Editorials > Star Trek Teaser Description

It's fair to say that this is spoiler free, unless you're someone who even cares about teaser trailers being spoiled for you (you need some sort of real suspense in your life, friend). There's a description of the Star Trek movie's teaser trailer. Virtually no one has actually seen this teaser, but one person who did has written down what he/she saw. This leaked info has been confirmed by a number of sources, and we now present it to you, exactly as we found it on HollywoodChicago.com (The brackets [] are theirs):

Slow Paramount logo.

Bad Robot logo.

Black, suddenly some sparks (very saturated [with] Michael Bay-looking cinematography).

We hear an old NASA radio countdown: “30 seconds and counting.”

Close up of a timeless guy with goggles leaning down doing some wielding and sparks flying around.

He lifts his googles. Slightly futuristic head covering. It’s not a space suit, by the way.

The dude leans down and wields some more. He’s standing on big metal.

“From director J.J. Abrams” (blue font with a nice lens flare).

Some Kennedy speech about space flight: “The eyes of the world now look to space.”

People walking around the saucer section. The wielders are everywhere – showing size.

We hear: “The eagle has landed.”

Huge overhead shot pans across [and] suddenly [shows] what looks like miles of scaffolding underneath.

Title: “The future begins”.

Really impressive shot from … people all over the ship and you can see a huge industrialized city or shipyard in the background. It’s being built on Earth [rather than] in space.

Neil Armstrong: “One small step for man…”

Camera slowly cranes up over the whole saucer section.

Then we hear Leonard Nimoy’s line: “Space. The final frontier…” and the familiar “Star Trek” theme horns.

The shot continues [and reveals] the writing on the top of the saucer – “U.S.S. Enterprise” – and these huge aircraft-like warp engines in the background. Technically, the first reveal of what we’re seeing.

Just the Starfleet log (no title).

Title card: “Under construction”.

“Christmas 2008”

Overall, really great teaser (by the definition of the term). Very industrial. I’m most intrigued by the background Earth stuff.

There are some typos in there but you get the idea (I'm assuming they meant "welders" when they said "wielders"). Apparently this will be attached to the theatrical release of Abrams' Cloverfield this Friday, so we'll all get to see what the big fuss is in a few days. 

-David Morgan