First Official Photos From New Star Trek Movie

Philias Fog writes "The most secret project in Hollywood is finally lifting its skirt. Today Paramount released a number of images for their new Star Trek movie directed by JJ Abrams. Shots include images of the bridge of the Enterprise, the villain Nero, a ship (not the Enterprise) and all of the crew in uniform. TrekMovie.com has a complete set of photos and links to all the new shots."

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[p51d007]

Wow....almost 8am central time (USA) and no comments? Is trek that dead?

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[bpjk]

OK, here ya go:

How on earth can the entire command staff of the Enterprise be that young? They don't require people to have serious experience (time in the field) before they can get to positions of that much responsibility?

An adolescent captain just looks wrong...

At least they got that right in (most) of the other Treks.

Other than that, nice pics; love the angry Spock one :-)

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[Anonymous Coward]

Although from the pics, I see that Hollywood still persists in the belief that there is a significant amount of oxygen in open space. The smoke and fireballs clearly show their mistaken belief.

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[bds1986]

I assume you're referring to the pic of the shot-up starship. Couldn't the fires be feeding on oxygen escaping from hull breaches?

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[dnoyeb]

It looks like High School Space Capades. These kids are way too young and they all look way too much the same. AND William Shatner IS Captain Kirk. There is no way you can cast anybody as Kirk but Shatner. Why even go there? If they want to appeal to new younger croud, then just call it Star Trek: ABC or something. They don't know Kirk anyway. I don't think any trekkies will be happy with that.

I seriously had to check if it was April 1.

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[$RANDOMLUSER]

Try to think of it as Star Trek: 90210.

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[inaneframe]

Actually, this is what is known as a "movie", bpjk. So I guess the more pertinent question is "are they all capable actors?" Anything is possible in a movie, whether they are too young or not is open for debate but again refer to the first sentence. You're worse than a lot of the Trekkies drooling over this. Sure I'm excited but I'm going to take it at base value, it's a movie and it has Nimoy's voice, cool. Always enjoyed the Star Trek movies more anyway. Can't wait. I'm also not going to get over-critical with this, it's a fucking movie. Get a fucking life.

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[ajs]

Adolescent?! The guy's 28 years old. Check IMDB, at 28, he's the youngest member of the cast which averages in the mid-30s.

You've been watching too much 90210, and may have actually come to believe that good looking mid-to-late 20s actors are teens. ;-)

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[Colonel Korn]

The problem is that they put him (and the 90210 people) in a lot of makeup so that they don't look like 28 year olds. They don't look like real people at all. Why is it that in movies made after the 1980s people main characters can't look real? Even when the main character is supposed to be some sort of grungy curmudgeon, say Jack Black playing a pseudo-bum, he's caked in makeup so that he's a bum with the skin of an adolescent.

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[Thiez]

You'd be suprised how little time it takes for the air to escape from a relatively small container such as the Enterprise into a practically infinite vacuum through a hole a few inch in diameter.

What bothers me more is the smoke in the left side of the picture. Anyone here knows how smoke 'should' behave in space?

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[lysergic.acid]

if large clouds of gas (nebulae) can float around in space, then why can't smaller pockets of gas? and a photo captures a split-second view of an event, so even if the oxygen escaped very quickly, it could still combust before it becomes too dispersed.

and since smoke is just a cloud of very fine particulates (solid, liquid, and gases) it would probably behave the same way as comet comas & tails, which are composed of similar physical particles. if there was a significant amount of smoke, it would surely be visible in space. it just wouldn't be disperse by wind like it would in an a gaseous atmosphere.

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[Neoprofin]

So if we made the next James Bond movie and had him played by Dakota Fanning it'd be ok as long as she put in a good performance?

It's just a movie after all. I hear 50 Cent is still into acting, maybe we can remake Schindler's List since Indian Jones already got the new Speilburg treatment.

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[Hatta]

That's what happens when you let a woman drive.

Looking at the pictures..

[Splab]

leaves me wondering why they put a kid in charge of a space ship...

