Star Trek

[fclbrokle]

I haven't written anything here in months, nor have I read anyone else's LJ. I should --- I really should --- be writing here about Learning Unlimited and the great successes we're having there. But somehow, it was clear to me after coming home today from seeing Star Trek at an IMAX theater that I need to write about this movie

Comments

[meep]

semi-OT: I'd love to hear about your LU stuff. Website looks very good, even if spare for right now.

[fclbrokle]

I definitely want to tell you about it. I just need to get a bit more caught up with everything first --- starting a start-up and trying to keep yourself employed with side jobs turns out to be time-consuming!

[gaussjordan]

Since we were talking about Star Trek and Obama, I thought you might be interested in this post today on The Economist's Democracy in America blog: Yes, Starfleet can

[fclbrokle]

Thank you!

[bluelarker]

There's also Salon.com's Obama is Spock: It's quite logical

[fclbrokle]

Nice!

[hahafaha]

That's a really interesting observation about a shift in the outlook of science fiction in the twentieth century and in the twenty-first. (Though, I do want to point out a somewhat ironic hole, namely that the original BSG is quite a bit older than Bush. That said, I have never seen it and have no idea if it's as dark).

[fclbrokle]

The original BSG is nowhere near as dark. It's the sort of thing that features a cute 8-year-old kid with a pet dog-like robot. Although it *does* feature the destruction of most of humanity, the characters don't react to it seriously at all; in fact, in the second hour of the two-hour pilot, they all go to a casino planet where they proceed to gamble and hit on women.

[fclbrokle]

Well, ok, it's the closest planet to Vulcan (although unless it was a moon Vulcan should have been a mere pinprick in the sky). That said, landing in the same part of the planet? And if the planet was that close, did the Federation need a poorly-supplied outpost there?

The innards of the ships isn't that unusual for a movie, where they have the budgets for the sets, and they've definitely had characters dying in these movies before. The bar fight was darker, however, than most other Trek.

I'm not sure what it was about this movie that made me feel like it had the optimistic Trek spin to it, except that the future it posited was clearly a bright one where people rose to their potential.

As to the fight scene: yeah, gratuitous.