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Star Trek XI Plot Details Revealed
HotChk101 writes to tell us that the plot for Star Trek XI has been revealed over at IESB. This information has not yet been confirmed by the studio so take with the requisite grain of salt. Be warned link contains potential spoiler information.
HotChk101 and Star Trek? Something here does not compute.
Who would have guessed an article that tells you the plot of a movie would contain spoilers? Luckily TFA has so many spoiler warnings that I gave up reading before I got to any mention of the plot.
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So the author starts off the article by lambasting those who don't know the original series, and then proceeds to spend the majority of the article rehashing the "City on the Edge of Forever" episode and the Kobyashi Maru scenario. Oh, and has a few sentences thrown in about the new movie. Man, that was bad.
Clearly I forgot to equip my +5 Codpiece of Karma.
I'm getting pretty tired of prequels and time travel. This seems to have a lot of both. Don't get me wrong, I'll still pay to go see it and drag my wife along kicking and screaming to see it with me. I'll probably have to fork out for good dinner to get her to come along.
Who knows. It can still be good. Let's hope it doesn't suck or I'll get more resistance from the Mrs when trying to go to the next SciFi movie.
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This makes his second death, right? At this rate, he'll soon catch up with Buffy!
Harlan Ellison, who wrote the original TOS episode "The City on the Edge of Forever" was not at all happy about the rumors:
So either Abrams didn't get clearance, or the rumors aren't true. From what we know of Leonard Nimoy's involvement, I'd guess that it's the former rather than the latter. So either Abrams will have to pay Ellison off, or production will have to shut down since the WGA strike precludes any changes to the script.
This could really throw a monkey wrench into everything...
Plot: Kirk, Picard, Janeway, Cisco, and that guy from enterprise that nobody liked all get merged together in a transporter accident, not only fusing body, mind, spirit, and time.. but also...
A CAT.
After several days of bickering about which part of there personality was most dominant Tuvok and Spock have to do a threesome mind meld in order to seperate the individual personalities. After several intense shots of tuvok and spock both appearently giving birth(facial expressions only) they both suddenly stop and lock at eachother. Appearently in shock.. they announce to the world that the winner of this battle of personalities was no one but:
Malcolm "Mal" Reynolds.
Shortly after this serenity was seen flying off.
You may think this to be satire.. but with the cluster fuck that this new movie promises to be, I might actually wish they made mine instead of theres..
©Daniel M. 2007.
^ Just incase.
So basically, -1 troll/offtopic is really slashdots way of saying "I hate that you thought of something before me."
Out of the 10 current films, three of them involve time travel with the intent of changing the present. Are the writers so bereft of fresh ideas that they need to go back to this stale premise again??? Gahh! Jar Jar was annoying, but at least he was original.
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Winona Ryder has been cast as Spock's mother. So there goes some of the acting...
I, for one, fully expect her to steal the show.
Come on. We all know the curse of the odd number Trek movie. It has happened every time. While the Trek content out there has toned down a bit (there isn't a single active series out there), I still think the movie will suffer the curse of the odd number. I hope that it won't, but I just have this feeling that both the trekies and non-trekies will hate this movie. The trekies will hate it for changing the "universe" for some reason or another, because it is going to be a prequel, and doing that just begs to mess with the cosmic timestream, especially in a sci-fi universe with so much literature, movies, and TV series as Star Trek (this is one of the reasons why trekies didn't like "Enterprise" due to it screwing with the "verse"). The non-trekies will hate it because to them it is just another trekie film...
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SCORE!!!
No matter what crap they produce, just stamp "Star Trek" on it and they've sold tickets.
They won't stop producing crap until you stop paying them for the crap.
It's got time travel in it. It's 100% guaranteed to suck. That's why they had to include baby Spock
With JJ Abrams at the "helm" it won't be light years away from that anyway.
I've often pondered the idea of a series following a Star Trek group of sergeants. Like an away team, following orders. Not the sanctimonious, self serving upper chain of command. I'd much rather follow the adventures of some more regular joe's. One's who don't have the luxury of allowing hollowed ideals to get in the way of "results". Leave the captain where he belongs, on the bridge or in his stateroom.
Not a BSG type clean break, but I'd like to see them find a spot into the future. Y'know, where some new writing could occur. Enough with the time travel and the continuity issues.
I scream. You scream. I assume that means we're both acquainted with the problem. We proceed.
Hey, what was wrong with Star Trek I: The Motion Picture? I really liked that one, ya kno.
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Every experiment which ends in a big bang is a good experiment.
Why can't anyone write a friggin' Trek script without pulling out the old Time Travel saw?
I'd love to see a well written script that didn't devolve into time travel or strange-particle-du-jour emissions.
Why does it always have to be time travel? Have we exhausted all that can be done in a sci-fi script??
*sigh* I don't even know if this is an odd or even Trek any more. I think I've given up on Trek.
Cheers
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The biggest reason that Enterprise sucked total ass was because of time travel, the "temporal cold war", and alien space Nazis.
