Trek XI has Good Will Hunting vibe?
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Nah... it's not a movie about a bunch of kids on a college campus.
Kirk (like Saavik) would have been a full Lieutenant at the time he took the Kobayashi Maru test at his command school course, after having had at least seven years of active-duty experience.
He MIGHT have had a few cadets on that cruise (again, like with Saavik's cruise) under his effective command, though he would have been subordinate to a REAL captain during that cruise (perhaps our mysterious Pakistani friend?), just as Saavik was subordinate to Captain Spock (with Admiral Kirk along "for the ride"). These COULD have included Chekov et al... though it seems a bit contrived.
We know, without question, that this film takes place in a variety of timeframes. We have good reason to believe that ONE of those timeframes will be during Kirk's command school course at the Academy. We have NO reason to conclude that this makes up more than 15 minutes or so of the total film. And regardless, we know that neither Kirk, nor Spock, nor McCoy, nor Scotty would be "kids" at that point.
I'm in a minority here, but I'm still not convinced that the film necessarily DOES involve "time travel" (in any sense but the "one day at a time, moving forward" one). And I suspect that we'll see that Bana's character has a deeper relationship to Spock (Nimoy) than anyone's really thinking right now.
I'm not even convinced he's actually "the villain" though there are people here who will gladly flame me for just tossing that out. Let 'em... :thumbsup:
"Was it over when the Klingons bombed Pearl Harbor??? HELL NO!!!"
Here! Here! :thumbsup:
Personally, I'm getting a Superman Returns meets Mission: Impossible III by way of Star Trek: The Original Series vibe.
What a perfect sentence!
... and obviously there's no 'Good Will Hunting' vibe here, Matt Damon isn't in this film.
I'm in a minority here, but I'm still not convinced that the film necessarily DOES involve "time travel" (in any sense but the "one day at a time, moving forward" one). And I suspect that we'll see that Bana's character has a deeper relationship to Spock (Nimoy) than anyone's really thinking right now.
You may be right about that. For all we know the entire movie could be a mindmeld experience with Spock so that we don't really travel back in time but we see Spock's memories. I'm sure it would be more involved than that, but maybe you're onto something.
Then my work here is done.I'd rather like it to be a riff on Thomas The Tank Engine.
Which begs the question - who would play The Fat Controller?
I can see where that joke's going even before it goes there.
(BTW - where was it going? I wasn't too sure, myself. I had options).
Then my work here is done.I'd rather like it to be a riff on Thomas The Tank Engine.
Which begs the question - who would play The Fat Controller?
I can see where that joke's going even before it goes there.
(BTW - where was it going? I wasn't too sure, myself. I had options).
Nope. You won't make me say it. It's like invoking Beetlejuice around here. Only causes trouble.
Spock- Space the finale frontier
Kirk- son of bitch he stole my line
Kirk- son of bitch he stole my line
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