Re: Star Trek Teaser Trailer Now Up On The Internets

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 Anybody <anybody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> In article
> <bob-6F0636.18563719012008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Warchild
> <bob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> > In article <13p57vvgdd6inae@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >  "Steven L." <sdlitvin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > GeneK wrote:
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> > > > "Tom" <drsoong@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > >> Perhaps it's more symbolic than anything else... Abrams is
rebuilding
> > > >> the franchise, making the bonds with fans stronger.
> > > > 
> > > > Yeah, that's what I figured.  I'm hoping the Enterprise
> > > > construction scene is some kind of one-off for the
> > > > teaser and they aren't actually going to start the movie
> > > > off with a launch like Lost in Space.
> > > 
> > > I hope you're right.
> > > Because if the scene is really in the movie, then where the heck
would 
> > > it fit in?
> > > 
> > > If the movie includes the scene when the Big E gets built, it likely

> > > means that the movie must end with Pike having just taken command of
the 
> > > ship (maybe with Spock as his young Science Officer).  Ensign Kirk
goes 
> > > off to serve on some other ship.
> > > 
> > > Abrams has said that he would be interested in doing more Trek
movies 
> > > (assuming that Trek XI is successful, of course).  In that case,
might 
> > > we see more Abrams movies featuring Pike as the captain, until Kirk 
> > > finally gets to relieve Pike of his command?
> > 
> > I have a theory about the movie.  
> > The plot driver is time-travel.
> > The events in the movie are non-linear, or at least skipping through 
> > broad patches of Kirk's early life.  
> > With that in mind, we might see the Enterprise being constructed in
one 
> > sequence, skip back in time in the next, and then skip forward to Kirk

> > taking command at the end of the film.  I wouldn't be surprised if
that 
> > is how the movie plays.
> 
> Yep, Pike accidently crashes his previous ship on a deserted island ...
> only it's not deserted. There is a strange smoke monster and other
> people already there, one of whom has to enter a code into the computer
> every 42 minutes (and has been doing so for 3 years until Spock takes
> over). The crew goes through various adventure with flashbacks to their
> lives leading up to the crash ... and by the end of the movie you're
> still none the wiser as to what it was actually all about.  ;-)

I am so onboard with that movie...