AICN reports on Actual Trek XI Footage

[Captain Dago]

Words absolutely cannot describe how giddy, excited and happy this makes me. I CAN'T WAIT!!!!

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

The uniforms are really something.

 

[Rex Racer]

I love his description of young Kirk and McCoy. Sounds like Harry thought Urban is amazing as McCoy. "And Spock… perfect." Sweet!

But no mention of the Sombreroprise???

 

[Outpost4]

MUST...KEEP...EXPECTATIONS...DOWN...

 

[The Wormhole]

Maybe my imagination is a little overactive from an extra cup of coffee this morning, but here's what I read into the AICN report:
-- The incident on board the Farragut that propelled Kirk to captain has been reimagined and takes place on board the Enterprise. In the mists of my mind, I remember reading some time back that Abrams said that not all the familiar characters make it through the movie. Back at that time I thought he meant Pike. Of course, I may be putting two and two together and getting five.

Somehow, I have a feeling you're probably right. Not quite sure how I feel about this at the moment.

 

[Turtletrekker]

MUST...KEEP...EXPECTATIONS...DOWN...

Already there...

 

[EyalM]

Maybe my imagination is a little overactive from an extra cup of coffee this morning, but here's what I read into the AICN report:
-- The incident on board the Farragut that propelled Kirk to captain has been reimagined and takes place on board the Enterprise. In the mists of my mind, I remember reading some time back that Abrams said that not all the familiar characters make it through the movie. Back at that time I thought he meant Pike. Of course, I may be putting two and two together and getting five.

How did the incident on the Farragut propelled Kirk to captincy? He failed to stop the cloud monster from killing half the crew and blamed himself for years. He became captain despite the Farrahut incident, not because of it.
IMHO

 

[blockaderunner]

I liked the fact that Harry said that the Enterprise seems functional. That has been my one gripa about just about all of Trek. It all seemed like a set. There was very little to indicate that controls did anyhting. I was watching The Empire Strikes Back yesterday and I was just digging on the interior of the Falcon. How it looked like a rusty, functional ship instead of a pristine, sterile hotel lobby. When Leia was welding a swiveling piece of tech on a bulkhead before Han entered, I had that feeling that, even though I had no idea what it was or what its function was, it was set in away that it had a fucntion and it did something important for the ship. I'm glad the new Trek movie is going that route.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

None of the interiors in "Star Wars" ever looked particularly real or functional to me. The outsides of the ships kind of did, but the interiors were the usual vacuum-forming and winking lights.

 

[Eric Cheung]

I wonder if Vulcan is going to look kind of red more like TOS and TMP or auburn or sepia-tone more like TSFS and TVH. My guess is that it'll have a more auburn look if they're using Vasquez for it, to match TVH. On the other hand Harry implies we'll see volcanos in the background which sounds more like TMP.

 

[PKTrekGirl]

Interesting. Sounds pretty good so far.

 

[section9]

Nothing was posted by Harry about the actual ENT. JJ was shrewdly holding that view back until the late summer.

 

[prince_david]

This article gets me very excited! Not a very well written article but I guess you can't expect maturity from a web site called "Ain't it cool"

 

[ancient]

The description of the Kelvin interior reminds me of that corridor shot we got a while back, the one with all the pipes, grills, and little spotlights.

 

[EJD1984]

I wonder if the footage that Abrams chose to show is intended to be part of the first trailer.

It seems to me that Harry at AICN saw the footage a while ago, and just now got permission from Abrams to write his report on it. If so - Does this mean that something may be coming soon. Maybe a surprise at ComicCon?

 

[Franklin]

Maybe my imagination is a little overactive from an extra cup of coffee this morning, but here's what I read into the AICN report:
-- The incident on board the Farragut that propelled Kirk to captain has been reimagined and takes place on board the Enterprise. In the mists of my mind, I remember reading some time back that Abrams said that not all the familiar characters make it through the movie. Back at that time I thought he meant Pike. Of course, I may be putting two and two together and getting five.

How did the incident on the Farragut propelled Kirk to captincy? He failed to stop the cloud monster from killing half the crew and blamed himself for years. He became captain despite the Farrahut incident, not because of it.
IMHO

True, though Kirk was hardest on himself, and was reported by others to have acted with uncommon bravery. He got the attention of the brass. I guess I'm saying it could be something derivative of it. Perhaps a more apt comparison would be something like Lt. Cmdr. Picard's actions on the Stargazer.

 

[Valar]

Balls.

I wish i'd not read that really. I know it doesn't really give much away, but I'm suprised JJ let knowles let that shit leak out...

I wonder if that weird "no new material at ComicCon" thing today finally shook some info loose. I'll be interested to see if anyone else has anything to release....

If you scroll down to the "talkback" section and read the posts in black- the ones by "headgeek" are by the author of the article- he says that JJ showed him this footage a month ago, with the understanding that it wouldn't be revealed for a while, then JJ got antsy and asked him to reveal what he thought- thus the posting.

 

[ancient]

I was just looking at the talkback, which is pretty interesting, mainly this;

There wasn't anything that felt wrong in the least, but it was strange... cuz it all looked big. The Enterprise looks huge, both on the outside and on the inside. Not spacey, but it felt like if you had to walk the length of the enterprise you'd hope there were a couple of bench spots to rest.

Think we might be getting the 2000-ft long version after all?

 

[Eric Cheung]

The description of the Kelvin interior reminds me of that corridor shot we got a while back, the one with all the pipes, grills, and little spotlights.

I hope so because that was pretty drastically different from anything we've seen in a Federation Starfleet corridor with the possible exception of the Enterprise-J, and therefore not something that seems likely on something from a Federation starship at least between Pike and Picard, but possibly during the time of Robau.

 

[137th Gebirg]

Never heard of it. Please elaborate.

It was a movie era appearance design called Akula created for a game.

Essentially, a saucer with one nacelle above and one nacelle below; both on centerline. This sounds exactly like the description given in the article.

I believe Vance has a schematic of it somewhere.

The Akula looked something like this:
http://www.shipschematics.net/startrek/images/federation/destroyer_fletcher.jpg

But I'm betting the Kelvin looks something more like this:
http://www.shipschematics.net/startrek/images/federation/destroyer_anhui.jpg