If they had a scene with Kirk and Spock sitting around talking about their Academy days leading to a flashback, it would be ignoring the events of Generations.

For the record, I predicted the TimeTravelling to a previous point to reboot the story. If the above spoiler is true, I want it known that this was my idea long before they wrote the script.

Someone clue me in.

LMAO… thanks for the chuckle, Rodney. :-)

Vic

I’ve been a fan for a long time and will always love the TOS. I grew up on re-runs a and to me that is the quineesential Trek. However I did enjoy Generations and some of Deep space, Voyager and Enterprise. But each new incarnation seemed to distort and pervert history making the time-line of Trek a complete mess.

I’m a Trekkie and always will be. But I was really hoping for a complete reboot. The death of kirk, the inconsistencies of the time-line and the sometimes awful writing that came with all the series, just begged a new beginning.

It’s a shame that no one really had the guts to start fresh. I think reboots did well for BSG and Batman and could really see the same for Star Trek.

In Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986), a woman asks Kirk if he is “trying to teach whales to retrieve torpedoes or some dipshit stuff like that” and Kirk replies, “No ma’am, no dipshit.”

And in Star Trek: First Contact (1996), Picard and Data are attacked by a woman who thinks that they are the enemy, and when they try to assure her that they mean her no harm, she yells “Bullshit!”

Interestingly, both of these films are time-travel stories — in one, the word is introduced by a 20th-century woman, while in the other, it is used by a 21st-century woman — and in at least one of those films, the point is made that these “colourful metaphors” belong to the past and are not used in Kirk’s day (the 23rd century), at least.

But the fact that Data uses the word in his own era — the 24th century — suggests that the word might have made a comeback by then.

I’m glad TPTB went with new a director and the like; not to mention the great casting. I hope the writers come through because a solid story is going to save Trek along with good performances. If it it’s crap, the actors and JJ will not outlive it.,. Of that you can be sure. Trekkies would unite in their hatred and besides, no one really likes a pissed off Klingon, It seems like Star Trek XI has the potential to be awesome…