STAR TREK (movie) 2009

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[Robert Saint John]

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http://www.aintitcool.com/node/35328

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[Robert Saint John]

Website is updated:

http://www.paramount.com/startrek/

Teaser (including "HD") and new interactive features (various cameras peeking in on construction of the Enterprise... click the red dot next to "Under Construction" on the main page or goto http://www.ncc-1701.com/ ).

[Xenorama]

[Robert Saint John]

Knowing Abrams, I suspect the story will be a little complex, and skip all over time and space. Bruce Greenwood is playing Pike, Nimoy is in it, and Winona Ryder and Ben Cross play young Amanda and Sarek, respectively. So we'll probably see a single story that weaves together at least 5 stages of Spock's life (child, Academy, under Pike, under Kirk, and old Spock).

He was assigned to the 1701 when he was 24, served with Pike for the next 10-11 years, and Kirk took command in 2264 when he was 31. Spock would have been 34. So the new Trek movie appears to be sticking with this "canon" as much as possible. I don't recall any significant reference in Trek lore to this crews very first mission together, so this would probably be the easiest place to start that portion of the story. But they're close enough in age that we'll probably see Kirk and Spock meeting at the Academy too.

[Xenorama]

thank you. i didn't realize Spock was so young when getting assigned to the Enterprise, but that does make sense. there is a book called "Enterprise" which details Kirk's first voyage (and retcons Chekov into the crew as the ensign who does the graveyard shift) but i don't know how "canon" it is at all. of course in that book, none of the crew had met Kirk, and Sulu had been transferred to the Enterprise against his will, so go figure.

but what you tell me makes the movie a bit more palatable, but i am still highly skeptical about the whole idea.

David

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http://www.variety.com/VR1117980912.html

Aww "OH GODZILLA! WHAT TERRIBLE LANGUAGE!".

[Robert Saint John]

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[Robert Saint John]

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[Robert Saint John]

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Star Trek Plot Details Revealed here:
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[Robert Saint John]

I love it. This one goes to '11'. but I can see how lots of fans are just going to despise it.

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[Henry88]

it is the hot rod Enterprise

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[Robert Saint John]

When the Enterprise was re-designed for the transition to the big screen in '79, it stirred the same mixed reaction.

I was at a con (Shuttlecon Columbus) in '78, and Roddenberry's production assistant Susan Sackett was there with Jimmy Doohan and Grace Lee Whitney. They had a panel where they unveiled -- not for the first time, but remember, there was no innertubes! -- the new 1701 for TMP. It was a slideshow, and she showed pictures of the bridge, the new uniforms, "the new captain" Decker (Stephen Collins), and ended it with the painting of Andy Probert's Enterprise. ("AUGGH!! FLAT NACELLES!!!"). I can't remember if that was the first time I'd seen it, or if it had already been in Starlog. I loved it from the get-go.

But there was lots of grumbling after that panel, with a year left until the release of the film. I don't recall it being nearly as loud as some have been about Abram's Trek and this new Enterprise... but it wasn't quiet, gleeful and certainly not universal acceptance either.

Loved it then, love it now. The more I look at this new version, the more comfortable I get with it. This is interesting as well: http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=73529 . Some guy who's done a decent job reconstructing a primitive model of it in 3D, so you can see it at different angles.

EDIT: 2:38am - Just saw Quantum of Solace and the Trailer. wow. WOW. Breathtaking. So rapid fire. The word is “GRANDâ€

[TheMaster]