Paramount has already leaked some promotional photos for JJ Abrams Star Trek movie. I figured (and kinda hoped) this wouldn’t happen until a little closer to the release– we’re still more than seven months away and we already have a good idea what the bridge looks like! This is about the time I thought we’d get promotional pictures when the movie was still supposed to happen in December, but just as I thought Chris Nolan allowed spoiler Joker pictures too early for Dark Knight, I think these are a little early too. I don’t want to make any judgement calls before I see the movie, so I’d rather be completely in the dark than get pictures out of context.

 That being said, they look really fantastic, for the most part. I can see now why Quinto was chosen to play Spock… he looks a little scary. And I hope we’re just seeing that picture out of context, because Spock’s looking a little too much like Syler.

The cast looks really great. But where’s Kirk’s uniform?

I’m glad they’re still being hush-hush about exactly what the ship’s going to look like, but I wsh we hadn’t seen the bridge at all yet. It looks neat, but I’m not sure it looks very Star Trek. This is like TOS if Enterprise had actually happened– if Starfleet really did have technology 100 more advanced than what we saw in that show. I do like that it’s bright and eye-catching, but there’s something about it that seems too Power Rangers command center for me. I hope this ends up being like the Tumbler in Batman Begins– I hated it when I saw it out of context, but once I watched the film, it was amazing.

Nero looks like your average wicked-evil Romulan, only a little more liberal. What’s with the tattoos? It might be cool if he really is a rebel Romulan who runs off on his own agenda rather than just working for the Romulan government– that’s certainly what he looks like. Hope he’s got a better motive than Shinzon in Nemesis.

Also, a little side-note: I know this is going to be kind of a reboot, but Chekov really shouldn’t even be in this movie, if it’s pre-TOS. He doesn’t even appear in the series until season 2.

But I am breathing a little sigh of relief. Despite my tiny qualms, this does really look like Star Trek. I hope it is.

LLAP

 -Cap’n Logan