I’m not gonna get too hung up on something like the ship built on Earth. Yeah, it makes no sense to do it when it goes against what’s been established in the past, but this is likely a minor plot point at best. Abrams will want to do some things to distinguish this Trek from the others. Whatever.

For me, the concerns are the script and plot (which, from what I’ve read about so far, seem pretty week) and the casting (which also seems really, really shaky). For me to believe these other people (esp. Pretty Boy Pine) as the beloved characters I’ve watched for much of life, they’ve really gotta nail it. Nothing I’ve seen, thus far, suggests to me that they will. Either they’re horribly miscast, or they’re doing impersonations of the originals. Add the cliched angsty teen (Kirk) and baffling plot points (like the 20th/21st century muscle car, or how all the main characters are apparently the same age or older than Kirk and all at the academy at the same time), and I’m just not interested.

I will wait to see the trailer when I see Quantum of Solace this weekend though, so maybe something will happen to change my mind. I doubt it, but it could happen.

I picked that nit when I saw the teaser in January.

Now, I’m thinking like Shaun up there, although my concern is more about the portrayal of McCoy rather than Kirk.

Here’s hoping the movie will be fun and great, rather than just fun.

About that shot … has there been anything concrete to say that the ship is the Enterprise? Maybe it’s one of the other Constitution-class starships (the Lexington, for example).

If Captain Pike’s in this movie, and he’s got the career he’s supposed to have (and I’ve seen nothing to indicate otherwise), he should already be commanding the Enterprise by the time Kirk’s old enough for that scene.

Just my two cents on this particular nitpick.

It’s clear from most of these comments that Trek fans are still focusing on the same minor nonsense that’s always plagued them.

I’m a Trek fan, a huge Trek fan, but who cares about any of this minor nonsense. Kirk can’t drive a car? So what? Does he try to drive in ST IV, I don’t remember. Is it a major point? No, it’s not. Why the hell does it matter that he drives a car as a kid? What does that take away from the movie? What about that makes this less “real?” As Tom pointed out, there’s no way that we know that’s the Enterprise. It could be any one of the 12 Constitution class ships.

The Big Dirty Secret that no one wants to talk about is the fact that Trek doesn’t even follow it’s own canon. Episodes contradict each other all the time. Even worse, the people that were in charge of it made maps, encyclopedias and chronologies that were ignored and dismissed as soon as they were published. You can’t get mad at this movie, which isn’t out yet and none of us have seen, for possibly “violating canon” when Berman and Bragga and their ilk did it all the time.

Maybe we don’t want to say it because we love so much of the individual episodes that have come out over the years, but maybe it’s time to reboot and start fresh. God knows I love Next Gen, but they lost their way and followed up a good show with lazy, half-assed movies and a prequel show that was the worst offender of them all.

If he tells a good story with Trek’s original spirit, then I think the movie will be a success. I mean, not even Shatner can go back and do Kirk again the way we remember it on the original show, why do we expect, or even want, these actors to deliver the exact same performance.

If you want them to be that slavishly devoted to old Trek, I suggest you just watch the original show again. You’ll be happier, if happiness is even an emotional possibility for the die-hard Trek fan.

P.S.

William Shatner is a whiner: Waaah! I’m not in the new film! Waaah! George didn’t invite me to his wedding even though we’ve never been friends!

J.J. Abrams is NOT going to create a moronic piece of crap like the Phanton Menance or the other Star Wars prequels. Abrams, unlike Lucas, is a good writer with a great team. Think “Lost”!

Seriously, George Lucas should be kicked out of the Writers Guild of America! Logic? After Anakin admits that he’s killed a village of (sand) people, Padme agrees to marry him? Nope. No sign there that he’s a psycho. Just the kind of guy a woman 10 years older would marry. He definitely shows the warmth and empathy that would make for a great husband and father.

Not!

So, getting back to this prequel/reboot. Can we give Abrams a chance. He sure as heck can’t screw things up as badly as Lucas did. Right?

There really is a lot of contempt out there for old school fans, isn’t there?

There really is a lot of contempt out there for old school fans, isn’t there?

Dunno about that, Simon. I probably qualify, at least according to my age, but I think it just gets tiring, every single time there’s a reimagining of one of these genre franchises, to see all the hue and cry months before the movie/TV Show/comic comes out about how it’s the end of the world and they’re getting everything wrong, based on a picture here or a couple minutes of footage there.

Michael Keaton can’t play Batman — he’s a comedian!

Daniel Craig can’t play James Bond — he’s got blond hair!

They’re doing a comic rebooting Spider-Man’s continuity? And he’s not even in costume for the first few issues?

Starbuck’s a woman? (Thanks, Victor.)

Then the movie/TV Show/comic comes out, and it’s actually pretty successful, so you think people would learn their lesson, but then it starts all over again. Is every reboot/reimagining well done? Of course not. But what’s the point of declaring something DOA based on minor violations of continuity like the fact that, apparently, it’s been previously established that Kirk can’t drive a car? Judging from the trailer, his teenaged self isn’t very good at it either!

You may feel differently, but I think the Trek franchise has needed a good kick in the backside for years, and in the wake of Lost, Alias, Cloverfield, heck, even Mission Impossible 3, JJ Abrams has earned a fair amount of goodwill with me, so I’m withholding judgment on his new Star Trek movie until I see it.

Even if I think the black-shirted Kirk thing is more than a little bit goofy.

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