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In terms of franchise reboots, I'd rank it be below Iron Man (insert everything being under's Tony Stark joke [here]) but above Batman Begins, substantially above the Phantom Menace, and edging out X-men. It didn't have the single-minded focus and narrative forward drive that X-Men had, but it didn't faff about the way that Batman Begins did for 30000000000000 years of slow-mo purple flower tai chi. And the intro actually slightly annoyed me -- how much happier would I have been if it was Kirk's first officer mother piloting the Kelvin into the Romulan mining ship, and it was his sweaty dad clutching the wee babe? That would have been a shot across the bow that I'd respect the hell out of.
On the other hand, it would've telepgraphed the AU a bit more strongly than Abrams could get away with. And I can't blame him for sticking to the same general structure, given that I'm about a decade away from my Trekkie obsessiveness, and it still made me squeal to see green blood and the Science Academy and AMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANDA and hottie Nurse Chapel and Orion girls.*
Also, as dafnap mentioned, it was awesome to see the scale of the ships and Vulcan and the supremely interesting Vulcans, and what can I say? Kirk/Spock, it is now interesting to me. And Spock/Uhura, I ship it, and ship it hard.
Also, Vulcans.
Also, Spock/Uhura.
Also, Vulcans.
Also, yeah, Kirk is kinda interesting. I really want fic from Spock Prime's POV about how the new Kirk is hungry and angry and vulnerable in a way that I don't think Shatner-Kirk quite is. And I want fic about Bones -- obsessionwrites was v. annoyed at how Bones didn't stop Spock and Kirk from blowing the hell out of the Romulan ship, but I actually liked the idea of a Bones who isn't as sure of his identity yet, who has a ways to grow.
Also, I want fic about Christopher Pike with alien worms in his head. And about Spock Prime interacting with Sarek. And Spock Prime on the Vulcan colony.
Also, watching the movie made me realize that I may, um, have a bit of a type that I love:
1. Tom Riddle
2. Horatio Hornblower
3. Marcus Junius Brutus from El Rome
4. Tony Stark.
5.
Oh, my dark haired socially isolated precocious children (shut up, the Brutus that babel writes is that way, and therefore, Brutus is that way) with Family Issues. But seriously, look at that fierce little baby Spock-face and tell me that you don't want ten million stories about his schooling in the Vulcan pods and Vulcan society and Amanda petting his hair and the tips of his ears and singing Earth lullabies about cradles in treetops until Spock is too sleepy to protest that he has researched this issue, that the tops of Terran trees are not strong enough to support traditional cradles and that stars don't twinkle in the Vulcan sky because there isn't enough moisture in the atmosphere. How Spock came to terms with being so Vulcan in his bones and loving Vulcan culture so much, but being rejected by Vulcan society. How Spock acclimated to Earth and how he made the decision to stay with Starfleet, on Earth, as an instructor.
What happened, specifically, to make him program the Kobayashi Maru. Did he come up with the scenario? Did he go into command in the interim? Why does he feel so strongly that you need fear? And how does rather hard-headed and almost cruel analysis of what you need to be a good commander work with his rather complicated relationship with Uhura.
Excuse me while I take a breath for air.
I also want fic about all the different ways that the Farragut exchange got coded. And I want fic in which Spock and Uhura are pretty good at keeping their relationship under wraps to Starfleet people, but a Vulcan instructor shows up as a special liason to Starfleet Academy and to him/her, the two of them might be giggling and passing love notes. And the instructor doesn't like Spock at all and comments that Spock appears to have inherited his father's taste for human women.
God, the amount of fic I want about Spock is really disturbingly large.
* I know there's been a bit of discussion about how she says I love you and how sexist it can be read, but given the "how many guys do you bring BACK?" exchange, I'm going to choose to believe that our totally stacked Orion babe is a major playah who throws that line out there to get boys to give her head. Love 'em and leave 'em in the dust, sister.
In short, go read The Helmsman by imadra_blue.
