Yesterday the first production stills hit the web:













I can't help but think that the second image with Quinto looks like a picture of Sylar who is about to cut Kirk's skull open. I really like the new bridge design however. It looks pretty cool and every piece of equipment is said to serve a legitimate purpose. I can't wait to see more. The first trailer is expected to come with the new Bond movie on November 14th.

I'm pretty sure that's Kirk he's choking, not a Romulan. He wears the same black clothes he does in the other pictures and doesn't have pointy ears.

Behold, the Enterprise:

The Star Trek trailer doesn't officially hit the web until Monday, but some surprisingly reasonable quality bootlegs from yesterday are already available now:



Different one if YouTube video goes down.

Knyte wrote:

Wow, they are really escaping from the mold on this one.

The thing that amazes me the most is that they really seem to have gone over every little detail and given it a distinctly new look while still keeping it somewhat familiar. The sequence at 1:00, which I assume is how the beaming process looks like in the movie is a good example. Overall the whole production design has a distinct Apple feel to it, which is not surprising considering that Abrams is a big fan of Apple's design. I just hope that's not the only thing they paid attention to. If the characters get buried under the slick production design and the admittedly impressive special effects, the movie might fail; and I want nothing more than for it to be a success, so that Star Trek can hopefully make a return to the small screen.

Finally one thing that really bugs me about the trailer is the opening sequence with the car. I hope they have a good explanation for that. This is supposed to be 200 years in the future, so the car must be an antique by then. Do we really need that nod to the 20th century in every incarnation of Star Trek?

I read a really interesting interpretation of the opening sequence today:

Slashfilm wrote:

Much has been made of the opening sequence of the new movie trailer. A young kid jumps out of a moving car as it zooms off the edge of a cliff. The reveal is that the kid is the future Captain of the USS Enterprise, James T Kirk. The sequence is constructed to get a specific reaction: “This doesn’t look like any Star Trek movie I’ve ever seen before.” But I think many people are missing the possible metaphor. Kirk could have been driving a car from any decade in history — the 2000’s, the 1990’s, the 1980’s, or the 1970’s, but for one reason or another, Abrams chose a 1960s Corvette. Could it be that the corvette represents something more than just a fast car? Is it just a coincidence that the car was released during the same decade that the original Star Trek television series premiered? I believe that by throwing the 1960’s era car off a cliff, Abrams was making a statement - “this is not your father’s Star Trek movie - we’re throwing all that stuff away, off a cliff no less. This is the new Star Trek.”