World Premiere/Advance screening discussions [SPOILERS GUARANTEED]

[Salinga]

I don't know if this has been answered yet: Is the score featuring the old Trek theme known from the previous movies and the TNG title sequence?

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

I believe it's been answered "no" - Courage's score from the TV series appears in the final credits, but no music from previous Trek films.

 

[msbae]

Re: Advance screening/World Premiere discussions [the NO-SPOILERS vers

Look what I found on the Drudge Report...

http://entertainment.timesonline.co...tainment/film/film_reviews/article6135968.ece

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...critic-gives-verdict-new-Star-Trek-movie.html

 

[mswood]

I don't know where to start this question (or if its been done already). But with all the talk (Or complaints depending on your personal views) of the timeline not resetting. As anyone ever really thought to ask what about The Voyage Home. Time Travel did occur and they did alter the timeline. Earth should have been destroyed by the Probe (at least most life forms). Yet the timeline wasn't restored. And hell most fans like that movie...

 

[Augustus]

I went to the UK premiere and saw the movie in Screen 2.
It was a fantastic experience to put on the suit and walk the blue carpet.
It felt like a very special way to watch this movie and an experience I will never ever forget.
The walk on the carpet was brief but it did feel like being a celebrity and gave you that taste of what its like to be an actor. I wanted to stay on their longer to see the actors but was concerned with looking cool so I pressed on.
The guy I got the ticket off advised me to hang back a bit and be on the carpet with the actual stars but all guests were to be seated at 7.00pm.
JJ and co didn't arrive into screen 2 to us till well after that time.
It wouldnt have been possible to loiter on the carpet and when you saw everyone going into the theatre, the compulsion to walk on was overwhemling!.

In my screening, JJ, Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Eric Bana were among the guests introducing the movie and they said a few words about the film.
Zachary got the biggest cheer when introduced.

To verify my fan status and give you a barometer to measure how a die hard like myself felt about the movie, I have all the DVD'S and have seen everything several times over. The movie itself is simply incredible.
It's a non stop roller coaster of action that doesn't pause for breath from the moment it starts.
Within about 2 or 3 minutes in the first scene, you care about some characters that you have literally seen for the first time ever.
The days of star trek crew members sitting around talking about problems in the captains ready room are well and truly over.
This crew simply don't have time for that!.

Visually, this movie surpasses everything that has gone before.
In fact, it is the best looking Sci-fi movie I have ever seen.
The scale of the sets and the variation of locations in the scene will astound you. The cinematographhy is exceptional work.
The effetcs that the team have achieved including all the flaring lightning on the bridge and the fact that the camera doesn't stop moving for the duration.
The engineering room is so impressive it will blow you away.
Nimoy was telling the truth when he said it will be hard to take Trek back to TV. Unless TV can get a 100 million budget to make an episode and improves its technical standards to get it to this level, it would simply be underwhelming to get a a new TV show that didn't look as good and feel as well paced as this.
If movies are the future of Trek, then it will defintiely be worth waiting a few years between productions.

To hear Beastie Boys "Sabotage" in a Star Trek movie is a breath of fresh air. Another subtle bit was when Nero pops on the viewscreen and goes "Hey Chris" to Pike. Prime Spock mentions "Admiral Archer's Beagle", Kirk in bed with an Orion girl.
Spock and Uhura relationship!, surprising but this is new Trek.
Trust me, go with it, the movie is unbelieveablely good.
Right now, I feel like I can't watch my Trek TV or movie DVD's for a while.
They aren't XI. I plan to see it several more times before it ends it's run.
I can't wait for it to be on Blu-Ray either.
For those yet to see it, you are in for a thrill ride.
At least one person I could visibly tell didn't like it was a guy wearing a Starfleet uniform to a major movie premiere. That says alot.
He was visibly seething when it ended and he was exhaling and looked shaken. I could hear him say loudly, "This is unsound". In his broken English he was essentially griping about the perceived continuity issues.
People stuck in the past probably won't like this movie. If you want to see Trek move on, you definitely will.

I can't wait till everyone else sees it to hear your opinions on it.

"This is unsound".

 

[oneal_cj]

Hey DAC ! Where is the rest of the story! Thank you so much for posting this! Ive been itching to read a detailed synopsis about the film. THANKS!!!!!

 

[FlyingLemons]

Just remembered seeing that mysterious corridor on ncc-1701.com - it clearly isn't the Enterprise, so is that meant to be the Kelvin, or isn't it in the film?

 

[M'Sharak]

Just remembered seeing that mysterious corridor on ncc-1701.com - it clearly isn't the Enterprise, so is that meant to be the Kelvin, or isn't it in the film?

That's a good question. I don't think I've seen anyone mention that corridor at all in talking about having seen the movie.

 

[darkwing_duck1]

^Awhile back someone who had seen parts of the film said that the "lower decks" (2ndary hull) had a much different look than the upper decks. Could the "mystery corridor" be from the 2ndary hull?

 

[M'Sharak]

^Awhile back someone who had seen parts of the film said that the "lower decks" (2ndary hull) had a much different look than the upper decks. Could the "mystery corridor" be from the 2ndary hull?

That's been suggested before, but the curvature of the corridor and direction of the cross passage make it look like what we see in the picture would have a hard time fitting in the Enterprise's secondary hull. It seems more consistent with a saucer-type hull using a mix of concentric-circle and radial passageways.

