Aptera to make cameo in next Star Trek film?

For those unaware, "veiled in secrecy" is an extreme understatement when it comes to the next Star Trek flick -- if there actually is a next Star Trek flick, that is. Nevertheless, an undercover photographer managed to grab some recent shots of a film production operating under the title "Corporate Headquarters," and a few snaps caught a vehicle that looks awfully similar to the 300MPG Aptera. Coincidentally enough, said craft was also missing from last week's New York Auto Show. Look, we aren't piecing together clues in a valiant attempt to get you stoked about seeing a space aged automobile in a movie that may or may not even be real (okay, it's real), but then again, it's hard to shake the evidence.

[Via AutoblogGreen]

[keithhh @ Mar 28th 2008 12:41AM]

Of coarse trek 11 is real, what are you talking about?

[Les @ Mar 28th 2008 12:52AM]

Yeah
syler=spock

[Anthony D @ Mar 28th 2008 12:55AM]

The pictures were taken at CSUN.

[polvadis @ Mar 28th 2008 1:32AM]

Yeah, that was the first thing I thought. We used to see filming on that campus once in a while, it was always really more of a pain in the ... for the students. But hey, that's Southern California for you.

[rock99rock @ Mar 28th 2008 12:58AM]

Damn thing looks like a giant sperm.

[For2itous @ Mar 28th 2008 1:16AM]

Looks more like a diaphragm to me... and were this Star Wars rather than -Trek, that would make this fine whip (warning: obscure medical reference follows): The Millenium Dalkon!

[Reader @ Mar 28th 2008 4:02AM]

You might want to get your sperm checked out... Don't think you'll enjoy having alien babies.

[Ryan Valle @ Mar 28th 2008 1:00AM]

thats my school! haha...

[kyle allen @ Mar 28th 2008 1:37PM]

the star ship acadamy?

[paul34 @ Mar 28th 2008 1:07AM]

It is indeed real - it has been officially announced a while ago.

Also, I am not sure. Maybe it is a personal transport, but what I have seen of the Star Trek universe there doesn't appear to really be anything like a personal automobile in the future Star Trek universe. I assume they don't use transporters for short-range travel, so all I can assume is that people use mass transport. But then, I don't know how people from remote areas travel either. Maybe there are personal transports that were never stressed in a majority of Trek.

[James Troi @ Mar 28th 2008 1:14AM]

Personal Transportation is done with shuttles sheesh.

[paul34 @ Mar 28th 2008 1:16AM]

Heh, yes, but land-based personal transport over a medium-range... I doubt that is done with shuttles. Shuttles tend to be for transport between the surface and a nearby starbase, or maybe an orbiting vessel/starship.

[EricR @ Mar 28th 2008 9:59AM]

Don't you guys remember the dune buggies in Nemesis? sheesh!

[josh @ Mar 28th 2008 2:26AM]

This is soooo yesterday on autobloggreen. Get with it!

[StephenD @ Mar 28th 2008 3:35AM]

Argh - I was at the Tillman Water Reclamation Plant that very day - trust Starfleet to move house on filming day. Grrrrr.

[Otis Whitaker @ Mar 28th 2008 5:15AM]

This movie makes me a sad panda.
Why focus on the bad of Star Trek? (TOS.. campy crap about the space misadventures of a space womanizer and his crew)

I want more Picard! Sisko!
DS9, Enterprise Seasons 3 and 4 and TNG = best of Star Trek

Voyager, TOS, and Enterprise seasons 1 and 2 = Worst

[Nutsy @ Mar 28th 2008 7:01AM]

Damn this story is OLD... not just a couple of days old but OVER A WEEK OLD!!!

But as i said on the scifi forum i post to...

I have a bad feeling about this film.

[Imran @ Mar 28th 2008 8:23AM]

In Abrams we trust.

[kyle allen @ Mar 28th 2008 1:41PM]

untill they let bill make a cameo appearance, ill be hesitant to see it.

[JAVandiver @ Mar 28th 2008 12:19PM]

I pointed that out on digg.com on 3/18! Way to be 10 days late engadget!
http://digg.com/movies/1st_Spy_Shots_of_Starfleet_Academy_from_Abrams_Star_Trek?t=13748321#c13748321

[Michael Chastain @ Mar 28th 2008 12:43PM]

I wish people would stop using the bogus 300mpg statistic, which includes a fully charged battery on a 120 mile trip. You might as well run it in purely electric mode and claim it gets infinite gas mileage. The Aptera is actually capable of 130mpg.

[hansrat42 @ Apr 3rd 2008 3:33PM]

That is Star trek. It is being filmed on my college campus, CSUN (Cal State Northridge). Or it was I havnt seen anything too recently. Here is a pic of paramount trying to cover the logo before we all left for spring break. http://flickr.com/photos/mafzali/2340104960/

[Daimyo Nintendo @ Mar 28th 2008 7:15PM]

Otis Whitaker smokes crack

[Daimyo Nintendo @ Mar 28th 2008 7:15PM]

TNG has the worst dry humor every, VOY was way better. Besides if TOS was so terrible should we try and make it better? This new film will show how the 60's show SHOULD have been had they had a higher budget. Besides Kirk the ladies man or dry bones Picard. Mmmm me thinks Kirk. DS9, VOY, and ENT will never make it to the big screen, especially if the cast members did sign on for 3 more TOS style movies. By the time Mulgrew, Brookes, or Bakula get a chance at bat for a film it will be 2020. Avery Brooks as Sisko was always my favorite captain.

[Aptera Guy @ Mar 28th 2008 7:46PM]

This was posted on http://ApteraForum.con yesterday as well.

[D-Zyner @ Mar 29th 2008 3:20AM]

I was there :D!

[jacquerr @ Mar 29th 2008 9:44AM]

And we believe that there might be oceans here, IF the earth was real! read about it on our blog of duhthatsobvious.com

[Brendor @ Mar 30th 2008 1:30AM]

-- if there actually is a next Star Trek flick, that is

I've uncovered top secret proof that a new star trek film is currently in production. At great personal risk I post a link here. http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/startrek/large_trailer.html Sheesh.

[Brendor @ Mar 30th 2008 1:30AM]

-- if there actually is a next Star Trek flick, that is

I've uncovered top secret proof that a new star trek film is currently in production. At great personal risk I post a link here. http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/startrek/large_trailer.html Sheesh.