Star Trek Beyond Trailer Has Enterprise Going Down in Flames

[Sampler]

Was that a Star Trek trailer I just watched? If it didn't have a title, I'd think it was an adaptation some completely different (purely action focused) scifi franchise.

It seriously does feel like they are dumbing Star Trek down. But hey, China is Hollywood's hip new target demographic, and it's easier to just subtitle and sell a dumb action movie to non-English speaking audiences than to do the same with a slower, thought provoking story.

I'd be more surprised if the Enterprise DIDN'T get destroyed in a movie.

The Enterprise will be destroyed in this movie, did no one tell you the 'reboot' has clearly decided that it wants to retell the original frnachise movies stories and plot lines but with a made for the lowest intelligence twist.

So the original franchise had The Wrath of Khan as it's second movie, the reboot had Khan appear as the bad guy in it. The third movie in the original franchise, The Search for Spock had the Enterprise destroyed around so safe to say that will happen in this movie as well.

So, does that mean the next movie will involve time travel and have Zachary Quinto swimming with whales? I'm starting to take bets right now.

Technically, that has to happen at somepoint - they rebooted the universe by time-travel so everything within the quadrant was affected by the Romulan ship and ripples from there - but he probe is outside of that influence so it has to rock up to Earth and demand whalesong along the same timeline as it did before. The only difference here is the movies are occurring earlier than than the original movies as Kirk hasn't grown up, done the tv series *cough* five year mission and now into movie territory.

So if they plonk it down in the fourth they've lost any credibility still stuck somewhere in the sole of their shoe that this jetwasher of a trailer didn't blast off the decaying corpse of the franchise..

 

[Sampler]

Oh No, no time travel.
Remember how this mess started?

Time travel in Star trek has always been iffy, "First Contact" was a good movie, But "the voyage home" was just people in star trek uniforms walking around in the 1980's.


But i am surprised that they didn't have the Borg show up in this movie, i know its more a TNG thing, but i don't think they are bothered about that.

And talking about red coning things, should't Vigor still be on route to earth?

"Ret-conning" as in Retroactive Continuity.

And yes, though, as mentioned above with the Whale probe, not for some time yet.

 

[Dalisclock]

Yeah, definately not feeling it. I liked 2009, gave Into Darkness a chance(and even Sherlock couldn't save that one) but this one I'm not gonna bother with unless the reviews are somehow good.

I really wanted to like Trek again after Voyager and Enterprise, and 2009 was a brief glimmer of hope there, but it turns out it was not to be. So sad.

 

[ZeroAxis]

Well, until they learn to make a good one I'll settle for Star Trek: Renegades, follow production of Star Trek: Anaxar, and hope they greenlight a new TV series ( I wonder what a Star Trek series on Netflix would be like)

 

[tiamat5]

The Enterprise has gone down in flames enough times for it not to even be big deal anymore.

 

[Jorpho]

Well, the last one shamelessly ripped off WOK, I guess this time we're shamelessly stealing from TSFS.

The Enterprise will go down in flames, but in the third act it will be revived by magical starship blood.

Calling it now.

 

[votemarvel]

OT: the reboot franchise has been good action but poorly written science fiction, more going to science fantasy spectrum of things.

This was what I said when in a discussion with a friend of mine who is a big fan of the reboot movies.

I have genuinely enjoyed the two new movies, I just don't think they are good Star Trek movies. They seem to be lacking the spirit of the original universe.

A big problem for me is that they seem to be trying to ape the original set of movies rather than do something of their own.