Hmm, can you tell me where I could find details about that? I have heard several things regarding a sequel. Its getting hard to differentiate between a trekkies’ wishes and actual fact.

I have even heard that a trilogy is in the works which would show when Kirk, Spok, and Bones meet at Starfleet Academy.

That sounds good, though I doubt that Spock met Kirk and McCoy at Starfleet.  He was already serving on the Enterprise under Pike.

Maybe, or maybe not.  But you have to agree with the undeniable fact:  Every moment of ENTERPRISE kicked ass!

This situation could've lasted for a season or two, but the show took tyhe easy way out and the show lost out on a good story line.


Phil

... because y'know Kelsey Grammar had a commanding presence in that one episode of ST:TNG when he played the captain of a starship -- I'd love to see the further adventures of Kelsey Grammar's ship.  Could be fun!

The 11th installment of the series will actually be a prequel to the original television series and the first movie, as it chronicles the first meeting of a young James T. Kirk and Mr. Spock at Starfleet Academy and their first space mission.

Why would they meet at Star Fleet?  Spock was already a crew member of the Enterprise when Pike was the captain.

I don't know if anyone remembers this, but Spock was 110 years old during the series.

Unfortunately, I don't think the people behind this film really care about this type of attention to detail. At first, they advertised this film as a reboot of the franchise, so those errors could have been easily written off.

w00t!  Congrats, Quinto!  I think he'll do well :)

Picture an incident that throws a group of Romulans back in time. Picture that group of Romulans figuring out where they are in the timeline, then deciding to take advantage of the accident to kill someone’s father, to erase them from the timeline before they exist, thereby changing all of the TREK universe as a result. Who would you erase? Whose erasure would leave the biggest hole in the TREK universe is the question you should be asking.

Who else, of course, but James T. Kirk?

Picture an incident that throws a group of Romulans back in time. Picture that group of Romulans figuring out where they are in the timeline, then deciding to take advantage of the accident to kill someone’s father, to erase them from the timeline before they exist, thereby changing all of the TREK universe as a result. Who would you erase? Whose erasure would leave the biggest hole in the TREK universe is the question you should be asking.

Who else, of course, but James T. Kirk?

I just do not think he has the "it" that it takes to carry the franchise.  Too much the pretty boy, I think.

That Heroes guy is going to nail Spock, though.  Good choice.

Did they show that the Enterprise was assembled on Earth?  How many times have they shown, on various series, that a starship can't enter the atmosphere?


Phil

I would assume that the Enterprise being built on Earth would mean it only had to exit the atmosphere and not enter it.

Actually, you a have--wait a minute!  That's not the point!  The Enterprise was originally built in space!

I don't mind them taking liberties, but they seem to be taking a lot.

Jonah—

    Just wanted to get my two somewhat positive cents in before you are
totally swamped by people who hate the idea of the new Star Trek
movie.

    From all that I've read about the new flick, the plotline focuses on
time travel— specifically, it appears that the Romulans travel back in
time to kill Kirk when he's vulnerable, possibly even taking a stab at
killing Kirk's father.

    The "old" Spock, i.e. the one played by Leonard Nimoy, knows something
strange is happening in *his* time, so he travels back to the younger
Kirk's era to warn him of the trouble afoot.

    What does this mean for the nitpickers of all things canon? Well, if
the Romulans go back in time to kill Kirk's dad, the whole timeline
gets messed up. . . messed up in ways beneficial to a new director
wanting to change Trek to match his own ideas.

    Need Kirk to be on the Enterprise earlier than originally thought? No
problem— the Romulans changed "history" and Kirk shows up at the
Academy a few years earlier than we remember it. Have to solve that
pesky problem that no one in The Original Series had *even seen* a
Romulan until Kirk fought one? No problem— these are Romulans from the
future that change everything.

    Heck, you can even use this theory for everything— "Time-traveling
Romulans step on a butterfly in the 23rd century, and suddenly Kirk
knows how to drive stick, Scotty's lost all his hair, and the bridge
of the Enterprise looks like an Apple Store."

    Anyway, I acknowledge that J.J. Abrams is playing a risky game by
"rebooting" Trek while still maintaining the thread to the past, i.e.
keeping Nimoy in the picture. Had Abrams gone the "reinvention" route
ala the Battlestar Galactica series, he'd have given himself a lot
more flexibility than he has now.

    That said, the time travel scenario permits quite a bit to "change" in
this version of Trek. Me? I'm willing to give the movie a chance on
its own merits— as your other readers have written, it all comes down
to characterization.

    Cheers,
    Dave

   Need Kirk to be on the Enterprise earlier than originally thought? No
problem— the Romulans changed "history" and Kirk shows up at the
Academy a few years earlier than we remember it.