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Celebrated my apparent return to something vaguely resembling actual health (yay antibiotics!) by taking myself off to see the new Star Trek this morning. Um.
See, this film has generated a lot of buzz, and various trekkoids of varying degrees of frothing fandom have been fairly positive about it, and said it feels like Star Trek. Only problem is ( Read more... )
See, this film has generated a lot of buzz, and various trekkoids of varying degrees of frothing fandom have been fairly positive about it, and said it feels like Star Trek. Only problem is ( Read more... )
I think the diff between first-fallen and me is what Trek we rate highest. I'm an Original Series boy, and less about the Next Gen love. I hate Jean-Luc Picard AND Sisko and can't stand Voyager ('cept 7-of-9), and I came in on the other side in the B5/DS:9 wars, so this had more of the stuff that appealed to me (Kirk-slash-Spock-slash-Uhura, for one thing. Miniskirts. Dead Redshirts.), much less of the stuff that didn't appeal (the fucking Borg, the stupid Prime Directive, instant reset buttons, Treknobabble, Pinocchio-in-space) & the bravery to blow up canon places willy-nilly. I thought even the time-travel plot was very well-handled. A one-way trip with consequences rather than the usual Trek zipping-round-the-timestreams.
The science was laughable, but then it usually is when it comes to black holes in movies. Don't get me started on the magic laser drill. But like I said, there was very little babble. Loved that.
I really found myself liking Kirk. Cocky, yes, but somehow I bought into it. Spock was good, the other crew were uniformly well-done.
But mostly, it was about the Enterprise for me. That was a real ship of war and/or science, not a luxury cruise liner. Loved it.
Also loved the Romulan vessel, though it did remind me an awful lot of Banks' Affront. "Kiss the Blade" would be an appropriate name for it.
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