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“Star Trek” – Full Trailer Details!

by Jane Boursaw on November 9th, 2008

The full trailer for “Star Trek” hits theaters next week in front of “Quantum of Solace.” To me, that’ll be just as exciting as seeing Bond!

But the trailer’s also been playing at the Paramount Theater on the lot this past week. A couple of Paramount employees wrote into Aint It Cool News with the lowdown. The details (with grammatical errors corrected by me, because I just can’t let those go through):

“The trailer starts by showing a mid-60’s Corvette convertible tearing across the countryside. After a few seconds, we see a long shot that shows a policeman in hot pursuit. Another long shot shows the Vette screaming at full speed toward a steep cliff. A slo-mo shot shows the driver leaping from the car at the last second and tumbling ass over teakettle toward the edge of the cliff itself. The driver is a young boy who looks about 13 or 14. He manages to grab a hold at the last second and hang on as a birds-eye shot shows the antique Vette fall away into an abyss.

More after the jump…

“We see the boy get up and dust himself off and the camera cuts away to show a trooper’s boot come down close-up. The black leather boot is obviously the policeman’s who was chasing the car, but it looks suspiciously different — just different enough to let the audience know this isn’t a normal policeman. The shot then cuts to where we can see the policeman standing in front of the boy with his "bike" hovering in mid-air a few feet beside him. He shouts at the boy, "Who are you?" or "What’s your name?" and the boy shouts back defiantly, "James Tiberius Kirk!"

“We’re then treated to another long shot showing an older boy riding a hover bike similar to the one the policeman was shown riding a moment or two before through the countryside. We hear a voice over of an older man, presumably Kirk’s father saying, "You never found yourself here, you never really fit in." The voice continues as the bike rider pulls up and stops and looks off into the distance, "What you choose to do with you’re life is up to you." We see the boy staring at a huge futuristic structure (Star Fleet headquarters?) as the voice over continues, "Maybe you were meant for something different, something….bigger." It then cuts to a scene of an obvious Vulcan woman holding a baby.”

And thus, the setup! If that’s not enough detail, read more at AICN.

Image: Star Trek, Paramount Pictures, 2009

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