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The Star Trek Trailer is Gay!

Gay. Gay. Gay. Gay. Gay. / Dustin Rowles

Trade News | November 17, 2008 | Comments (108)


As Sarah Silverman would say: “Not gay as in homosexual, gay as in retarded.” Actually, a little homosexual, too, because it sort of looks like When Spock Met Kirk. Seriously, you can cut the sexual tension with a laser. Beam me up, Scotty. Into Spock’s love dungeon.

I gave J.J. the benefit of the doubt, thinking that Chris Pine might not look like the world’s biggest douchetool in the actual movie. Benefit revoked.This thing looks like Fast and the Furious: Spaceship. I haven’t even seen the movie yet, and I want my money back.


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Comments

oh dear.

is it wrong that i think that chris pine is still boyishly good looking, though? i mean, he was good enough for princess mia...

Posted by: smiley at November 17, 2008 1:17 PM

sorry, dustin. i like everything abrams has done to date, and i'm itching for a reason to like star trek again. not buying into the hate for this, not yet.

Posted by: drewmg at November 17, 2008 1:21 PM

Ugh. I don't even like Star Trek and I am offended by that preview on it's behalf.

Maybe I should become a fan, so I can properly hate it....A Klingon Christmas Carol- Here I come!

Posted by: Morgagod at November 17, 2008 1:22 PM

The last time I was excited about the Star Trek movie was when all I had seen was the one single shot of the Enterprise under construction. Everything since then has sucked the balls off a goat. A big hairy, gay goat.

Posted by: the_wakeful at November 17, 2008 1:29 PM

I've never been able to bring myself to care about Star Trek. I know nothing about it. I saw one episode once when I was a kid and all I remember was a tight purple jumpsuit, Whoopi Goldberg's hat, and a creepy little girl who tried to blow up the ship or fight the Gorgamons or kick some reaver ass or something.

I was able to appreciate the silver (well, bald) foxiness of Patrick Stewart. And I was thrilled to see the dude from Reading Rainbow.

Posted by: Julie at November 17, 2008 1:31 PM

Everything since then has sucked the balls off a goat. A big hairy, gay goat.

Hey I wrote that slash! McCoy is such a dirty boy when Spock brings livestock back from the away mission.

Posted by: stipe42 at November 17, 2008 1:32 PM

Working title - Star Trek: Submissive Bottom

Posted by: firedmyass at November 17, 2008 1:34 PM

It just looks awful, period. I think it might even tank.

Posted by: Cindy at November 17, 2008 1:36 PM

This looks lame. What a shame. I was hoping that Scotty and Bones would be interesting, but the brief clip here makes them look stupid, too.

I don't know why they are setting Kirk up to look like a reckless loose cannon. He wasn't that way in the show or the movies based on the original show. He might used an unconventional solution, but it was always well thought out beforehand.

Posted by: BWeaves at November 17, 2008 1:39 PM

Star Trek: The Undiscovered Orifice

Best. Thread. Ever.

Posted by: stipe42 at November 17, 2008 1:40 PM

Oh you have got to be fucking kidding me.

Oh man I laughed so hard during the whole thing I almost choked.

OOooh I can not WAIT to see this. It's gonna be fucking AWESOME!

Posted by: figgy at November 17, 2008 1:40 PM

I've never actually looked through the cast for this one before. I predict that I am going to be completely distracted by this mish-mash: Sylar as Spock, Simon Pegg as Scotty, John Choo as Sulu, Winona Ryder as the mother of Spock, Karl Urban as Bones.

And Chris Pines is attached to a supposed Untitled Smokin' Aces Prequel? I need to go re-watch Dustin's review for Padalecki's latest flick.

Posted by: branded at November 17, 2008 1:40 PM

So. Angry. How fucking dare Abrams shit all over Star Trek like this? I didn't expect this movie to be any good but I wasn't expecting this level of suck either. I hope Gene Roddenberry's ashes condense into a mini-meteor and come crashing down to earth right into JJ's balls.

Posted by: s. pisaster at November 17, 2008 1:41 PM

I wasn't really planning to see this anyway, but I'll agree with smiley; Chris Pine is boyishly good looking. Although if you want a real mind-fuck, go rent Smokin' Aces and watch his parts. Don't watch the whole movie, by any means, although you can pause to get some good Ryan Reynolds ogling in as well.

