Star Trek XI Plot Details Revealed

HotChk101 writes to tell us that the plot for Star Trek XI has been revealed over at IESB. This information has not yet been confirmed by the studio so take with the requisite grain of salt. Be warned link contains potential spoiler information.

Spoilers

[niceone]

Who would have guessed an article that tells you the plot of a movie would contain spoilers? Luckily TFA has so many spoiler warnings that I gave up reading before I got to any mention of the plot.

Hypocrisy!

[Greatmoose]

So the author starts off the article by lambasting those who don't know the original series, and then proceeds to spend the majority of the article rehashing the "City on the Edge of Forever" episode and the Kobyashi Maru scenario. Oh, and has a few sentences thrown in about the new movie. Man, that was bad.

More time travel? DO NOT WANT!

[bckrispi]

Out of the 10 current films, three of them involve time travel with the intent of changing the present. Are the writers so bereft of fresh ideas that they need to go back to this stale premise again??? Gahh! Jar Jar was annoying, but at least he was original.

Re:Surprisingly not terrible

[owlnation]

...that could actually be a pretty decent plot with good writing and acting.

Winona Ryder has been cast as Spock's mother. So there goes some of the acting...

But it is an "Odd Number"... so it will "suck"...

[Fallen Kell]

Come on. We all know the curse of the odd number Trek movie. It has happened every time. While the Trek content out there has toned down a bit (there isn't a single active series out there), I still think the movie will suffer the curse of the odd number. I hope that it won't, but I just have this feeling that both the trekies and non-trekies will hate this movie. The trekies will hate it for changing the "universe" for some reason or another, because it is going to be a prequel, and doing that just begs to mess with the cosmic timestream, especially in a sci-fi universe with so much literature, movies, and TV series as Star Trek (this is one of the reasons why trekies didn't like "Enterprise" due to it screwing with the "verse"). The non-trekies will hate it because to them it is just another trekie film...

That's the problem.

[khasim]

Don't get me wrong, I'll still pay to go see it and drag my wife along kicking and screaming to see it with me.

SCORE!!!

No matter what crap they produce, just stamp "Star Trek" on it and they've sold tickets.

They won't stop producing crap until you stop paying them for the crap.

It's got time travel in it. It's 100% guaranteed to suck. That's why they had to include baby Spock ..... better include Big Spock just to make sure. Yeah, that will sell tickets. No matter how bad.

Gak!!! More fscking time travel ....

[gstoddart]

Why can't anyone write a friggin' Trek script without pulling out the old Time Travel saw?

I'd love to see a well written script that didn't devolve into time travel or strange-particle-du-jour emissions.

Why does it always have to be time travel? Have we exhausted all that can be done in a sci-fi script??

*sigh* I don't even know if this is an odd or even Trek any more. I think I've given up on Trek.

Cheers

In a thousand years, I'll get right on it

[Dachannien]

The biggest reason that Enterprise sucked total ass was because of time travel, the "temporal cold war", and alien space Nazis.

Paramount takes a few years off to let the franchise breathe again, and they come back revitalized with... more time travel crap?!

When will they ever learn?

It's worse than that. He's dead, Jim.

[khasim]

The PROBLEM is that time travel does NOT change the present. They heroes fix the problem in the past and the present is the present again.

There's nothing moving FORWARD. There is no development or change. The entire movie could just as well never have happened.

Re:Spoilers

[Nimey]

That movie never happened.

Re:More time travel? DO NOT WANT!

[jo42]

Jar Jar was NOT original - 'he' was a parody of an African-American stereotype.

Academy Classes

[arthurpaliden]

So long as they do not have them all in the same year at the Academy or even all at the Academy at the same time. If they have Kirk and Chekov or even Sulu in the Academy at the same time I am waking out of the theater.

Re:More time travel? DO NOT WANT!

[MontyApollo]

And time travel is handled so poorly. In the TOS episode they had to go back and find out what happened, so it makes since for them to go back and figure it out.

In the movie plot however, Spocks knows what the Romulan's plan is, so he could just go back in time right before the Romulan tries to go back in time and kill him there couldn't he? He knows where and when he will be, but instead chases him some place where he has trouble finding him.

Same with the Generations movie plot. If Picard and Kirk could come out of the ribbon at whatever time they wanted, they could have chosen a better time and place.

In First Contact, the Borg could have time traveled in secret, not in the middle of a big battle where someone might figure out what they were doing. They could also keep trying until they got it right - they still had the knowledge of how to do it even if that one ship was destroyed.

I don't remember much about the save the whales movie.

That's why it makes the ideal Trek movie plot

[snowwrestler]

Why would anyone want to move the plot forward, or the characters to develop further? People are already super-invested in things the way they "know" them to be. These time plots are the perfect device for Star Trek--the characters and situations are already well-known and familiar to the hardcore fans. It's like that kids show Blues Clues, which shows the same episode every day for a week because little kids crave the familiar.

Re:Harlan Ellison

[illegalcortex]

I vote for the slingshot effect.