Live Long & Prosper
For starters, I went to see the new Star Trek film and I LOVE IT! As a film it has everything you want, action, humour, danger, great special effects, cool space ships.
There will likely be a divide of some fans who will hate it however.
....SPOILERS....
The weight and depth of following original Trek history is a millstone that creatively, puts too many limitations on the story to make it a really good and exciting film in the franchise. This problem is solved in a very credible way at the beginning of the film and it releases it from the shackles of continuity to make it something new.
The casting is universally spot on! Everyone is exactly right for their parts and it really is almost like watching the original cast again, just a few years younger than before. Outside of the three original central characters of Kirk, Spock and McCoy, everyone is an essential part of the team and given their chance to shine. I love that Captain Pike is an important role in the film, as he was such an interesting Captain in the brief chance we had of seeing him before, though I also love the nod to his previous life in the Original Series as well.
In many ways this plays as a classic time travel, altering the future story, except this time, much of the audience has seen the entire future of these characters and their decendants, and so when the film begins, we begin to have a glimpse of what they will never now have. Just like the crew of the Enterprise, we don't know what their future will be, though I think destiny will mean some things can still come to pass, though in a different way than we knew them. People are alive and dead who were not before and the rest will be a great adventure.
....BIG SPOILER...
In many ways the Spock from the future that we have come to know is us. His life experience and memory is the Star Trek universe we have known, and it has been destroyed forever, though certainly not forgotten. His home is gone in every way possible and it's quite a tragic thought.
As much as this is a new beginning for the Star Trek universe, so many things, the essential things we have come to love about it, in my view, have remained.
There will likely be a divide of some fans who will hate it however.
....SPOILERS....
The weight and depth of following original Trek history is a millstone that creatively, puts too many limitations on the story to make it a really good and exciting film in the franchise. This problem is solved in a very credible way at the beginning of the film and it releases it from the shackles of continuity to make it something new.
The casting is universally spot on! Everyone is exactly right for their parts and it really is almost like watching the original cast again, just a few years younger than before. Outside of the three original central characters of Kirk, Spock and McCoy, everyone is an essential part of the team and given their chance to shine. I love that Captain Pike is an important role in the film, as he was such an interesting Captain in the brief chance we had of seeing him before, though I also love the nod to his previous life in the Original Series as well.
In many ways this plays as a classic time travel, altering the future story, except this time, much of the audience has seen the entire future of these characters and their decendants, and so when the film begins, we begin to have a glimpse of what they will never now have. Just like the crew of the Enterprise, we don't know what their future will be, though I think destiny will mean some things can still come to pass, though in a different way than we knew them. People are alive and dead who were not before and the rest will be a great adventure.
....BIG SPOILER...
In many ways the Spock from the future that we have come to know is us. His life experience and memory is the Star Trek universe we have known, and it has been destroyed forever, though certainly not forgotten. His home is gone in every way possible and it's quite a tragic thought.
As much as this is a new beginning for the Star Trek universe, so many things, the essential things we have come to love about it, in my view, have remained.