Posted by: Genny (also Rusty) at November 17, 2008 1:42 PM

I think it looks awesome and i'm not even sorry for thinking that.
Chris Pine is hot and the boy CAN act, he can.

My actual main issue is Quinto. He doesn't have the vocal timber for Spock and his hair and eyebrows look like something cobbled together by a hardcore fan at a convention-they idea is right, the design perfect, the exectution....not so much

I think this could be okay, guys, i'll be honest.

I mean lets be completely honest here- Anything after the abortion that was Star Trek: Enterprise' is going to be just a little bit awesome

that...ugh that fucking pile of fucking shit was so god awful

Now ive got that shit in my head.

Damn it

Posted by: nadine at November 17, 2008 1:48 PM

Oh! I can't wait for the sequel, Star Trek 2: Tachyon Drift. That's the one where Kirk gets sent to the Neutral Zone and he meets up with a feisty Klingon from the wrong side of the galaxy who teaches him that not all problems can be solved by porking chicks with green skin. Or making movies that look like they were edited by the same people that edit 24.

Posted by: Manny at November 17, 2008 1:49 PM

I think it looks awesome and i'm not even sorry for thinking that.
Chris Pine is hot and the boy CAN act, he can.

My actual main issue is Quinto. He doesn't have the vocal timber for Spock and his hair and eyebrows look like something cobbled together by a hardcore fan at a convention-they idea is right, the design perfect, the exectution....not so much

I think this could be okay, guys, i'll be honest.

I mean lets be completely honest here- Anything after the abortion that was Star Trek: Enterprise' is going to be just a little bit awesome

that...ugh that fucking pile of fucking shit was so god awful

Now ive got that shit in my head.

Damn it

Posted by: nadine at November 17, 2008 1:49 PM

I think it looks awesome and i'm not even sorry for thinking that.
Chris Pine is hot and the boy CAN act, he can.

My actual main issue is Quinto. He doesn't have the vocal timber for Spock and his hair and eyebrows look like something cobbled together by a hardcore fan at a convention-they idea is right, the design perfect, the exectution....not so much

I think this could be okay, guys, i'll be honest.

I mean lets be completely honest here- Anything after the abortion that was Star Trek: Enterprise' is going to be just a little bit awesome

that...ugh that fucking pile of fucking shit was so god awful

Now ive got that shit in my head.

Damn it

Posted by: nadine at November 17, 2008 1:53 PM

yeah, that looks pretty horrible. and i'm still gonna see it. for two reasons: Simon Pegg and Karl Urban.

Posted by: lizzieborden at November 17, 2008 1:54 PM

There's a pair of groomed eyebrows between being Capt. Kirk and being Capt. Crisco.

Posted by: SofĂ­a at November 17, 2008 2:01 PM

My big problem is the car he destroys i mean if i grabbed the mona lisa and smeared my shit all over it i dont think i would be asked to go to the naval academy . Young Kirk destroys a 1957 corvette in what ever fucking year they are supposed be in and its no big deal ? I mean that car has to be worth millions upon milions by then right ? I mean shit you cant buy one now for less than 40 - 50 grand . What do you think it will be in like 500 years if one is still around. Yet he still goes to star fleet . Hell i almost lost my security clearence when they found out i had an uncle in prison .

Posted by: GILP at November 17, 2008 2:01 PM

And don't forget: Tyler Perry is in this somewhere.

Posted by: firedmyass at November 17, 2008 2:08 PM

I don't know. When I saw it before QoS, it got me interested in seeing this movie for the first time ever. It looks fun, especially if that kid in the first 15 seconds of the trailer isn't actually in much of the movie. I can see the Retarded-brand Gay, yes, but I still think it looks kind of awesome. And not even "Retarded-Gay-Awesome," rather, retarded and gay, yes, but separately awesome. Hard to explain.

Posted by: Edith at November 17, 2008 2:08 PM

Dear Hollywood Executives Who Think They Have Good a Good Idea for Reviving an Iconic Franchise:

Fuck you. You're a bunch of cunts.


