Exclusive: ‘Star Trek’ Teaser Trailer Description Surfaces Online

….because Star Trek was built on continuity and believability….and for this to be part of the whole, rather than a “reimagining” that insults, denigrates and disrespects 40 years of fandom (who pay Paramount’s bills, BTW), this piece of ‘drek’ won’t be worth watching……..

…TWOK was not a Trek film either! Harve Bennett and Nick Meyer knew as much about Trek as George Bush knows about Canada….Saavik is a male name, and the entire crew was wearing British Army uniforms c1890 without the bearskin busbies….and the Enterprise was a training veseel for “space cadets” and Spock would never have captained a Starship….and Khan was a waste where as in “Space Seed” he was a three-dimensional, nuanced, socially relevant character…….a piece of garbage that I have only watched once in 26 years, whereas TMP is my favourite film of all time!

….and thanks for correcting my spelling of canon….appreciated….watch BSG…Ron Moore actually has integrity……

And it was nerds obsessing over minutiae that ruined the fun of the show. People like me who enjoyed the series and movies have had to remain closeted in mixed company for DECADES because of questions like these.

Frankly, I hope Abrams changes the smallest things just to help finally break loose the Berman barnacles that have eroded the franchise. I hope stardates change because it will cause thousands of people to whine and complain that the eternal, unerring technical manuals and newsgroup FAQs are now contradicted. I hope dilithium crystals are replaced with clown farts for the same reasons.

Star Trek has become “OH NO WE’RE TRAPPED BY SOME ALIENS WITH NIPPLES ON THEIR FOREHEADS THANKS TO A CREATIVITY DEFICIT IN OUR MAKEUP DEPARTMENT!” “Well let’s just reverse the bussard collector and recalibrate the deflector dish and reverse the shield harmonics and blabbity bloo: episode over, because we’re just as drained for creativity in the writing department. It worked last week, so it should work this week as well.”

It’s fiction. It’s not about facts, not even invented facts. Throw yourself into the spirit of the adventure, because that’s what Star Trek is about.

As long as we’re talking continuity.

There are many things that happen before Kirk commands the Enterprise. Many of the people we see in the caslist were not friends during their academy years. Some didn’t even know each other, were on different ships, had totally different groups of friends. So it’s true at first glance there seems to be a problem here.

The only answer therefor can be that this movie has a clever answer for that. Maybe it shifts between several time-periods. So the acamdemy section maybe set years before the Enterprise sections. Let’s hope it’s something like that, or else maybe, the time-travelling Spock assembles the crew in order to save the future and afterwards everyone’s memory is erased or reset, as hasbeen done numerous times in episodes.What I am saying is, there could be various ways of doing this in keeping with established cannon and we whouldn’t judge the film before it’s finished.

I doubt these filmmakers take all the backstories into account, and I would have to say those backstories are contradictory in and of themselves many times. But I do hope they at least try to keep with what has been established, some things are easily avoided.

It has been stated (in cannon) that the Enterprise was built in space, but the materials had to come from somehwhere and I don’t think it has ever been established that parts of it could never have been built on Earth. As opposed to the Enterprise D which was built at the Utopia Planetia fleet yards on Mars (also a planet one might add)

So maybe it was merely assembled in earth orbit, much as the International Space Station is today.

No one who says “cannon” when they mean “canon” deserves to have what they say given any respect.

its a teaser, it doesnt gurantee/reflect what could be in the final film 100%