and the Enterprise was constructed in orbit under the authority of the San Francisco Navy Yard, which is why the plaque says San Francisco. This isn't rationalizing or ret-conning, it's what Roddenberry said. He was adamant that she was built in space, said it many times. It isn't technically canon but it is hardly fanon, either. At the very least, it is lore. At most, it is part of Roddenberry's intent all the way through the production of the series and TMP.

[abeardall]

Dale Hoppert said:


Just sayin...

So...this is the reason for all the tax hikes!

[Sharr Khan]

"the idea [of an 'under construction' metaphor] would be lost to the same general public they are hoping to lure with this thing."

Ah, conceited Star Trek fans... pretty sure I've said this before: "The General Audience" aren't the dumb lugs some of us 'fans' take'm to be.

isn't linking the construction of the E so closely with late 1960s space program sound bites falling into the very nostalgia trap so many posters around here so vociferously oppose?

I hardly think historical references, linked to JFK at that would be "Inside Trek" as it were...

Sharr

[Brutal Strudel]

Not "Inside Trek" but backward-looking--"Do you remember the sixties? Paramount and Bad Robot do. Who can forget this ditty?"*

Now a teaser trailer showing us nothing but, say, Idris Elba fussing with a bunch of computer computer components and saying, at the end, "The duotronic system is ready for installation"? Now that would be "Inside Trek."

*Remember, though, this is exactly what I want, the Star Trek equivalent of Grindhouse, if you will. Of course, we saw how well that fared...

[Sharr Khan]

Not "Inside Trek" but backward-looking--"Do you remember the sixties? Paramount and Bad Robot do. Who can forget this ditty?"*

Hardly backward thinking - I mean from what I gather the words are about looking ahead, JFK and all that. Not a bad thing. Simply cause the speeches are from the 60's doesn't make them "backward" by any means if their message is relateble to none Trek fans (as this whole teaser seems to be from what I read) as well as stirring.

Its about the words and their message not that they're from the Sixties which count here.

Sharr

[Brutal Strudel]

That's a valid interpretation.

[aridas sofia]

The actual quote by JFK in his Rice University speech is a little different from what is being quoted in reference to this story --

For the eyes of the world now look into space, to the moon and to the planets beyond, and we have vowed that we shall not see it governed by a hostile flag of conquest, but by a banner of freedom and peace.

It really does capture the Cold War aspect of the Space Race -- and Star Trek -- very well.

[Brutal Strudel]

Indeed. I should hasten to add to my last post that Star Trek can be a floor wax and a dessert topping--that is, it can be Janus-like, giving us a vision of a future that will never be (as no SF future will ever be) while giving us a view on a facet of the past as it saw itself. I've made it pretty clear that, if we have to have yet more Trek, I'd much rather it be Mad Men in space than "updated" so that we can pretend that 1968's future is really our future. The expiration date for that was nigh back in 1979 and that was a long time ago.

[CaptainDave1701]

Oh My!...I worked at that shipyard in Newport News, Virginia for 22 years. Most of it was spent as a welder in that very dry dock under that gantry crane. It is dry dock number 12.

[Samuel T. Cogley]

CaptainDave1701 said:
Oh My!...I worked at that shipyard in Newport News, Virginia for 22 years. Most of it was spent as a welder in that very dry dock under that gantry crane. It is dry dock number 12.

In Area 51, right?

[Woulfe]

Area 42, not 51, so Bob didn't lie.

1. Joe Six Pack won't know it's Star Trek 'till the end of the teaser ( heh heh heh heh heh ) sneaky JJ real sneaky.

2. It'll have that whole 60's vibe with the JFK speech.

3. None of this footage will be in the movie itself.

- W -
* Who's not worried about anything to do with the film *

[Kegek]

Sharr Khan said:
Hardly backward thinking - I mean from what I gather the words are about looking ahead, JFK and all that.

Yes, but like JFK, Star Trek is looking ahead - from the sixties. We're talking about JFK here - his oft-imitated voice is immediately recognisable and he's an icon of that decade.

Which may not be a bad thing. It may be that they're intentionally setting the show in context a little bit, I don't know.

[Plum]

Well, if it was to look to the future from today, it's all war, death, and no space exploration except to drop bombs from orbit.

So, dude, go with the 60s!

[Sharr Khan]

Which may not be a bad thing. It may be that they're intentionally setting the show in context a little bit, I don't know.

Could be. Not a bad thing at all. Most none fans can get that easily enough I think.

Speaking for myself its not "looking backward" I'm concerned with that's not a problem. Its more about being to much "inside Trek" and myopic in scope of what Star Trek could be all about. This doesn't seem to have that issue which is good.

Sharr