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Spock Spacesuited On The Set Of Star Trek: The Next

Date: Apr 16, 2012 | Author: Josh Tyler | Category: Sci-Fi

The last time Spock spent an appreciable amount of time in a spacesuit during the course of a Trek film it was in Star Trek: The Motion Picture. He ended up being sucked into V’Ger and then spat back out again, unconscious after his attempt to mild-meld with what turned out to be a really smart piece of floating space junk. Hopefully things will go better for him this time, because he’s back in a spacesuit again on the set of the next Star Trek…

That image comes from MTV where they’re still calling the next Star Trek “Star Trek 2″, even though we’ve already had a Star Trek 2, and oh by the way it was Wrath of Khan one of the best movies ever made. MTV may not know their Star Trek but they’re pretty good at finding photographers to sneak behind JJ Abrams’ walled off set.

They’re shooting Spock falling. Word is that a volcano may somehow be involved, so I guess this is more of a “volcano suit” than a spacesuit. How that’ll fit into the plot remains to be seen. It’s worth noting though that the Zachary Quinto Spock’s suit isn’t all that dissimilar from the Thruster Suit Classic Spock wore in Star Trek: The Motion Picture, back when he hooked up with V’Ger. Here’s Leonard Nimoy suited up for TMP…

On the other hand it’s definitely not the same spacesuits worn by Chris Pine and John Cho during their drill dive in the 2009 Star Trek…

Those were really more specialized armor than anything, so that makes sense.

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  • Colin

    Josh…in a way, they can get away with calling it “Star Trek 2″ because technically, The Wrath Of Khan was Star Trek II…

    Yeah, it’s all in the semantics, I guess…

    Anyway, the suit looks like a cross between the ST:TMP suit and the environmental suits used in the Enterprise series.

    • JT

      Nah don’t give them an out Colin. We all know which movie Star Trek 2 is. And it’s not the next one with Zachary Quinto as Spock.

      • Colin

        Well, look at it this way…it’s an alternate timeline, where the movie we know as Star Trek II may never exist…providing this timeline lasts to that point.

        And as far as the title, I’ve only always known it referred to in print as Star Trek II, not Star Trek 2… *wink*

    • bdiddy1123

       I would sooner call it “Star Trek 2″ than “Star Trek: The Next,” which is a completely retarded title for a movie.

    • bdiddy1123

       …and if everyone wants to get technical…

      The original title for TWoK was “Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan”

      In technicality, there was no Star Trek II/2.

      • Colin

        If you REALLY want to get technical, the original title of the movie was “Star Trek: The Vengeance Of Khan”…

  • Dave Keeley

    Sucks knowing there’s a “Star Trek” movie in the works and not being able to enjoy it.  I refuse to see another one of these alternate universe abortions.  

    • Jay

      Your an abortion. Get over yourself.

      • Ryan Banfield

        It’s “you’re”…also, I agree with him.  I’ll probably see it, but I still think the concept for the first film was ridiculous…Red matter, black holes that have one consequence from entering them: time travel, how Spock could visibly see a singularity form from the surface of whatever planet he was on, and NOT be affected by it, how the Kelvin survived 12 minutes, but 25 years of advancement wasn’t enough for 7 federation ships to last more than 30 seconds against the ship from the future…just to name a few.

        • Colin

          My hope is…the first movie will be to the second what “Where No Man Has Gone Before” was to “The Corbomite Maneuver.” They’ve gotten the “pilot episode” out of the way, the characters are where they should be, so hopefully they are concentrating more on a good story thatn setting up the situations of the new alternate timeline.