Yet Another Star-Trek Post….
A pretty lousy one actually.
So my wife and I went to see the new Star Trek movie last night, as a part of the whole Mother’s Day weekend extravaganza that you have when you’re trying to honor a woman who can manage to hold our kids in some semblence of order. (Did I mention that she keeps me in line pretty well too? – Bygones)
So this was great for multiple reasons.
First, the last movie we saw in theaters was “The DaVinci Code” (Great movie but pedantic compared to the book) so an outing without the kids is kind of a rarity for us.
Second, we are both AVID Die-Hard Trekkies… (She even went in her “Starfleet Acadamy Alumni” sweatshirt – which made her stand out here in Redneckville, Virginia as the *ONLY* one who dressed up for it – we also stood out that we were two in an audience of TEN – God I hate living surrounded by morons.)
I wanted to start a thread on the new movie and get opinions. I think this movie did a wonderful job of pushing Trek into the 21st Century, as well as opening the door and hopefully encouraging a whole new series of TV and Theater productions.
In discussing the show, I would ask that you preface your comments with “SPOILER:” if you are going to give away anything pertinent to the plot, the plot was such a brain twister that I’m not really willing to give any of it away myself, but it’s hard to keep that a secret while discussing WHY this movie sort of changes things…
Oh – and one thing i can say without giving too much away.
The actor they got to play Kirk was good. Got the whole attitude thing down to a T.
The actor they got to play Spock was better. Looks, mannerisms, all right on mark.
But the guy who played Bones, in my opinion, stole the bloody movie. He nailed it *SO* well that I really thought a few times I was looking at a much younger DeForest Kelly.
Anyway, like I said, a little diversion, because Dammit Jim this is a geek’s rant site not IMDB.com… 
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my review was better than yours
kidding.
but i LOVED that movie. loved it. like…could see it a kagillion times and NOT get sick of it. plus, it doesn’t hurt that kirk is eye candy.
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i also saw the new star trek movie and enjoyed it… my husband and i are big ST nerds.
but what really made me crazy about it was how they blew up Vulcan.
it didn’t bug me at the time because it was such an integral part of the movie plot… but the day after i saw the movie, i was watching some old episodes of TNG, and one was set largely on vulcan.
…and i was like WTF, that can’t happen because vulcan doesn’t exist anymore… right?
see, this is the thing with making MAJOR changes to the past… it has to echo into the future.
you just can’t blow up planets and then never mention it happening again.
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***SPOILER***
Here is where you get into the whole “Alternate Time Line” issue. They said in the movie that the “past” (from OldSpock’s point of view) has been altered. Of course it has, there was no “OldSpock” in any of the original series, but beside that, there *WAS* a vulcan and Capt. Pike was in the wheelchair due to an illness, *NOT* because of torture by romulans. (ST:TOS – “The Menagerie”)
So now, what they’ve done, is created an opportunity to re-tell a LOT of the original stories with a slight (or drastic) spin on them. Things that might have been still happened, but could have happened differently given the events that transpired.
They gave themselves the opportunity to completely re-do the series A-La BattleStar Galactica (Starbuck a girl? Come one…but it worked somehow right?)
I think it’s going to be interesting. And I can’t *WAIT* to see what comes next. We’ve had too long a period with no ST in our lives….