Jan 21 2008
To boldly go
The teaser trailer for Star Trek XI is up at the official site (I hear some people actually bought tickets for Cloverfield just to see this trailer). Among clips of famous sayings associated with space flight, they have Spock’s voice doing the “Space, the final frontier …” bit. I find myself wondering how much this will be revisionist, and how much play into the ST universe.
In some ways the trailer looks revisionist: what’s all this blow-torching and welding the Enterprise’s hull together and seemingly on Earth, or at least in an atmosphere? I always thought the Enterprise was built in a space dock. And surely after Scotty gave the secret of transparent aluminium away in the 20th century, things have moved beyond welding. If you can diagnose and cure almost any ailment with an upside-down salt-shaker medical tricorder, a blow-torch is a tad primitive. Then again, I give them this, it looks gritty and interesting in a way that promises something a bit different.