What's with the whole prequel thing anyway? Ok with Star Wars it was needed and intended from the start (allthough the execution left something to be desired).
Don't people usually want to know what happens next? Instead of getting bassically a feature length back-story that usually fucks with the story that got you into it in the first place.
And the fanatical fanbase of Star Trek falls over every tiny inconsistency (translation: they take it far to serious)

RaTTleR_NL said: Simon Pegg and John Cho I love as actors, I just expect them to start doing silly things.

exactly! in that first pic, classic Pegg face, it looks like he's about to dropkick someone in the face!

bradbrevet said: The pic of Bana as the villain is great.

Actually, it's the pic of Bana that caused me the most concern. Looks like a lameass halloween costume.

However, I'm still interested in this movie…. a lot. And I can't wait for a trailer. Although Abrams' fetish for pointless secrecy to the point of of mental illness should be lambasted to no end.

Those two are good actors so maybe they'll pull it off and maybe the young captain is well explained by the story.
I'll give it a chance but I'm going in with low expectations.

davidfrank said: Is it just me, or do these pic make the movie look like some cheap fan-film?

I think releasing images before an official trailer certainly takes the pictures out of context. The pic of Bana as the villain is great, but the uniforms look cheap because they are based on uniforms that were cheap, so without live action performances to compare them to it just looks like people dressed up.

I am assuming the trailer will make it all a bit better. The new pic of the bridge, I think, looks pretty good though.