Mystery Structures in Trailer.

[Green Shirt]

those SanFran guys are filthy scabs who come here from Rigel VII to take our jobs. Most of them aren't even fed citizens.

Whut?!?! Not fed citizens?? They have to send home for food? Aren't there labor unions in the future to protect against this kind of stuff?

 

[M'Sharak]

Tornado zappers.

When a F5 approaches they grow legs, walk over, and suck.

This idea amuses me.

 

[cooleddie74]

I know what they are!

Things dickless virgins will still be fighting over online and at TREK conventions fifteen years from now.

 

[Trekker4747]

I know what they are!

Things dickless virgins will still be fighting over online and at TREK conventions fifteen years from now.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

The structures are Iowa ethanol production plants, the fuel preferred by starships in the Federation.

 

[cooleddie74]

I know what they are!

Things dickless virgins will still be fighting over online and at TREK conventions fifteen years from now.

I knew someone would react like that. He he he...

Actually, I have no clue. Being smack dab in the middle of nowhere and no vessel construction yards, landing strips or bases visible maybe they are connected somehow to local weather/tornado detection or prevention(we know from TNG("True Q") that by the 2300s Earth has a global weather grid in place that can stop dangerous tornadoes and other phenomena from forming over dry land or dissipate them if they somehow manage to begin)or maybe even related to farming.

 

[nil_jones]

They remind me of the Cybertron end of the Decepticon Spacebridge.

Orci, you sly devil, indeed.

 

[biotech]

They might be parts of spacedock waiting to be lifted into orbit for final assembly.

 

[Richard Baker]

I think they are Arcoligies-leave maximum land for growing nice natural crops and stack your cities to save space. They would also give Kirk a motivation to leave home- "do want to live in a very big box or fly out into the big empty void?"

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[Sector 7]

I believe they are the shipbuilding structures: drydock. When Kirk is younger there are not many of them. As Kirk gets older they get bigger and more plentiful. As he is looking at The Big E being built, he is older and ready to leave for StarFleet Academy. By the time he is done at Academy the ship is Pike's Enterprise.
Plot progression: as the Enterprise grows to become a starship in space... Kirk grows to become a starship captain. The movie progresses as Kirk grows closer to his destiny as Captain of Enterprise.

 

[cooleddie74]

Even the Dominion on DS9 had ground-based construction plants for ships that were built onto planets as well as asteroids.