Sincerely,
admin

Posted by: admin at November 17, 2008 2:13 PM

Unless Mr. Roarke and Tattoo are in this, count my cracked ass out. The best Star Trek, in my opinion, was that one where Capt. Stubing and Gopher were tracking down Director McCoy, and they get all tangled up in that trap and friggin' Villechaize comes out and is all ""My dear guests, I am Mr. Klingon, your host. Welcome to the Death Star." MAN ALIVE! They just can't write shit like this anymore... Stupid Hollywood anyhow...

Posted by: Skitz at November 17, 2008 2:13 PM

Oh, NO he DIDN'T!
Seriously JJ, young Kirk as a fucking Tom-Cruise's-Maverick wannabe? Spock provoked to physical violence just by taunting? Space chicks wearing 20th-century bras? The Enterprise as a glorified Millenium Falcon? Scotty sounding like Merry &/or Pippin? Are you fucking kidding me??? That's it, JJ. You've just burned up whatever favour you had with me from Alias & Lost. You took Gene's ashes and took a big, explosive, rancid shit in them, then put the mix in a humid, hot, greenhouse before throwing it all on screen. The idea was to be better than Enterprise, dammit! I knew this was going to suck somewhat since it's an odd-numbered Trek, but that's it. Trek is done. I refuse to recognise any Trek effort after Voyager or Nemesis. There is no new Trek, there is no reimagined Trek. No more fucking prequels or sequels. Trek continues only in the fanfic universes and in the imaginations of those true to the vision of the Great Bird of the Galaxy. And if JJ "Star Wars Fan" the Trek ignoramus wants to do Trek 12, he's going to find himself signed up as an interested person on the mailing lists of the Mormons, JWs, KKK, NCAAP, Marijuana Party, Montana Militia Financing Body, and the Osama4Eva Jihad Crew USA. There's going to be a price to pay, JJ. And just for that trailer, I'm not going to pay for this show. I'm going to download it, make copies and give them to all my enemies, then deliberately not watch it so as to deprive you of money and my enemies of enjoyment. Fuck you, too. Bastard!

Posted by: lordhelmet at November 17, 2008 2:23 PM

Thar be comment issues today.

Posted by: s. pisaster at November 17, 2008 2:27 PM

Pretty gay, but Simon Pegg is in it! And John Cho! And Karl Urban makes crazy-ass faces! And the cute Russian kid whose name I can't remember!

Posted by: MoJo at November 17, 2008 2:29 PM

So how much do you suppose that vette was worth , because im thinking a 400 year old vette is around 10-20 million.

Posted by: GILP at November 17, 2008 2:39 PM

So yeah, it looks like crap, but... Karl! And I hadn't noticed before, but that Chris Pine guy is kinda pretty.

Posted by: Gabs at November 17, 2008 2:40 PM

So how much do you suppose that vette was worth , because im thinking a 400 year old vette is around 10-20 million.

Posted by: GILP at November 17, 2008 2:42 PM

No, you're gay. So there.

Posted by: JP at November 17, 2008 2:42 PM

For non-Trekkies like myself, this could well be 2009's so-bad-it's-good gem.

Posted by: muzz at November 17, 2008 2:44 PM

/cue amped up tribal music...

"Worlds will collide"

/cue drama, sex, explosions, high-intensity cut-aways...

/fucking yawn

Posted by: Recondite at November 17, 2008 2:48 PM


hahahahahaha

FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGS!

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at November 17, 2008 2:48 PM

The last Star Trek movie I watched was the one where Data gets human skin and that Borg lady gets all sexy on him. The last show I watched was Deep Space Nine, and the theme music to that show is still the best there is. I am literally getting goosebumps with it just going through my head right now. I am such a music nerd.

Posted by: Snath at November 17, 2008 2:51 PM

Best Trek theme music, GO!

Deep Space Nine, no contest. That shit makes me cry it's so beautiful. I am a sucker for good orchestrated themes. I am a music nerd.

Posted by: Snath at November 17, 2008 2:55 PM

I was gonna give this a chance. I gave The Lord of the Rings a chance even though I'd never heard of it and then when I had heard of it, thought it was the nerdiest shit ever but wanted to see the first movie because it just looked like a good movie.

This looks like crap. My dad was a Trekkie. My mom dealt with it and loved the episode with the little furry monsters. I wanted to have dirty space sex with the delicious Capt. Jean-Luc Picard.

