JJ Abrams' Star Trek

[TODE]

Kirk did.

So did Gene Roddenberry!

I fucking hate The Menagerie.

Then try watching The Cage!

[Mr-K]

Fuck that episode more.

The Menagerie is like watching Star Trek characters watch an episode of Star Trek.

[Advocate]

Getting back to the movie franchise.

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/41234

A cautionary note: it's very easy to read too much into Greenwood's comment below, so take all of this as fodder for discussion/harebrained theorizing more than an advancement of fact. This said, in a recent interview with the Examiner, the consistently badass Bruce Greenwood (criminally underutilized as Pike in the new TREK movie) may've opened up a ginormous can o' hydras.

EXAMINER: What would you like to see happen in any of the sequels?
GREENWOOD: I think these guys are clever enough to do at least two more and have the final one do a really hard dovetail into the beginning of [the storylines] for the original ["Star Trek"] series. My expectations are very high for them. The only thing I’d like to see, from a personal standpoint, is the mentor relationship between Kirk and Pike to continue.

...said Greenwood in THIS INTERVIEW with Examiner.
"a really hard dovetail into the beginning of [the storylines] for the original ["Star Trek"] series. " Hmmmmmmm.....

The first question that pops to mind, is: will Abrams & Co. have to make any structural/mechanical adjustments to their altered timeline if they're gonna be doing "hard dovetails" into storylines which might, in theory, not even exist in the alternate timeline/universe they're in?

Does the phrasing of Greenwood's statement not infer that The Original Series somehow unfolds/exists as a separate point in time/distinct events from the current Abramsverse? How is changed timeline reconciled with "Original Series" events (if at all)?

Doesn't some kind of change have to happen? In the current film, doesn't Spocklet say that its character's destinies are altered/they'll lead different lives/whatever? How do "altered destinies" match up with established TOS stories w/o some kind of shake-up to bridge the two? Seems like something has to happen to "reset" or at least "re-calibrate" the divergent realities if storyline are going to dovetail..."hard"...

Or, am I wrong?

Am I reading too much into the statement?

Or...???

Fun food for thought...

[Anthony]

Fuck that episode more.

The Menagerie is like watching Star Trek characters watch an episode of Star Trek.

There was a point where you were watching the Star Trek characters watch aliens watch an episode of Star Trek. Awesome.

I had already seen part of the pilot before, so I was on the their schemes.

I think I have seen the cage, I don't remember disliking it. Was that the one with the cube of death?

[cka]

the cage IS the unaired pilot that was used as filler in the menagerie

the episode you're thinking of, if I'm remembering my nondescript random spaceships they run into, is the one with clint howard as a space manbaby with awful teeth "The Corbomite Maneuver"

[Mr-K]

Clint Howard's reveal in that episode is one of the best "Oh for fuck's sake" moments in the series

[Josh]

Spock took like 4 punches to the face without stopping his computer shit. That was hilarious enough for me.

Spock is straight gangsta.

[bbobb]

Just saw this in the theater today.

I think this movie needed more lens flare.

[TODE]

We just wrapped up season 3 of DS9 and started season 4. The second-to-last ep of S3 has Dax interacting with all her previous hosts via temporary psychic projection unto her co-workers. Kirzon Odo FTW.

And the opener is basically DS9: The Movie... tons of action, everyone has something to do, Big Story (the Klingons invade Cardassia!) and lots of great battle SFX (I think they moved to CG for their models this year). Also, Worf and Bald Sisko debut.

[Timber]

Stop it! You're making me want to go through DS9 again even though I've got a lot of stuff I haven't seen yet to check out.