New Trek Props On Display

DrMcoy, That is what I am going to do.. I will wait and see what people say, before I go. Just a quick note: The real money for studios is in dvd sales. :/

Chronos I hear the term "spirit" I mean you can put the crew on the space shuttle enterprise..Its in the "spirit" of Star Trek..Nasa is a group of explorers..But would that be the right look for the movie. :D No. :D

The "spirit" I see in the trailer is the same one seen in many crappy movies..Explosions... Explosions. Nake chicks (Which is not all that bad :D ) and very little in story. That can bee seen in the trailer. That is something that we have seen in Star Trek for the last few years. What has been sad about Star Trek, is that we have seen very little stories about current events. Something that TOS was good at.

The movie is done by the two same guys that did transformers. Come on..The effects..where SUPER SWEEEET..But damn the acting and the dialog..succccked!!

I try to look at a lot of factors about a movie, before I go see it.. :D :D
 
JoeRalat said:
What has been sad about Star Trek, is that we have seen very little stories about current events. Something that TOS was good at.
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If you think about it, making a vapid, meaningless, self-absorbed, minimal attention span movie is a direct reflection of todays society. So in a way the reflection of society that helps make Trek what it is, may just be there.
 
micdavis said:
If you think about it, making a vapid, meaningless, self-absorbed, minimal attention span movie is a direct reflection of todays society. So in a way the reflection of society that helps make Trek what it is, may just be there.
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lol when I see a Star Trek movie that talks about a crappy Holodeck program that is a metaphor for crappy movies..then we can talk. Now this movie could be the cause of the problem..not sure it would be addressing the problem. :D :D
 
Ah...what could have been.

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You know. Kirk, Spock and McCoy are such sixties names.

Let's modernize those too.

How's about Kink, SpockDogg, and just McC.
 
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Ok, this is liable to make things worse, but hear me out.

Go back and watch the original series, or review the episodes in your mind. If you examine thm closely with brutal honesty, there were only a small handful of episodes that were truly solid, good stories.

Most episodes presented oversimplified views of what are, in real life, much more complex relationships and issues -- and usually with the most complex of issues being resolved conveniently and in a tidy fashion in the last 5 minutes of the show -- i.e. Taste of Armaggedon -- two worlds at war for centuries use computers to determine who gets killed. In steps Kirk who says this idea is insane (which, of course, it truly is) but ends it by destroying a room of computers. One phaser blast to one small room of computers and the entire planetary defenses are done in -- did these people not have back-up systems?! :) So we are to believe that After CENTURIES of war, planet leaders essentially say, "Gee, Kirk, you may be on to something after all. What WERE we thinking all these years. By golly, perhaps it is a good time to stop this senseless killing."

And yes, I realize the contraints of an hourly show and TV budget limited some of the stories-- but I could do this with other episodes -- my point is, Trek was simply a different form of TV entertainment -- as Roddenberry said, Wagon Train to the Stars. Yes, it broke new ground at the time. Yes, it was certainly more hi-brow than most other series at the time. Yes, it did reach a little higher than most other TV shows. BUT Trek, like most any TV show then (and even now) was created first and foremost to entertain and sell soap (or whatever the advertisers/sponsors were peddling).

Before the flames begin, let me say that Trek DID have it's share of greatness...and perhaps I'll point these out specifically in a later post.

My point -- as ground breaking as Trek was at the time, we must remember that time marches on. Audiences have become much more sophisticated in how they watch TV and movies -- how they take in visual information -- and how they have been exposed to better stories and acting through movies and cable TV. So ANY new Trek movie, to be successful both financially AND emotionally to the audience, must take into account present day sensibilities.

My post is going on longer than I had meant -- it is challenging for me to convey my thoughts more concisely. But to wrap this up, I wanted to point out that even though the trailer is filled with quick cuts and explosions, I have SEEN what Abrhams has done with LOST -- some WONDERFUL character development and storylines -- and perhaps he will bring some of THIS to Trek. Not that the TV series DIDN'T have it, but it seems to have not been very prevelent in many of the previous Trek movies -- very few seemed to have any HEART -- they lacked the SPIRIT of the original series.

So, perhaps this May we will see what we remember BEST about the TV series -- it's wonderful characters and the rich history of their relationships -- finally brought to the big screen with the kind of respect for the source material, and the kind of treatment of visual effects, along with a more epic SCOPE to the fashion in which this story is told, that will satisfy the most ardent Trekkie, Trekker or sci-fi geek like me who's wished for this type of experience ever since the original show went off the air in 1969.

Or, everything I'm saying could be bulldinky and the movie could flat out suck!

Guess we'll find out come May.

Peace. Live long and Prosper.

:)
 
Even money says a cell phone company has the license for a working communicator cellphone.
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I almost wonder if a cellphone company did not have a hand in designing that Communicator. Let face it, all you would have to do is put a dial pad under the lid (that already has the Trek emblem on to identify it as the "Star Trek" phone) and you would have something that is already marketable with no alterations.

The big lens could even magnify the phone screen so we could see the numbers better. (targeting our TOS age group) :lol:lol:lol:lol . It is brilliant. Couldn't they have put just a little brass on the thing somewhere to throw us old time TOS fans a bone. I am kind of at the point where it is just time to accept that the props suck but the movie could still come out great. I think the STII Comm post PhasePistol put up really said it all.
 
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Yeah -- would have been sweet if they had at least reversed the color scheme -- flip open lid silver metal, body black.

But kay sa-rah sa-rah! Or however it's spelled!
 
Even the clear part looks like a grinder for salt,
Not this one ofcourse.

But maybe something similiar.

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