{"id":2001,"date":"2008-11-18T09:10:01","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T14:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=2001"},"modified":"2008-11-18T09:10:16","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T14:10:16","slug":"the-voyage-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=2001","title":{"rendered":"The Voyage Begins."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mr<\/a><\/p>\n

The new Star Trek<\/em> trailer<\/a>, above, is finally out…and it’s kinda bananas.<\/p>\n

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\"Building<\/a><\/p>\n

Directed by J.J. Abrams (Alias<\/em>, Mission: Impossible III<\/em>, Fringe<\/em>), the film completely reboots the Star Trek<\/em> mythos, a la Batman Begins<\/em>. There’s a totally fresh U.S.S. Enterprise<\/em>, above, and a young, new cast…very<\/em> young. Like, I’m looking, and there’s a bunch of 22-year-olds running a multi-quintillion-dollar piece of 23rd century hardware. They look less like the actual men and women of TOS<\/em> (The Original Series<\/em>, non-Trekkers) than they do the pouty inhabitants of Heroes<\/em>. (That’s something the participation of actor Zachary Quinto\u2014Heroes<\/em>‘s Sylar\u2014as Mr. Spock has nothing to do with, I’m sure.)<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

Upon seeing the trailer, though, what you most come away with is:<\/p>\n

a) The stupendous level of velocity at play in Abrams’ vision of the Star Trek<\/em> universe. My sense is that, to him, speed<\/em> is part of the narrative description of Star Trek<\/em>\u2014a character, itself\u2014much the way that, say, hyperbolic gunplay forms the symbolic texture of John Woo’s cosmos<\/a>.<\/p>\n

b) The visual effects, performed\u2014that’s the only appropriate word\u2014by the more-astounding-with-each-film Industrial Light & Magic, are gargantuan, dense, and complex. Whoa.<\/p>\n

c) The studio’s confidence: The first trailer,<\/a> revealing of the construction of the Enterprise, ended with the promise of a Christmas 2008 release. Now a May 2009 debut is in place, instead, indicating that the powers think they have a legitimate summer smash on their hands. They may be right. Anyway, I hate winter. Believe me: Spring can’t get here soon enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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