OK, take two minutes to geek out at the new Trek trailer on Youtube:
This shows a couple new things, including a desert planet getting destroyed, and the main bad guy (Eric Bana playing a Romulan named “Nero”) saying “James T. Kirk was a great man, but that was another life.” It kinda seems like the desert planet getting trashed is Vulcan.
This would seem to support some of the rumors that Nero comes from the future, post “Star Trek: Nemesis,” and goes back in time to mess with Kirk for some reason. Nero causes all manner of havoc (apparently including trashing Vulcan), but at the end of the movie, he is defeated and the timeline “resets.” Thus, perhaps, allowing for the timeline to create the original “Enterprise” we’ve all come to know and love.
UPDATE: OK, overgeekage: Two further shots showing a big energy weapon being fired at the surface of the planet:
If you look at an earlier trailer, you can see the same landscape… clearly it’s Vulcan:
The implication here is that the long-haired person seen watching the beam weapon strike the ground is Spock’s mom.
There’s a brief snip in this earlier trailer showing Spock apparently beaming down into the same landscape, with the rocks falling apart around him…
And Nero standing on a platform on the weapon looking down as it fires:
So, if the planet shown getting destroyed – by what looks like being eaten by a black hole, so that’s a different mechanism than being blasted by a laser – is actually meant to be Vulcan, then the movie will almost have to end with a resetting of the timeline.
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The superweapon (imploder beam emitter) seems to be what the characters are fighting on–unless that is supposed to be a space elevator.
Doesn’t even look Romulan.
There seem to be two “weapons:” The space elevator/drill rig thingie (saw it described as a mining tool on some discussion forum, dunno how accurate that is), and some space-traveling swirlie-multi-blade-nastiness. Don’t know what that last is… superweapon, spaceship, time machine, what.
I’m actually starting to get a little excited about this one. JJ Abrams tends to have a pretty good track record on making interesting movies IMO.
I’ve not been a big follower of Abrams. I thought Cloverfield freakin’ rocked; I was hooked on the first season of “Lost…” but haven’t watched another episode since. Somehow the interest jsut simply evaporated. Similar with “Fringe…” was hooked from the start, but I haven’t seen an episode in months.
Time paradox!
A paradox! A paradox! A most ingenious paradox!
Ah, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! A paradox!
I love me a good paradox.
*spoiler alert*
The light beam you see is a huge mining laser, from a… wait for it… huge mining ship. The mining ship is from the future and in this future has been modified into a warship. Nero brings it back into the past, to exact vengeance on the vulcans whom he blames for causing the destruction of romulus, in the future where he originated.
The actual “weapon” that destroys planets is a black hole that is launched into the planet core once the mining laser drills a hole deep enough.