Ah - glad to see I'm not the only one excited about this. I made the mistake of going to read the forums at www.startrek.com, and honestly, you'd think it was the end of the world. The tiniest details are being leapt upon as evidence that JJ Abrams and co have "no respect" for existing Trek lore, and that the franchise has been "raped". Pur-lease!
Totally agree with you re: Spock and the Vulcans at large. People forget that (a) Spock is half-human so is in a way handicapped in a way that some Vulcans aren't; (b) Vulcans were described by Spock as a people who were violent and emotionally very hot-headed, which led to the movement to purge "excess" emotion; (c) Spock himself was seen acting rather emotionally in the Star Trek TOS pilot, "The Cage". I think it's great that Abrams and co are giving Quinto the chance to explore that side of Spock on screen.
The gorge/canyon - I never thought of the Xindi tie-in, but that's always a possibility. I suspect it won't be addressed on-screen in order not to create further debates about canon/consistency - there are still dweebs out there who debate if Enterprise was canon at all, believe it or not! My jaw was on the floor for that segment of the trailer - definitely unexpected and great fun. Others have cited it as a tribute of sorts to Rush's "Red Barchetta", but I think that might just be wishful thinking.
As for the Enterprise herself... There has been great debate about whether the ship should be built on land or in space, but since it was never explicitly mentioned whether the shipyards where she was built were landlocked or in orbit, the producers/writers went with what seemed most logical: that given the ship's artificial gravity system, it made sense for the ship to be built in a gravity well with the same properties. It also ties in with the idea that the Constitution class ships were originally intended to be able to make planetfall (an idea abandoned and later used in Voyager). As for its appearance, the designers apparently wanted something that looked like a hybrid of the NX-01 and the original NCC-1701, which I think they've pulled off well. There have been numerous complaints abut continuity there, too, but there's nothing to say that the ship didn't undergo a major refit before (or even during) Kirk's first 5-year mission - and anyway, looking at the original model of the NCC-1701 and the new ship, the differences aren't exactly marked. (As far as I'm aware, this *is* supposed to be the same ship, yes.)
Still - all things considered, May can't come soon enough! :-)
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Totally agree with you re: Spock and the Vulcans at large. People forget that (a) Spock is half-human so is in a way handicapped in a way that some Vulcans aren't; (b) Vulcans were described by Spock as a people who were violent and emotionally very hot-headed, which led to the movement to purge "excess" emotion; (c) Spock himself was seen acting rather emotionally in the Star Trek TOS pilot, "The Cage". I think it's great that Abrams and co are giving Quinto the chance to explore that side of Spock on screen.
The gorge/canyon - I never thought of the Xindi tie-in, but that's always a possibility. I suspect it won't be addressed on-screen in order not to create further debates about canon/consistency - there are still dweebs out there who debate if Enterprise was canon at all, believe it or not! My jaw was on the floor for that segment of the trailer - definitely unexpected and great fun. Others have cited it as a tribute of sorts to Rush's "Red Barchetta", but I think that might just be wishful thinking.
As for the Enterprise herself... There has been great debate about whether the ship should be built on land or in space, but since it was never explicitly mentioned whether the shipyards where she was built were landlocked or in orbit, the producers/writers went with what seemed most logical: that given the ship's artificial gravity system, it made sense for the ship to be built in a gravity well with the same properties. It also ties in with the idea that the Constitution class ships were originally intended to be able to make planetfall (an idea abandoned and later used in Voyager). As for its appearance, the designers apparently wanted something that looked like a hybrid of the NX-01 and the original NCC-1701, which I think they've pulled off well. There have been numerous complaints abut continuity there, too, but there's nothing to say that the ship didn't undergo a major refit before (or even during) Kirk's first 5-year mission - and anyway, looking at the original model of the NCC-1701 and the new ship, the differences aren't exactly marked. (As far as I'm aware, this *is* supposed to be the same ship, yes.)
Still - all things considered, May can't come soon enough! :-)
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