-set a good 5 years after STID (which would be the beginnings of the TMP movie era in the Prime timeline). Like the first film showed us the pre 5 years mission origin of the crew (at least the alternate universe version of it), this would show us post 5 year mission ‘Lost Years’ which is also untold onscreen and allowing it to be more a big budget updated version of the original movies (not so much the original series like ST09/STID). Anyway it’ll be 7 years since ST09 in 2016 (plus STID was supposed to be set right after that)
-mushroom space dock with the massive blue lit interior housing all the ships
http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120316224125/memoryalpha/en/im ages/6/6b/Earth_Spacedock,_2293.jpg
-ripped shirts and Kirk-Fu:
http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2013/133/2/0/an_introduction_to_kirk _fu_by_rabittooth-d5jnrdo.jpg
-TOS & movie music nods (Goldsmith & Horner rifts – not anything big – just a musical ‘cameos’ like Amok Time fight music in STID)
-lengthy phaser ‘beams’ not star wars ‘blasts’
http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/Polls/Pictures/Poll007-Phaser.jpg
http://trekannoyances.com/tos_enterprise_phasers/ent_phasers_blue.jpg
-Enterprise refit more sleek like TOS movies (esp if set in the TMP era) - e.g. the Ent at the end being refitted into full on exact TMP Enterprise (cool image to end the movie on)
http://www.leestringer.com/Images/MotionPicture/Enterprise_02.jpg
-getting more toward foreshadowing the TWOK style uniforms/field jackets/equipment/ship designs (again esp if set good few years later)
-more movie style to the sound FX/visual FX of the beaming/phasers etc (again if set years later)
-Kirks green wraparound tunic
http://www.startrekmemorabilia.com/products/full-RBPTN021.jpg
-Pine sporting the dark curly Admiral Kirk Shatfro:
http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/wysiwyg/image/William_Shatner_4.jp g
-more vicious Trek III style Klingons again (like VI had them as villains for 25th ann)
-TMP style transporter malfunctions (with gory aftermath)
-TWOK style nebulas (hiding/battling in)
-more federation starship vs. federation starship carnage
-more Bones
-maybe change the classic ‘STAR TREK’ font to the movie font for promo stuff? (i always liked the movie font best):
http://a.images.blip.tv/WMAhero-FilmTrekStarTrekTheMotionPicture364.jp g
-Twilight Zone/Outer Limits/early TOS style eeriness/horror
-unexplained wonder/unknown - questions and mcguffins that are not answered and are left to the imagination which is far more powerful than any explanation the film maker can give (I like the fact Khans backstory was vaguely described/left unexplained in STID - the brig scene was kind of similar to the Khan/Chekov scene on Ceti Alpha V in TWOK - ‘on earth..200 years ago…I was a prince with power of millions..’)
-more references to the prime timeline/alternate future for the 50th anniversary - maybe a 'Days of Futures Past/Yesterdays Ent' type story involving alternate realities, prime timeline links etc (maybe involving TNG and or Shat Kirk)
-the borg (maybe something to do with them if above.) FC will be 20 years old in 2016
-Nero (what happened to him and the remains of the Narada when they went through the black hole - did he end up back in the future? The past? The delta quadrant? - see borg above again. maybe Nero could be like the Ras Al Guld of the Trek trilogy? - haunting Kirk?)
-various Trek stuff cameoing/referenced/easter egging - e.g. Talosions, Doomsday machine, gorns, cloud killer, Guardian of Forever, corbomite, tholians, wild west, rand, No 1, Nurse Chapel (finally), Capt Terrel, Kruge, Decker, Ilia, Savvik, Sybok, Admiral Archer, Botany Bay/Khan(again), Reliant/Excelsior, Patrick Stewart and the next gen (see points above), Vger (somehow linked to the borg? see points above)
-some big name supporting roles? e.g.:
Bryan Cranston as Chang, Jason Moma as Kruge, Colin Firth as Gorkon, Taylor Kitch as Joachim, Chiwetel Ejiofor as Capt Terrel,
-some big name cameos??
