Star Trek: Nemesis Trailer to Premiere Tonight

savagexp writes "Dark Horizons is reporting that the trailer for the next Star Trek movie will premiere tonight on Entertainment Tonight and via the official website tonight at 7:30 EST." Makes me wish I could stomach ET, or at least had some real bandwidth. Hopefully it'll get placed in front of some of the movies coming in the next few weeks (maybe MiB2?)

Comments

Re:Hmm..

[Kwikymart]

Or, maybe we will be even luckier and it wont even be released in quicktime at all!

On Nemesis etymology

[fruey]

nemesis Pronunciation Key (nm-ss) n. pl. nemeses (-sz)

A source of harm or ruin: Uncritical trust is my nemesis.
Sounds like the Slashdot effect

Retributive justice in its execution or outcome: To follow the proposed course of action is to invite nemesis.
i.e., clicking the link at the launch time is inviting Nemesis...

An opponent that cannot be beaten or overcome.
The unconscious attitude that rests, all the same, with Slashdot readers... that they will get to see the page even though thousands of others are all trying at the same time.

One that inflicts retribution or vengeance.
It will be in Quicktime no doubt and everyone will be seeking their Wine, so maybe that should be re-distribution (changing distro?) so that they have better Quicktime support in friendly RPM format (yes I'm getting tenuous now)

Nemesis Greek Mythology. The goddess of retributive justice or vengeance.
Godesses... Rather than cite any myself (OK, I always fancied a bit of Deanna Troi actually) I invite you to comment...

Re:mpaa?

[NanoGator]

We're anti-MPAA, not anti-interesting movies.

If none of us liked movies, the MPAA couldn't piss us off.

I'm Trailer Trash

[DeadBugs]

It seems the Trailers are becoming more of interest than the movies. I make it a point to get to the movie on time so I don't miss the trailers. My girlfriend could not understand how I could like the "Hulk" trailer, that should next to nothing about a movie that will not be out for a year. I thought it was cool

Re:Movie Format

[gbooker]

I perfectly understand the difference between a file format and a codec. But neither of the two that are related to QuickTime are published standards. Therefore, at least in my opinion, they suck. Both of them. THEREFORE, I can say that QuickTime files, as a whole, suck.

It is true that the codec is not a publish standard, but the file format is! I have read descriptions of the file format and C code that reads it, all from Apple's web site. Perhaps you should do some research before you go on an uninformed tirade.

Re:Don't bother -- it's an even numbered sequel.

[Erbo]

No, you've got it the wrong way round. Even-numbered Star Trek movies rock. Odd-numbered ones suck, or, at the very least, are kind of "ho hum."

Let's look at the evidence:

1. ST:TMP - Good to see the crew back again, after all these years, but a very slow movie and bo-ring in parts.
2. The Wrath of Khan - Kick ass! Ricardo Montalban and his rich Corinthian leather, chewing the scenery and quoting Moby Dick. And tons of action.
3. The Search for Spock - Ho hum. Nice flick, but couldn't measure up to the predecessor. And you kind of knew how it was going to turn out...
4. The Voyage Home - Funnier than hell. They were clearly out to have fun with the whole "time travel to the present day" gag, and did. My wife likes this one the best.
5. The Final Frontier - HEAVE! RETCH! What were they thinking? Were they thinking? Shatner couldn't direct his way out of a pay toilet, even if he had James Cameron in there to help him...
6. The Undiscovered Country - Tight and action-filled, with lots of present-day allegory. Laid some nice groundwork for later Klingon history as depicted on TNG. And Sulu gets to be a captain; he rocks.
7. Generations - Nice way to bridge the gap, but the story was nothing really spectacular. Gotta love the saucer-module crash scenes though.
8. First Contact - Borg, Borg Queen, time travel, the first warp flight, "Let's rock and roll!" (Cue up "Magic Carpet Ride.") Plenty of action, plenty of good scenes. I've used this movie to test out DVD players...
9. Insurrection - The best way I could describe this one is that it was basically like a 2-hour TNG episode. Other than that, it didn't stand out, really.
10. Nemesis - If the pattern holds, this movie should rock. Gotta check the trailers later today and see what they look like.

Re:2,4,6,8...?

[gilroy]

Blockquoth the poster:

First Contact - Time Travel... Gotta Love Time Travel.

Oh, time travel is so hackneyed, especially in the Trekverse. But more importantly, First Contact ruined the Borg. Well, OK, "I, Hugh" began the degeneration, but First Contact was the final nail in the coffin.

The original Borg was/were the only truly alien aliens in Trek. Their ships were ungraceful (for a reason). They violated bilateral symmetry. Their motives were so alien as to be impossible to even recognize as motives. They were implacable, nigh-omnipotent, and -- most important of all -- not like some subset of humanity with a bad nose. Indeed, they were a reasonable (sort of) extrapolation of Net technology, an honest answer to a what-if question, the best element of sci fi.

What made them stand out was their communal decemtralized mind... a true unified consciousness, something emergent from the individual entities contained in the Borg net. What did First Contact do? It fell for the cliche "hive mind", took a weak metaphor (social insects) and expanded it, somehow, into a concept even weaker. A Borg Queen? Please! The true Borg would have no truck with a queen, a king, a president, or anything that makes one part more significant/important than another.

Let's say it again, class: The true Borg are decentralized and distributed. A "Borg Queen" is the exact antithesis of what the Borg were.

Arrgh. It bothers me every time I think about it. Grrr.