{"id":1091,"date":"2008-01-17T10:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T10:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2008\/01\/under-construction-isnt-just-a-metaphor\/"},"modified":"2008-01-17T10:10:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-17T10:10:00","slug":"under-construction-isnt-just-a-metaphor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2008\/01\/under-construction-isnt-just-a-metaphor.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Under construction&#8221; isn&#8217;t just a metaphor."},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/R4-dONOQH8I\/AAAAAAAABCk\/0hMWF1d0VY8\/s1600-h\/startrek-uss-enterprise-full.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/R4-dONOQH8I\/AAAAAAAABCk\/0hMWF1d0VY8\/s400\/startrek-uss-enterprise-full.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br><span style=\"font-family: georgia\">\u201cUnder construction.\u201d  That\u2019s what it says at the bottom of the newly launched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paramount.com\/startrek\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">official website<\/a> for <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/leonard-nimoy-lets-slip-spoiler-maybe.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Star Trek XI<\/a><\/i>.  But it\u2019s not just a reference to the website itself.  It is also reportedly the tagline for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodchicago.com\/news\/exclusive-star-trek-teaser-description\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">the teaser<\/a> that will play in theatres starting tomorrow \u2014 a teaser which, to judge from the photo released by <a href=\"http:\/\/movies.aol.com\/movie-photo\/star-trek-new-enterprise-cast-photos\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Moviefone<\/a> today, really <i>will<\/i> depict the construction of the <i>U.S.S. Enterprise<\/i> itself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Keep in mind that the <i>Enterprise<\/i> predates the era depicted in the original <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/newsbites-del-toro-mary-rambo-childhood.html#4\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Star Trek<\/a><\/i> series (1966-1969), and it even predates the time that Kirk, Spock and the others spent in Starfleet Academy.  According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/childrens-pop-culture-and-subversive.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">animated series<\/a> (1973-1974) and <a href=\"http:\/\/memory-alpha.org\/en\/wiki\/USS_Enterprise_(NCC-1701)\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">the <i>Star Trek<\/i> canon<\/a> in general, the ship was built and launched in 2245 under the command of Captain Robert April, and Kirk did not become its captain until 2264.  It was eventually destroyed during the events of <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/newsbites-watchmen-trek-jesus.html#2\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Star Trek III: The Search for Spock<\/a><\/i> (1984) in 2285.<\/p>\n<p>We know that the new movie will acknowledge at least one of the ship\u2019s captains pre-Kirk, because Bruce Greenwood has signed on to play <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/at-last-canadian-joins-cast-of-star.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Christopher Pike<\/a>.  So if the film depicts both the construction of the ship and the early days of Kirk\u2019s captaincy, it doesn\u2019t necessarily follow that the filmmakers are ignoring established <i>Trek<\/i> continuity.  But it remains to be seen how, exactly, the image above will be incorporated into the film itself \u2014 assuming it was not created simply for the teaser.  Flashback?  More <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/kirks-dad-and-carol-marcus-in-star-trek.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">time-hopping<\/a>?  I guess we\u2019ll find out in eleven months.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/R4-dOdOQH9I\/AAAAAAAABCs\/PQPlZ8IetEQ\/s1600-h\/startrek-website.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/R4-dOdOQH9I\/AAAAAAAABCs\/PQPlZ8IetEQ\/s400\/startrek-website.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cUnder construction.\u201d That\u2019s what it says at the bottom of the newly launched official website for Star Trek XI. But it\u2019s not just a reference to the website itself. 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