At least the communicator in the picture looks juuust enough like the one Captain Pike used in “The Cage” to make me think they are taking the pre-TOS setting seriously.

I love the aesthetic, but all the jokes in this trailer are like D-level sitcom bad. I think I’ll stick to watching Miles from Tomorrowland with my daughter (seriously—it may be a kids’ show, but it’s satisfying my desire for a decent new Star Trek TV series until we find out whether Discovery is any good).

Yeah, I’m guessing the “entire species is male” thing was ripped off from DS9's Jem Hadar (the look of the character is even similar). But a toilet seat joke? Tacky and tired indeed. I’m out.

Right down to ripping of Sarris’ “Give me the device or I will destroy your ship” line. (Except that Galaxy Quest was actually funny, and this trailer wasn’t.)

Cars 1 and 2 were both rated G, which suprised me (especially with all the cars that “died” in the second movie). Oddly enough, the two “Planes” movies set in the same universe were both PG, even though they had a lot less vehicle destruction in them.

As others have mentioned, Mater did make a very brief cameo in the second trailer. My daughter and I found the kids’ book version of the movie already on sale the other day, though, and Mater wasn’t in it at all. So his role is apparently very small.

My daughter and I found a kids’ book version of the movie already on sale at the local department store last week, and thumbed through it; Mater wasn’t in it at all. As others have pointed out, though, he does make a very brief appearance in the second trailer.

A couple of months back I was at Disneyland with my family. As I entered the Tomorrowland section of the park, I paused to read the plaque quoting Walt Disney as saying that Tomorrowland “provides a glimpse into the future of humanity.” The next thing that happened was that two armored Stormtroopers carrying huge…

I thought about that too; it’s complicated by the fact that it’s both a movie and a TV franchise, with an effort to maintain continuity between both. And, technically, the last three movies have been said to take place in an “alternate timeline,” meaning that the Prime Universe is unaffected. So, strictly from a…

I remember Deep Space Nine did a fantastic episode addressing this exact issue. Guess we haven’t come very far since Benny Russell.

“with all these who who’s of British actors its kind of funny this is a French story...”

The funniest part of that episode (funny only in retrospect) is when Kamala is telling Picard about herself and says, “I’m a mutant.”

It does seem like an odd decision, but then, Star Trek (especially from The Next Generation onwards) has always been very much an ensemble show—there were tons of episodes that focused on Riker or Kira or whoever, with the captain as a background character. So at least there’s some precedent to show that it could…

The story was kind of a mess—cobbled together from bits and pieces of the 2nd and 3rd books in the series—but “Return to Oz” actually captured the look and feel of Oz as described in the books much better than the 1939 Judy Garland movie. It’s worth a watch.

Or where the Nome King finds a guy who’s been chopped to pieces, and has to search around to find the piece with the mouth so it can tell him what happened... or where someone throws a king into a lake and then tosses a huge boulder on top of him so he can’t get out. I love the Oz books, but that “no one can die” rule…

I like the Tron movies a lot, but this premise sounds potentially goofy. The really brilliant thing about the first movie was its metaphorical nature: each program has a specific “user” whose personality influences the program’s characteristics. That was what computing looked like in 1982, and it’s a little harder to…

Actually, there was a deleted scene where McCoy pranks Spock by reprogramming his library computer to replace the word “marshmellow” with “marshmellon.” Why McCoy thought that would be funny, I don’t know, but at least it explains why Spock is saying it that way.

Here’s a consolation prize in the meanwhile.

“[Doc Brown] and The Doctor would find they had a lot in common”

I’ve been reflecting on this too. Star Trek at its best is about building hope for an optimistic future, not about canon arguments (though I’ll admit those can be enjoyable at times, for what they’re worth). Think about Martin Luther King, Jr. telling Nichelle Nichols how much hope her character was giving to young…