A cocky starship captain with a problem with authority yells at his partner to stop complaining about the fact that they’re being chased. Then he pilots a largely saucer-shaped spaceship, again, while being pursued, and escapes by turning the ship on its side and shooting a narrow gap. And then he snarls at his co-pilot to, “punch it!”
Yup, J. J. Abrams sure is the guy to direct Star Wars… unfortunately, these are all elements from the latest trailer for Star Trek Into Darkness.
Which I am okay with – as far as I’m concerned, the Star Wars-style elements in the first Star Trek showed he’d be a good guy to drive Star Wars: Episode VII – but then again, I am not the biggest Star Trek fan in the world. Based on some of the chatter at my local comic store, where they know me by name and ask me not to offer to show my dilithium crystals to the paying clientele, there are people out there who own the technical manual for the Enterprise and can use the word “nacelle” in a sentence that isn’t, “What the fuck is a nacelle?”, who are looking at this new trailer and losing their shit.
And you can watch the trailer and lose your shit, right after the jump.
Yeah, that ship might be called Enterprise, but that’s Star Wars. And again: I am okay with that. Star Wars is awesome, and if the world really wanted more hardcore, nerd-savage Star Trek, then that last Enterprise series wouldn’t have co-starred Jolene Blaylock’s tits and failed anyway.
What’s that? Half the geek Internet just challenged me to Hay’chu? I’ve got a bad feeling about this…
Star Trek Into Darkness opens May 17th.
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