My review of Star Trek

[noble_zone]

Clearly, the Star Trek franchise had reached an end. With the last movie making hardly anything at the box office and the Trek TV series facing an ever dwindling audience -- Enterprise, actually cancelled -- something had to be done to the franchise that would reinvigorate it

Comments

[wyldelf]

Mining and re-imaging original series plots as sequel fodder should be fun. I look forward to Star Trek II.2: The Rise of Kahn, as Kahn is first encountered by the Enterprise crew.

Also, I enjoyed the destruction of Vulcan as a giant middle finger to the old and staid Trek, dragging the franchise kicking and screaming into a new genre. Now you've had a Death Star. Welcome to space opera, nerds.

[wyldelf]

4 years later. Nailed it.

[melchoir]

Yup, that kinda of sums it up. I was hoping for a little more kick.

-My biggest complaints were wasnt there a branch of future Federation that specifically polices timeline disruptions? Or everything from Voyager is kicked out of canon? Not that i mind the reboot, but it seems too convenient of a time branching, just because some dude fell into a blackhole.

-Scotty was way too much Simon Pegg.

-I'm not sure how i feel about the inside of star ships looking like wine breweries. I guess i shouldnt be expecting crawspaces and glowing engine lights, but giant vats?

-Ya ice planet stuff seemed way out there. I totally felt like it was some sort of Star Wars moment. even with monster being eaten by bigger monster, right out of ep 1 or some crap.

-I saw no chemistry between Uhura and Spock. I'm guessing... that's an open ticket for sequels. Ya barely worked as a plot point for Spock & Kirk.

-Ya seriously... Vulcan. Might make it an interesting timeline though... not that i relaly care all that much for Star Trek timelines.

[wyldelf]

I don't see where you get Star Wars from the ice planet. They were on a remote ice world with a small Federation base and hostile monsters. That's totally Trek, man.

[jestr_]

Gonna see it on IMAX tonight.

[mrjamela]

I agree with you on the lens flares.....way too much.

But if I have to choose between overdoing light effects and overdoing giant blue cock, I think I'm going with lens flares every time.

[noble_zone]

Why not both?

[mrjamela]

Um....the expression is....."you can have your CAKE and eat it too."

Easy mistake.

[greyorm]

Defenseless Earth: it was established Neru took the codes to Earth's defense grid from Captain Pike, and that the remaining fleet was off in *mumble* at the time. Consistent, still fairly weak, but come on...it's Trek.

I was more bothered by the "a star was going supernova and threatened to destroy the galaxy" line during the mind-meld. Unless I misheard that, I was scratching my head and trying to figure out how one star could destroy a galaxy. Let alone expand fast enough to affect Romulus, unless the planet's star went up...in which case no one could have done crap anyways.

And the whole "you can see Vulcan from there" bit.

So I ignored it and regulated it all to "oh, it's pretend space".

[noble_zone]

The Countdown comic book prequel storyline didn't clear it up much except to say that there was a star which was growing rapidly. But, yea, pretend space...

[greyorm]

Ah. I didn't even see/know about the prequel (no local comics shop here any longer).