It's Trek, Jim....

[miwahni]

I finally got to see Star Trek: Beyond tonight and I'm pretty happy with it - it's about as close to the original as you could get. Loved the character interaction, and the whole plotline. Sure it wasn't perfect but it was good enough. I'm wishing now that I'd seen it at the cinema, for the large screen effect.
And no lens flare! Yay!Loved Scotty

Comments

[fiorenza_a]

Spock's characterisation was always going to be difficult, you're effectively playing two people - Spock and the man who brought him to life. To his much voiced regret, Leonard Nimoy just owned the part too effectively. The way all Bonds have to win their spurs against Sean Connery

[miwahni]

You're also going to have the essential dichotomy that Spock in the original first series lived in a 'self made prison'.. yes, and I would like to see that internal conflict again. The new Spock seems so much more at ease in his own skin; it diminishes the character's appeal in my eyes.

Uhura is brilliant,I've always loved her character and I think Zoe does a great job.

I have to agree with your mate, too - as much as I adore Benedict Cumberbatch, the second movie was too much action and not enough plot.

It WAS poignant, watching Anton and knowing what happened.

I hope St Nick is kind to you this year and the DVD turns up. *g*

[mrlnpndrgn]

I saw it on Imax when it came out here. And I did love it.

Way more than "Into darkness". But then, I never liked "Space seed" :-(

Into Beyond, the interaction between Spock and Bones made me smile. And remember TOS...

[miwahni]

"Space Seed" was one of the episodes that I found really disturbing; I could well imagine something like the Eugenics Wars occurring. I did enjoy the original Khan movie, and I liked Into Darkness, (although not enough actual plot, I thought) but it didn't feel as authentic as this most recent movie.

[mrlnpndrgn]

I could well imagine something like the Eugenics Wars occurring.

I might be completely jaded, but that was not what bugged me.
A French priest once wrote : "Ou il y a des hommes, il y a de l'hommerie" - Where there are men, men-like things will happen.
Meaning war and conflict and stuff. Note that men, in the context, means both sexes.

No, what bugged me? The woman who betrayed her oath to Starfleet, abandoned her job and her family and friends to follow a man.
:-(

That trope always made me see red...

[miwahni]

I can remember watching that ep for the first time and just shaking my head at that - what, give up the Enterprise and the universe for some dick of a man that thinks he's god's gift? Too young to realise that was how women were expected to behave, back then. Remember the tv show "Green Acres"? That line in the theme song - where he wants to go live on a farm, but she wants to stay in New York - "You are my wife"! he sings, to which she replies "goodbye, city life!" Urgh.