star trek reboot revue

[almostnever]

Tonight I finally got around to seeing that remake movie, you know the one, with the pew pew pew and the phasers set to stun. The Star Trek, I think it's called.

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[zillah975]

Best review of reboot!TOS ever.

I did actually ... not like, exactly, but kind of... erm, I'm okay with the whole "Spock gets so angry he removes himself from command and then lo, doesn't get his own ship but is instead subordinate to Kirk" thing because I remember one of the defining things about Nimoy's Spock was that he never wanted a command of his own. There may be all kinds of problematical things about that, depending on what lens you're viewing it through, but as someone who also is really smart and competent but has less than zero desire to be in charge, it's one of the things that draws me to him as a character.

. If the new canon is that Kirk goes out and gets masochistically beat to crap over and over again while the rest of the crew uses the time it buys to solve the actual problems: SIGN ME UP.

ME TOO OMG.

Oh also, it just occurred to me that maybe the reason they gave Kirk a ship is because they're short of available seasoned officers? All those ships that got destroyed, right? Maybe? *reaches*

and I love how you

[almostnever]

Re Spock, that's a good point. Even though he winds up in command of the Enterprise after Pike departs, there's nothing to say he wanted a command in the reboot verse any more than he wanted one in ST Prime.

maybe the reason they gave Kirk a ship is because they're short of available seasoned officers? All those ships that got destroyed, right?

Sure, but most of the fleet was off in the Plot Device System during the entire crisis, so while there's likely a shortage of seasoned officers, there are surely, surely enough among the remaining fleet with experience who could be promoted to captain.

Imagine being an officer who's been crewing a ship for three years, worked your way up to leading away teams and taking the conn occasionally, on your way to getting your own command after the requisite four years' experience. After a huge tragedy, there's suddenly a dearth of seasoned officers, so you think you're going to get promoted early... but instead, they put a cadet in charge of a starship. Not only that, but it's cadet who was lucky

[seekergeek]

I agree completely with this. It's kind of bizarre that a movie with a plot that improbable could be that good, but it is. I'm amused that in the reboot Kirk has become comedic relief. Everybody else is there to save the ship/planet/whatever, but Kirk? He's there for the yucks!

[almostnever]

Hahaha, so true. I loved the sequence where he had enormous puffy hands and McCoy kept chasing after him and injecting him with antidotes. :D

[seekergeek]

I laughed hysterically at that scene both times I saw the movie. I give Chis Pine and Karl Urban props for having such great comedic timing.

[teenygozer]

Excellent post! My husband and I had a whole convo where we talked about how in this rebooted universe, the characters all come to themselves sooner in their own personal timelines than they did in the original timeline. With his dad's death, Kirk discovered his inner cowboy almost from the git-go, versus having to find it after he made captain. Under his father's influence, Kirk was "a stack of books with legs" (a line from the second pilot, he also talks about how positively *grim* he was as a cadet with McCoy in "Shore Leave") -- not your average bar-brawler at all. Though he does seem to love mixing it up in the series -- so basically, with the changed timeline, he found who he was quicker.

Iirc, in canon, it's never revealed how Kirk solved the Kobayashi Maru test, and in various novels, several possibilities are offered.In ST: The Wrath of Khan, we have this dialogue

[almostnever]

Ah ha! Thanks for the correction. :D