As I recall, Roberto Orci has mentioned that the movie uses a non-linear method of storytelling, and I've been thinking about what that would mean. I have formed speculation as to how the movie is going to go. My speculation follows.
We start with the bar fight scene. Pike finds out who Kirk is, and dares Kirk to do better. Scene shifts to the Kelvin battling the Narada, and the aftermath, leading to the drunk uncle and the Corvette. Kirk then rides out to the Enterprise construction site, and decides to join Starfleet. He meets McCoy on the shuttle, and they hit it off.
Time goes on, and we have Kirk in the academy, who I suspect is a rival and upperclassmen at this point. Kirk takes the Kobayashi Maru, Spock discovering his tampering beforehand but not saying anything until afterwards in order to get him into trouble. The Academy headmaster dresses Kirk down, but then gives him a commendation for original thinking.
Time passes, and Spock, now back from his senior year training cruise, delivers the "You will experience fear, fear in the face of certain death." speech to the new seniors heading to their training cruise at graduation. Kirk, wanting to be aboard the Enterprise, talks McCoy into making him sick to get him aboard the Enterprise, which is then dispatched to Vulcan.
Kirk hears of the situation while in sickbay, and recognizes the scenario, and runs off to the bridge to warn Captain Pike about the situation, recounting the tale of the Kelvin's destruction along with fourty-seven Klingon vessels. The Enterprise arrives at Vulcan to find the other ships that responded a smoking ruin, and the Narada in orbit, setting up her drilling rig.
Pike sends Chief Engineer Redshirt down to try to stop the drill rig, with Kirk(blue suit) and Sulu(gold suit) to watch his back. Somehow after this, Pike is taken out of commission. Redshirt botches his landing and is killed, there is a fight on the drill rig before it fires, knocking Sulu over the edge. Kirk jumps after him and they are beamed up from midair. Spock leaves the bridge to try to rescue his parents, and then returns to be greeted by a well meaning Uhura who hugs him, and Vulcan is destroyed.
The Narada, takes off. Spock, now effectively in command as first officer, orders repairs to be made, blaming Kirk for the death of Chief Engineer Redshirt, and by extension the failure to save Vulcan, and possibly his parents. Now going by-the-book in a very passive-aggressively logical manner in his grief either for his planet or for his parents, he launches Kirk to the Starfleet outpost on Delta Vega in an escape pod because he is disruptive, not an actual crewmember.
Old Spock finds Kirk and Scotty at the Starfleet outpost, and urges Kirk to get his ship back, and coaches Kirk on how to get under his younger self's skin, complete with flashback scenes to Spock's youth in order to get Young Spock to flip out and end up out of command. (Possible Mind Meld?) Old Spock then provides the solution for the transporter issue in order to get them back aboard Enterprise.
Once Kirk and Scotty are on the Enterprise, Kirk confronts Spock, appealing to his emotional side, which is already running high because of the destruction of Vulcan, leading us to the "I will not allow you to lecture me." scene, and Young Spock snapping and trying to put a beatdown on Kirk. Spock is deemed unfit for command, and thus McCoy comments that they've "got no captain and no first officer to replace him." to which Kirk replies "Yeah we do." and takes command, now that he knows it is his destiny. The Enterprise, now repaired, follows the Narada to her next target, Earth, and the final battle, in which Old Spock kamikazes the Narada, taking her defenses down enough that the Enterprise can finish her off.
We have a mourning scene giving an overview of the devastation, and then with the severe manpower shortage Starfleet is sure to have now that a good chunk of the fleet has been destroyed in battle at both Vulcan and Earth just as the new Constitution Class is coming online, Starfleet decides the best thing to do is to keep the crew that's done so well together, together. Kirk advises McCoy to "Buckle up." Roll end credits with the closing narration of "Space, the final frontier...", and close curtain.
I doubt I've got it all, or even most of it right, because we know Kirk and an Orion girl get laid somewhere in there, but I was mainly typing it out more to get the concept of non-linear storytelling across and to work it out in my own head.
