Captain April is non-canon, isn’t he?
It depends upon your level of nerdishness. Some people feel that TAS never happened, and thus aren’t canon, other people consider it to be canon.
Or maybe it was a kit car. It’s possible to reproduce something without an actual replicator - it just takes a bit more work
I can’t believe that Dopers – of all people – are missing the real import of the out-of-place car:
Peak Oil estimates were really far off the mark. 
And a bit more money. Though you have to wonder why people would be bothering to make kitcars of 200 year old designs. Given that kitcar makers today tend to focus on models from the recent past (replicas of the Shelby Cobra are by a huge margin, the most popular kitcars), and that the number of people building replicas of cars originally produced pre-1960 are vanishly small, it seems more likely to me that in 200 years they’d be building replicas of something else.
No, this was explained on Futurama, the 'Vette’s running on whale oil!
One certainly hopes so, since Where No Man Has Gone Before is both the most idiotic episode of the original series (yes, worse than anything from season 3, even Spock’s Brain), and creates worse continuity issues in one episode than Enterprise and the Abrams reboot combined.
Who knows how much it’ll cost in the future? Just because they don’t have replicators, doesn’t mean they don’t have vastly more efficient production techniques. Maybe a kit car of 200 year in the future is as expensive and as hard to assemble as a model airplane is today. Or a Lego set.
Ever heard of Renaissance Faires? Maybe the kits aren’t for car geeks (like they are today) but for history geeks. Maybe they think 20th Century stuff is just cool.
Perhaps, though that does leave one to wonder why they’re still using stick-welding in the teaser trailer, and not phasers or something.
Yes, but Renn Faires tend to focus on certain periods of history (while excluding many others and only focus on Europe, and not other places in the world like Asia or the Americas) and get lots of things wrong. While the '66-'67-era Vettes certainly have a large following, they are a very small part of the kitcar market. Sticking Kirk in that particular model of 'Vette, or even a '60s-era car is just as unlikely as him winding up in a Duesenberg. (And also means that his inability to drive in A Piece of the Action is now a bit out of place.)
The fact that we’re having a discussion about the appearance of the car, and trying to come up with reasons for it being there (wherever “there” is) is an indication that it doesn’t “work.” I realize that Abrams is rebooting the franchise, but he’s obviously trying to keep many of the elements of the TOS in place. Given that in an optimisitc assessment of what he wants to do to the storyline, he would be taking the characters as we know them and emphasizing those elements about the characters which everyone likes, one would think that you should see the car and think, “Oh yeah, Kirk would totally have one of those.” Of course, Kirk as we know him didn’t seem to have much affinity for the 20th Century, but for things far older (remember the flintlock pistols on his apartment wall in TWoK), we’re left with a puzzle as to why Kirk would be driving that car off a cliff.
Don’t sell WNMHGB short. It was the pilot that got NBC convinced to run Star Trek. If not for it, we might not even be having this discussion.
What’s Kirk doing driving a classic car when A Piece Of The Action clearly establishes that…
Oh, never mind. :smack:
Ding! Set phasers to malky!
I’m not enough of a geek to be sure, but didn’t Kirk have a fondness for antiques?
Anyone else hope they use ‘Red Barchetta’ as the background music for that scene?
Of course, the Uncle’s going to be a bit pissed this time.
I was searching for an explanation of why I would watch it (several time) on the big screen, that just hits the mark 
I would rather have this thing shooting canon out of its torpedo tubes than sit through one more showing of Nemesis, which remains the only Trek film I have on DVD that is still wrapped in celophane 
Which is funny, because Nemesis has everything a Star Trek film is supposed to have, and yet, the overwhelming response is ‘meh.’
They wreck the enterprise
meh.
They rape Troi
meh.
They blow shit up good.
meh.
They kill Data
meh.
The standard transmission seemed to be what gave him trouble. Perhaps the other is an automatic. :)
Ouch, my ribs!
He knows subspace transmissions, not standard transmissions.
Oh, subspace, well…
[spoiler]You know the car is a non issue. First off he was being chased by a cop. Maybe he was joyriding in someone else’s car?
Not to mention people make replica sailing ships from 200 years ago, it’s perfectly sensible that someone will be making replicas of modern cars in 200 years. People like old timey shit. It might be an actual antique car. And you could probably machine the parts with a robotic lathe. I’m sure the home craftsman of the 23rd century has a slew of robotic tools that would allow you to prototype any kind of machine you have the materials for.[/spoiler]