Over-share Sci-fi Geekery (just thought I should warn you)

[jrprongs]

Okay, so I have a confession that I never thought I'd make: I have a deep, abiding (and possibly unholy) love for the new Star Trek movie.  I'm about a generation too young to have watched TOS when it was new, and it seems like whenever I see reruns of it, there's about a 50% chance of Tribbles, but I've never really gotten into the first Trek that

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[silvering14]

Hey, it's okay to like TOS! I mean, yeah, if I hadn't been rendered into a quivering ball of nausea by 15 minutes into the movie I would have liked it too. (I have VR sickness. I have never been able to play first-person shooter games, and home movies make me ill. Decades of camera stabilization techniques were cast aside in the making of the new Star Trek movie, and I'm one of the apparently few people who really, really can't handle that. I'm kind of ticked about it still! I understand the vibrating camera bit for the explody battle parts, but sitting at a bar table?! XP) Someday I may try to re-watch it, and being forewarned, I will carefully not watch any of the action sequences so I won't get sick.

I have to admit that I'm a weird Trekkie myself. I've never seen all of ANY of the Star Trek series. I think I've watched, in order of amount of series seen, Voyager, DS9, Next Gen, TOS, and Enterprise. The reason I got into Star Trek at all was because my mother had practically every TOS novel ever published. So I managed to get into TOS through print rather than having to suffer through terrible special effects (I am SO shallow), William Shatner's lack of acting skills, Kirk schmoozing it up with the alien gals, etc.

I pretty much agree with all your examples of things you liked about the changes! I was a little O_o when they paired Spock with Uhura but now I really wish they'd continue on with the reboot 'cause they can probably do some pretty awesome divergent character development with that. And the whole Vulcan gets blown up bit. ^^; And there were definitely parts of the movie plot so odd that even woozy I could tell it was strange. Who beams a guy down to a frozen wasteland from a spaceship instead of locking him in the brig? That was what jumped out at me the most, I think.

[jrprongs]

See? Yes, it's things like that--and it wouldn't have even taken much to make it believable. Kirk's smart and good at twisting out of unwanted situations, conceivably he could get out of the brig if he were determined to do so. One throwaway line, that's all it would have taken--Trekkies are good at suspending our disbelief, we do it all the time! The lack, of course, means we come up with our own reasons for why things happened that way, but still. Galaxy-class sized plot holes.