We start with the bar fight scene. Pike finds out who Kirk is, and dares Kirk to do better. Scene shifts to the Kelvin battling the Narada, and the aftermath, leading to the drunk uncle and the Corvette. Kirk then rides out to the Enterprise construction site, and decides to join Starfleet. He meets McCoy on the shuttle, and they hit it off.
Time goes on, and we have Kirk in the academy, who I suspect is a rival and upperclassmen at this point. Kirk takes the Kobayashi Maru, Spock discovering his tampering beforehand but not saying anything until afterwards in order to get him into trouble. The Academy headmaster dresses Kirk down, but then gives him a commendation for original thinking.
Time passes, and Spock, now back from his senior year training cruise, delivers the "You will experience fear, fear in the face of certain death." speech to the new seniors heading to their training cruise at graduation. Kirk, wanting to be aboard the Enterprise, talks McCoy into making him sick to get him aboard the Enterprise, which is then dispatched to Vulcan.
Kirk hears of the situation while in sickbay, and recognizes the scenario, and runs off to the bridge to warn Captain Pike about the situation, recounting the tale of the Kelvin's destruction along with fourty-seven Klingon vessels. The Enterprise arrives at Vulcan to find the other ships that responded a smoking ruin, and the Narada in orbit, setting up her drilling rig.
Pike sends Chief Engineer Redshirt down to try to stop the drill rig, with Kirk(blue suit) and Sulu(gold suit) to watch his back. Somehow after this, Pike is taken out of commission. Redshirt botches his landing and is killed, there is a fight on the drill rig before it fires, knocking Sulu over the edge. Kirk jumps after him and they are beamed up from midair. Spock leaves the bridge to try to rescue his parents, and then returns to be greeted by a well meaning Uhura who hugs him, and Vulcan is destroyed.
The Narada, takes off. Spock, now effectively in command as first officer, orders repairs to be made, blaming Kirk for the death of Chief Engineer Redshirt, and by extension the failure to save Vulcan, and possibly his parents. Now going by-the-book in a very passive-aggressively logical manner in his grief either for his planet or for his parents, he launches Kirk to the Starfleet outpost on Delta Vega in an escape pod because he is disruptive, not an actual crewmember.
Old Spock finds Kirk and Scotty at the Starfleet outpost, and urges Kirk to get his ship back, and coaches Kirk on how to get under his younger self's skin, complete with flashback scenes to Spock's youth in order to get Young Spock to flip out and end up out of command. (Possible Mind Meld?) Old Spock then provides the solution for the transporter issue in order to get them back aboard Enterprise.
Once Kirk and Scotty are on the Enterprise, Kirk confronts Spock, appealing to his emotional side, which is already running high because of the destruction of Vulcan, leading us to the "I will not allow you to lecture me." scene, and Young Spock snapping and trying to put a beatdown on Kirk. Spock is deemed unfit for command, and thus McCoy comments that they've "got no captain and no first officer to replace him." to which Kirk replies "Yeah we do." and takes command, now that he knows it is his destiny. The Enterprise, now repaired, follows the Narada to her next target, Earth, and the final battle, in which Old Spock kamikazes the Narada, taking her defenses down enough that the Enterprise can finish her off.
We have a mourning scene giving an overview of the devastation, and then with the severe manpower shortage Starfleet is sure to have now that a good chunk of the fleet has been destroyed in battle at both Vulcan and Earth just as the new Constitution Class is coming online, Starfleet decides the best thing to do is to keep the crew that's done so well together, together. Kirk advises McCoy to "Buckle up." Roll end credits with the closing narration of "Space, the final frontier...", and close curtain.
I doubt I've got it all, or even most of it right, because we know Kirk and an Orion girl get laid somewhere in there, but I was mainly typing it out more to get the concept of non-linear storytelling across and to work it out in my own head.
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