Hey,
Anyone see the new teaser for the new Star Trek movie.
It’s at http://www.paramount.com/startrek/
Cool shot of the Enterprise under construction.
-Thot
Yes! I watched it, squeed in such a fangirl way then started bouncing up and down - which was bad as the laptop fell off my knee LOL. I then watched it again and did exactly the same thing, perhaps even more so.
Interestingly, no star dock.
Ok…my geek card gets a gold star…not only did I get goose bumps…I may have gotten a tear in my eye. Just to check, I went back and watched again. And again.
…anyone else click the little red light next to “under construction”?
Now you guys have got me jealous. I’ve only watched it with the sound off.
It’s Martin Luther King day, so the kids are home from school. And when kids are home I usually keep the sound on mute on computer. …Oh wait a minute. I have an idea…Headphones!!!..just one moment…
<<<<long sigh of contentment…>>> I watched it with the sound on this time.
Must admit, feeling a little veklempt myself Solai.
And yes, I kicked on the red light this time. Some strange page with camera angles–and you can click on the little number indicators and change the numbers…I don’t get what it’s all about, but I’m intrigued…
ARG in the works my friends, ARG in the works.
Was camera one offline for everyone else too?
Which camera is offline seems to change randomlly. Click on it again and camera 4 is offline, refresh again at camera one is offline.
Okay, now I’m too fraaking lazy to track this down, but who is the character who removes his welding helmet 1/2 way through? Is is Kirk, Spock, Scotty, Christopher Pike, other? Shouldn’t be to hard to figure out since we know whos who in the cast already.
this was AWE-INSPIRING!
Leonard Nimoy’s voice saying the famous line… very very reminiscent of the end of ST2
just a quick question: why are they making such a big thing out of the construction of the NCC-1701?
I mean, the USS Constitution was the first ship of that class - hence “Constitution class” and okay, they didn’t exactly turn them out by the dozens, they only made twelve of them … but isn’t it odd that they make the connection Kennedy-John Glenn-Apollo 11-NCC 1701?
first of all … they did that with the Enterprise NX and … well it just seems so utterly wrong to me…
the Kennedy quotation I get. but why John Glenn? he wasn’t the first man in space and he wasn’t even the first American in space. Apollo 11, yeah that I see.
so, shouldn’t the chronology have been
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Sputnik (the Kennedy quote is great, don’t get me wrong, but the Soviets were first, there’s no arguing that)
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Yuri Gagarin (or for God’s sake if it has to be an American, at least have Alan Shepherd)
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Apollo 11
and then Enterprise NX, and then the USS Constitution … and then, somewhere between Lexington and Defiant, the NCC1701?
now, I see that it’s probably way cooler to directly link the NCC1701 to the first moon landing and make it look like the NCC1701 is Earth’s first spaceship or something along those lines and yeah … it has some appeal and it might look cool to the kids who grew up without Classic Trek but then again…
it’s just presumptuous to include only American achievements in space flight and completely omit the Soviet side… I’m really between two stools on this. I have a lot of family in the US and I majored in East- and Central European History …
the way I see it, in the 60s, Roddenberry brought Chekov (and Uhura and Sulu etc.) on board the Enterprise to explicitly demonstrate that in future, mankind will be above petty rivalries between nations and work together as a unity… but in the year 2008, American movies have to primarily attract US audiences, which is a pity because Star Trek has done much more for bringing this planet closer together than any political action from either side of the Atlantic… so, yeah, they would have risen a lot of notches in my book had they at least substituted Yuri Gagarin for John Glenn, that would have been a fair and honest move.
But, even though the history major in my is slightly appalled, the Star Trek fan in me is still totally looking forward to the movie!
the thing turned out to be a fake … I’m actually relieved…
MY BAD!
it’s real, the OTHER teaser that “leaked” was a fake…
You’ve lost me, Galaxy. What are you referring too? What is a fake?
ah, I checked out io9com because Chuck mentioned it on the podcast and I just saw a little headline like “leaked star trek teaser was a fake” so I thought they meant the one you had posted … but then I read the article and well, it looks like right before the official teaser came out, there had been a fan-made teaser circling the net that caused some confusion…
Thanks Galaxy. Got it now.
