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Star Trek Nemesis Preview Online
T-Kir writes "Originally from a news link at Trekweb, iFilm has a preview of Star Trek Nemesis in WMP, Real and Quicktime formats, it is also recommended you view with a broadband connection. [ed. snip] All in all a nice piece of eye candy until the films release on December 13th." This is a long trailer with lots of spoilers - you've been warned.
How cool is that - the anti Picard. Wonder if that can be used to power some kind of warp drive....
"A long trailer with lots of spoilers"
Sounds like a NASCARedneck fixed hisself a mobile home that's ultra-stable on the freeway.
You can never equivocate too much.
Dammit, dammit, dammit. I have no control. Must - watch - trailer - or - brain - will - collapse.
Did it. Are you happy now? No use to go see it.
I'm surprised that I haven't seen more (any really) previews on television for Nemesis. Maybe I just haven't caught them but I usually catch at least one television preview for any given big-budget movie during it's marketing time. The only advertisements for Nemesis that I've seen have been posters in theaters when I'm out seeing some other movie. Am I the only one who thinks that this film may suffer from a poor marketing campaign? Heck, I didn't even know when this film was slated to come out until this ./ story!
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Oh no... I hope they don't really make it to earth and kill everything!
Wait, Enterprise could just sling-shot around the sun for a do-over... never mind.
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You forgot the, "What does God need with a Starship??" one...
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Enjoy.....
I'll field the first question, but really, I get the feeling you're just being trite.
/. story? Hey, I'm gonna post the Apple quicktime area as a "story."
So:
> How does the preview of a movie rate a
It answers this in the header: "News for nerds." Last I heard, the jocks were still leaving most of the seats in any given theatre showing a Star Trek movie empty, thoughtfully leaving them for the nerds.
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Is anyone else sick of trailers giving away key plot developments. To me a perfect trailer is more of a teaser. It should entice you. It should make you want to see the movie. But it shouldn't tell the whole story.
Just my 2 cents (or non-cents *groan*)
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This may very well be the last TNG movie, as the trailers say "A Generation's Final Journey". Seems to hint that this is the cap.
I always believed that after DS9, Trek as a whole should have taken a long hiatus. The gap between TOS and TNG was huge, and TNG turned out to be a fantastic series. But since TNG ended, it's been nothing but rapid-fire Star Trek, most of which can't hold a candle to TNG.
Now they're milking the franchise, and we get crap like Voyager and Enterprise. Insurrection wasn't that great either. I'm hoping Nemesis does something to redeem the TNG movies, as Insurrection kinda put it on a low note. Generations is the best TNG movie so far.
I'd like to see them put the entire franchise to a rest after Nemesis (and kill off Enterprise before the 7 season mark), and let it lie in wait until a team with a GOOD idea a few years down the line can put a fresh and interesting spin on it.
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Let's see: a big bad something threatens the Earth/Galaxy and Picard and Data and some other guys have to beat up the big bad guy and save the day.
Along the way, various minor cast members will have short/throwaway scenes, but most of the real meat of the plot will involve Picard and Data.
There will be a Worf joke.
Not like we haven't seen 3 of these already, you know.
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Yeah, but for a Voyager movie, the crew could go back out for a ride on the Minnow II... er.. the Voyager.. II? and get lost in the Delta Quadrant again!
As of right NOW... its not working... i get a page not found error when trying to load the trailor or the preview...... So... did slashdot /. ifilm? will this mean the mpaa going after the evil slashdot hackers for DoS'ing ifilm's website?
Its here in his web site
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Criticizing the plot of a Star Trek movie is like going out and buying a "Fat Chicks with Huge Jugs" magazine and complaining about the lack of literary value.
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It's a Star Trek movie. Of course it's going to be mindless action and sci-fi. Duh. Doesn't mean it's not worth seeing (though it may well not be
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For those that don't already know... this movie is rumored to be the starting point for a new series ("Fall of the Federation") to star Riker, Troi, etc (no Picard or Data)... Read about it here...which would explain the comment Picard makes in one of trailers...
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This edition is 10 in the series, and is therefore, a must see.
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- The Spock debacle.
- The whale one--rocked.
- Worst...Debacle...Ever--search for Jebus.
- Klingons, in-jokes, etc.
- Cross-generation debacle.*
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Obviously, this movie will kick some ass. Go out on a high note!*I find it odd that you thought -Generations- better than First Contact. Really, that struck me. I know plenty of folks that like Generations, but those folks LOVE First Contact. Borg Queen man! Time travel! Wow. Did you like Search for Spock more than Wrath of Khan (shudder)?