In terms of franchise reboots, I'd rank it be below Iron Man (insert everything being under's Tony Stark joke [here]) but above Batman Begins, substantially above the Phantom Menace, and edging out X-men. It didn't have the single-minded focus and narrative forward drive that X-Men had, but it didn't faff about the way that Batman Begins did for 30000000000000 years of slow-mo purple flower tai chi. And the intro actually slightly annoyed me -- how much happier would I have been if it was Kirk's first officer mother piloting the Kelvin into the Romulan mining ship, and it was his sweaty dad clutching the wee babe? That would have been a shot across the bow that I'd respect the hell out of.
On the other hand, it would've telepgraphed the AU a bit more strongly than Abrams could get away with. And I can't blame him for sticking to the same general structure, given that I'm about a decade away from my Trekkie obsessiveness, and it still made me squeal to see green blood and the Science Academy and AMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANDA and hottie Nurse Chapel and Orion girls.*
Also, as dafnap mentioned, it was awesome to see the scale of the ships and Vulcan and the supremely interesting Vulcans, and what can I say? Kirk/Spock, it is now interesting to me. And Spock/Uhura, I ship it, and ship it hard.
Also, Vulcans.
Also, Spock/Uhura.
Also, Vulcans.
Also, yeah, Kirk is kinda interesting. I really want fic from Spock Prime's POV about how the new Kirk is hungry and angry and vulnerable in a way that I don't think Shatner-Kirk quite is. And I want fic about Bones -- obsessionwrites was v. annoyed at how Bones didn't stop Spock and Kirk from blowing the hell out of the Romulan ship, but I actually liked the idea of a Bones who isn't as sure of his identity yet, who has a ways to grow.
Also, I want fic about Christopher Pike with alien worms in his head. And about Spock Prime interacting with Sarek. And Spock Prime on the Vulcan colony.
Also, watching the movie made me realize that I may, um, have a bit of a type that I love:
1. Tom Riddle
2. Horatio Hornblower
3. Marcus Junius Brutus from El Rome
4. Tony Stark.
5.
Oh, my dark haired socially isolated precocious children (shut up, the Brutus that babel writes is that way, and therefore, Brutus is that way) with Family Issues. But seriously, look at that fierce little baby Spock-face and tell me that you don't want ten million stories about his schooling in the Vulcan pods and Vulcan society and Amanda petting his hair and the tips of his ears and singing Earth lullabies about cradles in treetops until Spock is too sleepy to protest that he has researched this issue, that the tops of Terran trees are not strong enough to support traditional cradles and that stars don't twinkle in the Vulcan sky because there isn't enough moisture in the atmosphere. How Spock came to terms with being so Vulcan in his bones and loving Vulcan culture so much, but being rejected by Vulcan society. How Spock acclimated to Earth and how he made the decision to stay with Starfleet, on Earth, as an instructor.
What happened, specifically, to make him program the Kobayashi Maru. Did he come up with the scenario? Did he go into command in the interim? Why does he feel so strongly that you need fear? And how does rather hard-headed and almost cruel analysis of what you need to be a good commander work with his rather complicated relationship with Uhura.
Excuse me while I take a breath for air.
I also want fic about all the different ways that the Farragut exchange got coded. And I want fic in which Spock and Uhura are pretty good at keeping their relationship under wraps to Starfleet people, but a Vulcan instructor shows up as a special liason to Starfleet Academy and to him/her, the two of them might be giggling and passing love notes. And the instructor doesn't like Spock at all and comments that Spock appears to have inherited his father's taste for human women.
God, the amount of fic I want about Spock is really disturbingly large.
* I know there's been a bit of discussion about how she says I love you and how sexist it can be read, but given the "how many guys do you bring BACK?" exchange, I'm going to choose to believe that our totally stacked Orion babe is a major playah who throws that line out there to get boys to give her head. Love 'em and leave 'em in the dust, sister.
In short, go read The Helmsman by imadra_blue.