First Official Photo of J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek Crew

Posted by on October 15th, 2008   Filed under: Posters and Marketing, Sci-fi
Source: /Film

Looks like Paramount has just unleashed the first barrage of publicity photos from J.J. Abrams’ upcoming Star Trek reboot, along with a cover story in Entertainment Weekly. They’ve spread the images around various corners of the internet including UGO, JoBlo, Ain’t It Cool News and TrekMovie.

If you ask me, UGO scored the coolest pic thus far, which shows the entire crew of the Enterprise assembled on the bridge. I’m still a bit undecided as to whether or not this cast is going to mesh well, and I have to admit it’s hard not to look at this picture and think, “Oh look, it’s Simon Pegg! And the guy from Harold and Kumar! And the kid from Huff!” Still, I can’t help but get a little bit tingly just seeing them all in uniform together. With that in mind, let me be the first to ask… are those mesh shirts they’re wearing? What do you think of these new pics?

Update: Two more over at MTV Movies Blog and IGN.



  • swarez

    Since it’s a reboot why are they going with the 60’s looking clothes, women in miniskirts and shit like that? Looks very out of place.

  • Derek

    I can’t wait!

  • paulie

    looks prety awsome to me cant wait for this movie to come out the uniforms just goes to show you cant change a good thing ,looks like they might be keeping alot of looks and feels from the original trek and why would the mini skirts be out of place for todays audience when its supposed to be future clothing,

  • I’m not a trekkie, and I really harbor no preconceived notions about the show– but this picture looks pretty lackluster. I don’t know why– perhaps the first post was right– why does it look so… blah?

  • UGO wont load for some reason so I’m only going by the Film Junk pic:

    1. This looks like a still from some new Trek show.
    2. Most of those people (especially Kirk) look like generic television stars.
    3. They should have released a grander shot because this does not dispel my belief visuals aren’t J.J. Abram’s strong suit (and a reboot calls for some new strong visual ideas).

    It’ll be disappointing if it does end up being a long & boring episode of the show like Nemesis.

  • Ok. Went to the other sites and everything looks generic as I thought…especially Eric Bana looking like a character from some submission Heavy Metal Magazine rejected in 1994.

    Star Wars: best design ever.

    Star Trek: thoughtless generic design since TNG.

  • I’ve never liked Star Trek, but I think that this image may have single-handedly made me want to see the new movie.

    Does Simon Pegg’s character have an accent and/or do you think they’ll make him do his American accent for this movie? I just watched a movie called Big Nothing last night in which Pegg (as one of the three main characters) does an American accent the entire time and he sounded ridiculous. I don’t necessarily think he’s bad at the accent, but it’s so strange to hear anything but his normal voice coming out of his mouth.

  • I’m not a big Star Trek fan (though I will say, just to chap Greg’s ass, that I love Star Trek IV and it is genuinely a funny movie), so from that perspective, I am really excited about this new movie. A fresh reimagining seems totally perfect for the series. I haven’t been interested in seeing any of the new ST films since I was in middle school. This picture definitely gets me excited.

    Although J.J. Abrams wouldn’t do wrong by me if they somehow threw Patrick Stewart in the mix.

  • Mike

    Because these are a bunch of relative unknowns (Excluding Simon Pegg) this looks like a picture from a Star Trek convention not a movie set.

  • Neil M

    No thoughts from Reed?

  • Neil M, thx for caring about my opinion. From the comments on this post, it appears we have a split opinion among the Film Junk audience.

    I haven’t changed my mind since the Star Trek mini-podcast. For the deaf Film Junk readers, I’ll summarize my opinion here. I was completely underwhelmed. Maybe the publicity department thought it would be best to release some random frames from the movie just to whet people’s curiosity. Maybe the pictures aren’t meant to have the quality of publicity stills.

    Jay thinks I’m being a fanboy for being so negative. Maybe I’m just being sour because Film Junk wasn’t given an exclusive image to display. But I did think the early preview trailer and the promotional character posters were nicely done.

    Mike, I’m surprised no one has commented yet that it can’t be a picture from a Star Trek convention because no one in the picture is fat.

    Swarez, they can’t reboot Star Trek into something completely different because the Trekkies would scream canon. I prefer ’60s clothing over blue jumpsuits.

    I want to hear the new theme song! I hear Amy Winehouse has a film song no one is using at the moment.

  • Neil M

    Haha, I didn’t really care. I was just surprised that you weren’t all over this article. But I guess you did get that good ol’ Farrington opinion out there already. I should have known.

    P.S. I want another podcasts with just Jay and Reed. I think theres only been one, but it was definitely a Film Junk classic.

  • stevie_boy

    Looks okay. I don’t mind the uniforms, they can’t exactly change them or the hardcore fans will squeal foulplay and throw petulant tantrums on the internet. I’m surprised Karl Urban looking so…academic. My main gripe is probably Kirk ie. the most important character. I find it hard to believe that the Federation would put its newest, most advanced starship in the hands of a frat boy. Throw a letterman jacket on him and you have a classic cinema jerk.