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Interstellar trailer

someone combined all the new tv spots into one video. new footage here.

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk_OTw9eO0g[/yt]
My guess is that little black rectangle things are either aliens or, more likely, probes that we built. Notice at 2:15 one of these things is carrying Anne Hathaway to safety much like a human would.
 
My guess is that little black rectangle things are either aliens or, more likely, probes that we built. Notice at 2:15 one of these things is carrying Anne Hathaway to safety much like a human would.

Yeah, it's the mission's onboard robot, named either T.A.R.S. or S.T.A.R.S. (with the "S" possibly not visible in the shot). You can also see it walking behind them at 2:18 in the video you posted (or below), and it can also be seen standing up from the floor of the spacecraft in the second trailer. It's an interesting and unique design as far as movie robots go, and clever in that it folds up out of the floor so it's totally unobtrusive when not in use, which is good since they seem to have very limited space on the ship.

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^^ It is a unique design, but why would you build a robot without opposable thumbs and fingers to perform more complex tasks?
 
It might serve a very specific purpose where those things aren't necessary.
 
Final trailer has been released:

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vxOhd4qlnA[/yt]

Looks amazing.
 
Absolutely love the latest trailer. And makes me wish the Trek movies could capture that sense of mystery and danger and exploration even half as well.
 
Wish they'd even TRY, instead of just trying to up the ante for big bads and 'splosions every time instead.
 
Well I didn't mean it as just a dig at the JJ movies. I've always been frustrated at how the movies and series never really made proper use of the incredibly compelling premise at the heart of the show-- of venturing into the depths of space in a fantastic starship and exploring strange new worlds, and how truly exciting and mindblowing such an experience would truly be.

Instead space in Trek is nothing but a backdrop for ship battles, alien possession stories, political intrigue, and relationship drama. Which can all be done really well, such as in DS9. But I would still love to see a series or movie that had a real sense of danger and exploration about it (like what comes across so well in the Interstellar trailers), and didn't need to rely only on threats from bumpy headed aliens of one kind or another.
 
Well I didn't mean it as just a dig at the JJ movies. I've always been frustrated at how the movies and series never really made proper use of the incredibly compelling premise at the heart of the show-- of venturing into the depths of space in a fantastic starship and exploring strange new worlds, and how truly exciting and mindblowing such an experience would truly be.

Instead space in Trek is nothing but a backdrop for ship battles, alien possession stories, political intrigue, and relationship drama. Which can all be done really well, such as in DS9. But I would still love to see a series or movie that had a real sense of danger and exploration about it (like what comes across so well in the Interstellar trailers), and didn't need to rely only on threats from bumpy headed aliens of one kind or another.
No, you're right. Trek on film has been moving in that direction almost from the start. JJtrek is simply the inevitable result of steadily dumbing it down.
 
Well I didn't mean it as just a dig at the JJ movies. I've always been frustrated at how the movies and series never really made proper use of the incredibly compelling premise at the heart of the show-- of venturing into the depths of space in a fantastic starship and exploring strange new worlds, and how truly exciting and mindblowing such an experience would truly be.

My dream format for a new Trek series would be to devote an entire season to each planet being explored. An exploration mission wouldn't just be dropping in and dealing with one situation in one part of the planet, it'd be an in-depth, months-long survey of the whole planet, studying multiple different cultures and environments, getting a sense of the whole world with all its diversity.
 
Well I didn't mean it as just a dig at the JJ movies. I've always been frustrated at how the movies and series never really made proper use of the incredibly compelling premise at the heart of the show-- of venturing into the depths of space in a fantastic starship and exploring strange new worlds, and how truly exciting and mindblowing such an experience would truly be.

My dream format for a new Trek series would be to devote an entire season to each planet being explored. An exploration mission wouldn't just be dropping in and dealing with one situation in one part of the planet, it'd be an in-depth, months-long survey of the whole planet, studying multiple different cultures and environments, getting a sense of the whole world with all its diversity.
Wow, that sounds so amazingly boring!
 
Well I didn't mean it as just a dig at the JJ movies. I've always been frustrated at how the movies and series never really made proper use of the incredibly compelling premise at the heart of the show-- of venturing into the depths of space in a fantastic starship and exploring strange new worlds, and how truly exciting and mindblowing such an experience would truly be.

Instead space in Trek is nothing but a backdrop for ship battles, alien possession stories, political intrigue, and relationship drama. Which can all be done really well, such as in DS9. But I would still love to see a series or movie that had a real sense of danger and exploration about it (like what comes across so well in the Interstellar trailers), and didn't need to rely only on threats from bumpy headed aliens of one kind or another.
No, you're right. Trek on film has been moving in that direction almost from the start. JJtrek is simply the inevitable result of steadily dumbing it down.

Trek has always been that way from the day it premiered in '66.
 
Yeah I don't know if I would confine it to one planet a season or anything like that. I would just put much more of an emphasis on the exploration aspect, and maybe have them explore places that actually feel somewhat unique and alien.

Of course the problem is Trek technology makes exploration so incredibly easy and convenient, since you can scan the entire planet from orbit and beam up to the ship the second there's any real emergency. So that kind of makes it harder to create any real sense of drama.
 
No, you're right. Trek on film has been moving in that direction almost from the start. JJtrek is simply the inevitable result of steadily dumbing it down.

The stuff I've seen you profess to like is not one whit more intelligent than the Abrams Trek films; it's simply viewed through a nostalgic filter.
 
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