Reaction: New Star Trek Movie

[caffienekitty]

I have seen the Star Trek movie.

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[gwendolyngrace]

My Trek relationship is remarkably like yours. I was in college during later seasons of TNG so I kinda lost the thread there, but still tuned in over summers and caught many of the seminal episodes. I liked DS9 but again, lost track during the year I didn't have a TV. I've seen episodes of Voyager and Enterprise, but evidently completely forgot that Tim Russ played a Vulcan (because I was scratching my head at black Vulcans - duh!). Oh - and I forgot to say that I've seen *most* of the movies. I may have missed some of the later ones. But ST3: Search for Spock is one of the first films I remember my mother and I going to see opening night because we HAD to know what happened after Wrath of Khan

[caffienekitty]

But Spock/Uhura bugged the living shit out of me. Poor Nurse Chapel. Of course now we know why she didn't want to kiss Kirk in that episode with the Greek gods....

Thing is, I doubt Spock/Uhura probably happened in the pre-Nero 'verse, at least not to that level of intimacy. They were friends, and shared musical interests, and it probably didn't go farther than that, because in the Prime 'verse, Spock identified more as Vulcan. He mostly succeeded at it because he didn't have this critical incident of his homeworld being collapsed into a singularity and watching his mother disappear from in front of him and both be gone forever. Uhura didn't watch that happen to him and make that advance. In Prime 'verse, their relationship likely never advanced beyond the abstract possibility, and Uhura probably didn't push it out of respect for Spock's culture.

This 'verse, the rules are different, both in character specifics and in world dynamics.

Also, Chapel/Spock was pretty one-sided. ;-)

[gwendolyngrace]

Ah, but you're assuming, as I did at first, that they weren't an item before she kisses him in the turboshaft.

Go back to the scene where she tells him to reassign her to Enterprise. They're already doing it. He's way whipped and does what she says too quickly.

The little ripples had already spread out pretty far for her to be able to wrap him around like that....

'M just sayin'.

[caffienekitty]

The little ripples had already spread out pretty far for her to be able to wrap him around like that....Given the way they've used time travel in this case, it would not surprise me. Earth has Cardassian drinks, which unless the Federation had really stepped up its game, they shouldn't for over a hundred years. With the Romulans more active, the Federation is in a more volitile position regarding potential threats and fighting. 17-year-olds being on starships, no matter how good they are at math. Applying to Starfleet Academy being as simple as getting on a shuttle craft. These things weren't the case in Prime-verse, and indicate a greater need for military personnel than they had in that 'verse. Greater need for Military personnel means greater loss of military personnel. That level of risk is often enough to push people to form tighter interpersonal bonds than they would ordinarily risk

[tigriswolf]

I love this movie so much, I'm going see it a fourth time later today. *glee*

I've watched the first four original movies; the whale one is my favorite.

[caffienekitty]

Voyage home was a really fun one. It kind of completes the arc started in Wrath of Kahn, and it's half crack. Plus, critically injured Chekov is my favorite flavor of Chekov. :-)