Amph Star Trek Beyond

They should just give Karl Urban his own Sci-Fi movie, oh wait they did, it was brilliant and we need more like it!

 

You mean Dredd? Out of any film franchise, apart from Star Wars, Dredd is the one which demands a trilogy.

 

Or at least a Sequel.

 

Dredd is so awesome I think it almost doesn't need a sequel. Yeah, that's right! Its too darn good!

 

Would still really like to see one, even if it is just for the sake of Karl Urban getting to be in some kind of good movie again.

 

I really didn't like Dredd the first time I saw it, but I watched it again a few years back when it was on Netflix for a while. And then I watched it again, and I realized it's pretty damn good.

I feel bad now, because I've said some rude things about it in the past.

 

Y'know, I'm assuming the Enterprise gets toasted in the first 20 minutes to close out the 1st act, which is a bit of a change since the last 2 times it happened in Search for Spock and Generations it was what kicked off the third act. Quite frankly, we're due for the Enterprise destruction. It's been over 20 years and five movies since the last time it happened. We're due! And since it's the 3rd movie, if none of the castmembers bite it, might as well be the Enterprise herself.

 

Eh. The trailer does nothing for me, but I just watched the 2009 film again today and really enjoyed it. I know it's not really true to the Trek series (all of which I enjoy to varying degrees), but I still thought it was a very good action sci-fi film. I love it for what it is. Into Darkness I liked well enough, but disliked the whole John Harrison misdirection. I think the plot would have been interesting enough had they just let him be John Harrison and just built a story around Section 31 and a conspiracy plot to start a war with the Klingons.

This trailer doesn't get me excited like Into Darkness', but I'll remain optimistic. Eh. When I heard the plot was going to take place on their five year journey, I was expecting a story that would see the shift visit several locations, kind of like how the Star Wars films hit several planets in each installment. Having them get stuck on some new planet was not expected, but it could be interesting.

In a franchise that was about exploration, we've pretty much just seen Qo'nos, Earth, Vulcan, and that's about it. There was that planet at the beginning of ST:ID, and then Delta Vega. That's pretty much just one explored planet.

 

I'm so excited! I did that star trek omaze thing and I got my concept art piece yesterday which surprised me! They said they wouldn't release it until after the movie came out. It's a really nice piece too! A lot bigger than I was expecting. It's a pic of the USS Franklin signed by the whole bridge crew actors. The example pic they showed only had one autograph so I was surprised they were all there. It'll look awesome on my wall. I can post a pic of it later if anyone wants to see it. I just haven't had time to snap a picture of it.

 

The primary value of 09 Trek is as an homage/tribute to Nimoy.

 

I disagree. Star Trek had obviously been failing. Voyager ditched Kes in favor of the more sexy Seven of Nine, I'm in the process of watching Voyager and yeah, just the majority of the episodes of Season 5 seem to be centered around her so far. It went from a show about the various crew members trying to get home to more Borg action and how sexy Seven relates to the rest of the crew. Trek was already moving into the direction of action and sex appeal. Then Enterprise was by and large a failure. For the record, I like Enterprise. I like all the series, but Enterprise was definitely the weakest. Most of its episodes were based on ideas that had already been done - and better - in the other series. Then there's a 4 year gap of no Trek before the 09 movie, which was action, but so was Nemesis.

And after what will be 12 years without a Trek series on air, they finally green lit one due in 2017, on account of the Abrams' films success.

Posthumously, I can see Nimoy's presence in the 09 film in a better light, but that was never something I saw as its primary selling point.

I see the 09 Trek as successfully generating new interest in a franchise that had declined in ticket sales in Insurrection and Nemesis, and had seen declined interest in Voyager and Enterprise.

 

People lost interest in Trek because Voyager, Enterprise, Insurrection, and Nemesis were mediocre-to-bad. The answer was not to "reboot" the thing with old characters, shallowly copying old stories (actually it was the same one twice) and turning Trek into a boring, generic action sci-fi dystopia. They could have done a new series with new characters set however many years after the TNG era and as long as it was well-written fans would have come back. But no, Paramount just wanted to milk the IP for all it's worth at the box office.

And I think I said it earlier in this thread, but "sex appeal" with Seven of Nine was backward, misogynistc, dumb, and absolutely contrary to what Trek's utopian future is supposed to stand for-- that is, humans can move beyond bigotry and general paleolithic sensibilities. I dread the idiocy a Kurtzman-helmed series will bring.

 

Do I have to post image of Uss franklin in spoiler tags you think? Its just concept art they could change it.

 

The picture of the USS Franklin is on the TrekCore site so I would think that if it's on there, then you can post it here with *Spoilers* tag.

 

I like the look off that USS Franklin ship, even though

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it kinda sorta looks like the Enterprise NX-01

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Okay let me see if I can get the spoiler tags right.

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I'm not talking about Nemesis. I'm talking about the Abrams movies.

 

That is really amazing with the signatures. And I always liked

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the NX-01 design so I'm happy for a throwback to it. Maybe it's a modded NX-01 that kept being refitted. Headcanon FTW.

 

How do they

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see over the saucer rim

with the

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bridge window set in that concave section

?

 

Are we really tagging spoilers about the look of a ***damned ship? It just looks like a Starfleet vessel. There's nothing special about it. This is like tagging photos of Vulcan ears.

Anyway, it doesn't look like the NX-01. It looks like the Akira.