Virgil, people like you are what is wrong with the world. ....
You get so much wrong here, I don't know whether to believe you that the intro/trailer is actually being tailored to each country audio-visually. In any case the similarity to the "Enterprise" intro that I noted was in the visuals, so we shall see when the movie comes out if they take the trouble to splice in Sputnik et al. I find it doubtful that they would, given Bermans and the studios', track record.
I'm going to cut out most of your argument because my argument was built on the idea that the original show *was* multi-national and that this carried over a bit into the next generation before the long slide into flag waving "USA AOK" stuff. I am thinking you didn't understand my point there as most of your examples are from the old show and he next generation show which kind of proves my point.
One must also take into account, at least in terms of Enterprise, that most of the images used were historically accurate. They had the Wright Brothers,
Don't get me started on that whole "Wright Brothers invented the airplane myth." (hint: it's really more of an American "interpretation" of history than it is reality if you look into it a bit closer)
... Chuck Yeager, the NASA Space Shuttle (not the Buran Shuttle), etc, not because they are American, but because they are the most widely recognized symbols of flight and space travel. ...
Yet they left out Sputnik, (probably the most famous historical space-icon of all time), and substituted (here I am quoting the "Enterprise" titles), the first American space-walks for the Russian ones that were actually earlier etc., etc.
... Anyone who says that Star Trek is US-centric has never really paid attention to the show.
Nah, I think I know who isn't really paying attention to the show here.
I was watching reruns of Star Trek before most of the folks on this forum were born I bet. Barring the twin
travesties that were "Voyager" and "Enterprise" I have watched each show as it came out on the day it came out and all the re-runs, movies etc. many many times. I own all the movies and all the original series and have watched them literally hundreds of times also. I've even read some of the books, the slash-fiction and watched most of those dreadful animated cartoons as well.
... Captains Kirk, Archer, Sisko, and Janeway were American (the last one was not suppossed to be). Picard was was French (with a slight English accent due to the death of the French Language), Checkov was Russian, Uhura was African (from the United States of Africa), Scotty was from Scotland, Hoshi was from Japan (or Brazil), Malcom was from England, Travis was from space, Geordi was African (from the African Confederation), Miles was from Ireland, Julian was a British Arab. The only show to be "American" was Voyager, hense everyone's distain for it.
Here you prove my point again in that most of these characters are from the first two series'.
What's distressing is that you seem to not really understand much beyond what is presented to you "prima facia" in the script. The meaning of the stories and the characters, let alone the subtleties of propaganda are lost on you perhaps.
... Where do you come up with the idea that the movie is about the USA? ...
Well again, there are many many hints and clues that are perhaps too subtle for you to detect, but there are many obvious ones as well.
My favorite (again from the analogous "Enterprise" opening scene), is the GIANT WAVING AMERICAN FLAG.
