New Star Trek Trailer 591
roelbj writes "The full trailer to the next Star Trek movie is now available at the movie's official web site. The upcoming J.J. Abrams-helmed installment represents a changing of the guard, a reboot of the franchise, and a return to the original-series crew. It should prove interesting to see how Abrams' writing staff (Cloverfield, Lost, Alias) tackles the Star Trek universe and all the continuity and baggage that comes with it."
Fuck Star Trek, Here Comes Watchmen! (Score:0, Informative)
Guess because it's Trek, it gets day to day duplicate coverage.
VLC (Score:5, Informative)
works nicely with VLC under linux too (that is with native linux opensource codecs as FFMPEG. No evil closed source QuickTime DLLs required).
mplayer also does a nice trick impersonating a quicktime plugin.
Something wrong with the movie (Score:5, Informative)
In the trailer, we see Kirk racing his motorbike and seeing the Enterprise being built.
Wasn't it built in Earth orbit, you ask?
Well, I think they got *that* part right. According to the Original Series Dedication Plaque, the Constitution Class Enterprise was constructed at San Francisco Fleet Yards on Earth and in Earth orbit. According to the Star Trek Encyclopedia, the orbital facility and starbase featured in ST: TMP was San Francisco Fleet Yards. According to the novelization of ST: A Flag Full of Stars, the San Francisco Fleet Yards also had facilities on Earth.
So, if Kirk was racing his bike in the San Francisco area, he *could* have seen the enterprise being built.
But.. I say, he still couldn't have!!
You see, Enterprise was built and launched in 2245
Kirk was born in 2233.
He would have been only 12 years old at the time they show him racing his bike and seeing the enterprise being built.
Re:XviD trailer please? (Score:4, Informative)
mplayer -fs -cache 1024 -cache-min 99 'http://movies.apple.com/movies/paramount/star_trek/startrek-tlr2_h.640.mov'
works just fine on my crappy K7 system. ( Kubuntu 8.04 )
jdb2
Re:Uneasy (Score:1, Informative)
The Star Trek TOS tv series was always a "mindless summer action flick" type show, only shorter and on weekly instead of once per every few years.
Re:Something wrong with the movie (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Robots? (Score:3, Informative)
Although TOS certainly didn't do androids or robots on every episode, they certainly did NOT shy away from doing them. I think Kirk almost ended up doing them more than once.
Trailers in easy-to-download format. (Score:4, Informative)
From here. [hd-trailers.net]
Re:Quicktime? Seriously? (Score:2, Informative)
$ wget http://movies.apple.com/movies/paramount/star_trek/startrek-tlr2_h480.mov
$ mplayer startrek-tlr2_h480.mov
Re:Quicktime? Seriously? (Score:5, Informative)
Good News Everybody! This will very soon cease to be the case.
HTML 5 specifies a <video> element. Firefox 3.1 will support this, with the Ogg Theora codec included out of the box.
Re:Uneasy (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Quicktime? Seriously? (Score:5, Informative)
Good News Everybody! This will very soon cease to be the case.
HTML 5 specifies a element. Firefox 3.1 will support this, with the Ogg Theora codec included out of the box.
Yep, it's impressive too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Har-PRP4X9U [youtube.com]
http://www.double.co.nz/video_test/test4.html [double.co.nz]
Nothing to do, just use Firefox and "it just works(tm)".
Re:Fuck Star Trek, Here Comes Watchmen! (Score:2, Informative)
Direct links to HD versions of trailers (Score:5, Informative)
Direct links to trailers:
480p: http://movies.apple.com/movies/paramount/star_trek/startrek-tlr2_h480p.mov [apple.com]
720p: http://movies.apple.com/movies/paramount/star_trek/startrek-tlr2_h720p.mov [apple.com]
1080p: http://movies.apple.com/movies/paramount/star_trek/startrek-tlr2_h1080p.mov [apple.com]
All play perfectly in VLC and mplayer.
Re:Uneasy (Score:3, Informative)
A bigger continuity flaw in the trailer is the fact that Kirk can drive a stick. He had serious problems with it in "Patterns of Force."
[NERD-ALERT]
You mean "A Piece of the Action"
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Re:Fuck Star Trek, Here Comes Watchmen! (Score:5, Informative)
windows people who dont want to install that apple crapware
1. get quicktime alternative ( http://www.free-codecs.com/download/quicktime_alternative.htm [free-codecs.com])
2. open this url http://movies.apple.com/movies/paramount/star_trek/startrek-tlr2_h.640.mov
in vlc player
Re:Both franchise shared the same fate. (Score:3, Informative)
No, I mean the way the 4th series ended. Nonsensical, totally unfinished and chopped off at the knees. It was as if the writers were suddenly sacked and the ending written by the janitor because there was no money left for anything else. I remember staring in stunned silence at the TV screen with my mouth open. I had really gotten into the 4th series: it had finally found itself and developed into a good story. Compulsory watching in my house. Then someone dragged it out back and shot it through the head because the fans didn't just deserted it, but threw shit pies at it every chance they got. I clearly remember the vitriol and crowing on Slashdot when it died. Made me quite sick.
And now here you are getting all judgmental and suggesting the same, based on a 2 min clip of a film not even released yet.
Re:Uh oh-Mr. Abrams needs to hang himself. (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Uh oh (Score:2, Informative)