The question for me, after seeing this trailer in front of Quantum of Solace, is: What are the faithful gonna say? I sat next to a dude who said "They’re doing this to these fans!?" No one is more adherent to continuity than Trekkers/Trekkies, no one is more mindful of every iota of their characters’ history. I’m one of those fans — and I kinda loved it. Sure, I don’t buy a kid of 13 or so introducing himself with the full, official "James Tiberius Kirk," but lots of stuff blew up good, Zachary Quinto looks and sounds as awesome as we thought he would as Spock, and Uhura took her top off. More happened in these 90 seconds than happened in all of Star Trek: Nemesis.
It could absolutely still suck, but it’s promising. And, again, Uhura took her top off. If that’s not an upside to a reboot, then I don’t know what is. What do you think?
Before people in the audience figured out it was Star Trek, the first reaction I heard about the robotic cop was, “Whoa this looks AWESOME!” then all perceptions seemed to change once they found out what it was they were seeing… I feel the trailer got our audience excited but they were all acting too cool to admit it.
Quinto just continually proves he is totally perfect for this role. He’s the only part of this new ST that I’m excited about.
The blooger seemed very happy about Uhura taking her shirt off. ST has never been very socially conscious on its sexualization of women and Uhura was one of those accidents that was powerful, especially in the films. By sexualizing her even more in the movie takes away what little power she had as a character. Congrats, over sexualize the black woman.
The one thing that made me sqwee with nerd glee was Abrams use of the classic trek title. And the little music of the transporter overtop. LOVED IT. Thats detail.
Will I see it? Yes.
I think Zachary Quinto’s new job is going to be “making otherwise so-so things much more awesome.” First Heroes, then Star Trek.
Also, he and Chris Pine are looking good. Just sayin’.
i don’t even like Star Trek and I’m DEFINITELY seeing that.
You must really be a scifi geek if a woman taking her top off is the most exciting thing for you in the trailer. What a tool!
As for the trailer itself, as a non fan it really did not make me any more interested.
I think I might like to see this. Zachary Quinto is great & I’m excited to see what Simon Pegg does with his role.
The trailer stunk, no ifs and or buts. The matte work was the worst I’ve seen since the second set of Star Wars movies. Quinto, okay, not a bad choice for a young Spock, but, really, folks, when are you going to realize that J.J. Abrams is an Emperor without clothes?
No doubt about it. That was an awesome trailer! The theater that I saw Quantum of Solace in last night was about 60% full and they went absolutely nuts at the opening scene of Star Trek where kid Kirk is sliding towards and then partially off of the edge of the cliff. Collectively, the audience let out a huge gasp. As well, there were so many regenerated details from the series included in the trailer and they all looked and sounded so refreshed. From the uncanny resemblance of the young Spock and young Kirk to the ‘STARTREK’ logo, the sideview of the Enterprise, and the StarTrek theme music leading into the transporter sound effect; FAN-tastic stuff!!! No wonder this thing got pushed to the summer release date of May 8th, 2009. One way to predict a future blockbuster is to listen for chatter after the trailer ends, and people were talking in very excited voice tones. Easily, this is going to be the most anticipated and best Star Trek film in the history of the franchise.
I’m more a fan of the TNG than the original, however I have loved most of what Abrams has given us so far (except for Fringe, which is just so-so) and Quinto is awesome, so I’m definitely seeing it!
I’ve only seen the youtube version, but I’m a long time trek fan, more a fan of the original series and films than any other… but this trailer looks awesome. I don’t want an impersonation of characters I know and love.. I want them to be faithful to what’s essential, not superficial. I think this looks great, and will give the franchise what its been missing. Final judgement reserved for the movie itself, but this trailer looks promising in tone.
I did not realize I was watching the S/T trailer when it first started, but I was impressed. If the movie is as stong as the trailer, WOW.
Loved it. Abrams is the perfect guy to make this reboot work. I’m excited.
I’m not even that much of a Trek fan, though i did enjoy ST.TNG — but i’m definetely there for this one. IT LOOKS FANTASTIC!
i thought that looked pretty cool!
This trailer looks awful. The warped time lines with continuity errors, bland acting (note to all young actors: staring intensely into a camera all the time does not equal great acting), and shoddy story means this will be Star Trek movie number two that I will willfully ignore. Have producers learned nothing from Nemesis? Don’t alienate the fan base, especially when it is already so strong AND multi-generational. Also, they did a bad casting job for Kirk and Spock, they look way too similar, especially in low lighting. It takes a minute to register the ears or uniform color.