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New Star Trek Trailer
roelbj writes "The full trailer to the next Star Trek movie is now available at the movie's official web site. The upcoming J.J. Abrams-helmed installment represents a changing of the guard, a reboot of the franchise, and a return to the original-series crew. It should prove interesting to see how Abrams' writing staff (Cloverfield, Lost, Alias) tackles the Star Trek universe and all the continuity and baggage that comes with it."
Well, I don't know why I should sit through another 3 minutes of arc welding when a new Watchmen trailer with music from Philip Glass & Muse was released on Quantum of Solice.
Guess because it's Trek, it gets day to day duplicate coverage.
works nicely with VLC under linux too (that is with native linux opensource codecs as FFMPEG. No evil closed source QuickTime DLLs required).
mplayer also does a nice trick impersonating a quicktime plugin.
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So, there is something wrong with the movie, I think.
In the trailer, we see Kirk racing his motorbike and seeing the Enterprise being built.
Wasn't it built in Earth orbit, you ask?
Well, I think they got *that* part right. According to the Original Series Dedication Plaque, the Constitution Class Enterprise was constructed at San Francisco Fleet Yards on Earth and in Earth orbit. According to the Star Trek Encyclopedia, the orbital facility and starbase featured in ST: TMP was San Francisco Fleet Yards. According to the novelization of ST: A Flag Full of Stars, the San Francisco Fleet Yards also had facilities on Earth.
So, if Kirk was racing his bike in the San Francisco area, he *could* have seen the enterprise being built.
But.. I say, he still couldn't have!!
You see, Enterprise was built and launched in 2245
Kirk was born in 2233.
He would have been only 12 years old at the time they show him racing his bike and seeing the enterprise being built.
Use Mplayer .
mplayer -fs -cache 1024 -cache-min 99 'http://movies.apple.com/movies/paramount/star_trek/startrek-tlr2_h.640.mov'
works just fine on my crappy K7 system. ( Kubuntu 8.04 )
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The Star Trek TOS tv series was always a "mindless summer action flick" type show, only shorter and on weekly instead of once per every few years.
Really, they did? Let's see... I, Mudd - a planet completely populated with androids. Then there was the 'Shore Leave" episode where all the creations on the planet were some sort of robot. Also "Requiem for Methuselah" where Rayna (Kirk's love interest) is an android. How about "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" In it, Dr. Roger Korby and his entire "surviving" staff are androids and they find little girls are sometimes made like computers.
Although TOS certainly didn't do androids or robots on every episode, they certainly did NOT shy away from doing them. I think Kirk almost ended up doing them more than once.
From here.
$ wget http://movies.apple.com/movies/paramount/star_trek/startrek-tlr2_h480.mov
$ mplayer startrek-tlr2_h480.mov
Good News Everybody! This will very soon cease to be the case.
HTML 5 specifies a <video> element. Firefox 3.1 will support this, with the Ogg Theora codec included out of the box.
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One thing to be careful of is that few people care about Christopher Pike and no one outside but the hardcore knows about Robert April...I guess I do on both counts, but it's irrelevant when you're producing a movie targeting the masses.
Good News Everybody! This will very soon cease to be the case.
HTML 5 specifies a element. Firefox 3.1 will support this, with the Ogg Theora codec included out of the box.
Yep, it's impressive too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Har-PRP4X9U
http://www.double.co.nz/video_test/test4.html
Nothing to do, just use Firefox and "it just works(tm)".
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Direct links to trailers:
480p: http://movies.apple.com/movies/paramount/star_trek/startrek-tlr2_h480p.mov
720p: http://movies.apple.com/movies/paramount/star_trek/startrek-tlr2_h720p.mov
1080p: http://movies.apple.com/movies/paramount/star_trek/startrek-tlr2_h1080p.mov
All play perfectly in VLC and mplayer.
A bigger continuity flaw in the trailer is the fact that Kirk can drive a stick. He had serious problems with it in "Patterns of Force."
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You mean "A Piece of the Action"
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No, I mean the way the 4th series ended. Nonsensical, totally unfinished and chopped off at the knees. It was as if the writers were suddenly sacked and the ending written by the janitor because there was no money left for anything else. I remember staring in stunned silence at the TV screen with my mouth open. I had really gotten into the 4th series: it had finally found itself and developed into a good story. Compulsory watching in my house. Then someone dragged it out back and shot it through the head because the fans didn't just deserted it, but threw shit pies at it every chance they got. I clearly remember the vitriol and crowing on Slashdot when it died. Made me quite sick.
And now here you are getting all judgmental and suggesting the same, based on a 2 min clip of a film not even released yet.
*smacks his forehead* Ok what makes this movie suck. Mr. Abrams needs to go hang himself since he "promised" it would stay in cannon. Well first off no cars are in Star Trek unless you're on the Gangster Planet from the TOS episode "A piece of the action." Secondly: Kirk and Spock never served together on the Enterprise until AFTER the episode "The Cage" according to cannon which was 13 years ago from the point of the episode "The Menagerie". I'm unsure when Kirk began his command on the Enterprise. I would assume at the beginning of the five year mission but I seriously can't remember, anyway. Robert April was the first Captain of the Enterprise, Christopher Pike was the second captain of the Enterprise and Captain James Tiberius Kirk was the Third Captain of the Enterprise. Spock was serving on the Enterprise with Captain Pike. While Kirk was on the Farragut if you recall the episode "Court Martial". So Brannon Braga ruined Star Trek with that evil third season of Enterprise and now we have Abrams to finish the job and finally kill the franchise. Braga and Abrams need to both do the world a favor and hang themselves and keep their filthy paws off of Star Trek.
I'm pretty sure Lucas borrowed that bit from the ST:TOS episode "The Immunity Syndrome". Spock is startled as he senses many Vulcans suddenly dying. McCoy questions him about it later and Spock delivers this line "Even I, a half-Vulcan, could hear the deathscreams of 400 Vulcan minds crying out over the distance between us". When I first heard it the famous Obi-Wan quote sprang to mind immediately.