What will the opening scene be?

[msbae]

How about this:

1.) Old Spock finds out about Nero going back through time.

2.) He steals a ship and hauls ass to the planet with the Guardian of Forever.

3.) He uses the Guardian to go back to his academy days and warns his younger self.

It probably wouldn't happen since Harlon Ellison would never give Paramount permission to use the Guardian. However, that would be the way I'd start the story. The Guardian is a more plausible method of time travel than flying around a star at High Warp. It would also be nice to see that particular plot device (the Guardian) get used again. There's so much untapped story potential there.

 

[Tralah]

Okay, before this thread derails entirely into the inevitable silliness, I'm going to attempt a serious answer.

My theory would be since this is a Spock-centric film that the opening scene will begin on Vulcan with a young Sarek and Amanda and a little Spock, either a baby or a child. It will be a short scene from some poignant moment of his childhood or something that happened very early on that he might have heard about from his parents when he was older.

I think a scene like that, very early on in the movie at least, would be a good way to introduce to the audience who aren't so familiar with Star Trek, to who Spock is and give them an idea of what Vulcans are. Seeing Spock with his human mother and Vulcan father would be the simplest way to show that he is half alien, rather than just hear about it from dialogue at first.

Before we leave that scene we'll probably hear some ironically foreshadowing words spoken by one of his parents. Then the scene will go forward and see Nimoy's Spock in the far distant future and he'll be in some sort of bad situation which connect with the time travel.

That would be MY guess, but it's purely speculation of course, and I wouldn't be the least bit surprise if it's something 100% different.

 

[Luke Lightsaber]

I heard Leonard Nimoy comes on the screen and signs the Smurfs theme song.

 

[Kryton]

Kirk and his wife Mary are just settling into their box at Ford's Theatre and he takes off the stovepipe hat. Then Nero Bo'oth materializes in the vestibule behind, takes aim and BLAM!

Then Surak yells "SPOOOCCCCKKKK! HELP HIM!"

 

[Jadzia]

Kirk will be doing some rock climbing, and overconfidently will have a near fatal slip. (High camera at awkward angle) we see his feet clawing for a footing, ripping stones out of the cliff. (Low camera, ground level) we see those stones land and bounch on desert grasses. (High camera) we see the sweat on his brow and his shirt will have become mysteriously ripped.

Overcoming fear, he pushes himself up and we see him scramble to the plateau/summit. Pull himself to his feet like a warrior, and look boldly to the horizon, and then shift his gaze up towards the stars where the camera follows.

Next scene, we see him driving back at wreckless speeds in his red corvette, while we listen to a monologue of his thoughts. As he mulls over his brush with death he'll think how alone and helpless he felt up on the cliff, and conclude "I just know I'll die alone".

 

[M'Sharak]

How about this:

1.) Old Spock finds out about Nero going back through time.

2.) He steals a ship and hauls ass to the planet with the Guardian of Forever.

3.) He uses the Guardian to go back to his academy days and warns his younger self.

It probably wouldn't happen since Harlon Ellison would never give Paramount permission to use the Guardian. However, that would be the way I'd start the story. The Guardian is a more plausible method of time travel than flying around a star at High Warp. It would also be nice to see that particular plot device (the Guardian) get used again. There's so much untapped story potential there.

Actually, I'm not so sure that Ellison is dead-set against even giving permission. As you may recall, it was rumored several months back that the Guardian was going to be used in the movie and during the writers' strike someone caught Harlan on the picket line and asked him what he thought about that. They got in return a Harlan Ellison-strength earful about intellectual property and proper compensation, because no one connected with the movie or the studio had even approached him about it.

As it happened, the rumor turned out to be a false one and there had never been any such plans for its use in the story, but what I got from the whole business was that Harlan wasn't averse to the Guardian being used at all; he was mainly averse (and understandably so) to the idea of not getting paid for it. You really can't fault him there.

 

[Amasov]

I think it'll open with Riker's voice saying, "Computer begin program."

 

[Luke Lightsaber]

The shot opens up on a spectacular cityscape. Very futuristic with flying cars, and spaceships in the sky. We pan across and find the Guardian of Forever, all brand spanking new, and colorful. We see a figure stand in front of the object, and discover that it's Q.

 

[Akiraprise]

Okay, before this thread derails entirely into the inevitable silliness, I'm going to attempt a serious answer.

Why would you say such a thing?
The Internet = serious business.

 

[Swarles Barkley]

Will there be eyes? Will it be a big bugeyed buckminsterfullerene in space?

Well, duh. Of course there will be eyes. Cookie Monster eyes. On a Borgminsterfullerene. Anything less would be tantamount to JJ Abrams raping my childhood. Res Ipsa Loquitor.

 

[M'Sharak]

Res Ipsa Loquitur.

I suppose it would, wouldn't it?

 

[Swarles Barkley]

Res Ipsa Loquitur.

I suppose it would, wouldn't it?

It's its way.

 

[sidious618]

It will be an opening scroll of course set to Jimi Hendrix's version of "All Along the Watchtower".


Star Trek: Episode Whatever the fuck we're up to

It's a time of chaos. There are haters, bashers and know it alls on all sides of the theater. Evil is everywhere!

After a victory over [Insert planet once mentioned in TNG] a five billion year old Spock has stolen the vital plans to the Borg DEATH Cube.

The very existence of the Federation of the Force is in trouble. Only one man can save it and he is on a desert farm in Illinois...

 

[Jon1701]

It will be an opening scroll of course set to Jimi Hendrix's version of "All Along the Watchtower".


Star Trek: Episode Whatever the fuck we're up to

It's a time of chaos. There are haters, bashers and know it alls on all sides of the theater. Evil is everywhere!

After a victory over [Insert planet once mentioned in TNG] a five billion year old Spock has stolen the vital plans to the Borg DEATH Cube.

The very existence of the Federation of the Force is in trouble. Only one man can save it and he is on a desert farm in Illinois...

I would watch this film.

 

[Therin of Andor]

It will open on a pull back of Spock's (old) eye to reveal his face

"Star Trek: The Lost Screenplay".

 

[Jack Bauer]

Spoiler: It'll be like this scene from the Lost season 4 finale

Spock turns a frozen donkey wheel. And the Earth moves through time and space and disappears. It winds up somewhere else.

 

[Therin of Andor]

what I got from the whole business was that Harlan wasn't averse to the Guardian being used at all; he was mainly averse (and understandably so) to the idea of not getting paid for it. You really can't fault him there.

What I got from it was that Paramount, whether they would have to pay for such a re-use of the device or not, don't have to ask Ellison first. There was never a statement that he wouldn't be paid. He was claiming that, contractually, he had to be asked first, and that he may or may not grant permission.

The Guardian's already been re-used in TAS ("Yesteryear"), several Star Trek novels, and was even proposed as the time travel device for Tracy Torme's failed TNG Season Three Spock two-parter, "Return to Forever".

Ellison's recent problem with the David R George III novel trilogy, "Crucible", was that Pocket Books' editors (and CBS Consumer Products) didn't ask Ellison for permission, as had some previous ST novel authors (AC Crispin, Barbara Hambly and Peter David).

Ellison wasn't owed royalties for those previous tie-in uses, although none of the completed projects were for TV or film. Ellison claimed those authors had asked him first, as they were acquaintances of his(?). But it's not the authors' job to do these clearances; that's the job of Pocket's and Paramount/CBS's legal departments. They can't do their job properly if he is approving the Guardians' use by friends and creating precedents. Ellison claims his contract was somehow different to all the other TOS contracts?

 

[pookha]

like in generations we see an object tumbling through space..





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