18 months ago, I was terrified of this movie. I kept repeating over and over again… STAR TREK should be about moving forward, looking to the future not going back and restarting what is a such long history. I mean in many ways, STAR TREK is the perfect franchise as you can bring a whole new crew in and just move on and the general format stays the same.

When Kirk’s too old, you pass the torch to Picard… and whose complaining about how good The Next Generation was?

And I STILL think going the reboot direction is extremely risky and not good for the long term prospects of the brand but Abrams has done such a good job in marketing and getting people excited about a franchise that was dead just two years ago, you have to give him props. He’s got people talking again and you just can’t help but get caught up in it all.

Here’s the low-down on some details that an AICN reader picked up from a recent Toyfare in Germany which gives us an idea of how the new movie will look, specifically the uniforms, set design, phasers and such. Sounds pretty faithful to me…

Kirk wore his famous yellow uniform (and black trousers), Spock his blue one (a little bit darker though) and Scotty the red one. The Leonard Nimoy Spock had a white monk-like robe, that looked like a variation on the one he wore in The Search for Spock. Highlight was Zoe Zaldana as the new Uhura. She wore the same red communication uniform, but this time the skirt was much shorter and there was much more emphasis on her breasts. In this movie she will give Seven of Nine a run for her money! The phasers and communicators were almost the same as in TOS. Even the sounds were identical. And then… the new Enterprise. As a toy it had a great TOS feel to it. It’s a little more ‘organic’ than the original one and I think the two warp engines and the ‘bite’ taken from the central body are a little bit bigger. The floor of the new transporter room is red, by the way. Also shown was another spaceship. It resembled an octopus and could have appeared in one of the Matrix sequels. I don’t think it was Romulan.