But this...I can't bring myself to even be excited to watch it on my movie website. *sigh* Tyler Perry ruins everything.

Posted by: NotBlonde at November 17, 2008 2:55 PM

Sorry for the redundancy/almost double post. Wanted to make sure everyone knew how much I like that theme, and do the mini diversion.

Posted by: Snath at November 17, 2008 3:01 PM

I'm going to join the shy minority and peep out that I still am excited to see this.

And as for the Chris Pine looking like a total douchenozzle... It's not that I disagree, I totally agree. But don't you think that if young Shatner were just making the scene today, and didn't have all that wacky history and iconography behind him, you'd think the exact same thing of the Shat? Shatner's just a former douchnozzle who made, if not a good, then at least an interesting career.

Posted by: Bistro at November 17, 2008 3:11 PM

It doesn't look very Star Trek-ish to me, but I don't think it looks bad.

Nadine, I don't think Quinto has the voice for it either, but I don't think Abrams cast him w/out checking with Nimoy. He's a good actor, so I'll give it a shot. I only hope that Tyler Perry's part is more of a cameo than anything else.

Posted by: Brie at November 17, 2008 3:15 PM

Best Trek theme music,

Eddie Murphy's version in Delirious. Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba bababa ba, bom bom bom bom bom.

That or the first starship fight sequence in The Wrath of Khan.

Wait... neither of those are themes? Well.. fuck-off Snath! This is as themey as I get.

Posted by: admin at November 17, 2008 3:16 PM

Star Trek lost all relevancy for me when they installed that cunt Janeway as Captain. As far as Pookie is concerned, the only thing a woman should be the the Captain of is my dick.

Posted by: Pookie at November 17, 2008 3:17 PM

Pookie's Dick thinks that Pookie is into being a submissive.

Posted by: Pookie's Dick at November 17, 2008 3:20 PM

How dare they defile the Star Trek series by turning it into a bunch of special effects sequences and nerdy space nonsense?


Seriously I don't see what the problem with the trailer is. It doesn't give away enough story line to conclude that it's vapid. The effects looked big-budget. The lines were a little cheesy, but not stab-yourself-in-the-eye-so-you-can't-feel-the-pain cheesy. I don't go to Star Trek movies expecting Spike Jonze directing Vincent Gallo in a one-man-show adaptation of Proust shot handheld with no cuts. I expect the classier type of sci-fi porn. This could be that.

Posted by: Eep at November 17, 2008 3:21 PM

The very first scene killed it for me. This looks like an overblown teen drama set in space. Terrible, terrible, terrible.

Posted by: schrome at November 17, 2008 3:22 PM

Also, I'm now convinced Shatner is a genius for not being involved with this in any way - whether or not he was invited.

Posted by: Cindy at November 17, 2008 3:23 PM

Very funny Pookie's Dick, I don't need a fluffer, the job is already taken.

Posted by: Pookie at November 17, 2008 3:31 PM

Very funny Pookie's Dick, I don't need a fluffer, the job is already taken.
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Posted by: Pookie at November 17, 2008 3:31 PM


Pookie you are one talented sumbitch. The ability to self felate is an admirable one.

Posted by: admin at November 17, 2008 3:43 PM

NONONONONONONO....they did not do this. I grew up watching the old Star Trek and the campy goodness of Spock and Bones and Kirk. And now it has been turned into Fast and the Battlestar Troopers to Wong Foo, shove it up your ass, Lt. Uhuru.

Damn.

Posted by: Martika at November 17, 2008 3:45 PM

They are so gonna do it.

Posted by: adam at November 17, 2008 3:54 PM

Um...could it be that a lot of you are LOOKING for this movie to suck?

Just saying that you folks have been bitching and moaning about this damn movie for the last year or so, with only a couple of caveats. You are recycling the same complaints as before (it's gay, it's all teenagey, it looks douchey, etc.) with nothing goddamn NEW.

Just admit that you won't be happy unless the original cast was involved, accept that such nonsense is a pipe dream, and shut the hell up.

Signed,

The Star Wars Fan Grateful For Having His Annoyingly Loud-Mouthed Bitching Hope For A Decent Movie Crushed Already.

