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Being spoiled has never affected my experience of watching a movie, one way or the other. I read the novelizations of the first 3 Star Trek movies before their theatrical premieres and stilll thoroughly enjoyed the experience of the actual movies.

As to Trek 09, it’s admirable that JJ Abrams wants to try to keep it under a cloak of secrecy and he’s done a pretty good job of it so far. The only real problems in maintaining the secrecy is the sheer amount of product offshoots relevant to the movie.

There will be a novelization, of course. It probably will be released shortly after the movie, but authors, editors, office people, publishers, printers and shippers will all have some prior access in advance of May of 2009.

There might be a comic adaptation, increasing the number of folks ‘in the know’.

There will be ‘making of’ articles and videos.

All it will take is one source with the goods who is willing to spoil anonymously and it’s all over. I would expect Abrams to be forced into some form of damage control before Xmas of 2008.

As to my read as to what Abrams will do with Trek -and this is wholly uninformed specualtion to be sure-

Time travel is a given for the plot to work.

Time travel has always been Star Trek’s ultimate reset switch.

That reset switch will be used to ‘reboot’ the franchise, erasing the ‘history’ of Trek as we know it, giving Abrams free reign to reshape Trek events and circumstances without having to worry too much about canon. Canon will become nothing more than an abstract blueprint in the reshaped Trek universe.

Given what we’ve found out thus far, it is the only approach that makes sense to me.

Or they could expand somewhat on idea from one of Shatner’s ST novels and have him be resurrected by the Borg…

I am LoKirktus of Borg… Resistance is futile…

It’s a reasonable means to an end: to tell an “origin story” for the original series, that never appeared on screen. It’s the “final frontier” of Trek, to look back at the early days of Kirk and Spock, something we’ve all wanted to have a look at for forty years.

One expects that most of the events of the movie we’ll see, would have played out almost exactly the same whether Nero and Old Spock were there or not. At least, it wouldn’t be impossible to script it that way: sort of a “Star Trek: A Christmas Carol.”

Old Spock becomes Scrooge revisiting with Nero, the Ghost of Romulans Past… or something like that. Now I’m wishing there were a cameo for Patrick Stewart as Admiral Picard, counseling Nimoy’s Spock before he goes back to the past…

I miss when storied delved into the characterization of the actual characters and made them the HEROES we grew up believing in and tried to be like. We can better relate to our favorite character if he or she is facing a problem that is not COMPLETELY outside the realm of possibility for us to face ourselves. I’m not saying that you or I will be comanding a starship and be able to make the same decisions that Captain Kirk makes, but we may well be in the possition of commanding others and hence be responsible for their safety. There are a lot of people out there, that grew up looking up to the good Captain, whom hold jobs and have careers just like that. I do know this: none of us will EVER be in the possision of traveling through time! That being so, I don’t give a frog’s fat butt what fictitious time travelers are up to. Give us something that our suspension of disbelief can actually suspend. After all that is one of the things that always made Star Trek stand out for me; The characters, technology and situations may have been fictitious, but they were believable and inspiring.

Well, that’s all I have to vent about. I’ll still be at the front of the line when the movie is released. I just hope a bunch of greedy hollywood producer types don’t ruin this for me and all of you. I REALLY hope my fears are Wrong and nothing would make me happier to admit I was wrong about all this.

Until the truth presents itself,
Live long and prosper.

And provides countless “tips”. After having the USS Pasteur, the USS Kelvin is just fine: after all, he is the one who said circa 1900 that everything that would ever be discovered in physics had now been discovered. Methinks this means the USS Kelvin might just be steam-powered.

But gee, in science, we use kelvin all the time. As a matter of fact, right now, it’s about 284 kelvins and rainy outside here in Maine. And about 1 gee, too.

There will be one in the theater at least, when I see it!

Non-sequitur: This is why I think the whole meatware Cylon story in BSG is a bore, no matter how hot Number 6 looks in a red dress. Nothing kills suspense like a weak, conflicted enemy. “I used to be a husband and a father. Now I don’t know WHAT I am…” Feh.