Star Trek XI

Discussion of the new run of Star Trek XI+ movies and any spinoffs

Do you think that it's a good idea for Trek XI to be set in TOS era?

Yes, it's a good a time as any.
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11%
No, it should have been set in some other period.
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26%
I'll watch it before I pass judgement.
30
57%
They should stop making Star Trek for a while.
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6%
 
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Still wondering how they will explain Sulu, Chekov, and Uhura.......................
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Mark wrote:Still wondering how they will explain Sulu, Chekov, and Uhura.......................
Cadets who get dragged into the incident, I imagine. It would explain why Kirk chose them for his crew years later; he'd already worked with them.
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Tsukiyumi wrote:
Mark wrote:Still wondering how they will explain Sulu, Chekov, and Uhura.......................
Cadets who get dragged into the incident, I imagine. It would explain why Kirk chose them for his crew years later; he'd already worked with them.
But, should Chekov even be old enough to be in the acadamy yet? He was 22 when Enterprise encountered Apollo and Kirk had already been in command for a while. The movie would have to be set less than four years before that. Unless they try and portray him as another Wesley, (god help us all)
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This is going to be a reboot guys, there's no way to shoehorn what they've got into existing continuity unless they fall through a timehole.
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Will be one more thing we must not notice
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To be fair, they have to do something drastic if they want the franchise to ever recover. If it doesn't attract new fans, and avoid alienating existing fans further than ENT and VOY already did, there won't be another Star Trek for thirty years.
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Sad, but true. I just hope they don't modify the Enterprise too much. Like giving it phaser arrays, or type 9 shuttles. Oh wait, B&B aren't involved, never mind. :)
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I'm trusting JJ on this one; he seems damn serious about it.

Lost is the best show on broadcast TV, IMO, and MI:3 was vastly superior to 2. Cloverfield was damn cool as well. I think the guy knows what he's doing.
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Cpl Kendall wrote:This is going to be a reboot guys, there's no way to shoehorn what they've got into existing continuity unless they fall through a timehole.
I belive it will depict the ship at different points in history. And Kirk was well known for his temporal violations so I wouldn't put it out of the realm of possibilies
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MI3 may be better than MI2, but the series was better than any of the movies.
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stitch626 wrote:MI3 may be better than MI2, but the series was better than any of the movies.
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Well, I saw a trailer and the ship looked much as it should for the time period. Even showed guys working with welding torches
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Blackstar the Chakat wrote:
I belive it will depict the ship at different points in history. And Kirk was well known for his temporal violations so I wouldn't put it out of the realm of possibilies
Honestly, that's a sure fire way to piss off the remainig fans (all 100k or so) and drive away any new viewers. Trek is already known far too much for cheesy time travel plots.
Well, I saw a trailer and the ship looked much as it should for the time period. Even showed guys working with welding torches
We saw a teaser trailer, which traditionally contain nothing from the actual movie. Remember the ST:VI teaser?
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Cpl Kendall wrote:
Blackstar the Chakat wrote:
I belive it will depict the ship at different points in history. And Kirk was well known for his temporal violations so I wouldn't put it out of the realm of possibilies
Honestly, that's a sure fire way to **** off the remainig fans (all 100k or so) and drive away any new viewers. Trek is already known far too much for cheesy time travel plots.
Well, I saw a trailer and the ship looked much as it should for the time period. Even showed guys working with welding torches
We saw a teaser trailer, which traditionally contain nothing from the actual movie. Remember the ST:VI teaser?
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The scene of the E-nil on earth in the trailors may actually be real scenes. The director's reasoning is that if the E-nil is strong enough to travel at warp, it's strong enough to have been built on earth. There were also other reasons, having something to do with actual gravity being an advantage, since all the systems inside would operate at 1G anyway
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