I've been thinking about the various hints we've been given as to what this teaser trailer is going to look like and I have an idea. Picture this:
The Paramount logo. A one-note strain of ominous music. Fade to a view of Earth from orbit. A massive structure comes into view all around us. A pair of spacesuited figures float near a stanchion, welding it into place alongside rows of others that look like the ribs of a whale as seen from inside. A work pod of some kind drifts nearby, maneuvering a huge deck plate into place.
Our point of view receeds, puliing back into what looks like an unfinished corridor, the details flowing past us and off into the distance. We pass through a gap in a bulkhead and enter a larger chamber filled with giant conduits and powerful looking machinery, also under construction by more suited figures. All the while, the music is building in volume and portent.
Our point of view keeps moving backward. We enter what looks like a ventillation duct, twisting and turning to follow its contours. We pass through a series of skeletal compartments, flashing between wall and deck structures, beginning to drift upward now. We see a space that looks something like an empty swimming pool, followed by a huge, cylindrical chamber with a massive assemblage of magnets and coils and structural bracings. Remember, we are traveling
backward through all of this.
Our point of view angles sharply upward, passing through patchwork decks and along piping and wiring trunks. We enter a shaft of some kind, then suddenly hug the wall as what looks like an elevator car falls past us. We come out into another corridor, this one largely finished, lined with bright red doors. We round a corner, flashing between more suited figures going about their construction tasks, the corridor curving now in what is obviously a wide arc.
Our point of view jinks sideways through an open doorway, passes through a series of compartments that might be crew quarters, into a service crawlway, up an angled tube lined with conduits, devices and a row of steps along the bottom. Out through a large space crisscrossed with a web of structural supports, through a large, multi-tiered room with dozens of tables but no chairs. More compartments filled with processing, recycling and ventilation machinery. By now it feels like we have traveled for
miles.
Our point of view swoops left, then right, then angles upward through a hole in the deck into another straight corridor. The music is still building, taking on a tantalizingly familiar note as it rises toward an obvious crescendo. Suddenly we pass through another gap and out into sunlight. An expanse of light gray hull fills the screen, scattered with dark, irregular holes where plates are still missing. Another work pod flashes past us as a huge set of black markings on the hull begin to resolve themselves into letters dozens of feet tall: "NCC-1701". The music swells to a climax as the starship USS
Enterprise, as we've never seen her before, floats before us in spacedock high above the Earth, her lines still unfinished but unmistakable.
Cut to black. The classic eight-note fanfare plays slowly, expectantly, as the title "STAR TREK" fades in, followed by "12.25.08" in smaller characters below. Fade out.
At least, that's how I'd do it.