-Thot
I’m pretty sure the conversations about the sound bites went something like this:
“It’s a teaser so we need some sound bites that don’t give anything away about the plot…”
“We could put classic sound bites!”
“Yeah, like the moon landing and stuff!”
“Ok, which ones?”
“Keep it simple, go with the ones that are familiar to everyone. We Americans are pretty simple folk you know… don’t confuse them with historic accuracy.”
Heh, then again… this is supposed to be an alternate timeline, correct? Maybe in this timeline we did get there first.
It ocured to me that maybe there might also have been this twist in the conversation:
“Ok, we need to come up with some words for teasers. What should we write…”
“Oh frak. The writers strike! We can’t write anything!.”
“Damn. Oh well. Let’s get some existing voiceovers from JFK, John Glenn and Nimoy”.
I got all goosebumpy there for a minute.
Bring it on!
gaf
Woah! I looked at the teaser again, and it looks like the guy doing the welding is Eric Bana who plays the villian in the movie!! Wow, that has some intriguing implications.
The villian is the construction crew of the Enterrprise? Yikes!!!
http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/news/article/2309715.html
GRanger: I assume they used common space related material is because it was a short teaser for a movie aimed at that moment at the people in the theater, mostly USAians.
Doubt most people would get the reference to the other items you mentioned. Or at least, it wouldn’t flow as well in the mind in such a short period of time.
I would like to reply to some of the posts above:
>>“Keep it simple, go with the ones that are familiar to everyone. We >>Americans are pretty simple folk you know… don’t confuse them with >>historic accuracy.”
Don’t hide your light under a bushel. SciFi geeks/Star Trek fans in particular tend to be pretty smart folks and I don’t think there’s any use in pretending that anyone who’s not already a fan will watch the movie once they’ve found out that it’s Star Trek, right?
>>Heh, then again… this is supposed to be an alternate timeline, correct? >>Maybe in this timeline we did get there first.
This is a very interesting premise … I’m not quite sure at the moment about where exactly the alternate timeline begins, though. I mean, Earth’s history in the Star Trek universe seems to be identical with our history at least up to the latter half of the 20th century - Star Trek makes frequent references to the ancient Greeks and Romans and to Shakespeare and to the 19th century, to Jules Verne, to sailing ships etc.
And I remember that in the classic series they were two or three episodes in which they went back to then present-day Earth, which means the 60s … and I couldn’t discern any difference to the real 60s …
I always thought that the first event that made the ST universe different from ours was the Eugenics Wars in the 1990s … but then again, the Voyager crew time-traveled back to that exact time period and there was no sign whatsoever of these wars…
So yeah, it seems like one possible explanation, but then again, Roddenberry specifically brought Chekov onto the bridge in the second season of the old series and I don’t think that he would have changed the history of the early space-exploration age in the ST universe, but that’s just my opinion, of course.
>>“Oh frak. The writers strike! We can’t write anything!.”
>>“Damn. Oh well. Let’s get some existing voiceovers from JFK, John Glenn >>and Nimoy”.
Now, that seems to me to be the best and most likely explanation. The writers are on strike, so they couldn’t write any original voiceover, like they had for most of the other ST movies … “beyond the darkness, beyond the human evolution … is Khan …”
yeah, I can see that.
oh, and incidentally, the line spoken by Nimoy was not from an old tape or something, it was recorded on set for the teaser, but naturally, the line did not have to be written… it was already there…
>>Doubt most people would get the reference to the other items you >>mentioned. Or at least, it wouldn’t flow as well in the mind in such a >>short period of time.
I’m sure they could have made it work artistically … and once again, SF geeks are pretty smart people, they would have figured it out.
even though, I can’t wait to see the movie, it would seem that a lot depends on this one, for the whole franchise, and let’s all just hope that they don’t frak it up but rather stay true to the original values of Trek.