Star Trek Re-booted

My daughter and I went to see the new Star Trek film last night. She grew up watching ST The Next Generation with me, I started with the original TV series and all the rest. I didn't like every ST movie and I hated Voyager and DS9 on TV. The latest TV series Enterprise I felt was pretty good.

That all said, the new Star Trek was absolutely one of the best movies, not just sci-fi, that I've ever seen. Don't want to spoil it, but the story was fantastic, the characters were excellent, the effects were first rate, and it left me wanting more. Didn't know how they would get Leonard Nimoy in the story, but he was pivotal to the plot line.

If I could give it more than 5 stars on a scale of 5 I would. Some fans won't like what they did to the "timeline", but it makes all of the characters and plot lines we have known all these years fresh and much more interesting than just re-creating the familiar set in stone story.

Cheers,

Looks like they took the example from BattleStar Galactica, use what works but modernize it/make it fresh...I liked it too and now they can make as many movies as they care to with the recipe that has always worked!

I enjoyed Star Trek but I thought the plot was a bit weak and the action too frenetic at times. The acting was good and the special effects were state-of-the-art, as expected. I didn't care for the way the interiors of the Kelvin and the Enterprise were made to look like 20th century factories.

It's certainly worth seeing.

Dave Mitsky

My wife is a Trekkie, have all the movies on tape or DVD plus the DVDs of all the original series. Likes The Next Generation but not much else that's newer. I enjoy most of it...

We saw the movie last night. We both totally enjoyed it...

Regarding the comment that it played fast and loose with physics and well as there were unlikely coincidences... This is Star Trek, this is SCI-FI, violating the laws of physics as we understand them is part of the paradigm/ It wouldn't be Star Trek without coincidences or violations of the rules of physics, i.e. the unlikely and the impossible...

jon

Simply FANTASTIC!
My whole family enjoyed it... 8)

I will definitely buy it as soon as it hits the stores...

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My wife talked me into seeing Star Trek again yesterday with some of her co-workers. I had thought about seeing the film in IMAX but it appears that the local IMAX theater won't be showing it.

I listened to the dialog very carefully and my opinion of the plot still stands. Information from Star Trek: Countdown that would have made the plot far more logically coherent was not included.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_trek_countdown

If the blast wave from the star Hobus (which may or may not be the home world star of Romulus and Remus - it is said to be "nearby") traveled at superluminal velocity, this is just more bad, make that really bad, astrophysics. Since the Romulans and the Federation knew that the star was a threat, why didn't the Romulans begin an evacuation?

The connection between future Nero, the Narada (his Borg technology enhanced mining ship), Ambassador Spock, the Vulcan Science Academy, and the Federation should have been mentioned, if only briefly, IMO.

I won't even go into why a planet in the Vulcan system (40 Eridani A) would be called Delta Vega (anyone remember Delta Vega from TOS?), other than to mention that the name was chosen merely as an "easter egg".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_egg_(media)

Dave Mitsky

I saw it with the wife Tuesday discount night for $5.50. I guess I got my money's worth. They did spend some money to set up this Star Trek mill.

From my understanding William Shatner was devastated that he was left out of this one. As erratic as the plot was they certainly could have worked him in somewhere. Oh well, we will see him in number two and if not then in Star Trek 7 when they will need to restimulate interest. Mommy, please tell me another Star Trek story.

I found this pretty amusing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02LgdXVkXgM&feature=dir

Dave Mitsky

I had the opportunity to skim through Alan Dean Foster's novelization of Star Trek last week. The book explained some of the shaky parts of the plot somewhat better and ended with a great flourish that didn't appear in the film.

http://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Movie-Tie-Foster/dp/143915886X

Yesterday, I read the rather expensive graphic novel Star Trek Countdown, which tied together the pre-time travel events involving Ambassador Spock, Nero, Ambassador Picard, Captain Data, General Worf, and Geordi La Forge in a logical and believable manner. I wish that the movie would have incorporated more of this backstory in its plot.

http://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Countdown-J-Abrams/dp/1600104207/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244652817&sr=1-1

Dave Mitsky