Well, personally I'd rather not see either...
Although Khan would be by far the bigger box draw IMO.
New Abrams interview about the next Trek movie...
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Well, personally I'd rather not see either...
Although Khan would be by far the bigger box draw IMO.
WHERE ARE THE SPOILERS?
Q can be anybody; Q can be Suzie Plakson, Corbin Bernsen, etc; it's not quite so set in stone.
Yeah, so would he be playing Q or just Q?
Well what I meant was that DeLancie was the quintessential Q. Others are knock-offs...
At any rate I don't think enough of the public knows "Q" or "Trelane" to come out in droves; that wouldn't be the hook, in other words.
Since Good and Evil are subjective terms, an evil entity needs to be personified in one way or another. If you're not doing a good/evil narrative, if it's "Man vs. destructive nature," then Star Trek needs to take some pointers from "Deep Impact" and have the crew taking personal risk to do something terribly important that is also terribly dangerous just by virtue of its environment; that's not "good evil" as much as it is a pseudo-disaster movie.
It could be done, sure, but it's tricky to do and the script needs to be REALLY solid in order to get a pass. My worry is that if they try to "do something different" without having all their ducks in a row they'll crank out "Armageddon" instead of Deep Impact and we'll loose Star Trek forever.
As for details... how could that work? We've seen alot of "Have to deflect the asteroid" storylines in Trek and these usually involve some kind of antagonist that makes the story more complicated than it should be. None of those story lines really work for the big screen and would require a series of extremely elaborate plot devices to work effectively. When writing for this, you want the premise to be as simple as possible so you can focus on the details that make the story more entertaining.
It could be done, sure, but it's tricky to do and the script needs to be REALLY solid in order to get a pass. My worry is that if they try to "do something different" without having all their ducks in a row they'll crank out "Armageddon" instead of Deep Impact and we'll loose Star Trek forever.
As for details... how could that work? We've seen alot of "Have to deflect the asteroid" storylines in Trek and these usually involve some kind of antagonist that makes the story more complicated than it should be. None of those story lines really work for the big screen and would require a series of extremely elaborate plot devices to work effectively. When writing for this, you want the premise to be as simple as possible so you can focus on the details that make the story more entertaining.
I THINK THEY'RE WRITING SOME NOW!
How about Khan as a Q who has been assimilated by the Borg?
How about Q as a Born who has assimilated Khan?
At my cinema, Cineplex always have a "Stars whose birthdays are this month" section. Tom Hanks's birthday is in July so he was their spotlight, and there were lots of quotes from people saying how nice he was. And I was sitting there thinking, we really need him to play the bad guy in Trek XII 
I won't be surprised if they bow to studio pressure, and have Khan, Klingons, or redesigned Borg in the next movie. I mean, they are in the business of making money. They want the casual public to go see it.
If they want the casual public to go see it, then whether it's Khan, Klingons or Borg or something else is irrelevant it needs to look really cool in the trailer.
Which Nero did, brilliantly. Whatever problems people may have with the weaknesses of the character in the movie, in the trailer Nero and the Narada were captivating
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I wouldn't mind seeing the Romulans as the enemy in the new film XII as a follow on to XI. I personally don't think Nero counts and I would like to see some Romulan fleet action possibly involving the Klingons.
Remember a large (42 Ships) Klingon fleet got whacked by the Narada whereas the Federation lost 12ish ships plus Vulcan. The klingons could get really riled up by the defeat and blame it on any of the other races (Fed, Romulans etc).
Could easily trigger a war between the Klingons and Romulans if the Klingons find out the Narada is Romulan. They won't care about the detains they will just either wet themselves in terror of being whacked again or just attack en masse.
The enemy in the 3rd film could be something completely new or old (Borg anyone) and all 3 main powers could unite against em.
It is not clealry identified why the fleet is in the Laurentian system and with whom they are at war with or currently guarding the system from.
Alternatively it could just be the Cardassians as there was some subtle (or not so subtle) foreshadowing in Star Trek XI when Uhura orders a Cardassian Sunrise.
One thing that is guaranteed it won't be a time travel or mirror mirror script. Unless they go back to save Vulcan
Mark
Remember a large (42 Ships) Klingon fleet got whacked by the Narada whereas the Federation lost 12ish ships plus Vulcan. The klingons could get really riled up by the defeat and blame it on any of the other races (Fed, Romulans etc).
Could easily trigger a war between the Klingons and Romulans if the Klingons find out the Narada is Romulan. They won't care about the detains they will just either wet themselves in terror of being whacked again or just attack en masse.
The enemy in the 3rd film could be something completely new or old (Borg anyone) and all 3 main powers could unite against em.
It is not clealry identified why the fleet is in the Laurentian system and with whom they are at war with or currently guarding the system from.
Alternatively it could just be the Cardassians as there was some subtle (or not so subtle) foreshadowing in Star Trek XI when Uhura orders a Cardassian Sunrise.
One thing that is guaranteed it won't be a time travel or mirror mirror script. Unless they go back to save Vulcan
Mark
At my cinema, Cineplex always have a "Stars whose birthdays are this month" section. Tom Hanks's birthday is in July so he was their spotlight, and there were lots of quotes from people saying how nice he was. And I was sitting there thinking, we really need him to play the bad guy in Trek XII
If they really want to rip a page from TOS, they would cast Hanks as a Starfleet officer gone rogue. That happened what, like three or four times? (I always knew we were in for it when Kirk began with, "He's a highly respected officer, a legend in Starfleet...")
Trek had its share of mad scientists, too--I really like mad scientists. Make Hanks a mad scientist!
At my cinema, Cineplex always have a "Stars whose birthdays are this month" section. Tom Hanks's birthday is in July so he was their spotlight, and there were lots of quotes from people saying how nice he was. And I was sitting there thinking, we really need him to play the bad guy in Trek XII
If they really want to rip a page from TOS, they would cast Hanks as a Starfleet officer gone rogue. That happened what, like three or four times? (I always knew we were in for it when Kirk began with, "He's a highly respected officer, a legend in Starfleet...")
Hey... Hanks as a mad scientist who worked for Starfleet until they tried to shut down his experiments in... in warp fields... and... and... oh, I don't know, things go horribly wrong!
At my cinema, Cineplex always have a "Stars whose birthdays are this month" section. Tom Hanks's birthday is in July so he was their spotlight, and there were lots of quotes from people saying how nice he was. And I was sitting there thinking, we really need him to play the bad guy in Trek XII
If they really want to rip a page from TOS, they would cast Hanks as a Starfleet officer gone rogue. That happened what, like three or four times? (I always knew we were in for it when Kirk began with, "He's a highly respected officer, a legend in Starfleet...")
Hey... Hanks as a mad scientist who worked for Starfleet until they tried to shut down his experiments in... in warp fields... and... and... oh, I don't know, things go horribly wrong!
No no--in eugenics...
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