Star Trek Beyond

[zip accident]

Enterprise!

http://arstechnica.co.uk/the-multiverse ... 967-glory/

[Darkflame]

Still beautiful.

An iconic design, with scope for variance, that still looks functional - albeit functional in ways that don't exist.

[Truder]

New trailer if anyone is interested

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Not sure I like it, story involving the enterprise being destroyed... It's so original

[gumboot]

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Not sure I like it, story involving the enterprise being destroyed... It's so original

Could be worse.

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[KlaxonCow]

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Not sure I like it, story involving the enterprise being destroyed... It's so original

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In fairness, looking at the trailer, the reason for destroying the Enterprise is to force them to abandon ship, so that the characters have to face the evil threat directly and on their lonesome, without teleportation, photon torpedoes and all the rest of it. The narrator kind of spells it out: "in space, it's just you, your ship and your crew" - but if the ship is taken away, then it's just you and the crew. That is, it's actually a "deus ex machina" disabler that removes the magical technological solution out of nowhere.

Although, umm, how does Kirk get his hands on that "vintage" motorbike on an alien world far in the future? I sense a desperately crap explanation for that incoming.

[Firefox]

The Independence Day trailer on the other hand looked like a mess. Of the two I know which has got me more interested.

Holy cow! I'd completely missed that there was an Independence Day sequel coming! And it's out in a month!

Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!


(Couldn't give a toss about the new Star Trek film after the lack-lustre Kahn one.)

[Darkflame]

Independence Days trailer gave me a little hope as
a) It almost seemed like a XCom film.
b) It seemed to be a bit self-aware this time. If your going to be disaster porn then, yeah "It has its own gravity!" and "where in the Atlantic?"...all of it!" Is at least owning it.

[Firefox]

a) It almost seemed like a XCom film.

I definitely got that impression from some scenes, which is no bad thing at all!

[carolen]

Damn, Anton Yelchin (Chekov) has died in a car accident at only 27.

[Istar]

More precisely, an accident with his car. He left the engine running with the gearbox in neutral on his (steeply) sloped driveway and got out to check his mail. The car rolled back and pinned him against a wall.

Dude should have stayed in Command School instead of switching to Engineering: