I’m a Star Trek noob but this movie looks pretty good.
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I saw the new Star Trek trailer lastnight at Quantum of Solace, and my jaw fell open the minute the kid said his name was James Tiberius Kirk and from that moment on, watching the rest of the trailer was like being hit by multiple nerd orgasms all at once - but cool sort of nerd orgasms. I am just floored and cannot wait for this movie! I am open to embracing this new kind of Trek.
One day until the HD version is available…in the meantime, the teaser trailer still gives me goosebumps:
I’m getting nervous. I need to sit quietly somewhere.
I’m trying to approach this from the point of view that this is a reboot. I don’t get why they feel it necessary to link universes. I wonder how they’re gonna do that, I’m interested. I just don’t get it.
The trailer (or what there was on it) looked awesome. I remember when I first saw the Phantom Menace trailer. I needed a week in the hospital to recover. That experience and several other burns have jaded this geek. When I watch Phantom Menace now it is without all the hope of the world on it. It’s more fun that way. I approach this new Trek hoping it’s just fun.
I’ve said before that I’m OK with a reboot/reimagining, because it doesn’t always have to suck (Batman, BSG), and it could liven things up that haven’t been, um, livened, for a long time.
But I’m also afraid that they’re going to drift into parody. Like: “Hey dudes, you know that hokey old show called Star Trek? Well, we like, made a new one! And it’s so rad 'cause they’re all wearing pajamas and miniskirts and pointy ears but it’s cool 'cause we blow a lot of stuff up!”
Yeah, something like that. Like, our culture’s so ironic and cynical and self-conscious that we can’t take something as sincere and optimistic as Star Trek seriously.
But maybe it’s too soon to tell (I can’t watch the trailer here at work), and maybe everything will be okay. Maybe.
[curls into a quiet corner with Pike to wait anxiously]
Thanks, I needed that.
Gotta admit, that first paragraph is downright insulting.
Interesting… and wow!?!Wow, odd piece there.
Though pretty ships and lights in space!
And is it just me, or does EW describing Trek as behind the times or whatever, and then JJ Abrahms being all, the optimism is what the country needs, seem to be entirely contradictory??
Though upon watching the trailer my spouse was a bit put out that the Captain isn’t Picard (he’s only seen TNG) - he didn’t know who Kirk was! I am in shock.
I chalk it up to the pompous ‘We could do it better’ attitude. Look at us. We’re so cool. We can take a cheesy 60s show and make it cool. We can make a nerdy, geeky cultural icon and make it cool. We’re so cool. If you lame-O basement living weird-os don’t like it. Too bad. We’re cool. We do what we want. Nerd.
Next up from Hollywood - Star Shrek. (Let’s REALLY reimagine TOS. No half measures.)
I’m off to watch The Wrath of Khan for the 100,000th time.
Count me as the oddball, I guess, but after seeing the trailer, I’m pretty excited bout the new flick. I enjoyed TOS as a kid – when it was all there was – but as an adult it’s left me a bit cold. I’m not a hater; I just don’t get as much out of it as I did as a kid. What I saw on the screen before Quantum of Solace looks a lot more like what I remember seeing in my head as a kid when I watched TOS on the (really, really) small screen.
OK, so there’s going to be some revisionism, and some are already jumping on the hater bandwagon to call it out. But we’re already seeing some missteps there, too. Case in point: some are thrashing on the brief Kirk/Spock fisticuffs, forgetting that Spock is half human. In my mind there are lots of ways to play that. You get the idea.
But hey – things cost more. They don’t make 'em like they used to. Get off my lawn! Etc.
One thing’s certain: no matter what comes of this movie, lots of hard-core sci-fiers will hate it. Why? It’s the way of things. In (what would be) the words of geekdom (if anyone would admit it publicly), “You never really know something… until you hate it.”
Swell - now you had to get all logical and sensible on us.
Pretty much sums up my Trek experience. Fell in love with TOS as a child. Enjoyed TNG and DS9. Ripped apart Voyager and Enterprise. Still love it, every bit. In my mind, I think of Trek like family and friends. It’s personified in my mind. I can love and hate at the same time. I’ve grown up with it. It’s a part of me. This new incarnation will just be another friend, another person to get to know, love, and hate.
From the article:
Enter Abrams, 42, whose knack for mainstream genre fare…
I know it means Abrams’ age is 42, but it made my inner geek giggle.
Superman Returns was a successful example of “…transforming a defunct old property into a cool 21st-century event flick…”???