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Aint It Cool News Reveals Two Scenes from the New Star Trek Movie - Major Spoilers

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By GustavoLeao / 17:51, 25 July 2008 / Star Trek: Nemesis

Aint It Cool News posted an article in which they describe two space scenes from J.J. Abrams upcoming Star Trek movie (beware of spoilers). These scenes, according to the site, took place during Captain Christopher Pike's command of the Enterprise. Here are few excerpts from the article :

The first scene starts out with this massive convoy of freighters (may be refugees?), each towing 2 or 3 even bigger cargo looking crates behind them with tractor beams. They look big and slow-moving. Sort of trapezoid shaped with the narrow end being the front. They're brown in case you were wondering. I'd say there were about 12-15 on screen in a sort of non-general formation. The Enterprise is near the rear as what I assume is an escort. They all make the jump to warp.[...]

Then it jumps back to space where all of a sudden there are these red streaks of light tearing right through the unshielded freighters and sending several of them up in flames. Everyone lurches out of warp.


View of the bridge, with everyone reacting in confusion and trying to find out what's going on. Looks like everyone's in cadet uniform except for the guy in the captain's chair who looks about late 30s, early 40s.


Some tech talk about the scanner readings being blocked by the explosions. Some frantic chatter about detecting a signal from the "Yorktown". On screen command given, and another Constitution class ship appears on screen except it's completely destroyed (really doesn't seem all that different from the old movie Constitution class). Gasps all round.[...]

Now comes the next scene which looks to be slightly later, with the first full battle sequence.


The captain is still the captain (no sign of Kirk yet, I think he was on the bridge as just another cadet) and he's exchanging barbs with the villain over an audio link as their ships engage each other.


The captain's saying how the bad guy's ship (the Sunfire? Sunflower?) can't protect him.


Cut to exterior shot of the ship in question stationary. It's long and pointy, like a Vulcan ship but it has a tri-nacelle configuration, with these sort of loops joining them to one another. It looks a bit like the Planet Express ship except it's much longer and is, well, orange coloured.


I'd say it's about the same mass as the Enterprise, maybe more, but it's much longer and more space is taken up by the engines.


We then cut to the Enterprise moving in slowly and firing a torpedo. Now these torpedoes are bright red and look just like the normal ones from the TMP movies, except it's really BIG. Like twice the size and homes in slowly but directly to the Sunfire.


It doesn't actually strike the ship, but explodes once it gets within range, and once again the result is BIG.


There's a small initial explosion and at the centre is this sort of double-ended cyclone of fire, which is spinning from the outset and increases in speed to generate this massive flare.


The resulting explosion is the size of the Enterprise. This takes about 3 seconds in total. The Enterprise then fires a phaser beam that strikes the Sunfire and makes the ship visibly shake. Again big, rather thick but this time it's the yellowy-orange of the TNG era phaser.[...]
 
Much more spoilers about those two scenes can be found at Aint It Cool News.



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RE: Hey Gustavo... | Report this post to moderator
By: GustavoLeao (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 09:05:45 on Jul 26, 2008

Well, it is hard to say...Abrams has contacted AICN in the past to show them exclusive Star Trek XI footage, and I doubt AICN and Harry Knowles would post this new article (which is very detailed) if it was a fake report. I think, and this is just my opinion as a news editor, that it is reliable stuff.

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RE: Hey Gustavo... | Report this post to moderator
By: Dalio (Odo's file, contact) @ 08:38:11 on Jul 26, 2008

I think JJ has contact with several of those guys over at aintitcool. I would say its probably credible. But always take it with a grain of salt.

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