 

[EJA]

I don't know where to start this question (or if its been done already). But with all the talk (Or complaints depending on your personal views) of the timeline not resetting. As anyone ever really thought to ask what about The Voyage Home. Time Travel did occur and they did alter the timeline. Earth should have been destroyed by the Probe (at least most life forms). Yet the timeline wasn't restored. And hell most fans like that movie...

The Voyage Home, along with all the other stories set after the new movie's point of divergence, no longer happen; they are gone forever. Regardless of what the producers say, the original timeline simply cannot have survived. After Nero and Spock go back to 2233, everything that they knew 2233+ in their timeline is totally negated. That is the law of time travel in Star Trek......as much as we may hate it....

It's like Crisis on Infinite Earths was for DC Comics in the 80s: Everything that happened prior to the Crisis...DIDN'T happened, because it was retroactively erased from continuity. The same applies here.

 

[Aike]

What did you think about Scotty´s friend at Delta Vega? Do you reckon he will join the crew as Scotty´s assistant?

I liked him, he could be a good side kick.

 

[Sky]

What did you think about Scotty´s friend at Delta Vega? Do you reckon he will join the crew as Scotty´s assistant?

I liked him, he could be a good side kick.

You mean the little cute critter? I hope he'll be blasted out of the nearest airlock before filming for XII begins. Trek does not need cutesy wee wittle alien sidekicks.

 

[Supervisor 194]

No, EJA, this is something different. This is Marvel Comics style time-travel, where you can't change the past--you instead create a new quantum reality. It's like the issue where Ben Grimm goes back in time to cure himself of being the Thing as a younger man. All he did was create a new universe where a younger Ben Grimm was no longer the Thing, with a new history branching off from there. When Ben returned to his own time there where no changes, as he simply created a timeline that now exists parallel to his own.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

the curvature of the corridor and direction of the cross passage make it look like what we see in the picture would have a hard time fitting in the Enterprise's secondary hull. It seems more consistent with a saucer-type hull using a mix of concentric-circle and radial passageways.

Maybe it's Spock's ship.

The Voyage Home, along with all the other stories set after the new movie's point of divergence, no longer happen; they are gone forever. Regardless of what the producers say, the original timeline simply cannot have survived. After Nero and Spock go back to 2233, everything that they knew 2233+ in their timeline is totally negated. That is the law of time travel in Star Trek......as much as we may hate it....

Let's see...no, no, no, no and no.

If TPTB say the original timeline has survived, then by definition, it has. They're the ones who make the rules here. And besides, anybody who's read Countdown knows that it has.

 

[Aike]

What did you think about Scotty´s friend at Delta Vega? Do you reckon he will join the crew as Scotty´s assistant?

I liked him, he could be a good side kick.

You mean the little cute critter? I hope he'll be blasted out of the nearest airlock before filming for XII begins. Trek does not need cutesy wee wittle alien sidekicks.

You are right he could be the new Jar Jar.

But he had an attitude that I liked.

 

[Kruge]

given the review posted so far, I am incredibly touched by the scene described in which Spock describes himself as a member of an endangered species....

I have been excited about this film for the past two years, but I was completely confused about the decision to destroy Vulcan

On the one hand, you get to see shit blow up...never a bad thing in Star Trek

On the other hand, I didn't really understand the point, and it seemed like a hard thing to defend.

I now honestly think that this will make the Spock character - both of them - incredibly more interesting, a feat I would have decried as impossible before...

It's almost as if Abrams is giving a giant middle finger to the idea of a reboot - yes, the franchise is being re-launched, with cool new props, sets, effects, sexed up, etc, but at a price - because this universe will be forever altered.

I don't think that the "Vulcans as Jews during the Diaspora" aspect of it should be the focus of later films, but it should be mentioned, and I cannot imagine the stories that will come of this, from fan fiction to published, mainstream novelizations and comics.

I am really heartbroken just reading about this, and I cannot imagine how I will feel watching it...Star Trek is not my entire life, but it is my favorite Sci-Fi series, and this is just stunning...

 

[mswood]

SOrry but I think my point was misunderstood. After all the talk about "the original unaltered time line", I wondered why no one seems to realize that it never existed anymore after the events of Voyage Home. At that point a new altered time line was created. One where humanity lives.

Just pointing out that most of Trek's adventures (all TNG, DS9, VOY) and films 5 - 10 were already in an altered timeline. And if you had a problem with altered timelines then you better have hated all of that material.

 

[Captain59]

You know, if they can blow up Vulcan for effect, then they certainly could have had Shatner in this movie.

 

[Kruge]

No...not really...

If the whole story was penned out, and it followed the same lines as Countdown and the film, then when Spock gets pulled back in time in 2387, Kirk (Shatner) is dead.
So you'd have to pick and choose...would you rather have the starting off point BEFORE Generations (in which case you could include Shatner as Kirk traveling back in time), or the more reasonable scenario (and I realize that "reasonable" is a stretch here) of starting off AFTER Nemesis?

Now that I've read Countdown and know what will happen in the film, Shatner would have felt very, very forced...Spock was the best choice for any time-traveling character from TOS (at least anyone that anyone would care to see)