Comments on: The STAR TREK trailer

by: Claude Parish

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:05:30 +0000

I’m sure some Charlie’s Angels, Honeymooners, Brady Bunch or Airwolf fans get all tight in the rectal region when their faves are lampooned on the big screen, but Star Trek stands alone as a complete entity.

It began on TV, had a successful movie run, hundreds of books and comic book adaptations, The Star Trek Experience in Vegas, Saturday morning cartoons, TV series post TOS and lunchboxes.

Why disrespect that run by trashing it and the fans?

Well, I hear that even the Cedric the Entertainer version of “The Honeymooners” made money. Maybe that’s why.

I will always be a fan of Star Trek, but the fact that a fan of Star Wars who readily admits that he didn’t like Star Trek is beating dents into my childhood memories is nauseating. Go see the damned thing a dozen times if it loosens your bowels, but this fan from year one isn’t even going to a theater until the stench of rehash is steam cleaned out of the drapes.

Why couldn’t he just go make Cloverfield 2: Electric Boogaloo? Or make a fricking original movie? Since Jar Jar Abrams is supposed to be God these days, does he need to delete what has been created in order to become the default “Great Bird of the Galaxy”?

Bad Reboot!

by: Christopher Moonlight @ Moonlight Art Magazine

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:04:26 +0000

My wife pointed out to me that the opening of the trailer is very Mission Impossible. I still really want to see it. I keep watching this and the new Harry Potter one. Both are movies that got bumped to a later date. Why are they doing this to me?

by: Jamal Igle

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:22:38 +0000

ed Says:
11/19/08 at 4:51 am
Not liking the obvious “Annie Skywalker”ing of young Kirk in this reboot…

You mean the same Jim kirk who rigged the kobiashi maru so that he could win, constantly disobeyed Star Fleet orders, including stealing the Enterprise to retriev spocks body from a world deemed off limts?

by: ed

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:51:44 +0000

Not liking the obvious “Annie Skywalker”ing of young Kirk in this reboot…

by: Kris

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:29:08 +0000

Actually, Roddenberry & Robert Justman did consider changing the name to Gulliver’s travels & the captains name to Gulliver….For about 24 hours. Presumably they sobered up. The Wagon Train bit was more to sell the show to studio execs,as I believe it was a popular show at the time. That and other entertaining factoids like how Nichelle Nichols really got her part are recounted in Justman & Herb Solow’s book inside Star Trek. As for the trailer, looks like fun.

by: Alan Coil

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:08:46 +0000

And here I thought that Battlestar Galactica was Wagon Train In Space.

by: Raffaele Ienco

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:55:40 +0000

Kirk vs. Spock in a fight with Spock showing his base human side.
Genius! The genesis of their friendship.

by: Doug

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:52:11 +0000

It’s because nobody turned off the italics.

by: Tyson D.

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:30:24 +0000

And why are all the posts italicized after the first?

by: Tyson D.

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:26:16 +0000

I’m sure some hardcore fans are already furious about continuity getting mucked around with. But I get the feeling that this is a relaunch/reboot like Batman Begins rather than fitting into the strict confines of 40 plus years of continuity.

The energy from this trailer is a positive and I have to admit to a certain nerdy giddiness seeing the Enterprise approach head-on and then jump to warp. This is probably the most money they’ve ever spent on a Star Trek movie and it certainly shows. Hopefully there’s some brains to match the special effects brawn to prevent it from being a forgettable action-fest as some movies have turned out to be.

Also, I’m guessing there’s an explanation as to why Spock is fighting Kirk and visibly angry. If that classic 60’s fight theme music is attached (you know the one), I’m sold.

by: Secret Identity

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:16:29 +0000

Heidi as an old Trekker/Trekkie I too remember countless interviews with Roddenberry wherein he described his original pitch for Star Trek as “Wagon Train in Space” encountering new adventures as they trekked across the galaxies.

My fave is still TOS. I love the fact that here was Kirk and the gang, several hundred years into the future, and while technology may have advanced, people were still people governed by their emotions.

I hope the new film is more than just action and effects. It was always about the storyline…I hope it still is.

by: Cary Coatney

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:13:28 +0000

Actually Gene - the Gold Key comic book was called the Space Family Robinson.

Coat

by: gene phillips

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:00:12 +0000

“Actually, Star Trek: Voyager was a rip-off of Battlestar Galactica which was a rip-off of Lost In Space.”

And the TV show LOST IN SPACE probably derived from the Gold Key comic book of the same name!

And you thought we have influence NOW–!!

by: Walt Grogan

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:37:18 +0000

I believe the high concepts were wagon train to the stars and Horatio Hornblower in space.

by: Torsten Adair

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:54:13 +0000

Actually, Star Trek: Voyager was a rip-off of Battlestar Galactica which was a rip-off of Lost In Space.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was a blatant rip-off of Babylon 5. (I believe an executive took the idea with him to Paramount.)

by: Kelson

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:20:30 +0000

I don’t think the original Star Trek was based on Wagon Train so much as that show was used as a way to explain the concept to the network execs in terms of a genre they understood. Even some critics at the time treated Star Trek as a ripoff of Lost In Space. ‘Cause, y’know, they both have space ships.

Having read JMS’ commentary on trying to pitch Babylon 5 two decades later, it’s clear that when it comes to science fiction, most network execs Just Don’t Get It(TM).

by: Christopher Moonlight @ Moonlight Art Magazine

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:25:21 +0000

Yeah, I gotta see that.