[imdb tt0796366]From Star Trek’s trailer, we get a couple tiny battle clips, a shot of the bad guy, and some angsty Kirk moments, but the preview gives nearly nothing away in regards to plot.   Instead, the two minute montage is rife with character development.  For those of us familiar with the show, it tugs on those heart-string attatchments we have for these characters, and yet it still presents a little more humanization, particularly in those small peeks into Kirk’s background.  I love the blips of Sulu, Uhura, and Scotty.  Even more so, I like that the five seconds of screentime Bones gets, he uses to lecture Kirk.

I think the opening of the preview was great.  It was exciting, enthralling, and fun in its introduction of James Siberius Kirk…HUH?!  Either this kid read his line wrong or he needs to learn to ennunciate, but I’m pretty sure I heard Siberius, and last I knew it was Tiberius…with a T.    Maybe it’s like in Wicked where Galinda changes her name to Glinda, Kirk changes his name to Tiberius.  Or maybe he just decides that James T. Kirk is more manly.  Maybe I’m just nit-picking…or heard wrong…but the brat’s little slur of words irks me.  It sets a bad precedent for the accuracy of the rest of the film.

However, my fiance and roommate, who are both extreme, mega Star Trek geeks, who practically had a coronary because the left central turret of the Enterprise ship was off by a centimeter (I’m exagerating of course…it was probably closer to an inch), didn’t even blink when the kid said Siberius, and when I bitch they look at me as though I just sprouted a Bajoran nose.  Blarg, what do they know?

I do think that the person (or peoples) who cut this trailer had a mini-gasm when they used the clip of Eric Bana proclaiming “The wait is over.”  How supremely, nerdarifically perfect is that little gem?!  I couldn’t supress a little giggle, that’s for sure.  And I love the use of the transporter sound effect and the bit of original Star Trek theme song at the close of the preview.  I think a fan or two cut this trailer, or so I’d like to believe.

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