Here’s the trailer for “24” Season Six! (Thanks to Libertas which pointed me to Dark Horizons.)

This choppy, seizure-inducing trailer goes by pretty quick, so I couldn’t tell which character is played by Alexander Siddig nee Siddig El Fadil a/k/a “Dr. Julian Bashir”. You’d think seven years of Star Trek would have ingrained his appearance in my memory, but Siddig seems to lean towards character roles where he changes his appearance each time. (I’ve watched “Vertical Limit” a couple times and it still baffles me that the Muslim mountain climber Kareem is the same guy who played Julian Bashir.) So, he MIGHT be the muscular bald terrorist leader in the promo; I can’t be sure.

I’m going to talk about the rough outline of “Day Six” of 24, so if you don’t want to know ANYTHING going in and are skipping the trailer, you’ll want to skip the extended entry for this post.

The basic premise of this next year’s plotline is that terrorists strike in America and take hostages, demanding that Jack Bauer be turned over to them for execution. Jack returns from his captivity in China, looking the worse for wear.

It will be interesting to see how this is set up. You can’t just instantly demand that someone held in China appear. As a certain “24”-enthusiast on the radio pointed out (I’m not saying his name so that no one whines at me about my listening preferences, but if you know who it is you’re probably okay with it), it takes 14+ hours to fly from China to America. Even in this laughable TV universe where you can cross Los Angeles in the time of a commercial break [NOTE: It takes me 15 minutes to get to Menards four miles away], it would be beyond belief that the terrorists could make the demands, the U.S. could finish negotiation with China, Jack could fly back and the action could commence.

My prediction is that Jack is already being brought back from China for some other reason (action by the new President?) when the terrorists make their demand.