The new Star Trek trailer deconstructed - part one
November 18th, 2008
Right, to say that I’m excited about this film is the biggest understatement of them all, this is THE film for 2009 for me and that’s even with Watchmen coming out. For months and months we’ve gone with no information about the Star Trek, a media black out because they didn’t want the film spoilt, but now you can’t do anything but see cool stuff from Star Trek.
I love the teaser trailer that was released ages ago, it felt like coming home especially when Nimoy’s voice recites Space… the final frontier. But the second trailer is the pay off, it looks amazing and we get to see quite a bit actually so I thought I might download a HD copy and take a much closer look:
The trailer opens with a red sports car racing along the road and if you were freakishly observant you may have gotten your first hint that this is a certain James T Kirk since the plates are futuristic Iowa plates:
I wouldn’t feel too bad if you didn’t see it as there were about five frames that I could barely make this out in, it’s a nice reference though to Kirk’s established home state.
We then see a hover bike cop chasing the car towards a giant gorge which when I look at it again with more detail looks like the remains of a city, but I’m fairly certain this is just my impression as the walls look like cut stone.
Of course the car comes way too close to the edge and young Kirk has to leap from the car in a scene that reminds me of Mission Impossible 2, obviously we’re establishing some daredevil tendencies:
He barely makes it out of the car in time and we are treated to a view of the gorge (or is it a ravine?) and how deep it is (it may be a canyon… it’s a hole in the ground), it seems to me that it’s been dug out for raw materials maybe?
Young Kirk is lying in the dust after his car falls to the bottom of the gorge and he is approached by a police man/robot who was the one chasing him originally on the hover bike. I suggest that it may be a robot, but it would seem a little advanced for what we know about the 23rd century so far. Any conspiracy nuts out there want to discuss the significance of 924?
The child then makes a lot of people cringe and declares himself James Tiberius Kirk (I probably would have just said James T Kirk myself but you know). We’re then treated to Chris Pine riding another hover bike out to where they are building the Enterprise, for all the purists complaining about the ship being built on Earth, this looks way cooler. It is also nice that Kirk and the Enterprise come from the same place (we see the same two buildings in the background so I guess it is still in Iowa).
Yes it seems like a Top Gun moment, no I don’t care. The shot looks awesome I’m sure it serves the storyline by being built down on Earth. It is very symbolic of them rebuilding the Star Trek franchise back from the ground up.
So enough Kirk, on to Spock and Vulcan which looks like a desert city which is right for the Vulcan we all know and love.
We then hear a voice over describing Spock’s life as half human half vulcan and like Kirk we see a very young Spock, I’m not sure if this is Sarek or someone else.
Yeah this kid looks like the other Vulcans won’t let him play their reindeer games.
We then cut to see Winona Ryder playing Amanda, Spock’s mother with Sarek, who really looks the part, I have to say that the casting in this film is just awesome.
Hang on a second? I think I’ve seen those rocks in the background somewhere else? Is that a Gorn I see… (apologies to all the non Trek geeks out there).
I can only guess that the next scene is Spock telling the High Council that he’s off to join Starfleet, making these guys the scariest looking guidance councillors I’ve ever seen.
The next shot gives us perhaps our first look at the transporter effect as it will appear in the film, showing Spock materialising on a planet that appears to be crumbling (I’m thinking it is still Vulcan as there is a scene coming up showing Spock with his parents running from falling rocks etc). I suppose it may simply be some sort of effect from time travel and the time line being messed with.
Ok so that’s it for part one, I was going to do this in one big post but this is getting away from me slightly, remember to subscribe so you don’t miss part two!
So what do you think about this part of the trailer? Think that’s the transporter? Doesn’t the ship look cool?
See the whole trailer at the Apple site or at the Star Trek site.
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Ship: cool. Transporter effect: yep, also cool. “James Tiberius Kirk”: eh… kinda lame, actually.
Trailer: very cool.
I’m in.
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By Lee on November 18th, 2008 | Reply
I think young Kirk saying his name is one of those moments that is probably really cool in a novel or on the page but is always going to translate quite awkwardly onto film and especially through the mouth of a child actor. That being said, I’m not completely concerned or upset by the sequence, the kid says it with enough confidence that I can wear it.
I must admit I am more interested in seeing poor young Spock in his formative years.
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By Jeff on November 19th, 2008 | Reply
Speaking of Spock… it’s scary how much Quinto looks like Nimoy in that transporter shot.
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By Lee on November 19th, 2008 | Reply
I know! I love the story about how he got the part, people kept telling him that he looked like Spock and that they were talking about a new movie so he actively pursued the role because he really wanted to do it.
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