...on the new Star Trek trailer.

[slacker22]

Going by the minute-odd long trailer, this thing's going to be neither the second coming of Jesus Christ nor the turd that refuses to fit down the tube when you flush. It could be good, or it could be pretty bad...I don't know. I do know that I'm willing to give it a try, think about it in the same light as the Galactica reboot. That eventually

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[mobiboros]

That's how I'm viewing it as well. It's not a sequel. It's effectively a reboot of the series that happens to have an in universe explanation for it's reboot.

From what i've seen so far I'm tentatively excited. I'm a fan of TOS and think this has the potential to be good. Not great, as there's too much baggage still as the shows really only just ended relatively. But it could be good, and allow for future movie sequels set in the new continuity (it also opens the door for, you know, continuity at all)

[slacker22]

Exactly. And I am very impressed with the visual updates we've seen so far-I *like* the updated Enterprise, and the clips of spaceship porn in the preview were hot nuggets.

[mobiboros]

Yeah, I don't get all the people who say "I hate the new ship!". None of their reasons are anything other than "It looks different than the original and I would have done it differently".

I like the new ship. It, very much, reminds me of a sailing ship. There's a compactness to the shaping that I like.

[jcholewa]

Nimoy's in the movie. Current fanwankery suggests that he goes back in time and cockslaps his younger self, thus changing history.

[mobiboros]

I was under the impression a romulan vessel goes back in time which is what changes history. I thought we'd only see Nimoy in the future prior to the romulans changing history.

[jcholewa]

I may be out of date here, but when I looked around, it seemed that the actual story was highly obfuscated and anything that's being bandied about is more rumour and guesswork than anything else.

But it figures. The Romulans would do something as dastardly as that!

[mobiboros]

From what I've read Spock (old) chases the Romulans back in time as they try to kill Kirk before he becomes the guy who basically foils all their nefarious plans.

[jcholewa]

...I think I read this story a decade ago on alt.startrek.creative. Several times.

[mobiboros]

You read alt.startrek.creative?

*backs away slowly*

[jcholewa]

Well, apparently Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman do.

[thevirtualjim]

you know, I can acccept the chnages to continuity if its explained well.

i do think evertyhing looks cool (ships and all) what bugs me though is that it all looks higher tech the the tech in TOS

[jcholewa]

The 1990s looked higher tech than TOS. And they have a roll of duct tape and two Symbol barcode scanners sitting around on the bridge fore control console area in the trailer. That's reasonably ghetto enough.

The biggest and possibly most amusing continuity complaint I've heard is that adult Kirk didn't know how to drive a 20th century manual transmission automobile in the television show, but Anakin Kirk can handle a stick far better than 95% of today's populace can handle an automatic.

[thevirtualjim]

He forgot how to drive because he got hit on the head too much by the Gorn.

[iatewhatnow]

Symbol doesn't exist anymore. Bought out by Motorola.