:p

http://www.paramount.com/startrek/

December is too far away. Will make a nice Birthday/Christmas gift, though.

The original series didn’t even have a “canon” since the people at NBC probably reasoned that the individual episodes of this late night campy scifi TV series would never be seen again comparatively, never mind go into endless syndicated repeats.

For what it’s worth, as a fan I don’t consider anything beyond the fourth Trek movie to be “canon”, especially Next Gen, DS9, Voyager and Enterprise. Sure I watched many episodes of those mostly-awful series, but they haven’t aged well and sure as heck don’t hold a candle to the goofy fun of the original series that inspired them. On the other hand, I don’t get my panties in a bunch that Paramount slapped the name “Star Trek” on those awful series, any more than I’m upset about all the crappy licensed Trek “novels” cramming science fiction bookshelves…

YOU. KNOW. NOTHING. You don’t know ANYTHING concrete about what this movie is going to be about. All you know is the cast, the characters, the film crew, and some vague idea of “it’s set in multiple time periods and has Romulans in it”. And judging by Mr “OMGZtheEnterpriseisbeingbuiltintheteaserthatmeanstheyrethrowingoutTEHCANNON!!!11″ up the top of the comments, it looks like a lot of you don’t even know THAT. (Captain Pike will be in the movie, played by Bruce Greenwood.)

The way that absolutely ANY new development will invariably set off a couple of dozen people wailing “OH NOES, the sky is falling!!!” absolutely sickens me. No wonder Star Trek has such a bad reputation. With fans like these, who needs antis?

So, as I said earlier, meh.
I will lighten up a bit and say that I don’t want things to remain the same and never change, but I do have to remain firm on my disdain for retroactive continuity.
Want to re-imagine ST? Fine, then do so, and make it clear that that’s what’s being done. But stop doing spin-offs that don’t fit in to existing continuity… just make something new.

I don’t particularly recall that being mentioned in the original series. If that information was taken from anything written by Franz Joseph Designs (like the Starfleet Technical Manual) then it is considered non-canon.

Star Trek is something I consider to be light entertainment nowadays, since it has been overdone to death by Paramount. I’m not expecting anything amazing with this film, but as long as it’s entertaining, I’ll probably be happy. But if anyone don’t like it, might I suggest the fan-made ‘New Voyages’?

Wendy and Richard Pini (of ElfQuest fame) had a term for these guys — WETRATS. These are the ones who Want Everything To Remain Always The Same.

I was thrilled by the opening sequence of Voyager, too. I just hope that this movie lives up to its trailer more than that series did its opening.

http://trekmovie.com/2008/01/19/interview-orci-answers-questions-about-new-trek-trailer/

It includes a Q/A session in the comments.

Really? Which Amendment is that?”

I don’t believe I used the word “constitutional” anywhere. Nope. So clearly your question is nonsense.

I also didn’t use the word “legal” or suggest that purveyors of drek had no right to engage in their craft. However, drek is drek.

Seems like an upgrade transition from one caption to another, the ship is in a very unfinished state, and there is certainly going to be some evil alien attacking the Earth directly.

Only hope I can see is that they don’t completely rewrite canon by making the evil invaders the Borg.

I don’t think any of that (apart from Huey Lewis) featured in the film.

Completely off topic, but that is not correct. They are downstairs at the party when the first sign of trouble happens. They turn on the TV and see news of a capsized tanker in the harbor which they think may be close enough to see from the roof of the building. So they all head up their just in time for the fun and destruction to begin.

But the overall point remains the same. Trailers aren’t necessarily comprised of film that actually ends up in the movie (for one, trailers are frequently made before all of the editing is done). This is even more true of teasers where what you see is rarely actually in the movie. Sometimes teasers are created before or while principal photography is still ongoing.

Really? Which Amendment is that?

So can we treat civilizations like that as being just exotic foreign countries, that we can have trade, wars, espionage with? Doesn’t seem likely to me.

Then there’s the idea of eating alien food (billions of years of separate evolution on separate planets), and worse, interbreeding with aliens. Spock is half human, half Vulcan. Apparently Vulcans and humans have the same chromosome number, both use DNA and have the same genetic code, etc., etc. Guys, we can’t even interbreed with chimpanzees, and we have 95% the same genes.

So, look not for science in Star Trek. Just turn your mind off and have a good time. I speak as a former Trekkie who still treasures his George Takei autograph.

I think it may have been in the Starfleet Medical text. But it’s been so long, now.

I really haven’t had so much interest in Trek since the original series and its first three movies. And a couple of seasons (probably three through five) of TNG. So I haven’t really kept up much.

Hmmm, a mission to discover ancient races amongst the stars? Where have I heard that before?

BTW, Rav, where was it stated that Andorians were the first aliens humanity met? I’ve never heard that one.

Hmmm, a mission to discover ancient races amongst the stars? Where have I heard that before?

BTW, Rav, where was it stated that Andorians were the first aliens humanity met? I’ve never heard that before.

The Star Trek franchise is entirely creatively bankrupt at this point. I don’t care to see another single product associated with it. Ever.

So you got a degree in starship construction, buddy? Who says they can’t paint the panels before assembly? Huh? Huh? Seem to me it would even be easier that way.

[petergriffin]Yeeeeah.[/petergriffin]

Relax everybody…. it IS just a movie. I’ll go see it. It can’t be any worse than the Next Generation crap, can it?