Also interesting that they make it sound like it’s a trailer or nothing…if he was really anxious to show us “stuff” it doesn’t have to be a trailer. Drawings or photos of the big E or cast in uniforms would suffice for now. (No, IMO, the images that were released were not enough).

What I find annoying is a bunch of posts on this forum which are written in the spirit of: Now listen to me, all you little socially retarded Trek nerds, here come I, the tough realist, explaining the hard facts of real life to you, so stop whining and face my truth.

‘I’ll defend to the death your right to whine, but that doesn’t mean I must suffer it in silence.”

Sounds reasonable to me, lol.

Comic Con might help small movies, but the BLOCKBUSTERS are going to be blockbusters no matter what. The Internet has thousands of times more impact than any convention. The vast majority of the people who attend the conventions will see those movies anyway.

Lastly, I am not telling the “whiners’ that they shouldn’t be feeling the way they are, or that they have no right to their opinions. What I’m decrying is the whining itself, the silly petulance displayed by some here, not to mention outright rage. Nobody likes listening to a whiner, even in cyberspace.

I’ll defend to the death your right to whine, but that doesn’t mean I must suffer it in silence.

I don’t even think Comic Con was really that big at the time. I don’t recall anything like this. I figured Star Wars got big because of trailers, commercials, marketing and hype. Silly me.

In days of yore.. the only way to get any… and I mean ANY information about a Trek movie was from good old STARLOG Magazine. And what did that amount to? Sometimes nothing more than some grainy photos and a couple of vague quotes.”

God, yes.

I remember trying to imagine what the new Bridge for “Star Trek: Phase II” was going to look like, based on a small Starlog photo showing the *outer*scaffolding* of the set. And IIRC the first “photo” of the new Enterprise exterior was actually a small picture of an electronic toy version that would be marketed with the film’s release (there had previously been some production art in the magazine by Mike Minor, of course).

My discovery of Weekly Variety in 1981 was a godsend. Okay, so Montalban is in this – now we know for sure who the villain is. But who the hell are Kirstie Alley and Merritt Buttrick????

The Age of the Dinosaurs. LOL

I haven’t whined once.

Of course, like you said, it was Fringe’s moment in the spotlight, to talk Trek wouldn’t have been appropriate. Darn shame there wasn’t a Trek panel for those goodies.

Oh well, like they say, it’s the thought that counts.