Rumor: Star Trek Using iPhone As Communicator
Special Report by Wade Spumen
iPhone... the final frontier. According to sources working close to Star Trek (2009), a slickly modified flip version of iPhone is being used as the new communicator for the young crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise. Sources have promised drawings detailing features the enhanced IPhone communicator would contain. Video chat was mentioned along with a lifeform detector and hints that the device may also be able to transport crew members. The latter sounds far fetched since transporting at will would allow characters to return to the ship at the first sign of trouble. This would abruptly end a potential storyline plus allow those miscellaneous b-actor crew members to live for no valid reason. Not gonna happen. It's imperative they die within the first ten minutes of the story in some mysterious mishap.
We're making efforts to confirm communications supposedly coming from on location in Iceland. It makes sense that Apple's wildly popular
iPhone which is clearly a quantum leap beyond other smartphones would
be the favored device for Star Trek's futuristic final frontier. That's
my way of wishing it into reality. This project is categorized as being
in production including cast members Winona Ryder, Ben Cross, John Cho
and Leonard Nimoy among others. More to follow.
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That would be sweet if the iPhone communicator was used in the movie to transport. I'm so pissed that the release date has been pushed to May 09. Now even more pissed knowing iPhone is one of the cast members. Argh!
Posted by: James | March 21, 2008 at 09:50 AM
iPhone is used as a transporter twice in a tweaked Will It Blend episode. It's super cheesy but still cool to think of the possibility. It happens after the first blending of the ice cream shake. Click on my name below for the link. Or YouTube search is "Will It Blend and Seth Godin and the Meatball Sundae"
Posted by: Will B. | March 21, 2008 at 09:58 AM
In the Star Trek universe mankind had abandoned todays economic systems. Any product placement would contradict Star Treks philosophy. So if they have to use partners to fund the movie, I will hope, that those companys only appear in the endtitles.
I'm eager to see the movie.
Posted by: ST-Fan | March 21, 2008 at 10:48 AM
No way! If they did do that, the iPhone mindshare will just skyrocket!!!
Posted by: slappy | March 21, 2008 at 01:10 PM
Yeah but, Star Trek is set hundreds of years in the future. By then, they'll have things so much more hi tech than the iphone! Come on Star Trek, get back to using your imaginations and show us things we can't even imagine yet!
Posted by: Ste | March 21, 2008 at 02:09 PM
We're like 42 years in the future now from the time Star Trek first aired in 1966. The story lines addressed issues of the 1960s. So it's possible that the technological advancement of the iPhone would be included in Trek 2009 since it's a today issue that has caused major conflict with the anti-Apple factions at war with true innovation. The Microtards specifically.
Posted by: Treknoob | March 21, 2008 at 04:55 PM
I agree with that, but they didn't actually use devices that were available at the time in the 60's Star Trek. They can use something to address today's issues, but it shouldn't be the actual product (iphone).
Posted by: Ste | March 22, 2008 at 07:06 AM
I want to say thank you iPhone Savior for making us Trekkies think outside the federation. You started a great conversation that's still going crazy over at
TrekMovie.com Nice!
Posted by: Seth | March 22, 2008 at 10:22 AM
Awesome on the Quantum Leap reference. I am sure that was intentional ;)
Posted by: Eytan | March 22, 2008 at 08:17 PM
I would really love it if this were true...
The closest a company will come to a communicator is Nokia who MIGHT be releasing something ever-so-slightly Trek-like.
Thanks for capturing my imagination!
Posted by: startrek-movie.co.uk | March 23, 2008 at 03:22 PM
I'm in! I would love to see iPhone in the new Trek 2009 for sure. Weirder things have happened like news that Darth Vader is reading the Harry Potter books. WTF!
http://www.iphonesavior.com/darth-vader-huge-harry-potter-fan.html
Posted by: James | March 24, 2008 at 02:45 PM
Presumably it will still only be good for American networks though? Us Europeans will stick with Nokia until it gets proper 3G functionality and can handle a decent network connection.
Posted by: Sminky | April 04, 2008 at 01:52 AM