Posted by: Vermillion at November 17, 2008 4:01 PM

If I have to revoke my Pajiba membership card for this, so be it. But I am also excited (and a member of the soon-to-not-be-so-shy minority) to see what Abrams has done with the franchise.
I typically look at it this way - if the trailer looks awesome, the movie will suck (Will Smith in anything).
If the trailer gives you a "that could be cool" vibe, it probably will be (Star Trek trailer).
And if the trailer sucks, run for the hills because if there aren't enough decent pieces of movie to catch my interest for 2 minutes (The Other Boleyn Girl - "we're sisters, and therefore, born to be rivals") then you mock it mercilessly with the receptionist in your office tells you that she got it on Netflix and thought it was pretty good.

Posted by: JH at November 17, 2008 4:03 PM

dammit! That'll teach me to not proofread my post before hitting Post Comment.

"...then you mock it mercilessly WHEN the receptionist in your office..."

that is all.

Posted by: JH at November 17, 2008 4:06 PM

-- Very funny Pookie's Dick, I don't need a fluffer, the job is already taken.

Posted by: Pookie at November 17, 2008 3:31 PM

Pookie, will you please be decent enough to have these conversations with your penis in private. I do not think it is appropriate to discuss such things on this family site. There are children reading.

Posted by: JP at November 17, 2008 4:07 PM

Leonard Nimoy will always be Spock--finest looking and first crush ever for my little 9 year old self.

Posted by: NeoCleo at November 17, 2008 4:09 PM

So how much do you suppose that vette was worth , because im thinking a 400 year old vette is around 10-20 million.

Posted by: GILP at November 17, 2008 4:19 PM

*grumpy-old-man-who-remembers-the-good-old-days voice*

Who let those kids on the bridge of the Enterprise?

Posted by: DarthCorleone at November 17, 2008 4:33 PM

I, too, love J.J. Abrams, and I think the hate for this is just growing because people want it to suck. The trailer looks fine if not a little redundant and derivative, but whatevs to that... Great movies can come from mediocre trailers.

Then again, what do I know? I loved Star Trek: Voyager.

Posted by: whatBENwatches at November 17, 2008 4:39 PM

Okaaayyy....I watched the trailer again to be sure that maybe I hadn't been too hard on it since some of you seem to think this looks good, and I have to say, are you people on space crack? Baby Kirk is the baddest badass that ever lived? Spock is angry even though Vulcans don't fucking do that unless they're in heat? Lines more idiotic than the original series, in all it's tacky glory could ever muster, uttered with all the acting talent of a baked potato ("Space is disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence"? no, that doesn't sound stupid at alllll). Pretty special effects and explosions make up for all that? really? I'ma get out my original series phaser (yes I have one, suck it) and blast you all.

Posted by: s. pisaster at November 17, 2008 4:42 PM

GLIP, I thought money was irrelevant on Earth at that time? At any rate, you have to factor in inflation and the use of "latinum". Also, isnt it possible that was all a hologram or something?

Posted by: JP at November 17, 2008 4:45 PM

I don't know what's wrong with the education system in this country, but that is NOT a 1957 Corvette. It's a 1963 at the absolute earliest, and I'm sure some Corvette freak could tell you the exact year.

Posted by: Eep at November 17, 2008 4:58 PM

Maybe the corvette was replicated, or maybe you can get custom made body work (program the extruder with the design and it does all the work), after all the designs would be out of copyright.

Also I didn't think the trailer looked that bad either.

Posted by: ChrisD at November 17, 2008 5:08 PM

I had to stop the trailer halfway through. This movie is an abomination. It is a tower of suck. I've never really thought much about Abrams but now? Now I want to kick his fucking ass. Twice.

Posted by: the bees knees at November 17, 2008 5:11 PM

Mins. 1:28-1:31

Sooo... The bridge is an Apple Store?

Curse you, Steve Jobs!

Posted by: JohnnyVonAwesome at November 17, 2008 5:38 PM

I love Star Trek.

I also love Simon Pegg

Couldn't care less about J.J...

Therefore, I will see this movie. But I won't pay for it.

Posted by: Alexandra at November 17, 2008 5:38 PM

JP you're kidding right? I mean we having people making comments like "sucking the balls off a goat" and " You're a bunch of cunts" or "shove it up your ass, Lt. Uhuru" but somehow you find my post inappropriate? Oh ok.

Posted by: Pookie at November 17, 2008 5:41 PM

I liked this trailer. I am pumped for this movie. Then again, I'm pretty open to whatever changes he feels like making to the franchise... it could probably stand some shaking up after forty years.

Everybody crying about how this movie is an abomination after seeing two minutes of rapid-cut footage probably had some hand-wringing to do about the Battlestar Galactica reboot, before that turned out to be the greatest thing ever.

Posted by: Crat at November 17, 2008 5:41 PM

All this talk about sucking goat balls and shoving things up asses is making me hard.

Posted by: Pookie's Dick at November 17, 2008 6:09 PM

Is Spock standing at a urinal?

Why do you need a 20th century bra in zero gravity space?

Pegg does sound like Merry or Pippin.

Urban doesn't sound anything like Bones, sigh.

EYEBROWS!

Posted by: BWeaves at November 17, 2008 6:13 PM

Pookie's dick you're such a annoying heckler.

Posted by: Pookie at November 17, 2008 6:21 PM

is it wrong that i think that chris pine is still boyishly good looking, though? i mean, he was good enough for princess mia...

Posted by: smiley at November 17, 2008 1:17 PM

..............................

Amen. I am NOT ashamed of my Princess Diaries love.

Although I probably will still see Star Trek. I have a total nerd crush on Simon Pegg.

Posted by: Nadha at November 17, 2008 6:31 PM

ahem...


AAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!


whew...


...wait...


AAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!


man, for the past (ulp!) nine, going on ten, years i've been embarrassed about being a Star Wars fan, but being a Trekkie now must really suck.


and by suck, i of course mean "suck giant, sweaty, 'gay'-as-in-lame, James T. Kirk balls."

hey, look on the bright side- it looks like this pain should be reasonably short lived, not at all like the ten-year, three-prequel torture that we have endured (fuck you, Lucas. fuck you).


welcome to the club, bitches. enjoy.

Posted by: causaubon at November 17, 2008 6:33 PM

Apparently I'm not one of the cool kids, the trailer looked pretty damn good to me.

Posted by: snapnhiss at November 17, 2008 6:44 PM

So wait...with the exception of the random unknown person that got killed every episode, the entire crew all met as 20 something year old's and have served together for like 60 some years, with the entire time having the same jobs and rank for the most part?!?!

Posted by: Diablo at November 17, 2008 6:51 PM

NOT GOOD. I wasn't even sure it was the right trailer at first.

Wrong Kirk and Spock look like they filmed real Kirk and Spock through a fun house mirror.

Posted by: Roni at November 17, 2008 6:58 PM

Hey so did anyone else think the space battle thing in the last third of the trailer looked a lot like the final space battle in Serenity? Because my mind went there right away.

Also, I'm thinking why the hell not see this? You can make fun of the trailer (for this or anything) all you want, but don't insult the actual movie (for this or anything) until you have seen it. I think it looks okay. I was hoping that they would return to the roots by having less action and more situation solving (which is what made it different than Star Wars), but it doesn't look like it. Ah, well.

Lastly, yes it does look very cheesy. However, Star Trek's always been kinda cheesy, and it's not like every iteration has been so good that something cheesier or stupider or just more unintentionally hilarious is that big a deal anymore. The memory's already been tainted.

Posted by: ghost toast at November 17, 2008 7:18 PM

Yeah as horrible as this looks, I will watch ANYTHING that has Eric Bana in it. Do you know how many times I've seen Hulk? And I HATE Hulk.

Karl Urban too. Somebody please get this man more jobs. Maybe this will be his big break? I hope so.

Posted by: figgy at November 17, 2008 7:26 PM

ghost toast, you are correct. Star Trek has always been cheezy but there is a difference between a fine slice of old cheddar and this fucking Velveeta.

It would also appear that they are actually trying to take themselves seriously with this rendition. I find that quite a lot of the appeal of the original series and movies was the camp and humour. What are they going to do with this shit? Drop a few White Castle jokes?

Posted by: admin at November 17, 2008 7:31 PM

You know, I would love some jokes in this! Maybe some sly winks to every actor cast in this and their previous projects.

