Moments when you knew you were watching Star Trek

[number6]

Let's complete this circle and ask which moments in this new film just stood out as being Star Trek..

For me this film was Star Trek from the get go:

We get shields down to xx% and evasive pattern xx pretty much right out of the gate. Robau's shuttle looks like a TOS shuttle. We get a teaser before the title card, and the only ship in range, red shirt death..

Tell me what moment was uniquely a Star Trek moment for you!!

 

[shapeshifter]

From the *pings* and chatter of various ship wide Departments heard as the closeup Kelvin flyby occurred in the first seconds of the film.

 

[Gojira]

From the very moment the first images appeared on the screen.

Is it November 17th yet? I want my DVD!

 

[Dane_Whitman]

From the *pings* and chatter of various ship wide Departments heard as the closeup Kelvin flyby occurred in the first seconds of the film.

Exactly! I felt comfortable immediately.

 

[Kpnuts]

From the *pings* and chatter of various ship wide Departments heard as the closeup Kelvin flyby occurred in the first seconds of the film.

Exactly! I felt comfortable immediately.

I second that.

The whole movie felt like Star Trek. Sure there were moments and scenes that were a bit different, but on the whole, Orci, Kurtzman and Abrams did a fantastic job satisfying us fans.

 

[Gojira]

Even though I felt right at home from the very first moment I must admit seeing Leonard Nimoy not only choked me up it really help make it that much more real.

 

[Rackon]

From the *pings* and chatter of various ship wide Departments heard as the closeup Kelvin flyby occurred in the first seconds of the film.

Yes, yes, yes!!

 

[Elias Vaughn]

...this was Star Trek?

Huh.

 

[Finnegan]

The first time we see Bones, in the shuttle, really sold it for me....

 

[LeahBoBo]

Even though I felt right at home from the very first moment I must admit seeing Leonard Nimoy not only choked me up it really help make it that much more real.

Interesting. For me, I fully accepted the movie from beginning. Seeing Nimoy was nice and nostalgic, but I had already bought into the Trek universe and had he not been present, I wouldn't have been too upset.

 

[Borgminister]

...this was Star Trek?

Huh.

Absolutely.

Your father's Star Trek. For today's audience.

 

[Yeoman Randi]

Right away, on the Kelvin, hearing the pings and other sounds.

 

[Shazam!]

I always new I was watching a Star Trek film, but it was never Star Trek. It's just another story set in yet another alternate universe.

 

[DEWLine]

It's a Star Trek multiverse.

No worries.

 

[davejames]

I always new I was watching a Star Trek film, but it was never Star Trek. It's just another story set in yet another alternate universe.

I know that's technically the case, but for all intents and purposes this was basically meant as a reboot, and so that's how I viewed it.

I wasn't sitting there the whole time going "oh look, it's Alternate Kirk! And Alternate Spock!" They were just Kirk and Spock, in a slightly reimagined way.

 

[MvRojo]

When I bought my ticket.

 

[Shazam!]

I know that's technically the case, but for all intents and purposes this was basically meant as a reboot, and so that's how I viewed it.

I don't think we should be having to compromise in our own heads for us to make sense of it. It's flat out stated that it's an alternate universe/timeline so I'm going to view it as such. That's not to say I didn't enjoy it, but knowing that the 'real' Kirk and Spock are knocking around somewhere else slightly diluted that enjoyment.

 

[C.E. Evans]

When I bought my ticket.

This was my answer too.


But then it was the same thing with the ten previous Trek movies as well...

 

[Geckothan]

I thought I was just watching another generic action movie.

 

[LeahBoBo]

^ Ouch!