Heya~ I've been up to the same old, same old... but, I'm here to talk Trek!
I admit that this was a really, really good film. It definitely surpassed my expectations for which I gave it an A-; a whole letter grade above the first one and it's b/c you were spot on with your description of the movie. It is Trek. Trek has always been about using sci-fi as the medium to explore social and political issues and the 'human condition' under the guise of spaceships and aliens.
Those special torpedoes and Spock's point about executing a Federation citizen w/o trial has a direct tie to what we're doing with drones and American citizens engaged in terrorist activities abroad. And, of course, it also looks at the themes you mentioned, too, about Kirk and the examination of mortality through a different lens than the original and how this Kirk views the world around him.
I'm not entirely sure I have more to add to this discussion other than what you've already mentioned >.On a personal note, I did not see Khan coming and it was a thrill,
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I admit that this was a really, really good film. It definitely surpassed my expectations for which I gave it an A-; a whole letter grade above the first one and it's b/c you were spot on with your description of the movie. It is Trek. Trek has always been about using sci-fi as the medium to explore social and political issues and the 'human condition' under the guise of spaceships and aliens.
Those special torpedoes and Spock's point about executing a Federation citizen w/o trial has a direct tie to what we're doing with drones and American citizens engaged in terrorist activities abroad. And, of course, it also looks at the themes you mentioned, too, about Kirk and the examination of mortality through a different lens than the original and how this Kirk views the world around him.
I'm not entirely sure I have more to add to this discussion other than what you've already mentioned >.On a personal note, I did not see Khan coming and it was a thrill, ( ... )
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