Photo Credit: Paramount PicturesNovember 18, 2008, (Sawf News) - The first regular trailer of the new Sci-fi film Star Trek was released in the US with Quantum of Solace on November 14. The J. J. Abrams (Mission: Impossible III, Lost and Alias) helmed film, penned by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (Transformers, MI: III), features the original characters in the show with a new cast.
The story of the film follows James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) enrolling at Starfleet Academy, his first meeting with Spock (Zachary Quinto), and their battles with Romulans from the future, who are interfering with history. Leonard Nimoy reprises his role as the old Spock, who has come from the future to provide help.
The Star Trek team looked towards the first Romulan story, "Balance of Terror" and the two novels, Prime Directive and Spock's World for inspiration.
The beginning scenes are set in Iowa and San Francisco to ground the film for audiences before it advanced to a space setting, to emphasize Star Trek as humanity's future, rather than being set in another galaxy.
The Starfleet uniforms have retained the show's original color coding (command officers wear gold shirts, science and medical officers wear blue, and Operations (technicians/engineers) and security personnel wear red).
Filming, which began on November 7, 2007, was done on eleven sets built at the Paramount backlot, as well as two weeks of location shooting in Iceland. Some filming also took place at the California State University, Northridge, for shots of students at Starfleet Academy.
A car park outside Dodger Stadium was used for a section of a Romulan drilling rig, and an industrial location was used for the Enterprise's engines. Ship's rooms were built as sets. Principal photography finished on March 27, 2008, although second unit filming took place during early April in Bakersfield, California, standing in for Kirk's childhood home in Iowa.
Industrial Light & Magic has given the visual effects.
In February 2008 the release date was moved from Dec 25, 2008 to May 8, 2009 because Paramount felt the film has the appeal for the broader audiences and more people will watch the film in summer as compared to the winter. The delay would also allow more time to perfect the heavy visual effects.
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