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.

Comments

huh?

[Anonymous Coward]

HotChk101 and Star Trek? Something here does not compute.

Re:huh?

[mh1997]

"HotChk101 and Star Trek? Something here does not compute."

if we've learned anything from "To Catch a Predator," HotChk101 is a 63 year old man.

Spoilers

[niceone]

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.

Re:Spoilers

[Shadow Wrought]

I think the spoiler is that it's a Trek film with a plot.

Re:Spoilers

[owlnation]

I think the spoiler is that it's a Trek film with a plot.

What does God need with a Plot?

Re:Spoilers

[Nimey]

That movie never happened.

Hypocrisy!

[Greatmoose]

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.

Re:OMG!

[fm6]

This makes his second death, right? At this rate, he'll soon catch up with Buffy!

Harlan Ellison

[WombatControl]

Harlan Ellison, who wrote the original TOS episode "The City on the Edge of Forever" was not at all happy about the rumors:

Would someone go to that site, and suggest to those people there, that "City" and all its elements EXCEPT specific Star Trek characters, belong to Harlan Ellison--author of that much-lauded episode--by terms of the Separation of Rights clause of the Writers Guild's Minimum Basic Agreement (MBA), and if Mr. Abrams--with whom I'm currently on strike--or anyone else, at Paramount or elsewhere, thinks they're going to use MY creations--whether the City, the Guardians, Sister Edith Keeler, or any other elements CREATED BY HARLAN ELLISON...they had damned well better lose the unilateral arrogance, get in touch with me, or my agent, Marty Shapiro, and be prepared to pay for the privilege of mining the lode I own.

Thank you, and thank Peter David, who just called to alert me, as have you, Mark, to yet another gimmegimme grab by Paramount and the Star trek francchise that makes billions, but withholds recognition or recompense to the artists who labored in that vein.

Yr. Pal, Harlan

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...

Re:Harlan Ellison

[Rogerborg]

Hey, thanks; I was pretty much ready to fetch my torch and pitchfork over this fucking travesty, but now that I know that it's pissing off Harlan "Fuck off" Ellison, I may even pre-order a ticket.

Re:Harlan Ellison

[Grandiloquence]

Based on Penny Arcade's encounter with Mr. Ellison, I would say the man is unhappy quite often at just about everything.

Re:Harlan Ellison

[OECD]

The thing is, the Guardian of Forever that appeared in Harlan Ellison's scripts was very, very different than what appeared in the episode.

And he HATED the version that was ultimately produced. But now it's all his.

See also this interesting account.

The plot

[moogied]

Title: The final answer.

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.

More time travel? DO NOT WANT!

[bckrispi]

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.

Re:OMG!

[jollyreaper]

This makes his second death, right? At this rate, he'll soon catch up with Buffy! But her boobs still look better.

It's worse than that. He's dead, Jim.

[khasim]

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.

Re:That's the problem.

[Stamen]

"Last nights episode sucked. Everything Star Trek has sucked since TOS. Another rehash, more talking heads, time travel, Picard's feelings, blah blah blah. I watched the episode twice and man did it suck. I've seen every episode, at least two times or more, and they all suck so bad. Do they have writers? How about real actors? I'd write more, but Enterpise is on, and I have to watch it again, just to make sure it still sucks, just as bad."

Academy Classes

[arthurpaliden]

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.

Re:OMG!

[fm6]

A matter of opinion.

SMG on the rumor that she'd had a boob job: "Lemme tell ya, if I paid for these, I'd like 'em to look a lot better than this."

Spock Boobs.

[Altima(BoB)]

Fascinating.