So yes it was an alternate universe, what's new? (spoilers!)
Admittedly, Voyager is my favorite series, but every Trek fan has a soft spot Kirk and his crew so the new movie was exciting. Yet at the same time head 'spoldey. Yup, it was full on Star Trek alright.
First, what is it with J.J Abrams and big red balls? Or little red balls for that matter?
Next, Enterprise! Shuttles! I didn't realize that I missed Trek so much until I saw the first ship being bombarded by photons and torpedoes. It was just like watching the TV shows again. Love it.
I was fully expecting to not like either Kirk or Spock but I found that recasting was the best idea since slice bread. Kirk is camp extreme in the show but young Kirk is fun. In the basagulero way. And it was pretty funny how many times he gets beat up. Zachary Quinto was okay as Spock too. What I didn't like was Uhura. It was like she was forgotten half-way through the movie and turned from over achiever to intergalactic space girlfriend. Really? She gets cheesy lines like "I don't ever want to lose you". Meh. Unhappy.
Sulu, Chekov, Scotty and Bones were fantastic. Simon Pegg of course was funny as hell. In fact, I think I like some scenes mad me like these characters more than the original.
The thing though about the movie that irked me a little was that it used the proverbial reset button. Well, not really a reset button but the AU thing. This was used about twice in Voyager so I'm used to that. There was that time there were two Voyagers and some episodes might've taken place in that clone Voyager and therefore not really part of the Delta Quadrant timeline. Or something like that.
I thought the AU, while classic Trek was a cop out. I appreciate the fact that the universe was not retconned to fit into the new movie but it was still a copout. And a little temporal headachey too because they left Spock there. So what does that mean now?
In other words, reset button/ alternate universe is a fail, the other parts not so much. At least I can watch this move, or any of the sequels I feel is coming, independent of anything else I've watched in Trek. Hope they keep it that way or my head will explode from the blatant disregard for the temporal prime directive.
I really hope that this movie revives Trek so that more movies come out. Though, I'd rather not have more big red balls.
First, what is it with J.J Abrams and big red balls? Or little red balls for that matter?
Next, Enterprise! Shuttles! I didn't realize that I missed Trek so much until I saw the first ship being bombarded by photons and torpedoes. It was just like watching the TV shows again. Love it.
I was fully expecting to not like either Kirk or Spock but I found that recasting was the best idea since slice bread. Kirk is camp extreme in the show but young Kirk is fun. In the basagulero way. And it was pretty funny how many times he gets beat up. Zachary Quinto was okay as Spock too. What I didn't like was Uhura. It was like she was forgotten half-way through the movie and turned from over achiever to intergalactic space girlfriend. Really? She gets cheesy lines like "I don't ever want to lose you". Meh. Unhappy.
Sulu, Chekov, Scotty and Bones were fantastic. Simon Pegg of course was funny as hell. In fact, I think I like some scenes mad me like these characters more than the original.
The thing though about the movie that irked me a little was that it used the proverbial reset button. Well, not really a reset button but the AU thing. This was used about twice in Voyager so I'm used to that. There was that time there were two Voyagers and some episodes might've taken place in that clone Voyager and therefore not really part of the Delta Quadrant timeline. Or something like that.
I thought the AU, while classic Trek was a cop out. I appreciate the fact that the universe was not retconned to fit into the new movie but it was still a copout. And a little temporal headachey too because they left Spock there. So what does that mean now?
In other words, reset button/ alternate universe is a fail, the other parts not so much. At least I can watch this move, or any of the sequels I feel is coming, independent of anything else I've watched in Trek. Hope they keep it that way or my head will explode from the blatant disregard for the temporal prime directive.
I really hope that this movie revives Trek so that more movies come out. Though, I'd rather not have more big red balls.