Star Trek: Into Star Trek II

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It is somewhat discouraging to note that Star Trek: Into Darkness is no better than the first two Star Wars prequels and that it features more obtrusive problems in its storyline. Since J.J. Abrams seems to make a point of mentioning in every interview that he didn't actually like Star Trek growing up--he says he only became a fan after he was

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I'm probably going to still go see the movie again (the Lady missed seeing it), but I'll admit that it's the character performances that I really enjoyed. I felt like that Pine/Quinto/Urban were finally comfortable in the roles that they could stop acting like Shatner/Nimoy/Kelley and start really acting as their own characters

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I felt like that Pine/Quinto/Urban were finally comfortable in the roles that they could stop acting like Shatner/Nimoy/Kelley and start really acting as their own characters.

Maybe, but what I liked about Pine this time was that I thought he seemed more like Shatner. Especially the way he could be sort of quietly amused at things.

I liked Kirk's character arc (for the most part), and do like that I think they fairly subtly worked in Kirk's conscience and conflict that was rarely seen in the movies but was seen all the time in the original teleplays.

I don't think I managed to perceive his arc. Though I don't necessarily think he needed to have one. The conflict about whether to use the torpedoes was good though, on the other hand, I don't think the original Kirk would've had to have had Spock point out for him it was an unusual order coming from the admiral.

Actually most of the main cast got reasonable moments of enjoyable character expansion

Well, I did notice they had memorable moments of character business. The moment where