@8 – I just purchased a Bluetooth Speaker at Best Buy. I told them it was $15 less at Amazon, they looked it up online and matched the price.

It still has to move closer to the shore though because Kirk and Bones jumped off the cliff and it seemed like they didn’t have to swim terribly far to reach the ship. Did they use thrusters then to maneuver like a submarine until they were closer to shore? Or impulse? Can an impulse engine work underwater?

See, the very thought of Kirk trying to convince Scotty, Spock, and McCoy to submerge the Big E deserves an entire comic devoted to seeing how that played out. After all, they were supposed to only observe that culture :D

Yes, we know it wasn’t the Enterprise crashing into San Francisco. Many fans had already figured it as we were watching the first teaser. TrekMovie wasn’t the first to figure it out. And I can’t say how many times I’ve seen fans tip TrekMovie off on news items or article ideas on twitter only to see the article show up later with no credit given to the fan, instead we get “TrekMovie has exclusively learned that…”

I miss the humble TrekMovie that I first discovered back when we barely had news about 2009′s Star Trek.

To save money maybe they could do as TOS used to do – have a “bottle” show. Why not? Chambliss’s Enterprise is beautiful and spacious, and they could easily film a “Doomsday Machine”-type episode using “2″ Enterprises, one in the role of the Constellation.

I really hope the studio gives the go-ahead to a 3rd film soon so Orci and Kurtzman can draft #3. Of course I suppose the studio/production company need to know how much $ STID makes so they can budget for the 3rd film … and the writers need to have a fair idea of what they can and can’t write as far as action sequences and aliens and costumes &c. Grrr, so many obstacles! But please folks, I really hope you can start kicking around ideas. (One hopes they already have a fleshed-out idea and just need to start scripting it. Like, maybe this year.)

Does anyone else miss Romulans? (Not the dreaded be-wigged dented forehead ones from TNG.)

late at night way out at sea.

Now, the bad news. Box Office Mojo is forecasting STID to land north of 200MM domestically. It’s being attributed to the four year gap between movies, the bad guy lacking definition (JJ’s secrecy may have bit him on the butt this time out), a competitive May (IM3, TGG, and FF6 next weekend), and STID being pegged as a fan-boy movie this time around, which is something Bad Robot really fought hard to avoid the last time out.

Several outlets are reporting they expect Paramount to make another Trek feature. They are also expecting Paramount to get their act together and quit treating the franchise as an afterthought…at least that’s what I get from it.

This is what I worked out, someone else can correct me if I’ve got it wrong.

What I got was that Marcus wakes up Khan, holds his crew basically as ransom so Khan HAS to do whatever Marcus tells him too. Khan says, “eff that” and uses the torpedoes that he designed for Marcus to try and smuggle his crew to safety. Marcus finds out, confiscates the torpedoes, Khan has to bail without his crew. Khan figures that Marcus has killed his crew as punishment for defying him and then all of the bombings and shootings go down because Khan is out for revenge since he thinks Marcus has killed his people.

Marcus, however, thinks this Klingon War needs to happen sooner rather than later so that the Klingons can be eliminated as a threat once and for all (this is a bit of guessing on my part because I’m not sure it’s clearly stated). Meanwhile, he has 72 frozen superhumans that he needs to rid himself of so he decides to kill two birds with one stone and get rid of any evidence that he woke up Khan or has any of his crew. He sends Kirk so that Marcus won’t be connected with the pre-emptive strike and Kirk is headstrong enough to do it (it was Kirk’s suggestion after all). Marcus senses an opportunity when Kirk offers to go and he rolls with it.

As for why he’s so superhuman…because they have a better budget and can hire awesome stunt coordinators, I guess. I’ve no answer for that one but I really liked that aspect, tbh. Except the magic blood was a bit dodgy but I can overlook that.

Too bad there is no 5min flyby treatment to see all the angles and changes.

The orginal refit is still the best, something about slow moving starships in space makes it more epic.