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Klingon Emperor, Harrison Ford - Head of Starfleet (or some big shot Starfleet Admiral dishing out orders to Kirk at some point just like in TOS), Stephen Collins - Matt Decker, Scott Bakula - Captain Archer (flashback), Brent Spiner - Dr Soong,, Patrick Stewart – Picard (flashforward) or Picards ancestor, Michael Dorn - Worfs ancestor, Leonard Nimoy - Spock Prime, Richardo Montalban - Khan (CG flashback showing end of Eugenic Wars/BB/revival - or Space Seed briefing room photo)
-Shatner....id still like him there…if possible. maybe retro footage from some outtakes from previous Trek movies or little seen tv movies/TJ Hooker? or even Shatner as he is now - The lost ST09 Birthday scene? as Kirks grandpop? alternate reality future Kirk? ( fanpleasing end cameo as old Pine Kirk - not Prime Kirk - maybe with old Quinto Spock - something like Cloud Atlas end) or even aged up Pine Kirk Deadly Years style? (maybe the opening could be the end of The Deadly Years re-imagined with Shatner and Nimoy opening the movie fighting off the Romulans before they get de-aged back to Pine/Quinto)
-more redshirt deaths - im talking 'Obsession' levels
-mushroom space dock with the massive blue lit interior housing all the ships
http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120316224125/memoryalpha/en/im ages/6/6b/Earth_Spacedock,_2293.jpg
-ripped shirts and Kirk-Fu:
http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2013/133/2/0/an_introduction_to_kirk _fu_by_rabittooth-d5jnrdo.jpg
-TOS & movie music nods (Goldsmith & Horner rifts – not anything big – just a musical ‘cameos’ like Amok Time fight music in STID)
-lengthy phaser ‘beams’ not star wars ‘blasts’
http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/Polls/Pictures/Poll007-Phaser.jpg
http://trekannoyances.com/tos_enterprise_phasers/ent_phasers_blue.jpg
-Enterprise refit more sleek like TOS movies (esp if set in the TMP era) - e.g. the Ent at the end being refitted into full on exact TMP Enterprise (cool image to end the movie on)
http://www.leestringer.com/Images/MotionPicture/Enterprise_02.jpg
-getting more toward foreshadowing the TWOK style uniforms/field jackets/equipment/ship designs (again esp if set good few years later)
-more movie style to the sound FX/visual FX of the beaming/phasers etc (again if set years later)
-Kirks green wraparound tunic
http://www.startrekmemorabilia.com/products/full-RBPTN021.jpg
-Pine sporting the dark curly Admiral Kirk Shatfro:
http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/wysiwyg/image/William_Shatner_4.jp g
-more vicious Trek III style Klingons again (like VI had them as villains for 25th ann)
-TMP style transporter malfunctions (with gory aftermath)
-TWOK style nebulas (hiding/battling in)
-more federation starship vs. federation starship carnage
-more Bones
-maybe change the classic ‘STAR TREK’ font to the movie font for promo stuff? (i always liked the movie font best):
http://a.images.blip.tv/WMAhero-FilmTrekStarTrekTheMotionPicture364.jp g
-Twilight Zone/Outer Limits/early TOS style eeriness/horror
-unexplained wonder/unknown - questions and mcguffins that are not answered and are left to the imagination which is far more powerful than any explanation the film maker can give (I like the fact Khans backstory was vaguely described/left unexplained in STID - the brig scene was kind of similar to the Khan/Chekov scene on Ceti Alpha V in TWOK - ‘on earth..200 years ago…I was a prince with power of millions..’)
-more references to the prime timeline/alternate future for the 50th anniversary - maybe a 'Days of Futures Past/Yesterdays Ent' type story involving alternate realities, prime timeline links etc (maybe involving TNG and or Shat Kirk)
-the borg (maybe something to do with them if above.) FC will be 20 years old in 2016
-Nero (what happened to him and the remains of the Narada when they went through the black hole - did he end up back in the future? The past? The delta quadrant? - see borg above again. maybe Nero could be like the Ras Al Guld of the Trek trilogy? - haunting Kirk?)
-various Trek stuff cameoing/referenced/easter egging - e.g. Talosions, Doomsday machine, gorns, cloud killer, Guardian of Forever, corbomite, tholians, wild west, rand, No 1, Nurse Chapel (finally), Capt Terrel, Kruge, Decker, Ilia, Savvik, Sybok, Admiral Archer, Botany Bay/Khan(again), Reliant/Excelsior, Patrick Stewart and the next gen (see points above), Vger (somehow linked to the borg? see points above)
-some big name supporting roles? e.g.:
Bryan Cranston as Chang, Jason Moma as Kruge, Colin Firth as Gorkon, Taylor Kitch as Joachim, Chiwetel Ejiofor as Capt Terrel,
-some big name cameos??
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Klingon Emperor, Harrison Ford - Head of Starfleet (or some big shot Starfleet Admiral dishing out orders to Kirk at some point just like in TOS), Stephen Collins - Matt Decker, Scott Bakula - Captain Archer (flashback), Brent Spiner - Dr Soong,, Patrick Stewart – Picard (flashforward) or Picards ancestor, Michael Dorn - Worfs ancestor, Leonard Nimoy - Spock Prime, Richardo Montalban - Khan (CG flashback showing end of Eugenic Wars/BB/revival - or Space Seed briefing room photo)
-Shatner....id still like him there…if possible. maybe retro footage from some outtakes from previous Trek movies or little seen tv movies/TJ Hooker? or even Shatner as he is now - The lost ST09 Birthday scene? as Kirks grandpop? alternate reality future Kirk? ( fanpleasing end cameo as old Pine Kirk - not Prime Kirk - maybe with old Quinto Spock - something like Cloud Atlas end) or even aged up Pine Kirk Deadly Years style? (maybe the opening could be the end of The Deadly Years re-imagined with Shatner and Nimoy opening the movie fighting off the Romulans before they get de-aged back to Pine/Quinto)
-more redshirt deaths - im talking 'Obsession' levels