I had an idea some time back that I thought would be pretty cool:
It starts with a mostly dark screen, just a faint sheen of light off the curved surface of… something. There is a bright pulse of smoky red light and a sound like a single, subsonic drumbeat, more felt than heard. The smoke, or possibly steam or even clouds, billows toward us, spreading out beneath the curved, transparent surface. As the pulse of light begins to fade, a dark line sweeps across it in a slow arc, stirring the smoke in its wake. The screen fades abruptly to black and bright white text appears:
“BEFORE THEY WERE HEROES…”
Another bright red pulse fills the screen, but this time there are other pulses, orange and yellow-white, off-screen to the upper left and lower right, suffusing the smoky medium. Another dark line sweeps across like a blade, faster now, as the rumble builds with a sense of rising power and the smoke billows and swirls. Again, the screen goes black.
“BEFORE THEY WERE LEGENDS…”
The camera is pulling back now, slowly revealing a ring of multi-colored lights, pulsing in a seemingly random pattern. Dark radial lines rotate in front of them like the blades of a fan, both the pulses and the lines picking up speed as the rumble flattens into a deep whine like a giant turbine winding up. The edge of the curved, transparent surface comes into view in the upper right corner and we see a starry vista of space beyond it. Black screen.
“ON THE EDGE OF THE FINAL FRONTIER…”
As the camera continues to pull back, we realize the stars are moving, falling away toward a distant vanishing point and picking up speed along with the pulse of the lights, the spinning blades and what we now recognize as the rising drone of an immensely powerful engine. The full, transparent dome comes into view, now aglow with a flickering, reddish-orange light, the bussard collector of the Enterprise’s starboard warp nacelle. A gleaming curve of white enters the frame from below as the camera pulls back over the edge of the primary hull and begins a slow roll to the right. The stars streak ever faster, elongating into white lines. The camera accelerates and the bridge module comes into view from the top right, followed by tall, black letters spelling out “U.S.S. ENTERPRISE” and then “NCC-1701”. A glint of red and blue-green running lights, glowing viewports along the rim of the saucer, and the copper disk of the deflector dish. Size, power, beauty. Many of the details and some of the proportions are different but the basic shape is unmistakable. The tilt of the camera and the cascade of stars begin to induce a sense of vertigo and then… black screen.
“THE HUMAN ADVENTURE HAS A NEW BEGINNING.”
A light rises from the darkness, flickering like moonlight on a fountain, illuminating a familiar face in close-up ¾ profile: Leonard Nimoy as Spock, gazing with a raised eyebrow and the barest quirk of a smile at something off-screen. “Fascinating,” he says in that trademark baritone. Light and shadow shift and we fade to black once more. The classic 8-note TOS fanfare begins, slow and dramatic as the title “STAR TREK” fades in, the letters slowly expanding, then “STARDATE 12.25.08” fades in below it in smaller characters. The fanfare ends with a climactic double drumbeat and nothing but the words “BOLDLY GO” in the center of the screen.
FADE OUT.
The text inserts are, well, kind of a rough draft. I was more interested in the visuals than the taglines, but I don’t think they sound too bad. I even thought about employing my 3D skills to create this sequence myself, and I still might, but it was mainly just speculative. Sounds like the actual teaser will focus more on the Enterprise under construction anyway.
) I'd be suprised if we were not invited to "Boldly Go" at some point in 2008.
