So I saw Benedict Cumberbatch Is Mad About Something
I saw Star Trek Into Darkness Sunday afternoon but haven't said anything about it because... I just really had no urge to talk about it at all. This perplexes me. I've seen a few episodes of the original series and Next Generation, so I have a decent background on it without being married to canon. I loved the first new movie. I like J.J. Abrams
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A myriad of little things that point to the writers completely forgetting what they wrote in the first film. E.g.: 1) "Chapel is a nurse now" - she was a nurse in the first film! You called her name and Majel Roddenberry answered off-screen! 2) Chekov: "I can't beam them, they're moving too fast" - WE HAD AN ENTIRE 10 MINUTE SEQUENCE ABOUT HOW YOU ARE THE ONE PERSON WHO CAN BEAM FAST-MOVING TARGETS UP!
And then there was Spock Prime's line about how Khan Prime in Wrath of Khan was defeated "at great personal cost" and of course Kirk's death ("He's only slightly dead. Well, mostly dead now.") is supposed to be that cost in this film, except... it isn't. He didn't die as a cost to defeating Khan, he died as a cost to saving the ship from a mechanical failure when they thought Khan was already dead. Now if he died so they could go chasing after Khan who was speeding towards Earth in a genocidal rage, that would at least make slightly more sense.
In a weird way, this entire conflict would've been more fitting with the set-up of the first movie, wouldn't it? With Kirk refusing to believe in unwinnable Kobayashi Maru scenarios and now having to die to save his ship (like his father, fittingly). Come up with a new plot/conflict, Star Trek Film writing team! GO SAVE THE WHALES OR SOMETHING!
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THIS. I would have been all "okay that makes sense" with it if she'd been off studying to be a doctor like she planned to in TOS. She was already a nurse by 2260 and Roger Korby went missing on Exo III in 2261. They could have had her working with him-ANYTHING BUT "she's studying to be a nurse" SINCE SHE ALREADY WAS ONE IN THE FIRST MOVIE.
*scrubs both hands across her face*
I'm sorry. I was just really excited for this movie because I was so certain that Christine Chapel would be in it somewhere and all we get is this inaccurate throwaway gag.
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