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Dark Lord · Joined: 23 May 2006 Posts: 2682

I saw it. It was pretty good. Then again, I'm not a Trekkie, but it was a damn fine Star Wars film. It had a Death Star and everything!

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/trekkies_bash_new_star_trek_film

SPOILERS MAYBE:

The Good IMO:
Spock, Scotty, & McCoy were all cast very well and the actors did a great job in bringing out what the original actors did as well as bringing their own thing into it.

The Enterprise has a realistic feel to its areas. The engine room looks like an engine room instead of laboratory for instance.

The Romulans...finally Romulans are cool. No more dorky haircuts, no more weirdo clothes and no more copied Klingon ships.

The story moved along quickly and was interesting. There's a negative to it if you like techno-babble and long expositions about how Trek Tech works, and why reversing the polarities is the solution they need...but I don't, so I was glad to see Trek meet Star Wars in that respect.

The Bad IMO:
Spock & Uhura in love? WTF? Barf...doesn't work for me.

Uhura was disgustingly skinny and anorexic.

Chekov was there to see how many times they could make the actor say a "V" word. "Their wessel is inwincible, Captain! It's wery scary and I wery much want a wegetarian meal tonight!"

Sulu was not used much at all except to have him fight with a stupid katana. I was very disappointed to see him use a katana rather than a rapier. I know he's Japanese...but that was why it was cool to see him use a western weapon.

Kirk was done so-so. His womanizing and stuff seemed to get blown up to caricature sized proportions. Also the fact that he went from cadet to first officer in a matter of minutes was lame. Not only that but the fact that after he relieved Spock and became captain he was allowed to be remain captain of the Enterprise?! WTF? Seriously? A cadet, who hasn't even graduated from the academy is gonna command the flagship of the fleet? Nobody has a problem with that? And NOBODY was on the Enterprise that was high enough rank to be first officer? Seriously? Really?

IMO it diminished Kirk. He didn't earn what he got, it was simply handed to him...and he was a punk and screw up before that. So all the people who worked for years and kissed ass in Star Fleet were totally okay with a 17 year old cadet being the captain of the Enterprise. Nonsense.
However if they make a second one we won't have to think about the lame way he got the command, so I'll get over it.

The phasers were blasters. It annoyed me. I really liked Star Trek's use of beam weapons. It had a cool look to it, and it gave it a sense of realism...if that makes sense. Have the guns be blasters...with a weird stun/kill flip barrel was kinda...meh IMO.

Lastly, I do like my Star Trek to be a bit more cerebral than this was. And in the end...it was not only dumbed down, but it had a TIME TRAVEL storyline...GAH! Really? Whatever.

All in all, it was good movie and I really enjoyed it. Like I said, it was a really great Star Wars film.

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Torg · Joined: 03 Apr 2006 Posts: 161

I have to agree with most of what you've said as I pretty much was thinking the same thing when I saw the film.
Don't really agree about the Romulans, though. Romulans are supposed to be genetically identical to Vulcans (so should look the same) but just a different culture. These guys looked like the death metal version of Romulans. What was with all the spikes? The ship was one big mass of spikes and even the torpedoes had spikes.

And why would anyone build a ship with a bunch of raised platforms with no railings so that people can fall to their death?

Not disagreeing with you that it looked cool, but functionally didn't make sense. Wished they'd called these guys something else other that Romulans, but doesn't really matter.

Anyway, agree with pretty much everything else you said about everything else (Uhura is supposed to be a vouptuous black womon, not just a black woman, and definately not a skinny black woman. The love affair with Spock made me think WTF?? too)
Because of the time travel poo, which is lame in general, they basically created an alternate timeline, so they don't have to fallow any of the established Trek history, they can do whanever they like.

In the end I still agree it was a good, fun movie, worth seeing.
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skatingtortoise · Joined: 13 Aug 2006 Posts: 140

+1 here. enjoyed it and was shedding a single manly tear within the first 5 minutes.

Darkson · Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 6:21 pm Post subject:

Enjoyed it, though the Romulans had me going "WFT" - but we'll let them off that because they're from the future (is Spock still alive in the ST:TNG era?).

Alternate timeline is good imo though, because if they're going to make a new series of films, there was only so much room they had before they butted up against the existing stuff.
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Norse · The One, the Only Joined: 21 Nov 2005 Posts: 2811

the only alternate time-line I truly enjoyed was in Red Dwarf, when JFK goes back in time and shoots himself from the grassy knoll to preserve his reputation as a martyr after the RD crew had gone back in time and accidentally killed Lee Harvey Oswald.. ..

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Norse · The One, the Only Joined: 21 Nov 2005 Posts: 2811

not sure if they are aired in the US of A

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Purdindas · Joined: 31 Oct 2008 Posts: 51 Location: Scotland

I wasn't able to watch the newest ones. I've heard mixed reviews. Would like to see it for myself.
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Thom · Joined: 27 May 2007 Posts: 284

While I am not a full blown Trekkie I do border on Trek Geekdom. I plan to watch the movie when I get the chance.

Now my cousin on the other hand. . . Well he has a Captains uniform, every single Trek episode on VHS. every book, every magazine. . . All of it. He is even mentioned by name in some of the fanzines and fact books for identifying errors in shows and story continuity.

Come to think of it he lives pretty close to Eric. . .
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Dark Lord · Joined: 23 May 2006 Posts: 2682

Darkson · Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 8:38 pm Post subject:

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