SPOILERS??: Trekmovie.com...Nichols and Saldana

[Jackson_Roykirk]

A trekmovie.com article reveals that Zoe Saldana said she "worked with" Nimoy during the filming -- does that mean their characters have contact on screen? Is Old Spock on the bridge with Uhura?

In that same trekmovie article, Nichelle Nichols says that parts of this takes place in the MONTHS prior to the five year mission.

I personally suspected as much -- in fact I think MOST of the action-adventure takes place very close to Kirk's five year mission; months rather than years, and some of it even during the early TOS era.

complete article:
http://trekmovie.com/2008/04/29/nichols-and-saldana-talk-about-uhura-in-new-star-trek/

 

[number6]

You call those spoilers???


Here is a massive spoiler!!!















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OK HERE GOES:

The whole movie takes place with Spock in the Nexus. They go find Kirk and discover that the timeline has been altered by a Romulan spy.
You can tell the timeline has been altered because the shuttlecraft Spock travels in is suddenly dirty and has fins on the engines.

Spock goes into the nexus to ask his former self what went wrong and then travels with him through Kirk's academy days and prevents him from marrying a blonde lab technician he knocks boots with in Boothby's shed.


Back at the Academy...
Old Spock discovers that Boothby is actually the Romulan spy surgically altered to look like Ray Walston. He knows this because although Boothby is an old man he's not that old. Uhura creates a distraction by dloing a naked fan dance and young Sulu kicks Boothby's ass with a Samauri sword.

Young Spock abducts Kirk and takes him to Vulcan to meet his mum and dad.

Young Spock then saves Kirk from a rabid Sehlat who should have been euthanized earlier in his childhood.

Q comes along and takes Kirk on a magic ride through the cosmos to find his mojo, but instead finds himself in his backyard chopping wood, leaving his eggs burning on the stove.

Spock, having restored the timeline makes young Spock promise never to divulge his identity and refers to old Spock as Ecky.

Returning to the 24th century Spock goes back to his teachings on Romulus, ferried there on the Titan with Frakes as Captain and Tom Cruise as Riker's personal boy toy.

The Enterprise's nacelles start vectoring and the ships both sail off into the sunset.

The End.





Now THAT's a spoiler.

Sorry to ruin it for you.

 

[M'Sharak]

You call those spoilers???
[...]
Now THAT's a spoiler.

Sorry to ruin it for you.

Spoiler: Ecky?

You could have used the spoiler tags, you know.

 

[number6]

You could have used the spoiler tags, you know.

That would have ruined everything.

 

[Lumen]

They could have just been on the set during the same day. Shooting the shit between scenes is "work", right?

 

[Cranston]

I don't know that it implies that oldSpock is right there on the bridge with everyone else, but the little bits we've been hearing certainly do make it sound like Nimoy's Spock is fairly integrated into the story, rather than isolated or bookended.

While I think it would be cheesy as an artistic decision (depending on how it's handled, of course), I admit that I get a little misty at the thought of seeing Nimoy walk onto the 1701 bridge again....

 

[MisterPL]

Re: "Kirk's" 5-year mission.

TOS wasn't just Kirk's mission, it was the Enterprise's mission.

How do we know which three years we saw in the original series? It's not like we ever saw Enterprise being launched from a spacedock. Isn't it possible we've never seen the first year and that this film (or a sequel) will fill in that void?

 

[Jackson_Roykirk]

^
^^I suppose...
...but then the cast of characters of this film would not be Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scotty, Uhura, Sulu, and Chekov. I realize Christopher Pike is a charcter in this also, so we may see part of one of his five-year missions, but if the characters are any clue, I suspect much of this film takes place closer to Kirk's TOS five-year mission (and the end of Pike's last five-year mission)

EDIT: and MisterPL, when I write "Kirk's five-year mission", I mean the Enterprise's five year mission for which Kirk was the captain and leader. When I write Pike's last five-year mission, I mean the last five-year mission of The Enterprise for which Pike was the Captain and leader -- I thought it was much more pithy just to write "kirk's five-year mission".

 

[M'Sharak]

Re: "Kirk's" 5-year mission.

TOS wasn't just Kirk's mission, it was the Enterprise's mission.

True, but a semantic quibble, at best. We all know what he means.

How do we know which three years we saw in the original series? It's not like we ever saw Enterprise being launched from a spacedock. Isn't it possible we've never seen the first year and that this film (or a sequel) will fill in that void?

We don't. No, we didn't. Sure, it's possible, and it's possible that this film will fill the "void" you hypothesize, but a sequel seems a much more likely candidate for the job (if there is a sequel.)

 

[MisterPL]

But aren't we assuming Kirk and Pike each had 5-year missions? Unless there's canon to prove otherwise (and there might be, I honestly don't recall) it's possible that Kirk picked up the 5-year mission where Pike left off.

Just suggesting that what fans have taken for granted for decades might be interpreted differently by the filmmakers.

 

[M'Sharak]

But aren't we assuming Kirk and Pike each had 5-year missions? Unless there's canon to prove otherwise (and there might be, I honestly don't recall) it's possible that Kirk picked up the 5-year mission where Pike left off.

Yes, I think we're assuming and, to my recollection, the only on-screen mention of the 5-year mission (should that be capitalized, or something?) is in the opening-credits monologue from the original series, so nothing's really "proven", either way. We know that there was to be a five-year mission, but that's it; we don't even really know whether the mission was completed.

Just suggesting that what fans have taken for granted for decades might be interpreted differently by the filmmakers.

Even assuming that there is a single body of belief which "the fans" have taken for granted (which is a stretch, to say the least) it's quite possible that the filmmakers will interpret it differently, and I think a lot of people are counting on it. Others are offended by the mere notion of such a thing. The majority probably fall somewhere in between, and are willing to give it the benefit of the doubt and wait until they see the movie.

 

[cultcross]

...but then the cast of characters of this film would not be Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scotty, Uhura, Sulu, and Chekov.

Unless they decide to ignore the set of characters who appeared in one episode, and run with the much better set eventually established, that people have actually heard of? I can see the film establishing this crew before WNMHGB time period, and set them up for exactly what was suggested, missions prior to the part of the 5 year mission we saw on TV.

 

[Sector 7]

Dammit, number6, you know how I hate spoilers!!
You have totally ruined the movie for me!!
I think I'm gonna go have a beer so I can cry in it...
O yeah... and umm... u totally raped my childhood (can't leave that one out)!!

 

[number6]

Dammit, number6, you know how I hate spoilers!!
You have totally ruined the movie for me!!
I think I'm gonna go have a beer so I can cry in it...
O yeah... and umm... u totally raped my childhood (can't leave that one out)!!

I aim to please!!