Today's Reports On Trek Footage From New York

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Here are three descriptions from the New York presentation by Abrams of the Traveling Star Trek Clip Show.

The first two are more-or-less non-fans, the Ugo one is from a, um, more "dedicated" fan:

Coming Soon

Ain't It Cool

UGO MovieBlog

UGO's reporter uses the ever-popular "Star Trek Is Dead. Long Live Star Trek!" line to open, and the first couple of paragraphs are:

There are some things we have to accept. J.J. Abrams’ version of Star Trek isn’t a an update with some mild tweaks. It is a full on reboot. A retcon. It exists in a parallel universe to the Kirk and Spock (and Picard and Sisko and Janeway) that makes up The Star Trek canon. This is a new deal. If you can’t accept that, walk away now.

Personally, I wish it hadn’t come to this. I wish Voyager didn’t slow the franchise up and ready it for the final death blow dealt by Enterprise. I wish we could see TV and Film versions of Sulu in command of the Excelsior and Riker in command of the Titan. But it ain’t ever gonna happen. It’s this or nothing. And based on the twenty minutes or so of what I saw, this has the potential to be something awesome. A terrific new franchise called Star Trek that has trace elements of another franchise called Star Trek...

Like I said, a trekkie for better or worse.

 

[Seraphim]

SO can we expect a tv series out of this new movie?

 

[TK421]

SO can we expect a tv series out of this new movie?

I'm in two minds about this.

On one level I'd love it. On another level I want to see the movie first, if it's as epic as it seems, it may not actually work as a TV show ironically.

EDIT: Maybe they could do it like 24, have a story that runs for a season.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

SO can we expect a tv series out of this new movie?

I really doubt it.

Here's coverage from The New York Times.

Itzoff often does reviews of science fiction novels and related books for the NYT Book Review.

 

[Sharr Khan]

Dialogue flies by fast, but I caught a reference to Cardassian Ale, Budweiser Classic (ugh - product placement sullying Trek)

See, and to me that tells me Star Trek has at last entered the big leagues. If its worth product placement it must be a big deal.

Sharr

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

If product placement was good enough for "2001" it's sure good enough for Trek.

 

[scotthm]

The more I read, the more I don't like.

It would have been so much better just to have made a Star Trek movie about a ship and crew we'd never heard of before.

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[Admiral Buzzkill]

That's a non-starter from a commercial point of view. Paramount owns Kirk and Spock and McCoy and the Enterprise, and spending this kind of money without leveraging every bit of that would be foolish.

 

[JoeZhang]

Additional spoilers from New York footage - SPOILERS!

n the next scene, we see Kirk riding his motorbike through the same Iowa landscape we saw earlier, but now its early morning, presumably the next day. He stops and looks at what seemed like a city in the opening shot but is actually an enormous docking bay for Federation starships. There are a number of ships there, all trussed up with rigging and scaffolding. Kirk walks through the docks looking for Pike and the Kelvin and when he finds them, Kirk brazenly states to Pike, "Four years? I'll do it in three."

This sequence will definitely prove to be the most intriguing one for diehard Trek fans, not only because we see Nimoy as Spock for the first time since Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country over fifteen years ago, but also because it gets into the history of the technology of "Trek," specifically the invention of Trans Warp technology, the classic Trek teleporters that beamed the Enterprise crew to and from planets the ship was orbiting. It also establishes that the movie does take place in regular "Trek" continuity, taking place before the original "Star Trek" television series and referring to events from both the show and the movies.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/startreknews.php?id=50627

 

[JoeZhang]

Re: Additional spoilers from New York footage - SPOILERS!

Opps - I see there is an existing thread - anyone want to merge?

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Re: Additional spoilers from New York footage - SPOILERS!

Opps - I see there is an existing thread - anyone want to merge?

Buy me dinner and a movie and we'll see how it goes.

 

[JoeZhang]

From the last report:

J.J. Abrams needs to understand that he is a guest in our house. If he can’t be polite, we won’t invite him over to play anymore. It’s as simple as that.

 

[Roshi]

A lot of people tend to forget that Star Trek is a commercial product...

 

[Sharr Khan]

The more I read, the more I don't like.

It would have been so much better just to have made a Star Trek movie about a ship and crew we'd never heard of before.

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No it wouldn't, because Kirk, Spock, and The Enterprise have recognition at some level to joe schmoe - to many they are Star Trek. And this is NOW STAR TREK for a whole new generation.

Sharr

 

[Borgminister]

Is that the same "we" that made Nemesis such a smash hit? And Enterprise?

 

[Oso Blanco]

Re: Additional spoilers from New York footage - SPOILERS!

It's also being mentioned that Uhura is able to speak three dialects of Romulan. How come? Back then, practically nothing was known about the Romulans, not even what they look like.

And if she is such a talent, how come she doesn't speak a single word of Klingon? Klingon would be the more obvious language to learn for a communications officer with such great linguistic skills.

 

[JoeZhang]

Is that the same "we" that made Nemesis such a smash hit? And Enterprise?

I think it's the "we" of people I shuffle away from at parties...

 

[JoeZhang]

Re: Additional spoilers from New York footage - SPOILERS!

It's also being mentioned that Uhura is able to speak three dialects of Romulan. How come? Back then, practically nothing was known about the Romulans, not even what they look like.

And if she is such a talent, how come she doesn't speak a single word of Klingon?

I guess because the writer's thought it was (like the rest of us) fucking dumb to have her struggling with a pile of books at a critical moment.

A lot of the previous history was shite.

 

[scotthm]

The more I read, the more I don't like.

It would have been so much better just to have made a Star Trek movie about a ship and crew we'd never heard of before.

No it wouldn't, because Kirk, Spock, and The Enterprise have recognition at some level to joe schmoe - to many they are Star Trek. And this is NOW STAR TREK for a whole new generation.Sharr

Oh? Then how come I keep hearing that all these changes being made won't be noticed by the audience because they don't know much about Star Trek anyway? If you just cared about name recognition you'd be making a TNG movie.

Is that the same "we" that made Nemesis such a smash hit? And Enterprise?

That would be 'we', the human population of Earth.

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[chardman]

From the Coming Soon page:
Simon Pegg (Hot Fuzz) would take on the role of Maximillian "Scotty" Scott while Karl Urban would play the younger Dr. "Bones" McCoy.

Ermmm... Maximillian Scott? Maximillian? REALLY!?!