So... I just finished watching the new Star Trek movie trailer and I'm not quite as thrilled as everyone else seems to be. First off, the trailer starts with a kid flying down the road in a car that he has apparently stolen. Now the thing that gets me here is that the car appears old even by modern standards. (I'm no car expert, but I would estimate it being a 1960s-1970s model.) However, this story is supposed to take place approximately 300 years in the future. What's the likelihood that a kid would even have the opportunity to steal a three-century old vehicle in the middle of a barren desert? And, furthermore, in a world of hovering/flying vehicles that no doubt go a lot faster than the 75+ mph he was shown going, why would someone even want to? That's like stealing a Ford Model-T!
That aside, we move on to just after this mentally-challenged child drives his antiquated vehicle off into an excessively deep chasm for no apparent reason, to when he stands up and proudly declares to the pursuing police officer that he is James Siberius Kirk.
Siberius? Any self-respecting Star Trek fan can tell you that Captain Kirk's middle initial is T, not S. Did the writers of the script forget this extremely well-known fact? Or was it that the actor they hired (who bares no resemblance to William Shatner) simply mispronounced the name and no one caught it? Or was it that, in the story, he used his tongue as traction to keep from going off the cliff and that's why he couldn't say Tiberius correctly? Who knows!

Yet another technical error came later in the trailer, then we see the now-grown James S. Kirk drive up on yet another wheeled vehicle that bares an uncanny resemblance to a modern motorcycle, and looks out upon the awe-inspiring sight of the USS Enterprise (or, at least, another Constitution-class starship) being constructed in the desert. You don't have to be an engineer or an expert in physics to know that a starship of this design is neither aerodynamically stable, balanced, nor capable of supporting its own weight under Earth's gravity. Anyone who has payed even the most minute amount of attention to any of the previous Star Trek movies knows that starships are built in the huge scaffolding of orbital shipyards.

At this point, you may be asking yourself why I am pointing all this out. Honestly, I don't know. Complaining about it won't change anything. Perhaps it just pisses me off and I want to bitch for awhile. I grimaced when I first heard that J J Abrams had been given the license to make the next Star Trek movie, as I assumed then that he would fuck it up. And, considering that I can pick out that many errors in a two minute trailer is evidence to me that I was right. Unfortunately.
Sure, I'll go see it like everybody else. And I'm sure it'll have awesome special-effects and a few cool scenes. But geeks like me have come to really value the Star Trek universe that has evolved over the past 40+ years, and it pains me to see that little spoiled brat of a director bending and warping canon (or disregarding it completely) to fit his "vision."