Behold…The New Star Trek Poster

Yeah ah...gonna skip this one and wait for the next real Star Trek movie if they ever decide to do something original again. Star Trek's future lies in it's future not in a rehashing of stories and characters already done. Paramount seems determined to kill the franchise once and for all.

Ya I read something about that too. That's pretty cool how it ties into Roman History and it explains the names and designs the romulans too...and the fact they are called ROMULANS..ROMANS..ROMULUS it all makes sense now!

I don't know how true this is but I found this on http://stexpanded.wikia.com/wiki/Nero:

Nero was a Roman emperor on Earth from 54 to 68 CE.

According to Star Trek: Unity continuity, although appearing human, Nero was in fact a Neronian leader who decided to invade Earth for his own purposes. Instead of using military might, Nero, fascinated by Earth's Roman culture, decided to make himself Rome's leader. He left Earth in 68 CE, however, when he beamed away to his ship after an uprising and made it appear that he had killed himself with a knife.

Nero retreated back to his empire and entered frozen animation to wait for the Neronian armies to build up to a point where he could invade Earth as he had always wanted to. He was killed in mid 2383 when the USS Hawk-A destroyed his mothership.

Very little is known of Nero's personality, although he seems to have been a great follower of the arts, including music.

So this could be the Nero of Roman history, like Flint was the Mozart and Brahms of history. It looks obvious from the picture that Nero is alien, so I don't know if this is true.

Since I am a huge Trekker, I'm going to try this from memory. The TOS episodes that dealt with time travel are:
All Our Yesterdays
Yesterday is Tomorrow
City on the Edge of Forever (award winner)
Assignment: Earth

I don't include "The Naked Now" even though, technically, it did have time travel in it but it was small.

I trust JJ Abrams to deliver something pretty special. I think the guy is a top notch talent!

There a lot of Kirks in the movie and there are three Spocks.

Hey...What about...

"He's dead, Jim" ?

Adding to what 790 said:
"Time Travel is a big part of Trek,,,,, "


Time Travel or the theme of Time is also a huge part of everything JJ Abrams does :)

Not to mention anything to do with that pesky deflector dish...

TOS stands alone!!! :-)

And yeah, one of the most overused phrases starting with Next Generation was "temporal anomaly" followed closely by "spatial anomaly." :-P

Vic

One more! The highlights in everyone's eyes are the shape of the delta Starfleet emblem as well, Nice little touch.

And check the bridge of his nose, that's not"hooman" either.

Just seen a larger version of the poster and Bana's ear looks intentionally "battle-damaged", like the tip's been chewed off or something.

Checked IMDb, haven't kept up much with this since I'm not a dangerously huge Trekkie-- but can someone explain why there are so many cast members with the last name Kirk?

With all this family we could have a romantic comedy..

Rev

Don't lump TOS in with the other series. How many times did TOS use time travel? 3 in the series I think and once in the movies.

Sure there have been many great episodes that did not use time travel. How many of the episodes that used time travel are bad?

None for TOS. And with a prequel/reboot what better reason to use time travel.

After this movie, I do agree that it is time - aha! - to put the use of time travel to rest.

Time Travel is a big part of Trek,,,,, ;-)

Sorry, that analogy doesn't hold up. Time travel is NOT the core of the Star Trek series, where a murder is the core of a murder mystery. Star Trek's core theme was seeking out new life and new civilizations, not traveling through time, traveling among the stars. Thus the name "Star Trek."

And many of the best Trek episodes were also done without Time Travel. In fact, most of my favorites never even came close to using time travel.

As for my over-used comment: 51 episodes over 28 television seasons worth of shows. That's nearly 2 times per season, plus 3 movies, not counting this new one. For a series built on the idea of space exploration, that seems a bit excessive to me. I'd really like to see them try something new, for a change.

But, that's just me.

Coool! Now a shot of the Enterprise and I'll be content until next year.

And I don't know why people rag on time travel all the time, particularly in light of how many of the best like Trek episodes used it.

Over-used? Pffft! That's like saying that having murder in a murder mystery is over used.

The Star Trek Voyager episode, Shatterd is a great time-travel episode.
Also DS9's "Little Green Men" is one of my favorites.

;-)

I totally get your drift with Orci & Kurtzman FlameStrike.

(chuckles)

Yeah I need to find those and check them out.

As for this movie, I'm starting to feel like the K-7 bartender dealing with Cyrano Jones when asked if he'd be willing to trade a drink for a tribble.

"A time travel story" Reaches onto the shelf and pulls out "Tomorrow is Yesterday," "City on the Edge of Forever," "Star Trek IV," "Star Trek: First Contact," "All Good Things...," "All Our Yesterdays, "A Matter of Time," and so on.

I've started raking time travel right up there with the Mirror Universe and the Borg as stories that are over used. To have one written by Orci and Kurtzman sounds even worse.

Ok I give up, FlameStrike you win.
What are we talking about? Star Trek , sheesh.

Check out the Strange New Worlds books. That's some good Trek!!!
;-)

Star Trek: The Lost Years

I read that one. Pretty good book.

Welcome to Star Trek the Lost years!
You've earned it.
;-)

Time travel. Right.

Flamestrike, Nero is a Romulan from the future.....

"i think the poster is cool and I am excited that JJ seems to be taking the Trek history into account."

I'm not so worried about the director as I am about the writers. I don't trust them to know what they were writing. As for taking Trek history into account, if they did do that successfully, and this is, as it appears to be, Kirk's first mission as captain of the Enterprise, then the Romulans should not be making an appearance, and this Nero character should be some other species.

I guess I'll have to wait for the reviews to find out.

haha, tis true 790.

but your rant is about an angled, cut-in-half, non-colour pic of a character we know nothing about.

I don't mind the tats, but ill wait till it comes out to see if there's reason for it if it fits his character and his crew/species/gang/whatever

Whoa Rob you sure schooled Liz on the finer points of marketing. ;-)

First thing that came to mind when I saw Nero, was Darth Maul. Then I thought about the film Doomsday.

Rob, you say that there will allways be people who have negative comments, that's true its called Screen Rant.
~~Catch the wave ~~

Please Abrams come up with something better than this look for Nero. Shinzon suffering from his blood desease looked better. ;-o

i think the poster is cool and I am excited that JJ seems to be taking the Trek history into account. The Spock character looks almost like a young Nimoy! I think Trek fans (and I am a big one) can handle other people playing the characters as long as the spirit of the original characters is maintained.

Don't let me down, JJ.....

Marketing Liz,

There aint no reason to show us anything, look how much we talk and other sites do just from a poster. They will show stuff at the right times, JJ is the world's best marketer. Its best to keep us thinking and wondering until we cant do that anymore then we get a new piece (like this poster). Im sure comiccon will reveal something.

From that picture, Bana does not look like a romulan at all. His ears are not pointed and the bridge of his nose/forehead is strange. I think he will be some other villain.

However 'Nero' is some ancient Romulan emperor from what I remember so who knows. I think he looks pretty badass in that picture because it doesn't look like Bana at all, I like the design, especially how it wraps to his chin.

I'm surprised there's alot of negative already. People complaining about not knowing enough or not getting plenty of info (who would also complain if they got too much...) There's also people complaining about the tatoos. Lol, the first character pic EVER from the movie and we already have negative. This may also be a reason for lack of information because its Star Trek and everyone has some kinda opinion and will find something bad to say. At this rate I hope we get shown nothing more so people can wait to see the movie.