Re:Looking at the pictures..

[dkleinsc]

I would think CleverNickName would be the best person to answer that one.

Re:Looking at the pictures..

[pmontra]

Shatner was 35 when he started acting as J.T. Kirk. Pine is 28. He has about the right age for the role he has to play in the story of the Kirk character. Furthermore people at 28 can already be everything they'll ever be if they're really good.

Re:Looking at the pictures..

[falcon5768]

Im almost 30 and guess what, not for nothing but I look a hell of a lot more like Pine than I do Shat when he was Kirk. Back then hollywood tended to have older actors play younger characters, to the point that once you have actors who ARE the actual age of the characters play them, it seems jarring.

You know another thing, I love how people call it Star Trek 90210, yet people fail to remember the entire cast of that show minus Brian Austen Green was like 25 when they started. They where 25 and playing 16 year olds.

Plot synopsis

[Notquitecajun]

It's JJ Abrams, which means we get to start out in the middle of the story, backtrack to "where it all began," and finish up with a fun-filled exciting resolution!

MI:III I'm betting was just a rehash of an unused ALIAS script.

Not that he does bad work, it's just a little repetitive after a while.

I hate Hollywood.

[McFortner]

Are there any beloved childhood memories that Hollywood hasn't raped the corpse of yet?

Speed Racer: check
Battlestar Galactica: check
Star Trek: check
Buck Rogers: pending

Re:I hate Hollywood.

[grub]

The current Galactica is far superior to the tripe from my childhood. I'm probably in the minority but I really did enjoy Enterprise as well. Voyager with Captain Duck got lame fast.

Speaking...

[DougF]

As someone who watched TOS on a black and white 9" TV with a towel under the door to hide the light from my parents (it was on after bed time)...I welcome a "refreshing" of the Star Trek ensemble. The key to success will be the script, not the special effects, a lesson not learned in a few previous Star Trek and most Sci-Fi movies...

Nothing good acting can't fix.

[RulerOf]

That honestly depends on how good of an actor he is.

I had no idea that I would end up loving Leonardo DiCaprio as much as I do now when I saw him in Titanic. But after seeing movies like Catch Me if You Can and The Aviator, you'll understand how simply being a good actor can negate these kinds of labels.

Re:Nothing good acting can't fix.

[mdielmann]

Having watched a few episodes of Heroes this season, I'd say Quinto is a better actor than the character of Sylar called for until this season. I'm prepared to lay all the shitty lines he's had on the writers at this point, and not his two-dimensional acting. In two episodes, thanks to the joy of time travel, you see him as the classic psychotic villain, someone who's looking at his life and wondering if perhaps there's a better way, and a father who's desperately fighting his demons to give his kid the life he never had. And they were convincing, to me anyway.
I think he'll play a Vulcan a million times better than what's-her-name from Enterprise, and give a respectable portrayal of Spock. His biggest problem is going to be acting in the shadow of Leonard Nimoy.

Re:Why!?!

[Lord Bitman]

Every Star Trek iteration has been an entirely new crew, ship, and usually mission statement. The only way to not just be "more of the same" is to revisit existing characters.

Hmmm

[ZDRuX]

I looked at the vidcaps and didn't see Picard. This movie has failed already.

Re:Lost me after "I did enjoy Enterprise"

[trytoguess]

By last episode are you talking about the episode with a faction of human xenophobis, or the TNG episode that masquraded as an Enterprise episode with Riker playing make believe in order to resolve a moral conflict? Ugh, Trip pantomiming his death scene, and the entire Enterprise crew remaining stagnant for almost a decade? I'm about ready to accept the fanfics that claim it was all a pointless ruse by Section 31.

Re:Wait... is this an even or odd number Trek?

[fahrbot-bot]

We'll need to remodulate the tachyon emitters to emit a neoepinphrine pulse.

Theoretically, that should work.

Re:Actually a very long time - 11.3 days

[IchNiSan]

All of that is assuming no one thinks to close the fucking blast doors.