This story contains MINOR SPOILERS for the upcoming "Star Trek" motion picture.
Months of secrecy surrounding the new "Star Trek" movie from J.J. Abrams has finally ended with a first look at the characters, uniforms and even the spiffy new Enterprise bridge provided this week to Entertainment Weekly.
"I don't think people even understand what Star Trek means anymore," Abrams told the magazine during an on-set visit during filming earlier this year. To the director who also was behind such television hits as "Alias," "Lost" and the new Fox series "Fringe," the universe of Star Trek has basically boiled down to the 1999 film "Galaxy Quest" with Tim Allen and Sigourney Weaver.
"It's so ridiculous, so accurate, so sophisticated, it spoils the Star Trek universe," Abrams said.
Along with the revelation that the cast will have all-new phaser pistols to use, EW also had plenty of pictures to share, including an exterior of a secondary ship known as the USS Kelvin, most of the cast in sleek new uniforms reminiscent of the 1960s series, and even a look at the Romulan played by Eric Bana.
All of the pictures and the whole story can be found right here on the Entertainment Weekly Web site.
"I think a movie that shows people of various races working together and surviving hundreds of years from now is not a bad message to put out right now," Abrams said. Which is interesting since moviegoers seem to prefer darker, bleaker productions right now.
"In a world where a movie as incredibly produced as 'The Dark Knight' is raking in gsazillions of dollars, 'Star Trek' stands in stark contrast. It was important to me that optimism be cool again."
A full trailer for the film is said to be attached to the upcoming James Bond feature "Quantum of Solace" that premieres next month, with the film making its big opening in May. For the very select few that has had a chance to see the unfinished film, it's been nothing but rave reviews.
EW confirmed that the movie will be a time-travel film, and the aforementioned USS Kelvin plays an integral part of it. Bana's character of Nero attacks the Kelvin, which sets off a series events that shakes up time. Quickly, the film goes into the origins of the most famous Enterprise crew of all, as well as the long-lasting friendship between James Kirk (Chris Pine) and Spock (Zachary Quinto).
The key to making the new "Star Trek" work was the total involvement of the original actor to play Spock, Leonard Nimoy. So much, Abrams said he wouldn't do the film without him.
"I thought Spock was behind me," Nimoy told the magazine. "I had no unfulfilled wishes. [But] I felt J.J. and his writers had a very strong sense of who the characters were and how they should work. To find a team that was interested in putting it all back together was very exciting."
Many of those involved said how much they wish the movie was coming out this Christmas as had been originally planned, and even Quinto -- who audiences still best know as Sylar in the NBC series "Heroes" -- felt it was something that could really appeal to Democrats in the upcoming election. "This is a franchise that offers hope for unity -- and so does Barack Obama," said Quinto, who has made no secret that he supports the Illinois senator in his campaign against Republican nominee John McCain. "When this movie comes out, and Obama is president, hopefully there will be some parallels."
If this going to be like Galaxy quest???
I knew that one was a spoof.A nice spoof,but still it was a spoof. GTO
