Star Trek Into Darkness - Images, Videos, Discussion, etc

[Shadowknight1]

If only the same could be said of the TOS cast.

[Lionus]

Not gonna happen, half of them are 6ft under. 

[majormagna]

Not gonna happen, half of them are 6ft under.  

And two(?) of them are a few thousand feet above!

[Shadowknight1]

Not gonna happen, half of them are 6ft under. 

Half?  Just referring to the main crew, they're only down DeForrest Kelley and James Doohan.  My comment was referring to the fact that, except for Nimoy, most of the rest of the crew can't stand the Shat.

[mckinneyc]

I do hope all the Ent interiors are sets for this film. It is the biggest turn off for me in XI.

[majormagna]

I still think if they disabled the lens flare generators at the end of XI, they wouldn't have needed to eject the warp core(s) due to the extra boost of energy.

[captain_obvious]

I still think if they disabled the lens flare generators at the end of XI, they wouldn't have needed to eject the warp core(s) due to the extra boost of energy.

We can't have that! It means the CGI will have to work seeing as they won't be able to hide shoddy work!

[Shadowknight1]

I do hope all the Ent interiors are sets for this film. It is the biggest turn off for me in XI.

They were sets.  It's not like the Star Wars prequels, where every set was CGI.

[086gf]

Not every set but most. Especially with ep3 where they did use more real sets.

[Shadowknight1]

Not every set but most. Especially with ep3 where they did use more real sets.

I call baloney on that.  I watched the docs for Ep3.  Far too much green-screen.

[mckinneyc]

That is what I got annoyed about Caprica with. You just can't beat a set that looks believeable.

With the JJ Enterprise using the brewry for all the lower decks just didn't work and feel right. Totally at odds with the Trek design ethic.

I will go see this film and I am very interested as to Cumberbatch's role. I think he is a wonderful up and coming actor!

[086gf]

I call baloney on that.  I watched the docs for Ep3.  Far too much green-screen.

I didn't say full sets just more.

With the JJ Enterprise using the brewry for all the lower decks just didn't work and feel right. Totally at odds with the Trek design ethic.

Though Trek itself says that the bowels of a starship don't have to look just as fancy and luxurious as the rest of it. As said many times already think cruiseship. The engine rooms on them are not even half as nice as the rest of the ship due to that obviously only a specific few are even allowed to be in it. The same would absolutely apply to a starship engine room. It would just be a waste of resources thats not needed anyways. TOS did it about right though TNG+(looked nicer than any of the bridges for crying out loud) went way too far there should still be some things exposed. A lot less polished. With the last movie many people go with the "rushed into service" explaination. It works if you think about it. Hopefully it will still be somewhat dark and dirty as a true engine room should be.

[Darkthunder]

I think the NX-01 engine room looked about right... "Primitive" but still look somewhat advanced. The "Brewery" of JJ Enterprise, is one of the few things I had serious issue with. The other, being the obvious oversized ship. And the installed lens flare generators ofcourse

[Shadowknight1]

I wouldn't have minded the "brewery" so much if I hadn't seen the concepts of what could have been...

And I honestly think that all Trek ships should be scaled up anyways, IMO.  The original ship only being as long as an aircraft carrier doesn't sit well with me.  We're humans.  We build big things!

[FarShot]

I wouldn't have minded the "brewery" so much if I hadn't seen the concepts of what could have been...

And I honestly think that all Trek ships should be scaled up anyways, IMO.  The original ship only being as long as an aircraft carrier doesn't sit well with me.  We're humans.  We build big things!

Agree with both these statements 100%.

[sovereign001]

We're pakleds.  We build big things!

Let me correct that for you

[King Class Scout]

I think the NX-01 engine room looked about right... "Primitive" but still look somewhat advanced. The "Brewery" of JJ Enterprise, is one of the few things I had serious issue with. The other, being the obvious oversized ship. And the installed lens flare generators ofcourse

watched the Background material, any, for Reboot?  the only Generated lensflares were for the CG shots.  Abrams specifically picked the camera lenses he used to GET all those flares (how he didn't break the Cameras with all that manual shaking of them is a mystery)

and we also know why the JJprise was oversized....for the details.

[Shadowknight1]

watched the Background material, any, for Reboot?  the only Generated lensflares were for the CG shots.  Abrams specifically picked the camera lenses he used to GET all those flares (how he didn't break the Cameras with all that manual shaking of them is a mystery)

and we also know why the JJprise was oversized....for the details.

The lens flare generator thing is a joke.

But yeah, I love all the background stuff on ST2009.  Though I would not want to be JJ's camera-man.  I would be like, "GET AWAY FROM MY CAMERA!!!"  I too am surprised that he didn't break any cameras with his constant tapping.  I hope that we get a really nice external pan of the ship.  They should really show off the specularity of the hull.

EDIT: News...ish?  Leonard Nimoy is once again stepping foot on the set of a Star Trek movie, but sadly, just as an observer this time. http://trekmovie.com/2012/01/26/leonard-nimoy-to-visit-star-trek-sequel-set/

[Bones]

I thought it was said Leonard Nimoy is gonna be an observer this time, no acting in new movie, personally it was a really nice goodbye to the 'old-trek' "NImoy commenting on Kirks gaining command", now it's time to make new history

[086gf]

Heres two pics from the set! Important and interesting parts in bold.

In this first look at director J.J. Abrams' currently shooting "Star Trek" sequel, we see quite clearly that Zachary Quinto's returning Spock and the newcomer played by Cumberbatch are very much not friends. The two are locked in battle on top of what's being described as "a Space Barge set."

During the battle and in the photo you can see here, Spock does his best to stop his foe using his famous Vulcan Death Grip, but the move fails; Cumberbatch's character is able to overpower the grip and regain the upper hand in his struggle against the Star Fleet officer.

Interestingly, Spock is not the only one wearing a Star Fleet uniform. Cumberbatch's unknown character is seen wearing a black version of the uniform under his silver overcoat. A sign that this man was a friend before he was a foe?

In another shot from the epic battle, Zoe Saldana joins the fight once again as Uhura. She's using a phaser to save Spock from Cumberbatch's villain, though whether or not she'll be successful is a completely different story altogether.

http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2012/02/24/star-trek-2-photo-benedict-cumberbatch-zachary-quinto/

Clearly hes playing a very physically strong character that we may or may not already know. Reading comments here and there people are either saying its some twisted version of Capt. Tracy or Fennigan or Gary Mitchell or a revived non-Khan Eugenitcs War leftover or some random rouge SF captain. Or he may have just stole the shirt from someone to blend in perhaps? But then again the longer than regulation hair would give him away. Though im going with the "former SF connection" crowd. Some part of me has always wanted to see a full-on Federation on Federation standoff. Eitherway you look at it though this "space barge" does appear pretty.....dated. And remember that they were going for a latino actor for the main villain role so who knows.