Kirk (to Scotty): Where can we hide and recuperate, goddamnit?!
Scotty: ...the Winchester? (winks at camera)

Spock (to McCoy): You'll be the PATHFINDER on this mission. (McCoy sighs)

You know, stuff like that.

I'd see it twice.

Posted by: ghost toast at November 17, 2008 7:45 PM

Kids, kids, kids. Have none of you SEEN the original? Kirk was a show-off, running around banging every space chick in sight. He CHEATED to become an Admiral (the Kobayashi Maru scenario, anyone?) And there's was always a tension between Spock and Kirk. And I'm a geek.

Posted by: idgiepug at November 17, 2008 7:58 PM

Hahahaa. If they called Kirk "Princess Mia" that would be outstanding.

Posted by: Eep at November 17, 2008 8:00 PM

Kobayashi Maru was to graduate Starfleet, not become admiral. I'm okay with Kirk being a bit of a dick, but the Kirk in this trailer does not work for me. Kirk may be a bit of an ass, but he never gave off that trying-too-hard-for-coolness vibe that this whole trailer gives off. Trying. so. hard.

Posted by: s. pisaster at November 17, 2008 8:19 PM

Sold!

Posted by: Lee at November 17, 2008 11:41 PM

Stop using the word douchetool. It isn't clever.

Posted by: phuket at November 18, 2008 12:43 AM

The franchise has been in the toilet for sooo long another turd won't matter. Berman, Braga and Boo Boo. It an't no Battlestar Galactica that's fer sure!

Posted by: brian at November 18, 2008 1:13 AM

Really, no one' said it yet?

Then allow me:

KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!!

Posted by: Lacey at November 18, 2008 3:17 AM

Really, no one's said it yet?

Then allow me:

KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!!

Posted by: Lacey at November 18, 2008 3:17 AM

Never open with a kid. Anikin shows us that.

otherwise, I'll give it a shot. I love the whole dorky 'the world is better in the future' thing. hell, until obama, I was ready to just give up and get cats, a poking stick and a small lawn to protect.

Posted by: replica at November 18, 2008 3:21 AM

I think this movie just broke my mother. She is physically incapable of not watching a Star Trek episode or movie when it comes on TV, but I caught her rocking back and forth in front of the computer screen, shattered by the knowledge that they had actually made a Star Trek movie so bad, she didn't want to go see it.

Posted by: megaera at November 18, 2008 5:28 AM

Yeah, I agree. Bras, naked chicks and shite. That's really gay for ya.

Posted by: Timbalake at November 18, 2008 5:59 AM

I'm guess then I should officially come out as a big gay gay gay retard and admit I had a girl nerd chubby watching this.

I wish I could say I am unrepentant.

Posted by: Peecat at November 18, 2008 7:08 AM

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

KHAAAAAAAAA.err...GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYY!

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at November 18, 2008 7:10 AM

I suppose that explains my penchant for man on man action.

Posted by: Peecat at November 18, 2008 7:12 AM

The original series was a bit before my time, so I don't consider myself a classic Trekkie, but I loved TNG and DS9. Voyager is when the suck started to happen. Enterprise wasn't even bad enough to be worth hating, it was just lame.

WHY why why do they keep going BACK in time instead of forward? I've seen enough of Kirk and his crew in the movies. There's nothing else worth exploring there. I don't need to see them as kids. I don't WANT to see them as kids. Especially when they try so damn hard to portray them as "badasses". Look, he stole a car! And he's speeding! While evading the law! And for some reason he drove right towards a CLIFF before ditching the car and nearly dying in some retarded little stunt! J.J., you are confusing with "badass" with "jackass."

That being said, I like the look of the trailer, in that it doesn't look like the same old Trek, which is far too timid at times. Now if they would only go a step further and come up with some new characters and new ideas, I could get excited. Not everything in Trekdom has to revolve around Kirk.

Also, someone commented on why women would need bras in zero-gravity. First of all, I'm pretty sure they have artificial gravity. Second of all, I think bras would be even MORE necessary in zero-grav. Mine would float around and whack me in the face and pose a danger to crewmembers unless they were strapped down.

Posted by: DeadBessie at November 18, 2008 7:55 AM

As the old saying goes, each generation gets the "Star Trek" it deserves. My generation got the original, while this generation is treated to this crap.

