I bounce back and forth between excited and worried when talking about the upcoming Star Trek 11 movie. On the one hand, they’re breaking from traditional canon which is exactly what I think they should do… but on the other hand there have been reports that the movie is going to revolve around time travel… YET AGAIN! Seriously… have these trek writers grown so devoid of ideas that they have to continuously go back over and over and over and over and over again to the exact same plot device? Ug.
Anyway, movie blog reader Lou gives us the heads up about some possible spoilers for Star Trek 11, mostly revolving around the various roles certain ships will play in the movie:
WARNING: THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION REPRESENT POTENTIAL SPOILERS. READ AT OWN RISK
– The USS Enterprise NCC-1701 will be a major presence in the movie that will start out being commanded by Captain Pike and then later by James Kirk.
– The movie is being described as “a starship adventure”
– A Romulan ship commanded by Nero (Eric Bana). Ship will not look like the traditional Romulan vessel.
– Spock arrives in the past flying a Vulcan 1 man time travel ship. He’s not a ghost as some sites have reported
– There is another Federation ship with a big role called the USS Kelvin. The first officer of that ship is George Kirk (Captian Kirk’s dad?)
Ok, so there are a few things I’m actually pretty cool with. Seeing Kirk’s dad would be pretty cool. I like the fact that we’re going to see Pike in command of the Enterprise and then Kirk take the reigns… and Banna as a Romulan rules. However, I’m still not sold on this whole time travel plot device… and by “not sold” I mean I totally HATE it. Time will tell. For now we wait for more news and developments.
(Source of the spoilers: TrekMovie.Com)
1. The Enterprise was changed don’t care what William Shatner says they could have made the ship look like the original.
2. Sex Scenes? Too many and Kirk and Uhura making out come on! Why even bother with that smut!
3. Romulans wow did they really do too much on them changed them way too much. They are trying to make it like Star Trek Nemises?
4. Some characters do not look like or in my opinion will even be close to the original cast.
5. Captain Pike was the first captain of the Enterprise not Kirk.
I will watch it for something to do but in my opinion it is just made it to make some money. It is insulting what they did. I want to see some new adventure with new actors but come on we do not need another Holleywood blunder. They did too many modifications to the story line and in some cases the original is better than these remakes including Star Trek IV directed by William Shatner. A true trekkie would not even bother. If you are not then you will love this same old hollywood violence, sex and poorly written garbage.
A couple of things really bother me about this new movie – one is the trailers – everything shoots by so fast that it’s to the point where the trailers are annoying – you can’t tell ANYTHING about what’s going on and afterwards I feel like “if that’s what the trailers are like why do I want to waste any of my (hard earned) money to watch this movie?”
Next is – from what I’ve seen, Spock seems to be at Kirks throat in about every scene where they’re together – and excuse me, but since when does a Vulcan act that way???
Last – a prediction… If this is a “reboot” of the original star trek, shouldn’t the end of this movie have the crew staying (at least partially) in an “alternate” time line?
We’ve already seen where the original crew took their Star Trek…
The “new” crew should have their OWN time line – an entirely different path – who wants to watch “reruns” with new actors?
I agree with myk, since Nemesis was such a bomb, it has apparently broken the evens good-odds bad Trek movie paradigm. Maybe the second ten Trek films will follow an odd good-even bad pattern.
Seeing the trailer has helped me feel more optimistic about “11”. The guy who plays young Spock looks right, the 22nd-century “60’s” style has been successfully contemporized, and we get to see a period of Federation history we’ve never seen before. Maybe T’Pol will be in it!
I have read where the producers were unable to logically get Shatner in the new movie since he died in Generations. That’s fine until I heard it was going to have a time travel plot device. With time travel anything is possible. And while Spock is travellling back to the past, he could certainly stop off and pick up Kirk at a time before he was killed.
First, let me say that I love Star Trek and
the Star Trek universe.
That being said, I am also a realist.
My question here is:
What exactly is there to be worried about?
The Star Trek franchise is already dead in the
eyes of today’s young audience,
and a sinking ship in my eyes; as difficult as it is to admit.
