Comments on: Where No Man Has Gotten Freaky Before

By: Fnordstrom

Fnordstrom — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 23:04:12 +0000

Just sayin: Hentai Trek would be awesome!

By: davey

davey — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:31:47 +0000

genticles! from the futu movie! hahahahahaha those arent tentacles, there GENTICLES!!!! hahahahahahahahahah

By: Cactuscat

Cactuscat — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:10:02 +0000

Parts of me worry… Motorcycles, Constitution Class starships built on the ground, Sylar as a Vulcan…

But then I saw the trailer where the welders are building the ship and Nimoy rasps out "Space, the final frontier…" and I went all squidgy and squeed and all was right with the world. Although my wife and child looked at me like I'd lost my mind when the actual sound "SQUEE!" came out of my mouth…

No, this isn't gonna be your Momma's Star Trek. Yes, they're going to get some things "wrong" for the sake of plot condensation and just because that's what they needed to make their story work. But after what Berman and Braga did to the franchise and after the cinematic abortion that was Nemesis, can Star Trek honestly be any worse?

In my opinion there's almost nowhere for the series to go but up. So I'm gonna trust JJ to do right by us old-school Trekkies and waited in eager anticipation for the film to hit theaters.

By: xJane

xJane — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 07:25:12 +0000

Major Trekkie: I think that you're right, the franchise has no where to go but up, but that it's being done the wrong way. The only people who will go to see a Star Trek movie are Star Trek fans ™. If the history is re-written, Star Trek fans will be alienated and Star Trek fans won't go to see it. I don't see how this will be a win for anyone involved ('cept the people who have already been paid & don't have to worry about residuals). I'll still go see it, but from what I've already seen/heard, I'm preparing for disappointment.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:40:55 +0000

I'm pretty sure the music is actually from the movie "Gladiator."

By: Shakey

Shakey — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:51:13 +0000

Voyager was built to land, and it some odd way that's the only bit of the entire show I had no issue with.

Who's to say that ships aren't constructed partly on earth but the really heavy bits like warp drives aren't attached in space? It would be cheaper to build the structurals on Earth where the workers can come and go and then have the specialists in space waiting.

By: Shakey

Shakey — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:31:08 +0000

I couldn't agree more…why bother to shoehorn it in to a timeline that's already been shattered by the Trek writers themselves? It was broken long before JJ showed up.

This movie is not canon. It's a NEW canon.

By: Shakey

Shakey — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:27:22 +0000

If Roddenberry is doing any grave-spinning, it's because of Rick Berman and Brannon Braga and that abortion of a show Enterprise (which finished off the nosedive that started with Voyager). THAT was whoring out the Trek franchise and pretty much destroyed any semblance of canon and credibility.

Having read a number of interviews with JJ, Pine and Quinto, it seems very clear to me that they're all attempting to revive a lot of what made TOS great, right down to the primary colour uniforms, sewn-in Star Fleet badges and that wonderful mix of slightly camp with the tense, unknown frontier, the warp-speed Love Machine that was Kirk, the beautifully conflicted Spock.

Again with the indie band analogy: who cares how much money they make and how much they grow if their soul remains the same? If JJ can rekindle the Trek soul then who cares that this origin story breaks canon? (and screw canon – all Trek writers have been for years).

Frankly, you're welcome to the franchise as it stands. I'm looking forward to this and what I hope will be JJ's Trek resurrection – if anybody can breathe life back into her it's JJ.

By: Surge

Surge — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:18:15 +0000

Other then the fact that ships like the Enterprise are built in space in the Star Trek universe (since they are not made to lift off or land on planets), it looks cool.

By: Kyochan

Kyochan — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:12:04 +0000

I'm not a Trekkie (I was raised in the wild, aka, with technophobes) but I now live with three Trekkies. I'm being converted slowly. VERY slowly. We will probably end up seeing this movie.