Paramount takes a few years off to let the franchise breathe again, and they come back revitalized with... more time travel crap?!
When will they ever learn?
The PROBLEM is that time travel does NOT change the present. They heroes fix the problem in the past and the present is the present again.
There's nothing moving FORWARD. There is no development or change. The entire movie could just as well never have happened.
Name her Sarra Konnar ...
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... Spock gives a message to baby Spock ... baby Kirk has sex with Spock's hot mother producing some half-vulcan/half-human hybrid that may show up in later scripts ... the Romulan/Borg hybrid is defeated ... the Federation gets new Borg technology ...
Combine the Romulans with the Borg
Okay, new plot. A Borg'ified Romulan travels back through time to kill Kirk. Something about Spock's hot mother
That should be good for a few movies and maybe another TV series.
Fuck time travel movies.
Yeah, except Ender's Game came out in 1985 and Star Trek II, where this was introduced, came out in 1982. So not really.
Jar Jar was NOT original - 'he' was a parody of an African-American stereotype.
So long as they do not have them all in the same year at the Academy or even all at the Academy at the same time. If they have Kirk and Chekov or even Sulu in the Academy at the same time I am waking out of the theater.
Undetectable Steganography? Yep, there's an app fo
And time travel is handled so poorly. In the TOS episode they had to go back and find out what happened, so it makes since for them to go back and figure it out.
In the movie plot however, Spocks knows what the Romulan's plan is, so he could just go back in time right before the Romulan tries to go back in time and kill him there couldn't he? He knows where and when he will be, but instead chases him some place where he has trouble finding him.
Same with the Generations movie plot. If Picard and Kirk could come out of the ribbon at whatever time they wanted, they could have chosen a better time and place.
In First Contact, the Borg could have time traveled in secret, not in the middle of a big battle where someone might figure out what they were doing. They could also keep trying until they got it right - they still had the knowledge of how to do it even if that one ship was destroyed.
I don't remember much about the save the whales movie.
There seems to be an almost religious fantatisism with keeping everything nicely contained within the same timeline of events at Paramount.
While not related, I had played through the Halflife 2 Epsiode 2 commentary and they mentioned something about the flashlight battery now being separate from the main HEV sprinting battery, and their argument was that they weren't going to make the game less fun just for the sake of a keeping bad game design decision true throughout the lifespan of the series.
That said, I've always felt this was the most compelling argument for allowing for new things to happen without always resorting to time travel: http://bztv.typepad.com/newsviews/files/ST2004Reboot.pdf
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Why would anyone want to move the plot forward, or the characters to develop further? People are already super-invested in things the way they "know" them to be. These time plots are the perfect device for Star Trek--the characters and situations are already well-known and familiar to the hardcore fans. It's like that kids show Blues Clues, which shows the same episode every day for a week because little kids crave the familiar.
Build a man a fire, he's warm for one night. Set him on fire, and he's warm for the rest of his life.
A matter of opinion.
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It's not so complicated, just renumber the movies! Lucas did it. Star Trek the Motion Picture could become "Star Trek IV: A New Hairpiece". The "New" Star Trek could be "Star Trek I: The Phantom Storyline". Look how much money this strategy made for Lucas.
Harlan insults pretty much everyone he meets {particularly anyone who doesn't immediately gush over his greatness}. To call him an "infamous prick" would be an insult to infamous pricks. The guy makes Joe Eszterhas look like a modest sweetie.
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No. He was a complete rip off of Snarf by Larry Elmore with some annoying Black and White Minstrel Show lines tacked on and extra stupidity. It's a pity that Lucas never credited him and also made the character so annoying. Elmore drew the strip for Dragon Magazine and has also done a lot of impessive fantasy art. You would have seen his work on a lot of book covers, the sides of vans, t-shirts, box art for the Everquest game, box art for Tonka and Matell toys etc etc.
Well, given time travel, then prophecies kind of come with the territory. It's just a matter of context really. I'm a time traveller, you're a prophet, he/she/it is a fraud.
I'd add to the list of annoying plot complications 'controlled by an evil alien entity'. Or how about an enemy that has you so outclassed, the only way they can be defeated is either through jaw-dropping stupidity on the part of the enemy or a credulity-banishing one in a million shot that never could have been made or some stupid-ass deus ex machina. UGH! Yeah, build the Borg into some big awesome enemy and they're so damn powerful, the only way they can be defeated is with a mathematical riddle. UGH!
Well I was walking down the street just a-having a think
when I met a snake of a producer gave me an evil wink
he shook me uo, he took me by surprise
he had a Trek franchise and the devil's eyes
Oh we wrote some scripts and I felt a change,
talent meant nothing never would again
Let's do a timewarp again! Deus ex machina again!
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Fascinating.
Yup...
Where've you been?
Pournelle was using that on BIX (rapidly picked up by other Bixen) back before The Gripping Hand (working title "The Moat Around Murcheson's Eye", if I remember right) came off the presses, i.e. circa 15 years ago.
I've seen it a number of other places, too.
Or, was that a whooshing sound I just heard?
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