Oh sorry, I forgot....all "change" is good.

Posted by: grumpyoldman at November 18, 2008 8:35 AM

grumpyoldman: well said.


*shakes head*

This, this is EXACTLY what I thought it was gonna be like:

DoucheTrek.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at November 18, 2008 8:47 AM

DeadBessie: "Also, someone commented on why women would need bras in zero-gravity. . . I think bras would be even MORE necessary in zero-grav. Mine would float around and whack me in the face and pose a danger to crewmembers unless they were strapped down."

Can I have one of yours?

I think the reason the KHAN movie was more liked than the others was precisely because it harkened back to the original series and it didn't try and be Kirk vs God, or Kirk vs the entire universe. It was a much smaller story of just Kirk vs a small band or renegades.

My personal preference would be to take the new fake old crew and make a comedy movie of The Trouble with Tribbles combined with any of the Harry Mudd episodes. No space battles, just witty banter, fuzzy pet toys and fembots.

Posted by: BWeaves at November 18, 2008 8:57 AM

Sigh

I love this site. I never post but I read here daily, often more than once a day and I hate to be a wet blanket and I am sure I am going to get flamed but I am so disappointed in Dustin and everyone else who failed to call him on this lame lame lame use of the word gay. Aren't we past this? Think what you say when you say what you say. It's not ironic and cute and pomo even when sarah silverman says it. it's just lame.

Posted by: zmb at November 18, 2008 9:53 AM

Best ST theme: Toss Up: TNG and Voyager, god rest you Jerry Goldsmith.

Worst ST theme: Enterprise. Fuck you Russell Watson!

Posted by: Mike Tibereus R. at November 18, 2008 10:12 AM

Douchebag McDouchikins lost me when he abandoned Alias...and yes, I know Jennifer Garner is terribly wooden, but the rest of the cast was decent, at least for the first three seasons.

Except for Michael Vartan.

Is it just me, or does it look like he's constantly on the verge of tears?

Posted by: Smokin at November 18, 2008 10:50 AM

I think you're mistaking "gay" for "having actual character."

You probably voted for Prop H8te, didn't you?

Shithead.

Posted by: Belinda at November 18, 2008 11:38 AM

BWeaves--sure, you can have one. I'm all about the sharing. But be warned--they've brought me nothing but trouble.

Also, there is such a thing as too big, and when you add in the effects of gravity and my age....I've said too much.

Posted by: DeadBessie at November 18, 2008 12:58 PM

I don't know, zmb. Looking at this trailer, I'm seeing alot of gay. Not last week's SNL episode gay, but still gay. Kirk and Spock look like they are about to set their phasers to "ejaculate". And I'm pretty sure that the Vulcan Death Grip is a sex act that future, alien lesbians will perform on each other.

Posted by: JP at November 18, 2008 2:13 PM

DeadBessie: Thank you! I will treat it with respect, and give it its own bedroom. When men want to see my chest, I will bring it out on a velvet pillow and let them pet it (for a price). No pinching allowed.

Posted by: BWeaves at November 18, 2008 3:36 PM

Alright, I know this is meant to be a remake or at least derivative, and I know the original Star Trek wasn't exactly on the leading edge of feminism, but come on. Where are all the girls fighting and kicking some space ass?

Practically the first girl we see in the trailer is taking off her shirt.

Nice to know in the future men are still in control and girls are only there for the sex. (Men have needs in space, I get it.)

Or maybe I'm just overreacting. At least we've got Starbuck.

Posted by: KT at November 18, 2008 4:55 PM

More like Star Trek: Cardassia Prime Drift.

Posted by: Lucas at November 18, 2008 7:19 PM

"I want my money back, and I haven't even seen it yet!" Funniest thing I've heard all year. I should have thought of that after the Indiana Jones trailer. They pissed on Godzilla, they pissed on Planet of the Apes, they pissed on Star Wars, they pissed on Indiana Jones, they pissed on James Bond, they pissed on every goddamn movie we ever grew up with. How many buckets of urine are you going to take before you stop giving your money to these pricks? They're going to keep on remaking shit until you do.

Posted by: Phil at November 18, 2008 11:59 PM





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