So...I've been looking on the author blogs and I haven't found anyone yet who has commented...what do the folks who profesisonally write Star Trek fiction think of our first look at the movie that will undoubtedly affect the entire future of Star Trek?
Trailer Reaction...authors?
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I've stayed away from almost everything about the new movie. I want to go in and enjoy the WHAT as well as the HOW.
--Ted
--Ted
What I said in the Trek Today forum-
Kid Kirk's annoying but I guess he won't be in it long. Looks fantastic, though I'm not mad on the new transporter effect (if that's what that is when Quinto appears - I suppose it might be Nero's transporter or something)
Also, the Enterprise looks much more right in action than in the still picture they released.
Kid Kirk's annoying but I guess he won't be in it long. Looks fantastic, though I'm not mad on the new transporter effect (if that's what that is when Quinto appears - I suppose it might be Nero's transporter or something)
Also, the Enterprise looks much more right in action than in the still picture they released.
I'll admit I've had my reservations about the new movie on a number of points, but I want to see the finished flick before I cast an opinion. That said, the trailer was pretty dynamic stuff (and I liked the visit to Vasquez Rocks)...
I think you underestimate the ability to doubt.
Probably the reason you haven't seen any author comments about the trailer is because the trailer doesn't actually tell us jack shit about the story. I could comment on the three-second scenes that I disliked, but that's kinda irrelevant to this forum.
It's a good trailer. It does what it needed to do: make the new movie seem like an Event and not a two-hour tv episode. I can't wait to see the new actors' takes on the classic characters. (Quinto looks so much like Nimoy in some of those clips it's uncanny, and the XENA fan in me is intrigued by the idea of Karl Urban as McCoy.)
Haven't said anything because there's little to say so far. The trailer was a jumble of images that started with a car driving down a dirt road that made me think there was a Jeep ad prior to the trailer. 
But there's nothing in this trailer that tells me anything about this movie's plot that I didn't already know -- to wit, that it will follow Kirk and Spock from their youths, which we already knew by the casting of the relatively young Jennifer Morrison and Winona Ryder as their respective mothers.
I agree with Mr. McIntee that the newly designed Enterprise works much better in motion than it does in still pictures and I still think the bridge design is a classic case of fixing something that wasn't broken (seriously, it looks more like the interior of the Mac Store on 59th Street than it does the bridge of the Enterprise).
The one thing I got out of the trailer? In just one line of dialogue, Zachary Quinto absolutely nailed being Spock.....
But there's nothing in this trailer that tells me anything about this movie's plot that I didn't already know -- to wit, that it will follow Kirk and Spock from their youths, which we already knew by the casting of the relatively young Jennifer Morrison and Winona Ryder as their respective mothers.
I agree with Mr. McIntee that the newly designed Enterprise works much better in motion than it does in still pictures and I still think the bridge design is a classic case of fixing something that wasn't broken (seriously, it looks more like the interior of the Mac Store on 59th Street than it does the bridge of the Enterprise).
The one thing I got out of the trailer? In just one line of dialogue, Zachary Quinto absolutely nailed being Spock.....
Granted, I have issues about the notion of the Enterprise being built on Earth, because the propulsion necessary to get that behemoth out of Earth's sphere of gravity just strikes me as stupid high, not to mention it looked like it was being built in the middle of a cornfield, which means replicators are in action enough that we can spare that much farmland. But what would launching the ship do to the surrounding farmland? That just didn't strike me as very well thought out.
Otherwise, Kirk looks to be as annoying to me as he always has been, so they nailed that. And I'm going to enjoy Quinto's Spock more than I'm enjoying Sylar on Heroes this season, I can tell that just from a couple of lines of dialogue.
And I can be a happy little fangirl. Got both Paul McGillion and Karl Urban in the trailer. Picturing Urban as McCoy? Yeah, I could easily do that bodice-ripper of a romance with Dax and McCoy now. But I think I'm the only person interested in that.
Otherwise, Kirk looks to be as annoying to me as he always has been, so they nailed that. And I'm going to enjoy Quinto's Spock more than I'm enjoying Sylar on Heroes this season, I can tell that just from a couple of lines of dialogue.
And I can be a happy little fangirl. Got both Paul McGillion and Karl Urban in the trailer. Picturing Urban as McCoy? Yeah, I could easily do that bodice-ripper of a romance with Dax and McCoy now. But I think I'm the only person interested in that.
GAnd I can be a happy little fangirl. Got both Paul McGillion and Karl Urban in the trailer. Picturing Urban as McCoy? Yeah, I could easily do that bodice-ripper of a romance with Dax and McCoy now. But I think I'm the only person interested in that.
Didn't spot McGillion - where's he?
How can you tell, when the motion lasts all of two seconds?
QFT. And even if there is a reason to build components of the ship on Earth, what sense does it make to build it whole, with scaffolding holding up the saucer and nacelles?
I feel bad for the authors, because when "canon" gets changed in this movie, it's gonna be your job to write a novel to make it all conform to the Trek we already know!
That's happened many times before in Trek. For instance, read To Reign in Hell to see how Greg Cox dealt with the numerous "canon" contradictions between "Space Seed" and The Wrath of Khan. Or read my Greater than the Sum to see how I dealt with the contradictions between TNG Borg and First Contact/Voyager Borg. The Trek universe is full of numerous large contradictions and always has been. Canon has never been a consistent whole, it just pretends to be. So reconciling contradictory claims is nothing new for us authors, and in fact it's been the basis for a lot of imaginative storytelling. So there's no reason to feel bad for us. This just gives us more material to play with.
this argument gets everywhere!
If one of the reporters at the promotion event held today is right (and he could be 100% wrong) - it appears that
dock by landing on earth. However his description is so vague, he could mean something entirely different.
dayton's pic is broke...
Works fine here
hrm, now it's working...
Even freakier is how he sounds like Nimoy with one of his lines.
I feel bad for the authors, because when "canon" gets changed in this movie, it's gonna be your job to write a novel to make it all conform to the Trek we already know!
Sounds like great fun to me!
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