If this movie Bombs…what else is new?
However, if this movie succeeds in its mission to entertain, and reignites that light of hope and anticipation for more.
What exactly do we, as fans, have to lose?
I hope the new movie is not an just attempt at nostalgia. The Enterprise and Nemesis plot lines are being abandoned so I hope they something to get across besides resurrecting the old characters as young for its own sake.
I’m not liking the sound of this anymore.
I have always loved Trek, but I think it’s time to let the franchise go. It’s been milked and milked to death.
The ideas have gone and it risks becoming a third rate special effects extravaganza without any substance.
Kill it now before it becomes ridiculous.
After hearing Kevin Smith’s favorable review for the film, I felt more optomistic about it, and how it will be received by fans and the general public alike.
This film is a true Begining.
Imagine, a Star Trek film with an almost entirely open demographic!…Wow!
Please….be a good film.
Very addicted.
The movie will suck…trust me. It will be like when Michale Mann made the Miami Vice movie set in the present day…the fans hated it.
I would rather see them do something with the ‘mirror universe’ and have Spock sport that cool goatee.
What ever happened to that planet from Star Trek Insurrection? Couldn’t they do a couple of films about that? I mean that world does hold the key to eternal youth, and I’m sure more than just one species would want to get their hands on that world.
I heard Abrams say he was reinventing the franchise… if that is the case, then Nimoy could go back and change things… I’m not a huge Star Trek fan, but I enjoyed the movies and i can see where the time travel gets repetetive, but at the same time how else would they start off a new series without having someone from the original cast (which was the best cast) kicking it off… hell it worked in Star Trek VII: Generations. I still think they should have somehow had the Shat in there as Kirk’s father or something, but so far everything seems okay… I just hope it isn’t a disappointment.
I’d have to say that while I’m not completely opposed to the idea of a time-travel story device, I’m more than a bit wary of it. Yes, it might be the best way to avoid hardcore fans (like myself) screaming in rage at inconsistencies (alternate timelines are nice that way), and it might also be the best way to bring Leonard Nimoy back as Spock, however briefly, and thus draw the old fans as well as bring in new, and it might also open up some damn cool story possibilities, but…actually, I’m out of arguments. Suffice it to say I have a slightly bad feeling, but I’m willing to overlook it and put my trust in the writers to give all us Trekkies the new adventure we’ve been waiting for.
@Ajaxlou – Well said!
oh and “….the adventure continues….” should be:
The adventure continues… again
lol
I am ok with the Time Travel thing as it appears to just kick off the story and gives it a pivot point for which to reboot the series.
I think it is genius to wipe out the flawless efforts of the intrepid crew of the enterprise with a time travel paradox. And it will breath new life into the series.
We can have a whole movie about Tribbles!
And I HATED the idea of Nimoy’s Spock showing up as a ‘ghost’ like Yoda or Obi-Wan in the past.
The anti-time travel disciples crack me up. It’s old, its tired, blah, blah, blah. Yet how many of the best loved ST episodes include time travel?
The issue facing ST XI is how to preserve canon and give the franchise dramatic breathing room at the same time. How can that be accomplished without some form of time travel and/or alternate timelines?
Posts keep coming up with – is that the best they can do? Yet there has not been a single post, that’s right one post, that postulates an alternative solution.
Time to ante up, TT haters!
Lay down your cards and tell everyone how you would incorporate 40 years of Trek history without disrupting canon and give ST XI new dramatic manuveuring room. How does one accomplish all that and satisfy old and potentially new fans without using time travel?
Let loose with your ideas!
….the adventure continues….
I’m with you John, I HATE the time travel thing. I just don’t understand why they have to bring that shitty story-telling device in. It’s lazy and weak.
I don’t think time travel plays a major part of it, we know Leonard Nimoy is going back in time to save Kirk, but I think it only serves a purpose for creating the character. Passing the torch over to the young team, generally I think time travel only helps establish the characters. nothing more.
kirks dad- perfect fit for the shat!