How long have we been waiting?

[Guy Gardener]

Has it been three years almost since the bare bones of this movie could dimly be understood? I've been waiting 3 years for a movie which is possibly only an hour and a half long. Wow. If the same resources had been devoted to a TV show during the last 3 years instead, churning out 26 episodes a year...

This all, is just crazy.

 

[Franklin]

Has it been three years almost since the bare bones of this movie could dimly be understood? I've been waiting 3 years for a movie which is possibly only an hour and a half long. Wow. If the same resources had been devoted to a TV show during the last 3 years instead, churning out 26 episodes a year...

This all, is just crazy.

You're assuming we have lives.

 

[Anthony Sabre]

I know what you mean. Trek isn't my life. But I sometimes wonder what I could have accomplished if I'd put the time and energy I've spent on Trek, over the years, into something else.

 

[M'Sharak]

Has it been three years almost since the bare bones of this movie could dimly be understood?

Dunno. Has it?

 

[Bad Atom]

"Long enough!" (loads shotgun)

 

[Guy Gardener]

Has it been three years almost since the bare bones of this movie could dimly be understood?

Dunno. Has it?

Near enough, but all I'm saying is that Ed Wood or any mildly accomplished pornographer in the business today could have made 60 to 80 movies in the same time since JJ was given the job.

Frankly I'd rather have 80 tragic Star Trek Movies than one good one... And we're not even positive that we're being given a good movie at the end of this Trek fast.

 

[Tralah]

I only started paying attention to this last year when it was announced that Quinto would be playing Spock and Nimoy would be reprising the role. Until then Star Trek wasn't much of a blip on my radar since Enterprise ended. Since then my interest in all things Trek has been renewed, and I'm really enjoying rewatching some of my old favorites, and I like this community here over all.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

I've been waiting since Quinto appeared in S3 of 24 and I wondered when someone would notice that someone who looks exactly like Spock is working for CTU and maybe the cosmos is sending Paramount some kind of sign.

So that's...going on five years now.

That's okay, the Dominion is used to thinking long-term.

 

[Wowbagger]

I've been waiting 3 years for a movie which is possibly only an hour and a half long.

Welcome to fandom. Please take a number.

See also: Trek fandom, 1977-1987.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

The trade announcement was in April of 2006.

 

[RAMA]

Has it been three years almost since the bare bones of this movie could dimly be understood? I've been waiting 3 years for a movie which is possibly only an hour and a half long. Wow. If the same resources had been devoted to a TV show during the last 3 years instead, churning out 26 episodes a year...

This all, is just crazy.

Just think, we'd becounting down till Christmas, NOW its a whole other movie season to wait. BUT if it is a good movie, the wait might just produce spasms of joy!!

RAMA

 

[Squiggy]

How long?

Since Nemesis's premiere:
2009 days, 8 hours, 33 minutes and 13 seconds
or
5 years, 6 months, 8 hours, 33 minutes, 13 seconds

Since Enterprise went off the air:
1126 days, 11 hours, 33 minutes and 13 seconds
or
3 years, 30 days, 11 hours, 33 minutes, 13 seconds

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

When "Enterprise" went off the air I pretty much stopped waiting for anything new from Paramount. When I heard about the Jendresen/Berman movie thing I pretty much wrote that off as something that would languish (deservedly) in Development Hell until Berman's contract ran out. So I was more-than-pleasantly surprised when the studio unexpectedly announced in 2006 that they were going to spend a lot of money on a new Trek movie with someone as successful and forward-looking as Abrams in charge of it.

 

[Franklin]

When "Enterprise" went off the air I pretty much stopped waiting for anything new from Paramount. When I heard about the Jendresen/Berman movie thing I pretty much wrote that off as something that would languish (deservedly) in Development Hell until Berman's contract ran out. So I was more-than-pleasantly surprised when the studio unexpectedly announced in 2006 that they were going to spend a lot of money on a new Trek movie with someone as successful and forward-looking as Abrams in charge of it.

What he said.

 

[BigC]

"How long have we been waiting?"

Since before your Sun burned hot in space, and before your race was born.....

 

[Captain Pike]

Nice answer, BigC

Strictly speaking, I've been waiting for this since the relase of Star Trek: The Motion Picture..

 

[Swarles Barkley]

I'd been pretty much uninvolved with any new Trek product since "What You Leave Behind" first aired, so it had been a really long time for me. They started pulling me back in with the remastered TOS, then the announcement of the new movie. I'm looking forward to it, but I'm not getting too worked up. I can wait. And JJ Abrams and crew have my endless gratitude for (indirectly and quite unintentionally) introducing us to the sweet, sublime joy that is SombreroTrek.

 

[Jack Bauer]

I've got a feeling it'll be worth the wait.

 

[M'Sharak]

When "Enterprise" went off the air I pretty much stopped waiting for anything new from Paramount. When I heard about the Jendresen/Berman movie thing I pretty much wrote that off as something that would languish (deservedly) in Development Hell until Berman's contract ran out. So I was more-than-pleasantly surprised when the studio unexpectedly announced in 2006 that they were going to spend a lot of money on a new Trek movie with someone as successful and forward-looking as Abrams in charge of it.

That sounds about right.

I couldn't remember Jendresen's name, off the top of my head, but I thought that's where the "three years" figure might have been coming from.