Guess time

[JarodRussell]

Will they keep their promise and continue to "shake things up" and make use of that "clean slate", or will the next movie end with every crewmember alive, well, and at their usual stations?

Anybody think a familiar TOS character might be in danger of dying, promotion, transfer, retirement, turning traitor?

Or will the next movie simply end with another "the whole gang is back together on the bridge" shot?

 

[Quinton O'Connor]

Oh man, I hadn't given it much thought until now but I wouldn't mind the writers killing someone off. I'd prefer it waited until the third film, though.

 

[6079SmithW]

I highly doubt that they'll kill any of the main characters off or move them off the Enterprise. The point of XI was to get all the familiar faces of TOS together on the Enterprise and in their respective positions. To undo this in the next film would seem wasteful to me.

 

[BillJ]

I still think Spock (Quinto) will eventually go insane and be the villain of the third film.

 

[Bishop76]

I don't think they'll kill anyone off. There's just no need to. If you want to return to the feel of TOS, the point of the reboot IIRC, the movie should end with everyone at their usual posts on the bridge having solved the mystery, beaten the bad guy, or whatever it is they do in the new film and sharing a laugh or going boldly like they did at the end of the last flick.

 

[number6]

I think the film will clock in at roughly an hour and fifty minutes.

 

[Hythlodeus]

possible deaths:
gary mitchell
carol marcus
janice rand
christine chapel
sarek (unlikely)
harry mudd.....
I doubt they'll kill anyone of the big 7

 

[trampledamage]

I'm liking how this thread is going! It occurred to me soon after seeing the movie that to shake things up for the next installment they might kill off McCoy... I definitely do not want this to occur

 

[Franklin]

I'm liking how this thread is going! It occurred to me soon after seeing the movie that to shake things up for the next installment they might kill off McCoy... I definitely do not want this to occur

"I'm dead, Jim!" (Hey, we were all thinking it.)

To soon to tell, to early to judge. I'd say if they're going to go with an already familiar antagonist, then they probably aren't going to do too much that's radical. New twists, maybe. But nothing radical.

 

[trampledamage]

Zombie McCoy

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Zombie McCoy

Or worse, McCoy's Brain

 

[Nerd unRage]

 

[Devon]

Zombie McCoy

Or worse, McCoy's Brain

 

[Quinton O'Connor]

"Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor, not a masochist."

 

[F. King Daniel]

The writers have said the first movie was getting the "family" together and the second will be testing that family.

I don't think they'll kill any of the main characters in XII. They already proved they're on a bold new path when Amanda and Vulcan died.

That said, they've set up a universe free of TOS/TNG/DS9/VOY continuity and literally anything can happen (and would be justifyable by the 25+ year divergence in history. Expect Bob Orci to yell "Butterfly effect!" repeatedly on trekmovie.com when plot details start cropping up). I don't think that's really been true of Star Trek before.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

turning traitor?

Oh I would LOVE that.

Sulu for Section 31! And not an unwilling recruit like we've had to put up with in DS9 and ENT, a full convert to the cause.

I know this won't happen because Section 31 is not movie material.. but I'd like some kind of betrayal, perhaps along the lines of Valeris. For a cause, a conviction.

 

[JarodRussell]

I don't think that's really been true of Star Trek before.

Hello? It has been true for every single show and every single movie, even for ENT.

 

[Ryan8bit]

That said, they've set up a universe free of TOS/TNG/DS9/VOY continuity and literally anything can happen (and would be justifyable by the 25+ year divergence in history. Expect Bob Orci to yell "Butterfly effect!" repeatedly on trekmovie.com when plot details start cropping up). I don't think that's really been true of Star Trek before.

I'm not sure it could be both free of continuity yet rely on a butterfly effect. The butterfly effect implies that there are rational causes that lead everyone or everything to where they are, and that really isn't the case in this movie. If the next movie were to follow a deterministic path, it would have to rely on previous continuity, as patchy as it is, to figure out why things turned out the way they did. It's pretty safe to say this won't happen.

 

[Set Harth]

The butterfly effect implies that there are rational causes that lead everyone or everything to where they are, and that really isn't the case in this movie.

It really is intended to be the case in this movie ( overlooking things like Sulu apparently turning Korean ).

I'm not sure it could be both free of continuity yet rely on a butterfly effect.

The two concepts are not mutually exclusive; in fact, in this context they go hand in hand. The phrase "free of continuity" merely expresses that they are in an alternate timeline. The citation of "butterfly effect" is only a description of what we would naturally expect to see over a given period of time after the time travel that occurred, and it can serve as an explanation for differences with the Prime timeline.

 

[Ryan8bit]

It really is intended to be the case in this movie

Nah, the intention was one of destiny, fate, and things that were meant to be, which is like the opposite of what the effect implies.

The two concepts are not mutually exclusive; in fact, in this context they go hand in hand. The phrase "free of continuity" merely expresses that they are in an alternate timeline. The citation of "butterfly effect" is only a description of what we would naturally expect to see over a given period of time after the time travel that occurred, and it can serve as an explanation for differences with the Prime timeline.

They aren't completely mutually exclusive, but mostly they are. Technically there's a lot of events that should still be in motion regardless of Nero's incursion, yet they won't happen or we won't see/hear about them. And that's because it's purely just a fictional universe and the writers treat it as such. It's a selective reboot where they'll keep the continuity they like and trash what they don't, and they're not going to put much effort into thinking about the cause and effect or logic of this universe because of that. What happens will happen because they want to tell a story, regardless of if it makes sense.