Space, The Final Frontier
Here is my review of the new Star Trek movie: Go see it.
There are a few caveats to my review.
1) You must like movies.
2) You must be breathing.
3) While you don't have to even like Star Trek to enjoy this film, hating Star Trek prior to viewing may impact your viewing pleasure.
It's fun. It's action packed. It's the best Trek movie ever.
On a related note. I just happen to be the proud owner of some actual, authentic, NASA Apollo and Skylab food and food containers. Actual (non flown) artifacts from our nation's space exploring history. For those that know, I have a little collection of space related items and these new items will be proudly displayed. Pix to follow. Warning: 40 year old freeze dried food is not appetizing to look at. You've been warned...
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Pics from the primere: http://radruss.com/?p=1026
My review: Spoilers ahead.
I will finally bite the bullet and give my review for the new J.J. Abrams ‘Star Trek’ movie. Let me start by giving it 7 out of 10 stars, or 3 out of 5 stars or 1 ½ thumbs up. It wasn’t the best movie I have seen in awhile. It’s better that “Wolverine” for sure. I thought “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” was better - and I have been a Trek fan since I was born.
The movie was slick. It was spectacular. It was funny. It was action-packed. It was also almost - not really - true to the original series television show and all-encompassing Star Trek lore - to a point.
The film is far from perfect. I have not seen very many poor reviews. This is far from a poor review. I am just pointing out what bothered me. And it was a lot to be honest.
I was majorly disappointed with the gross changes to the timeline and ‘canon’ universe. The changes are, of course, blamed on the age-old “alternate universe /time travel/new timeline” excuse. It’s a copout. It changes everything. Trek is notorious for altering the timeline, even with the Prime Directive.
Ambassador Old Spock violated the Prime Directive more horrendously than Captain Janeway did on “Voyager” by giving Scotty the calculations for a transwarp transporter. What will that knowledge do to the Trek universe? No more starships because you can just beam everywhere? Bah!
Old Spock also, from what I gathered, gave young Spock the advice/permission to be emotional. Does this mean Spock will embrace his human-side in upcoming films and be all angry and poignant and cry-baby and non-Vulcan? Wasn’t that done in “The Next Generation” with the android Data reference his emotion chip? Will we at least see some nasty Uhura-on-Spock lover action in the future? What was that all about? Spock, with a click of his PADD, can change crew assignments based solely on his “getting some?” Stupid.
The entire planet Vulcan is now gone and the Vulcan’s are endangered species. Spock’s mother is dead.
This new origin story pretty much wipes out all of the television shows/movies that happened in the past. Now it’s ‘anything goes.’ It’s a copout. This movie erases ALL of the past in my opinion. How can Spock die in Star Trek II and have his katra, the immortal, living spirit of a Vulcan, returned to his body in Star Trek III, on Vulcan, if the planet is destroyed? If Spock were an endangered, cry-baby Vulcan, would he have even sacrificed his life in Star Trek II? Shouldn’t Ambassador/Old Spock have been erased from existence and not be in this version of history? I can go on and on. A PARADOX! Doc Brown would freak.
The movie was slick. It was spectacular. It was funny. It was action-packed. It’s a new, different Star Trek universe now and I am not sure I like it. I hope they correct this heinousness in the next movie. I doubt it though.
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