Comments on: Star Trek – Review

By: M-Dub

M-Dub — Mon, 18 May 2009 01:11:27 +0000

I so want to see this, but I will wait until the fervor dies down a bit!

By: Tam

Tam — Fri, 15 May 2009 21:39:12 +0000

Awww Nico. That’s sad, funny but sad. I grew up somewhere like that. Now in the big city we get ALL the movies. Only one tiny reason I’d rather slit my wrists than move back there.

By: M. Nicodemus

M. Nicodemus — Fri, 15 May 2009 21:10:29 +0000

Arrgghhh! This is one of the few negatives about life in a small town; we only get one movie a week and it only has two showings. This week is “17 Again,” and we most likely won’t get Star Trek until we can borrow the used film reel from a village in Uganda. Sigh… no Spoilery Puntabulous for me today.

By: andrew j

andrew j — Fri, 15 May 2009 20:45:18 +0000

P.S. Chris Pine is my new Imaginary Boyfriend, and Karl Urban’s Bones was pitch-perfect. I hope the next movie gives him more meat to work with than one-liners and comic relief…

By: andrew j

andrew j — Fri, 15 May 2009 20:40:37 +0000

Man, was I rooting for this movie (still am), but as entertained as I was, and as incredible as the entire cast is, I can’t help but dwell on my nagging disappointment with the overall story–its overall development, the lack of (on-screen) character development for Nero, and the alternative universe reboot concept.

A real saving grace for me was having read the comic book prequel before seeing the movie. I LOVE the comic’s tie-in to existing TNG continuity, and of course if we’ll never get Picard, Worf, and Data on the big screen again, it was nice to visit with them one last time. But better than that, I found the comic’s story involving Spock, Nero, and Romulus very high-stakes, tragic, and compelling. There’s so little compelling about Nero looking at him in the film without knowledge of the comic’s backstory (but he sure yells a lot and looks scary with this Mike Tyson tattoos!).

Beyond this nag, though, is that I keep hearing how “epic” and bold this new trek is. Well, I say, not bold enough. I mean, it’s ballsy to destroy Vulcan — but not ballsy enough. If they’ve gone through the trouble of constructing a story to preserve existing Trek canon by bending over backwards to give us Spock Prime and this alternate timeline, then why not have Nero destroy Earth, too. (Or instead? Or *almost* destroy it by decimating millions? Not too sure). Then this “new Trek” could really forge new ground by exploring the Human condition and our beloved and familiar characters in a more radically altered and truly unknown future (past?). I realize that sounds crazy (and perhaps a bit too Battlestar-inspired), but we’ve already grown up with Jim and Spock and Bones through some great adventures that help define who they are. If we’re going to continue to revisit these great characters as their younger selves, then let’s put them somewhere truly new and different for the audience (old Trek audience and “new” alike!) As a long time Trek fan (and perhaps slave to continuity), I worry about the ongoing adventures here becoming all about these characters we love playing around in Explosive CGI Action Sequel after Action Sequel and losing the signature stamp of what Star Trek is about, which does include its rich, well established “history” (and was never shy about social commentary…)

Ugg! I think I’m the lone naysayer in these comments! But I criticize because I love….

By: Enrico

Enrico — Fri, 15 May 2009 20:39:24 +0000

I loved the movie! It was the first Star Trek movie I’ve seen (and the only series I watched was Voyager), so I can’t say how well it handled the past movies/series. But I thought it had an excellent cast and pacing and action.
I loved the black girl! (Was her relationship also in the original series?)

And as for Star Wars vs. Star Trek, I guess I can’t make a fair judgment call yet, but I like this Star Trek movie better than all of the Star Wars movies.

By: The Ryan with the Cupcake

The Ryan with the Cupcake — Fri, 15 May 2009 20:07:22 +0000

Craig: Star Wars has prequels? I’m pretty sure I would remember if that had ever actually happened.

I think the Darths & Droids plot makes a lot more sense:
http://www.darthsanddroids.net/

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 15 May 2009 19:05:43 +0000

Health: I haven’t heard from any non-Trek friends yet, but I think they would like it also. I’m trying to convince as many people as I can to go see it.

Nicolle: I was a little put off by his insistence on letting us all know he wasn’t a fan of Trek also, but I think you’re right in thinking it needed a fresh perspective to get it right. You could almost tell he was a fan of the classic Star Wars instead. This was what the prequels should have been.

By: Nicolle

Nicolle — Fri, 15 May 2009 18:06:47 +0000

I really liked this movie (especially Karl Urban as McCoy)–although I enjoyed it more the second time around. As a die-hard ST fan since The Wrath of Khan, I confess I was a little put-off the first time around by JJ Abrams’ messing with the timeline. Especially because he keeps saying in interviews that he was not a fan of the original show, I sort-of felt that he had a lot of nerve changing things. But I got over that by the second time around. Maybe it needed to be a non-fan with a fresh perspective to give the ST universe a jump-start. I think it’s a Vulcan proverb that says “Only Nixon could go to China”.

By: Heath Buckmaster

Heath Buckmaster — Fri, 15 May 2009 18:04:50 +0000

I was lucky enough to see it at midnight on opening day (for free even), and I absolutely LOVED it.

I love the reinvention of the lore, I love learning more about the characters pasts, and I can’t wait for the next in the series (let’s hope they keep it going!!).

I’ve also heard from people who weren’t star trek fans, and they loved it as well.