Star Trek XI will be released in 2009. Let's take a look at other Trek movies released in years that ended in 9. Star Trek The Motion Picture, released in 1979. Though a financial success, it was a critical failure and remains to this day one of the more unpopular Trek movies with very few supporters. Then there's Star Trek V The Final Frontier, released in 1989. A financial and critical failure with even less supporters than TMP. This is the Pattern of 9, any Trek movie released in a year ending with 9 is doomed to fail. Hell, years ending with 9 aren't good for any movie with the word Star in its title. 1999 didn't have a Trek movie. It did however, have a Star Wars movie, Star Wars Episode I The Phantom Menace, which is quite possibly one of least popular Star Wars movies. And what do you know, Star Trek XI will be released in 2009. A year ending with 9. Therefore the Pattern of 9 is establised that Star Trek XI will fail. It has to fail. There's no other way of looking at it.
Also, let's take a moment to abbreviate these years to their last two digits. TMP in 79, TFF in 89, SWTPM in 99, and Trek XI in 09. How fitting that this movie be released in a year that abbreviated begins with a zero, given the love affair with the number zero that Abrams and his cohorts seem to have. I'm looking at the direction of the USS Kelvin's registry.
Also, let's take a moment to abbreviate these years to their last two digits. TMP in 79, TFF in 89, SWTPM in 99, and Trek XI in 09. How fitting that this movie be released in a year that abbreviated begins with a zero, given the love affair with the number zero that Abrams and his cohorts seem to have. I'm looking at the direction of the USS Kelvin's registry.
(Hey, all kidding aside, I thought I read that Phantom Menace put up really good box office. Did it really not fare as well as the others??)
