Comments on: Comic-Con: Did Fox nix a ‘Star Trek’ preview at the ‘Fringe’ panel?

By: sallyjupitershair

sallyjupitershair — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:32:01 +0000

not only was quinto there, but so were chris pine, john cho and simon pegg aka MOST OF THE CAST.
and there was no “out of respect” to fox or paramount here. this was clearly all JJ himself, being, I hate to say it, but an idiot. all he had to do was show the cast together on stage and that damn scene he showed harry knowles of all people and the fans would have gone nuts. paramount had a lot of potential for an amazing panel this year with transformers and g.i. joe coming up – but a paramount panel with no star trek? couldn’t be done.
thanks a lot, JJ.
you better make up for this at wondercon!

By: Rob Grizzly

Rob Grizzly — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:59:06 +0000

It’s a shame they didn’t have anything to show, but if the FX aren’t ready, then they aren’t ready. The last thing Abrams or Paramount needs is hundreds of fanboys walking out of Comic-Con thinking Star Trek looked like complete ****

By: wg

wg — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:38:50 +0000

“Paramount, which had no presence at Comic-Con this year.”
Did you tell that to the people running the big Paramount booth in the middle of the dealers room? They were handing out Star Trek posters and other promo stuff for Tropic Thunder and Transformers 2 and the line to get their swag t-shirts was regularly over an hour wait.
I’d pretty much call that having a presence at Comic-Con.

By: to Belly Button

to Belly Button — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:52:50 +0000

Couldn’t agree more. My fear is that in JJ’s attempts to dumb down his new show for the masses, it will be, in fact, dumbed down. Seriously, what’s so hard about following a show from week to week? Or being confused once in awhile? That’s half the fun.

By: Belly Button

Belly Button — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:56:48 +0000

“I got sick of hearing people say they got confused when watching those shows.”
I get sick of hearing how America is filled with idiots and the extent to which they are catered.

By: ST Fan

ST Fan — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:27:43 +0000

Paramount really blew a huge opportunity to talk about the Star Trek movie to their prime audience. I’m sure Comic-Con would have loved them to do a program even if they didn’t have footage to show. Clearly they had the director there (Abrams) and some of the cast (Quinto) since they showed up to promote other projects. I guess Paramount just doesn’t care about the fans.

By: Doc

Doc — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 04:44:41 +0000

went to this panel and it was pretty low energy. JJ Abrams seemed sharp and Josh Jackson actually did too, but the moderator was terrible. His first question to Jackson was a Pacey joke that tanked; then he bombed again with some Australia jokes to the two cast members from Australia, culminating in a Lord of the Rings reference that led to confusion on the faces of the people on stage and murmers of “New Zealand, idiot” throughout the audience…. You just didn’t sense enthusiasm from the show’s makers, Abrams came across as over-extended, and among the three cast members present, only Jackson had any charisma. The two writers also went on a tangent about how they were waiting to write Transformers 2 until they had a “necessary” plot, which came across as completely inauthentic. By the end, I thought, ‘Wow, I am sitting here just listening to advertising.’ As I was leaving, I got the keychain-leaf that another poster mentions, but I threw it away.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 10:37:59 +0000

On the way out of this panel, I was handed a leaf (a sign fromt he show) and a black light. the light revealed a clue on the leaf that me and many others on a chain of directions across the convention center and downtown, involving ginger ale, barrels of apples, skywriting, and cows in the middle of downtown san diego. It ended with a screening of the pilot episode on top of a parking garage. at night.

By: Nathiest

Nathiest — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 09:15:46 +0000

people are stupid I would totally had been there.