I worked a 12-hour day at the Office yesterday so I could leave early today: I wanted to catch the 1:50 showing of the new 007 at the Uptown. More on that later. So, I’m in the theater, and the trailers are running. The Tom Cruise Nazi movie actually looks good, so did the one before that although, I’m afraid to admit, I forget exactly which trailer was shown before the Tom Cruise Nazi one.

So the third or fourth trailer starts up.

There’s an old red car speeding towards the edge of a cliff, in hot pursuit is a bike cop. I’m thinking the driver of the car is suicidal, but at the last moment, he jerks the wheel, and as the car starts to skid, he leaps clear. The car goes over the cliff, and the driver almost does, too, but he manages to grasp the last possible rock and pull himself to safety. He stands up and it turns out he’s a kid. Where are his fucking parents? I wonder, apparently forgetting that, duh, he’s a character in a movie.

The angle switches to the cop, who demands, “What is your name?” I don’t remember which I notice first: that the cop’s bike is hovering, or that the cop is a robot. Apparently, I’m thinking, this is Robocop IV.

And then the kid says his name, and I’m like, “Oh, sweet, the Star Trek trailer!” Because, of course, the kid’s name is James T. Kirk.

Really, though, if you want more, you’ll have to wait until it shows up on YouTube (I’m sure it’s there now). Really, though, my first impression is that while the production looks nice and flashy … I’m just not buying Pine and Quinto as Kirk and Spock. But, as that’s based on about a four-second clip, I’ll try to go to the movie with an open mind: I really, and I do mean really really really want to love JJ Abram’s Star Trek.

Update:

Some bootlegs are showing up on YouTube, they’re all awful quality, but, here: