The answer is in the new trailer!!!!

[trekkerguy]

Or it's just how they decide to build the ships with more advanced technology in the future.

But I do think the attacks will definitely be a big part of the aesthetic and thematic changes
in the movie from past ventures.

 

[Lord Garth]

The last time I remember a "base" being destroyed was the White House in Independence Day in 1996. Five years and some change before 9/11.

I can't think of a single instance, especially in the '00s, when the "home base" was destroyed and within the first 20 minutes. Up until a few years ago it wouldn't have been done because of 9/11, and I doubt it's been done recently.

 

[trekkerguy]

The last time I remember a "base" being destroyed was the White House in Independence Day in 1996. Five years and some change before 9/11.

I can't think of a single instance, especially in the '00s, when the "home base" was destroyed and within the first 20 minutes. Up until a few years ago it wouldn't have been done because of 9/11, and I doubt it's been done recently.

Then this is long overdue. There is a time for everything, and getting back
to telling stories how we want without worrying it's PC is now.

 

[Semah]

The last time I remember a "base" being destroyed was the White House in Independence Day in 1996. Five years and some change before 9/11.

I can't think of a single instance, especially in the '00s, when the "home base" was destroyed and within the first 20 minutes. Up until a few years ago it wouldn't have been done because of 9/11, and I doubt it's been done recently.

I'm trying to remember and the only things I can come up with are Transformers, and what's that animated sci-fi movie where Earth is blown up in the beginning?

 

[Aragorn]

Titan A.E.

 

[HaplessCrewman]

Trying to help kirk1980 with his list...

Wasn't the Townsend Associates Detective Agency building destroyed in the second Charlie's Angels movie?

 

[Bishbot]

Starship Troopers does that quite effectively. This scene might end up being very similar.

 

[Praetor]

Or it's just how they decide to build the ships with more advanced technology in the future.

But I do think the attacks will definitely be a big part of the aesthetic and thematic changes
in the movie from past ventures.

Totally agree.

Maybe the Federation council gets scared and emergency funds a whole bunch of backburnered research, and so we ended up with the 'armed to the teeth' version of the Enterprise that his may be.

 

[ST-One]

Blowing up the good guys' homebase?

Been done so so so so many times and it's an easy way of setting up the plot.

It's cheap but it can work if it's done well.

In Trek, or just in general? I'm trying to think of other movies where it starts with the "good guys" home base being destroyed...

ID4?

 

[DWF]

Earth was destroyed in the Lexx and Andromeda series finales and London and most of southern England was destroyed in Doctor Who's Turn Left.

 

[Franklin]

Woo-hoo!

And, yippppeeee!

Could the attack on SF be the Pearl Harbor-like event that was mentioned months ago? Bet on it, I say.

Interestinger and interestinger -- .

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Woo-hoo!

And, yippppeeee!

Could the attack on SF be the Pearl Harbor-like event that was mentioned months ago? Bet on it, I say.
.

What did you see actually destroyed in that shot?

 

[M'Sharak]

Woo-hoo!

And, yippppeeee!

Could the attack on SF be the Pearl Harbor-like event that was mentioned months ago? Bet on it, I say.
.

What did you see actually destroyed in that shot?

From the looks of the bit in the commercial, it seemed they were drilling in what today is the Golden Gate shipping channel, just inside the bridge and just to the west of Alcatraz. Not sure what that would be intended to accomplish.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Yeah, but I don't see anything damaged. The bridge towers quite undisturbed, there, as far as I can see.

 

[Franklin]

Yeah, but I don't see anything damaged. The bridge towers quite undisturbed, there, as far as I can see.

Extrapolation. I doubt it's anything good.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Probably not. OTOH, if I'm making a trailer for general consumption and I put a shot into it of a ray-beam stirring up the water while some little figures in red coats watch it, instead of a shot of a ray-beam wiping out the Golden Gate bridge or some big recognizable structures - it's probably because there are no shots of any such things.

 

[RyanKCR]

For destroyed homebase there was The Last Starfighter.

 

[Hartzilla2007]

For destroyed homebase there was The Last Starfighter.

Not only that but most of the good guys military force was wiped out.

 

[Praetor]

Blowing up the good guys' homebase?

Been done so so so so many times and it's an easy way of setting up the plot.

It's cheap but it can work if it's done well.

In Trek, or just in general? I'm trying to think of other movies where it starts with the "good guys" home base being destroyed...

ID4?

'Independence Day' with Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum

 

[chardman]

I'm with Polaris. We see the beam churning up some water in the bay, and that's pretty much it. If there was footage of SF landmarks getting "blowed up real good", at least snippets would have wound up in one of the trailers, because that's the kind of imagery that commands attention, which is what trailers are all about. I think the idea that SF gets wasted in this film is based on wholly imaginary evidence.