This Friday, please go see the new Star Trek film and look for me in it: I'll be either running or sitting with a gaggle of other red-uniformed cadet folk. Below is a handy guide for spotting me in the film (No Spoilers):
The White Briefcase
There's a scene, part of which is visible in the trailers, of a bunch of people running on a field on a campus towards the water and a big crazy light in the sky. I was holding a white briefcase. We took the scene about 20-30 times. After the first or second take, one of the A.D.s came over and asked me to drop the white briefcase as I was running. So you may or may not be able to pick me out dropping the aforementioned briefcase and running. Disclaimer: I do not intend to disrupt your enjoyment of the film, please do not try to hard to notice me. I am one of a hundred or so fellow classmen of the Kirk, and was probably worrying about when Drop/Add ended when the light appeared in the sky.
I wonder though what was in that white briefcase? Thoughts?
There is also a scene or two in a hanger where we alternately ran around and marched in formation, and a scene in a courtroom-type environment where I am seated in the audience.
If you know anything about me, you know that I have loved Star Trek since I was 4 (as evidence I give you this excerpt of a ST movie of my own that lensed when I was about 11) , and that the experiencing of working 10 days on the film was sort of a dream come true, even if it may seem the role was not a vital one. JJ Abrams and the cast & crew (that I observed) gets an extreme high-5.
May you all live Loud and Proper.
[By the way, I am totally not supposed to have this photo, but it was the first day before they had said not to bring anything, and I went into a porta-let and did my business; just had to. I have sat on it til now and know that the uniforms are public knowledge as included in all the trailers, so please do not set me on fire because I can keep a secret and I love you.]
Signed,
Cadet William Maier
M-78, Proud Member of Echo Squad
