Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Star Trek Trailer Analysis

The new trailer has official premiered with Watchmen and online and the analysis has begun.

TrekMovie.com provides the best with a shot by shot breakdown of the trailer.

The highlights:
- Solid shots of the USS Kelvin fighting Nero's Narada with its 24th century technology.
- The USS Kelvin is TOS era Phasers and Pulse canons.
- Brief shot of the Kirk parents and baby Kirk.
- In class briefing by Spock at Starfleet Academy get glimpse of the once and future Enterprise crew.
- The black hole image of the black claw ship aka Nero's Narada more likely his method of time travel.
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- The shot of a beam weapon firing is on a mostly water based planet suggesting San Francisco Bay, not Vulcan, is under attack.
- Still no clues on what planet is imploding.
- Captain Pike is at some point captured by Nero, which puts Spock in charge. Kirk picks a fight with Spock that gets him removed from command somehow allowing the Ensign to take command.
- Delta Vega is name of the ice planet that Kirk seems trapped on and seen getting attacked by Cloverfieldish type alien.
- Person Spock is hugging is Uhura.
- Women watching attack on Vulcan is Amanda Grayson (Winona Ryder).
- Towards end, when Enterprise is in some debris field, a corpse is highlighted by the sun in the background. Definitely not something would seen in old style Trek.
- Most of the starship damage shown in the film is not the Enterprise but actually the Kelvin.

A much more amusing take comes from Boing Boing with 12 things learned from the new trailer. Click the link to check it out, but below are a few of my favorites.

2 comments:

  1. 1. In the image pointing out Uhura, Chekov, and McCoy, Sulu is between Uhura and Chekov.

    2. The planet imploding is probably Romulus in the aftermath of the star going nova.

    3. The insignia woven into the uniforms is similar to Superman's suit made up of his insignia.

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  2. Towards end, when Enterprise is in some debris field, a corpse is highlighted by the sun in the background. Definitely not something would seen in old style Trek.


    Im sorry but in Enterprise's episode Azati Prime we see crewmen's getting suck out of the ship and then floating dead in space.

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