Enterprise behind Titan reminded me of Enterprise in the Mutari nebula in The Wrath of Khan.
Kirk eating the apple during the Kobiashi Maru test reminded me of Kirk eating the apple in The Wrath of Kahn in the Genesis cave.
Sulu with a sword of, well, Sulu with a sword in The Naked Time.
Enterprise rushing away from the black hole; fleeing the Genesis device in WOK.
Kirk taunting Spock into fighting him; TOS This Side of Paradise.
Kirk banging his head on a beam in the shuttlecraft; Scotty in that Trek movie that doesn’t exist.
Seeing the moons of Jupiter; Seeing the two moons of Vulcan (which BTW has no moon…certainly not in this timeline, but I digress) in a movie that exists, but the name of which I can’t recall.
A bit of a sidetrack from familiar scenes, but - I’d like to propose here a moratorium on referring to this project as ‘Star Trek 90210’. Is this just because it’s been given a generally young and attractive cast? Gee, there’s a lot of recent movies that could be accused of THAT…
On the other hand, I do see the point in assigning an affectionate nickname, since the filmmakers just went for the simple title of ‘Star Trek’, which is also the general name of the established larger fandom. Since JJ Abrams was the main creator of the new film, a nod to one of his previous works seems suitable. He never had anything to do with 90210, after all. After trying and discarding a few titles that don’t seem to fit with this, I hereby suggest…
Christ, “Star Trek 90210” is what passes for ‘clever’ these days?
Whining about 90210 is about twenty years out of date. Trying to get some traction with that in whining about Star Trek at least makes the mouthbreather, neckbeardy Trekkies a little less lonely, I suppose.
Spock Prime and Spock speak near the end of the film by a shuttle craft with a tail number that contains the digits 190210, although I don’t remember the order.
Lessee, back on topic, the Enterprise ariving at Vulcan was very similar (if more exciting) than the Enterprise arriving at Wolf 359 in “Best of Both Worlds” (right down to the Enterprise being delayed due to a problem with going to Warp)
Upstart Kirk avoiding being killed by an irate local predator due to the intervention of Spock Prime - Farmboy Luke being saved from a Tuskan Raider by Old Ben Kenobi.
Oh dear, if they ever do a time-travel episode where McCoy comes back from the future and has to work with himself to fight off some out-breaking disease that destroys the Federation, they could call the episode “Pair of Docs”
I’d go with “Star Trek: the Lost Years”, or somesuch then. At least it would be snark that wasn’t mouldering in the grave for more than a generation.
Or, if it was relevant snark and not simply bitter and superficial, mock it for what it resembles, rather than what it bears utterly no resemblance to. 90210 was infamous for having actors who looked old playing young kids. Not at all the case here.
Maybe “Battlestar Enterprise” for being a controversial, divisive reimaging that’s likely to end in tears.
Back on topic: When Spock beamed down to Vulcan, he arrived in those same rocky hills in southern California that TOS used for almost all of their “alien worlds”.
