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Nov 06 | J.J. Abrams is in talks to direct the opening episode of "Undercovers," his Warner Bros. secret agent pilot at NBC. Schedule permitting, Abrams, who also serves as executive producer and co-writer for the pilot, will make "Undercovers" the first TV pilot he has directed since 2004's "Lost" two-part opener, which is considered one of the best-directed pilots of all time and helped launch Abrams' career into helming such theatrical films as "Mission: Impossible 3" and "Star Trek." The NBC pilot has been described as a mix between "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" and "The Bourne Identity." The original report is at the Hollywood Reporter.
Nov 05 | The upcoming MMORPG Star Trek Online has been given a release date. The game will be launched on February 2 in North America, and February 5 in Europe
Nov 02 | Journalist Edward Gross posted in his SciFi TV Zone.com website an animation that takes place on the bridge of the Enterprise, and it's where you can hear his... lord help us... impersonation of William Shatner. The url for the video is this.
Oct 27 | Leonard Nimoy narrates a new documentary about a historic synagogue designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The film profiles Beth Sholom Synagogue in Elkins Park, Pa., the only synagogue designed by the renowned architect. The building, a National Historic Landmark, celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. A screening of the film will be shown at the dedication of the synagogue's newly designed visitors center on Nov. 15. Paul Goldberger, architecture critic for The New Yorker magazine, will be on hand
Oct 27 | Leonard Nimoy is celebrating Halloween by taking pictures of the most crazily outfitted attendee at the Santa Monica Museum of Art's Halla Gala. Nimoy, who has practiced fine art photography since the age of 14, is offering a private portrait session at the Viceroy Santa Monica hotel to whomever wins the gala's Secret Self costume contest.
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By GustavoLeao / 03:08, 18 November 2008 / Feature Films
ComingSoon.net posted a more detailed description of J.J. Abrams presentation of the four Star Trek movie scenes show in New York yesterday. These were the same footage show in Europe last week, but described here in more detail. Here is an excerpt from their articlew with a description of scenes 2 and 3. (beware of major spoilers)
Scene 2 - Kirk Stows Away and Saves the Day
Abrams quickly set up the next scene, saying that it was three years later and Kirk was still getting into so much trouble that he hadn't become an officer. When there's an emergency on the planet Vulcan, all the Starfleet cadets are assigned to starships except for Kirk, but apparently, there is a stipulation where doctors can bring patients with them when they're assigned to a ship, so Kirk's good friend "Bones" McCoy hatches a plan to inject Kirk with a virus to get him on board the brand new starship, the U.S.S. Enterprise.
The scene opens with Kirk and "Bones" McCoy (Karl Urban, who looks shockingly like DeForrest Kelley with his trademark hair) as McCoy carries Kirk into the medical bay and injects Kirk with the virus as Abrams described and he starts to react to it. We then cut to the command deck of the Enterprise with Captain Pike at the helm, and this is our first glimpse of John Cho's Sulu and Anton Yelchin as Pavel Chekov, the ship's navigator and communications officer. Even though Yelchin actually comes from a Russian lineage, his accent was the only thing that really seemed jarringly false in his scenes. It's used to somewhat comic effect as Chekov tries to speak the coordinates into the ship's computer but his inability to say the word "Vulcan" (pronounced "Wulcan") makes it difficult. Chekov communicates to the rest of the ship that they'll be warping to the Vulcan region in three seconds to investigate a "lightning storm." As Kirk awakes in the sick bay and hears Chekov's announcement, he realizes something is wrong, because he has experienced a similar event on earth years earlier; this isn't a natural disaster but it has the makings of a Romulan attack. We cut down to Vulcan where an enormous needle-like construct is hovering above the planet shooting fire towards the ground as a Vulcan woman watches horrified in the foreground, and we get a brief glimpse of Eric Bana as Romulan leader Nero.
As a side effect of Bones' injection, Kirk's hands have ballooned up to pudgy mittens which makes it difficult as he frantically tries to type a warning message to stop the ship from warping to Vulcan. Desperate, the still ailing Kirk starts running through the ship before finding Uhura, who is surprised to see him, and he drags her to the command deck where he confronts Pike and his second-in-command, Zachary Quinto's Commander Spock, neither of them happy about Kirk sneaking onto the ship. He tells them that they're heading for a trap as the Romulans have attacked Vulcan, much like they've done in the past, when they destroyed the U.S.S. Kelvin, Pike's prior ship, at the edge of Klingon space, as well as a number of Klingon warbirds. Obviously, these Romulans are a dangerous adversary not to be trifled with. They use Uhura's previously mentioned skills--she speaks three dialects of Romulan--to try and discover the truth about what is happening on Vulcan and that seems to be enough to convince them. "The cadet's analysis is sound," Spock decides pompously, giving us a glimpse of the tenuous relationship between Kirk and Spock, which Abrams will confirm shortly after. The two of them just don't get along at all. The Enterprise bursts out of the warp to an enormous fleet of battle ships that looks like something out of the "Star Wars" saga, showing Abrams' clear love of the other major SF film franchise.
This was a great sequence to introduce us to the younger crew on the maiden voyage of the U.S.S. Enterprise, plus we got to see a lot of the inner workings of this brand new Enterprise, as well as the roles and relationships of some of the ship's crew.
Scene 3 - Old Friends
Abrams set up the third scene by explaining how Spock had been made acting Captain of the Enterprise and because he didn't like Kirk, he's been jettisoned from the ship to Vulcan where he encounters a familiar face, the older Spock, played of course by Leonard Nimoy. Abrams shared an anecdote about going up to Nimoy on the first day of shooting about to give him notes on his performance before stopping himself realizing that it was Leonard Nimoy. In turn, Nimoy was pleasant about it and insisted on getting Abrams' thoughts on playing the scene.
This sequence will definitely prove to be the most intriguing one for diehard Trek fans, not only because we see Nimoy as Spock for the first time since Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country over fifteen years ago, but also because it gets into the history of the technology of "Trek," specifically the invention of Trans Warp technology, the classic Trek teleporters that beamed the Enterprise crew to and from planets the ship was orbiting. It also establishes that the movie does take place in regular "Trek" continuity, taking place before the original "Star Trek" television series and referring to events from both the show and the movies.
We see Nimoy as Spock (a sight for sore eyes) and the young Kirk walking through a remote outpost behind a short Yoda-like alien until they reach Simon Pegg sitting at a console. It's the one and only Montgomery Scott or "Scotty" who has been exiled to that location after an experiment gone wrong. They talk to him about the Trans Warp theories he'd been working on that would allow one to transmit a person or object to an orbiting spaceship, but Scotty admits his experiments hadn't gone well after he teleported the Admiral's pet beagle to who knows where. This scene gives a good idea of the humor that Pegg will be bringing to the character, even when sporting a heavy Scottish accent. Spock convinces Scotty that his theories will eventually lead to the invention of teleporters, and they need to use that technology to beam Kirk back up to the ship. The general idea is that Kirk needs to get back to the ship to prevent the younger Spock from making a potentially fatal mistake while running the ship by losing control of his emotions. This exchange seems to hint that the emotionless Spock we've come to know over the years might have been far more emotional when put under the stressful position of captaining the Enterprise, but might have mellowed after the incidents shown in this movie. Kirk argues with the older Spock about him going back up to the ship with them but Spock says that it's not his destiny, and when Kirk suggests that Spock going back in time to help him is "cheating," Spock says he learned that from an old friend (the older Kirk obviously who would always use time travel to fix problems.) As Spock and Scotty teleport away, older Spock puts up the trademark "V" sign and says "Live Long and Prosper" and any Trekker in the audience probably creamed their pants at that point in the presentation.
For a description of scenes 1 and 4, plus an analysis of the 25 minutes of footage show, go to ComingSoon.net
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I'm surely not one of the "continuity pornographers" here at TrekWeb, but this movie is throwing all pretense of continuity off the bridge. I've been watching TOS eps for over 40 years, and if this report is true, fundamental storyline elements are being seriously tampered with.
I'm usually the first to point out that Trek is entertainment, not religious dogma, and I'm sure Abrams will make an entertaining flick. But my own personal entertainment experience is undermined by such egregious departures from "facts" that I've known for years.
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GET A LIFE, will you people? I mean, for crying out loud, it's just a TV show!.... You've turned an enjoyable little job, that I did as a lark for a few years, into a COLOSSAL WASTE OF TIME! -- William Shatner on Saturday Night Live (1986)
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