Moments when you knew you were watching Star Trek

[davejames]

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.

I didn't find it that complicated.

Of course I'm one of the few people who had no problem grasping the "vague sequel" nature of SR either, so maybe it's just me.

And in any case, the fact this is an alternate timeline doesn't make these characters feel any less "real" to me.

 

[Shazam!]

I didn't find it that complicated.

Of course I'm one of the few people who had no problem grasping the "vague sequel" nature of SR either, so maybe it's just me.

And in any case, the fact this is an alternate timeline doesn't make these characters feel any less "real" to me.

Yeah, but unlike SR, we are TOLD how this movie fits into the overall scheme of things. I don't find it complicated. Just annoying.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

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

Yep, it was Trek from the start.

 

[JarodRussell]

I had a slight Trek feeling when it began, that Kelvin flyby with the pings and communication was great, but then, somehow, that feeling was lost. When the car drove through the landscape, I knew it I wasn't watching Star Trek.

 

[DevilEyes]

...this was Star Trek?

Huh.

The title kinda gave it away.

 

[Captain Mike]

...this was Star Trek?

Huh.

The title kinda gave it away.

I watched it once since it came out and I am still waiting on that "moment".,
I still think they should have called it "Star Wars Trek".

 

[Geckothan]

...this was Star Trek?

Huh.

The title kinda gave it away.

I watched it once since it came out and I am still waiting on that "moment".,
I still think they should have called it "Star Wars Trek".

The mass exodus of Star Wars fans?

 

[Gepard]

This speaks ill for the rest of the franchise, but the movie really felt like Trek for me during the ice cave scenes, once the story ground to halt so Spock Prime could deliver a minute-and-a-half of unwieldy and implausible exposition. That's the Star Trek I know and...well, know.

 

[Nardpuncher]

I loved the whole movie, but the part that brought a tear to my eye was the final credit's use of the original theme in a way that no other Trek movie had ever done. Sweeping!

 

[barnaclelapse]

Most of the movie.

 

[pah2602]

When the Narada came into view at the start and the score burst out over the speakers BAH - BAH - BAH loud and dramatic just like TOS always used these sounds to make a dramatic impact on the viewers.

 

[Laila]

*The opening scene, with the battle & George & Winona Kirk

*All scenes with Kirk/McCoy

*Kirk & Spock on the Narada

*The closing scene when Kirk is wearing the gold shirt and it pans out to space

Lots more, but those were the ones that definitely felt the most Star Trekesque me.

 

[OneBuckFilms]

The opening shot, with the "Sonar Pings" that sounded like the old TOS Viewer Pings, and the chatter about "Could it be Klingon?" as we looked at the "Lighning Storm in Space".

That engine sound, and the way the Kelvin passed the camera was just jaw-dropping, and certainly brought a reality to the movie.

 

[starbuck]

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!!

I agree to me this is star trek ,yes its new its different but at the heart of it , its gene 's vision .

 

[davejames]

The opening shot, with the "Sonar Pings" that sounded like the old TOS Viewer Pings, and the chatter about "Could it be Klingon?" as we looked at the "Lighning Storm in Space".

That engine sound, and the way the Kelvin passed the camera was just jaw-dropping, and certainly brought a reality to the movie.

Agreed, that really gave you a "we're out in the far depths of space" feeling. I would have loved to have gotten MORE of that in the movie actually.

Every other time we see a starship, there's some loud theme music getting blaring over the speakers.

 

[EnsignRicky]

Jeez, why doesn't somebody just get it over with and say from the moment JJ's mommy met JJ's daddy?

For me, though I did like the entire movie, it moved away from the Galaxy Quest vibe and hit the right note at the very end, when they were all at their stations and ready to go. Other than that, the only other Trek type vibes I got leaned mostly towards Nemesis, and I'd rather not go there.

 

[Gaith]

Agreed that it felt like Trek generally, and the times it didn't were the moments, but I loved the silent death of the Kelvin officer in space. To acknowledge, if even for a moment, that there's no sound in space and that the phaser and torpedo sounds are probably just artificially piped-in interpretations was very cool.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

This speaks ill for the rest of the franchise, but the movie really felt like Trek for me during the ice cave scenes, once the story ground to halt so Spock Prime could deliver a minute-and-a-half of unwieldy and implausible exposition. That's the Star Trek I know and...well, know.

Well it taking place in a cave made it seem really like ModTrek since most planet scenes took place in a cave.

 

[Alrik]

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

Yep, it was Trek from the start.

Agreed.

 

[Captain Janeway]

All the ship sounds we heard from the get go... They were so typically TOS. And another thing that I've never seen mentioned (but maybe it's just because I don't hang around the ST forums often enough) is the music they used as Kirk and Sulu were fighting the Romulans on the platform drill. It was so reminiscing of the kind used during all the fight scenes in TOS, probably due to the very prominent use of percussion keyboard (?) instruments such as xylophone, vibraphone, glockenspiel, etc.