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[jeriendhal]

For those of you who might not be aware (both of you) there's a new Star Trek movie coming out, rebooting the franchise. Here's a link to the trailer.




1) Kirk can't drive a stick (Ref: A Piece of the Action)

2) Sylar looks frighteningly like Leonard Nimoy's younger self. Simon Pegg, not so much like Scotty...

3) I'm growing warmer to the new Enterprise design. It still doesn't make a lick of sense given that with Nimoy appearing it's a direct prequel to TOS, but what the heck.

4) Looking forward to seeing it on the big screen.

Comments

[allah-sulu.livejournal.com]

Simon Pegg looks more like Christopher Eccleston than James Doohan in that clip. As for the Enterprise, I didn't think it looked bad the first time I saw it (the only starship that I really thought was ugly on first sight was the Galaxy class Enterprise-D), but I agree that they shouldn't have deviated so much from the original. Clean up the original with current technology (the new model used in DS9's "Trials and Tribble-ations", or the CGI in the remastered TOS episodes) and it still looks damned good… or go with the refit model used in the TOS movies if you really want that kind of look.

[scarfman]

1, 3: The story starts, according to spoilers I've read,

with a Romulan attack during George Kirk's Starfleet career - attacking a ship, I infer, on which George Kirk is stationed - which's the result of time travel. It's an in-text continuity reboot. Not that I care whether there's an in-text rationale, but I'm wearying of people complaining. About that, and I'm just generally weary of people complaining about it before they've seen it.

[jvowles.livejournal.com]

Here, here.

What I love about that idea, honestly, is that it fits my personal pet theory: the discovery of time travel in the Star Trek universe has fucked up the timestream so often that fundamental technologies change as waves of history get rewritten.

And much though I love the old series, I have to say: the ship looks wonderful in the reboot. Black radio shack kit boxes, tape cassettes, and flashing christmas tree lights are NOT going to cut it for any audience not already deep in fandom's grasp. It makes absolute sense to show a ship that grows out of today's "futuristic" design aesthetic, because that will look advanced and state of the art -- rather than retro and dated. (When we revisited them in DS9 and other series, being retro and dated worked in their favor -- not so much so now.)

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

What I love about that idea, honestly, is that it fits my personal pet theory: the discovery of time travel in the Star Trek universe has fucked up the timestream so often that fundamental technologies change as waves of history get rewritten.

That's perfectly plausible to me. If they actually mention that in the movie I'd be very pleased. If Nimoy mentions that he's from an alternate future timeline I'll be flipping ecstatic.