Out of Pod Experience

Sorry for the derail, but I actually loved the guy in "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" even if his part was short. I actually enjoyed the film, but him as a villain, well. Might be a bit for him, or perhaps not.

But ... I just wish if they decide to remake Khan, he´s as strong as the original.

Gary Mitchell is kind of a dumb villain to be bringing back.

That's a statement, now explain why it is dumb.

Apparently not. That is obviously him on Earth, and he never gained his superpowers until after he boards the Enterprise...and they did not return to Earth before he was killed.

So no, it's not going to be a remake of the episode.

I doubt we're going to get an exact re-tread if the synopsis is anything to go by, but humouring you for the briefest...because based on what the recent 2009 movie was like, I think most are happy to trust them to make it a worthy nod to the original story of the 60's.

Additionally, stories about genetic engineering are palatable science fiction because of what we have done as humans in this area over the last, what?, 40 years?

It's been in the news, we've seen discussions, arguments and even capitalistic attempts to patent the human genome - so, it's sci-fi with weight behind it.

Easy.

AK

Go to the Aint't It Cool link just above here for the TRAILER

It's obviously Gary Mitchell, down to the blue eyes.....and the unknown blonde lady (Sally Kellerman redux).

I am American born in Arkansas and have lived in the diverse populations of Houston, TX, San Francisco, and Tampa/St Petersberg, Florida.

If you assume the above, you unfortunately do not assume wrong, sad to say.


edit: the amount of any kind of intelligent discourse in the States is rare, but would happen occasionally in San Fran, as is to be expected.

A few of us are trying to keep the intellectual torch alive, but it's become in the last 5 years or so a Losing Battle. It's REAL bad here. Florida is a mental cesspool tbh. Backwards as backwards can get.

Hey fellow Trek fans! First up, can I just ask people to steer clear of the nationalist talk, it never ends well and ruins many a good thread, thank you.

Now to be on topic, take a look at these two pictures:

Elizabeth Dehner played by Sally Kellerman.

Alice Eve as "Unnamed Character"

I don't think its a stretch to imagine that Eve's character is Dr Elizabeth Dehner, albeit a retconned version. And lets face it, though many people would be OK with seeing Khan re-imagined, it does not fit with any of the facts released thus far by Paramount. The description released by them for the movie clearly states that Starfleet and Earth are threatened from within Starfleet itself.

Khan was never a part of Starfleet and, clever though he was, even in the original TV series and Movies he was never able to do more than attack from the outside. And while he was also undoubtedly dangerous, Khan was never considered a "One-man weapon" by anyone. He was a leader of men, not a solo killing machine.

Mitchell on the other hand would be perfectly capable of doing precisely these things; from infiltrating Starfleet, to going on a revenge fuelled spree of destruction. He has plenty of reasons (in his own mind) to hate Starfleet and James Kirk, and with his new abilities he would be more than capable of wreaking massive amounts of destruction. Consider his powers:


- Hypercognition
- Conscious regulation of autonomic reflexes
- Telepathy
- Extrasensory perception of various kinds, including clairvoyance, clairaudience, and clairoratory
- Telekinesis
- The ability to control energy, including both its directed use as a weapon against other organisms, and an invulnerability to Phaser fire
- The ability to manipulate matter, including the instant materialization and dematerialization of both organisms and objects

That gets him into Starfleet headquarters, the ability to re-program peoples thoughts, create weapons out of thin air and be able to withstand weapons fire. Pretty handy if you plan on destroying a whole planet in a fit of bare-fisted rage, don't you think?

BTW, the trailer had probably the most explosions I've seen in quite awhile.

But the lens flares were indeed absent



EDIT:I can't find the article, but it was about how the level of lens flares in the last film was partly ILM's doing.

They saw all the lens flares in the finished Bridge shots and all, and they took the cue and made the effects shots also be lens flare heavy. It just compounded the issue and JJ Abrams said it wasn't quite supposed to be like that.

I find the Star Trek fan base fascinating they are crazy die hard and extremely protective of the series and everything pertaining to it. Almost as if it wasn't SciFi and was future history being told in the past. :)