Super Bowl Super Trailer-Rama Part III: Star Trek
And heeeeere’s the new Trek trailer, which features among the
old footage: Kirk playing in the snow, Kirk getting punched repeatedly in
the face; Kirk drinking on board a starship while meeting McCoy, Kirk…uh…skydiving, and
then basically, there’s just a shit-ton of explosions. Mostly, it’s “HEY HEY LOOK
AT HOW BAD-ASS STAR TREK IS LOOK HEY LOOK!” I get that, and it’s probably a smart call given how much Star Trek has declined even among nerds in the last decade, but it really boils down to “Look how much unlike Star Trek our Star Trek movie is!” It didn’t do much for me.
FYI: If Kirk drinks an Amp energy drink during the skydiving sequence, I will personally fly to Hollywood and murder J.J. Abrams myself. Just on principle.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.