Luke going back to the Millennium Falcon will give every nerd the feels for years

No matter what else happens in The Last Jedi, we now know it contains the moment every fanboy and fangirl has been waiting to see for years: Luke Skywalker re-entering the Millennium Falcon.

The scene dropped Wednesday night in a re-edited version of last month's first full trailer. Luke is seen walking into the famous Falcon cockpit, a place we haven't seen him in any kind of fit state to fly since the original 1977 Star Wars, latterly called A New Hope.

Yes, he came aboard the Falcon at the end of Empire Strikes Back after losing his hand, falling down a giant tube and hanging from a mast at the bottom of Cloud City. He briefly stumbled into the cockpit -- but in a seriously delirious state of mind.

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It lasts for mere seconds: the robed Jedi looks around in astonishment as the lights flick on in those oh-so-familiar neon colors. But the layers of memory, emotion and meaning here are enough to give us the feels for years to come.

It also gives us a modicum of insight into the plot of The Last Jedi itself. We know the Falcon landed on the planet of Ahch-To, where Luke has been hiding away since his Jedi Academy was massacred. Rey, Chewie and R2-D2 had arrived to return his old lightsaber and bring him home to his family, ie. Leia.

It wasn't a given that Luke would leave the planet, where he had gone in search of the first Jedi temple. His reaction to Rey, judging by the trailer, is one of fear. We don't know the reasons, but we can guess: she may be more a puppet of Supreme Leader Snoke than she realizes.

Evidently the last Jedi -- that's Luke, people, there was never any mystery -- is too afraid to train Rey at first. He trusts his fear now, something Jedi have been dead set against before. But no matter, because the one thing he knows is "the Jedi must end." (We don't know why.)

So seeing Luke in the Falcon cockpit is a very hopeful sign. He wouldn't go in just to get the 10-cent tour or torture himself with old memories. If he's in, it's almost certainly because he's preparing to leave the planet.

And that suggests a reunion with his sister, Leia, played by the late Carrie Fisher, a woman Mark Hamill always called his space twin. Which in turn would up the ante on those Star Wars feels, not to mention those real-life friendship feels, all of which have the power to leave nerds of all ages in floods of tears repeatedly for decades.

We'll finally find out when The Last Jedi opens on Dec. 15, 2017.