Apr 12, 2013

"Star Trek Into Darkness" banner (I think)

While I appreciate that JJ Abrams has for the most part tossed the old Trek movie template in favor of a more up-tempo, irreverent, action-oriented take on things this latest banner leaves me scratching my head (and not because I've run out of Selsun Blue). Take a good look at the banner below and answer me this question: What's wrong with this picture?


While the new banner is full of heroic (as well as demonic) presence with all of those torqued bodies, furrowed brows and icy stares and the sense of 'realism' is reinforced by the desaturated color one thing I don't see anywhere is a visual reference to Starfleet. Nary a uniform, star ship or for that matter even a lowly insignia appear anywhere in the banner (The one possible exception is some very vague, structural-type massings in the background that could suggest the Enterprise. But you've really got to be looking for them.) Hell, even Spock's pointy ears are hidden in shadow. So few are the indications that this is a banner for a futuristic sci-fi film that if it didn't have the words "Star Trek" in it it could stand in quite nicely for a contemporary action film simply called "Into Darkness". While this is no doubt precisely what Abrams and Co intended it is nonetheless a wee bit jarring for this long-time Trek fan.

"Star Trek Into Darkness" hits IMAX screens May 15th.

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