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New Star Trek trailer
by jerry
December 17, 2008 4:30 pm


The wacky folks at NEO f/x took the soundtrack from this trailer for the upcoming Star Trek movie and combined it with images from Filmation’s animated Star Trek. The result:

(via Trekmovie.com)

12/17/08  4:47pm
John S says:

Yeah.
That’s not funny.

12/17/08  5:40pm
John says:

It’s a Filmation Show — Where’s the preview of Kirk and Spock playing their guitars?

12/17/08  5:45pm
doug holverson says:

Fascinating, but highly illogical….

12/17/08  6:40pm

I always loved the fact that not only was Filmation animation BAD, they REUSED bad scenes!

12/17/08  7:37pm
Dennis S. says:

I used to be impressed with Filmation animation when I was a kid. Now it seems that all their good for is adult swim type parodies.

Hey! That’s the real Kyle Baker there that made a comment. Wow!

12/17/08  8:31pm
Rio says:

I’d rather see this than the movie they made.

12/17/08  11:05pm
Pedro Nakama says:

I never miss a Hal Sutherland film!

12/18/08  2:00am

My main memory of Star Trek TAS is that is was the most inanimate animated show I had ever seen. Sometimes when a person was talking they would just show their forehead to avoid animating lips. Or they’d cut to a reaction shot of another person slightly frowning.

12/18/08  3:36am

I’ll have to stick up for Filmation’s Star Trek here. I’ll admit it is poorly animated but on the whole it’s very well written.

12/18/08  7:21am

It pretty much captures the regular excitement of the animated show.

12/18/08  8:41am
Daniel J. Drazen says:

The clip demonstrates once again that Gary Sinise was born to play Bones McCoy.

12/18/08  9:15am
Half says:

The wooden voices succeed in making the whole thing even more static.

12/18/08  10:31am
tom says:

It’s so odd the way they start running from a standing position, with their elbows bent out to the sides and their fists at nipple height. Not just once, but twice in this clip alone, and one time Kirk and Spock do it together. They look like they lost their bunny rabbit costumes.

When I was a kid I was really excited for this show, but I was enrolled in Saturday morning art classes which meant no weekend cartoons for me. I bitched and pissed endlessly about missing this masterpiece. Ha ha! Kids are stupid.

12/18/08  10:41am
Greg says:

Wow, so J.J. Abrams is irrelevant.

12/18/08  10:49am
Andy Vaughn says:

You know, the program may have had limited animation, but at least the look of the characters, the voices, the storylines were spot-on Star Trek, and I have never understood why it has gotten the dissing over the years! I actually believe that it was one of the most wonderful Saturday morning shows ever produced, and I gladly own the DVD set in my collection.

12/18/08  1:56pm
Doug says:

Like Andy Vaughn, I love this cartoon as I loved all things Trek when I was a kid (and still do). I’d watch this over “The Next Generation” any day. And no I don’t live in my Mom’s basement.

Something about the new Trek movie seems so …uh … serious. What I still love about the series and the animated one was how it all seemed to be serious about itself without taking itself too seriously. Can I say serious any more?

Next up, go find out more about Filmation!

12/18/08  4:33pm
marbpl says:

And it won an Emmy (for Outstanding Entertainment Children’s Series) too.

12/18/08  5:04pm
Katella Gate says:

I realize that this is meant to be a spoof, but there’s a warning bell in my head saying it’s not a parody, it’s a prophecy:

The plodding dialog, the dead pan delivery, falsetto moments of humor, and an executive with an itch to “improve” the established cannon of a beloved space opera - there’s a creepy feeling of déjà vu at work.

I hope this new Star Trek movie doesn’t turn into the train wreck all three of the Star Wars Prequels were.

12/18/08  5:19pm
Joe Torcivia says:

Everyone, please… Judge Star Trek TAS as the product of its time!

In 1973, it was the BEST THERE WAS! Bar none!

Keep it in perspective!

12/19/08  8:43am
marbpl says:

At one point, Filmation intended to ‘kiddify’ the series, giving the crew young cadet companions:
http://www.danhausertrek.com/AnimatedSeries/EarlyAnimatedConcept_Big.jpg

Fortunately this concept was abandoned.

12/19/08  1:03pm
Gene Hole says:

can’t wait 20 years from now to hear someone begging us to remember “JJ Abram’s Star Trek is merely a product of its time- keep it in perspective.”

12/19/08  2:42pm
Brian Kidd says:

I have to stand up for TAS as well. A good many of the writers were from the original series. You had all of the original voices, sans Walter Koenig (who still showed up to direct). The stories were almost exactly like stories from the original series in tone and dialogue.

Yes, the animation was typical limited Filmation stuff. Still, the show holds up amazingly well and remains infinitely more entertaining than most television Sci Fi.

Plus, my kid loves it. :)

As for the new film: honestly you can’t tell much from a trailer. A bad movie can have a great trailer (PHANTOM MENACE) and a great film can have a terrible trailer (DONNIE DARKO). Once the film is actually screened, then we’ll know. In the end, it can’t be any worse than the last couple of STAR TREK films.

12/19/08  4:42pm
John S says:

ALL movies are a product of their time.

12/19/08  6:36pm
Stu says:

“Space is disease and danger wrapped in darkness.” At its nadir, Filmation’s writing was actually better than that line.

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