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'Evil Sting,' as you put it, was played by Malcolm McDowell. Ever see "Clockwork Orange?" Main character; that's him. He's evil.
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I'm surprised that I haven't seen more (any really) previews on television for Nemesis.
I've been thinking the same thing but I'm starting to worry if the studio thinks the movie is going to be a bomb. As others have mentioned, there is stiff competition in the action/adventure genre from Bond and LotR. Perhaps they are worried that it just won't be able to keep pace and they are cutting their losses by not spending much on advertisting. The die-hard Trek fans will go to see it anyhow. A lot of people will go see any film just because they are tired of holiday shopping. The number-crunchers at Paramount may have calculated that negative word-of-mouth will override any benefit obtained by an aggressive marketing campaign.
Just my thoughts. But I have already read one review for the movie that suggests that this film will not even come close to fulfilling expectations for a film billed as the "final TNG adventure".
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Just thank your lucky stars this is a cold medium, my friend. If you dont think its news, then it isn't. Skip to the next article, or go to another site.
.. once enough folks whine, /. will magically start publishing articles that constitute news to 99.999% of its readership? And we can all head off into the sunset?
Fuck, I dont call up my local paper and complain everytime theres an article in there that I'm not interested in. I can choose to read what I like, so I've no right to bitch about the content not being 'news' to me.
I wonder about you "this is news?" posters. I have to wonder what good it could possibly do to post "this is news?" posts instead of saving your time & typing for an article that actually interests you. That is, unless you want me to spam the threads of articles that interest *you*, but not me with, "wheres my news?" posts.
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GEE THANK YOU FOR SETTING ME STRAIGHT! I guess since 99% of the population uses it it MUST be good!
From where I'm sitting there is no significant difference between "APPLE QUICKTIME", "RealPlayer demon spawn" and "Microsoft sleaze". It's the same tune sung by different vocalists.
Silently not using certain players pointless. In my experience not using certain players and requesting media in other formats is not.
Oh, and when you actually take the time out of your busy day to spell out "thanks" you're a lot more convincing when you tell people to grow up.
Between TOS and TNG, the warp scale was changed to an exponential one. Warp factor 1 - speed of light - is consistent between serieses, but as warp factor approaches 10, effective speed approaches infinity. TNG ships regularly move at or beyond what, in TOS, could have been called warp factor 11.
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someone else on /. is married? wow, and I thought I was the only one.
One reason might be that Patrick Stewart has been a litle busy, what with Prince of Egypt, X-Men 1 & 2, Jimmy Neutron, and a bunch of TV and video game appearances, not to mention stage performances on and off of broadway.
Stewart, unlike Shatner, can deliver real dramatic performances, and is not type cast to even a fraction of the degree that any of the original crew was. It is not surprising that he has had other gigs, nor that he may not want to do so many Star Trek films when he doesn't need to.
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I am a long time sci-fi fan.
I seen almost all of the Star Trek movies in the Theater, except the last few of old ST movies. The movies got so badly written, I could not bare to watch, even on video.
Even with the TNG movies, Generations was maybe the best. I think from the trailer, that I watched before Harry Potter 2. I need not watch the movie, since the plot and everything we given it.
The only really cool space shows of late have been Babylon 5, Farscape, first season the Andromeda, Lex (though it is just a bit weird) reminds me of some of the old British sci-fi shows.
I do not know why TV executives think shows need to be dumb down, but to me it is killing sci-fi not helping it and nether does being over PC help.....
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Gees, I'm not sure how my original post got a "+5 Informative" because I didn't even include the link to the review I read! I mean, "+3 Insightful" or "+4 Interesting" I can understand...
Anyhow, here's the review I mentioned. Needless to say, plot spoilers are featured. Like I said, the review makes Nemesis sound like an okay, but not great, Trek flick.
GMD
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The warp scale must have changed again in the future (in the last episode of TNG) when Dr. Crusher ordered her helm officer to take the ship to Warp 13.
In the Star Trek Technical Manual (an actual book... that I own), it is stated that if anything ever travels at Warp 10, it will occupy all points in the universe at once. That's the "official" reason that no ship can travel at Warp 10, but I think it's a little flimsy. I personally like yours better... Warp 10 would be infinite speed, but which would be impossible to achieve because it would take an infinite amount of energy. Sounds good enough to me...
They crash and destroy the ship again? These guys are never going to be able to get insurance now.