Comments on: Star Trek review (5-9-09)

By: Jorda75

Jorda75 — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:16:30 +0000

I love when Spock gives that big speech on the bridge and is like “THIS IS A DIFFERENT TIME LINE! THINGS WILL BE DIFFERENT!” Loved this movie, thought it was really fun, exciting and well paced :)

By: pawcanada84

pawcanada84 — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:33:01 +0000

As a comic fan I've always been fond of the Alternative/"What If" universes. I like the concept behind Ultimate even if the majority of the comics aren't above meh and i feel the one DECENT series has wasted some of the potential (I LIKED Peter and Kitty as a couple. It offered something DIFFERENT than de-aged Peter and villains with slightly altered origins!).

Anyway tangent aside, I'm indifferent on Trek. I'm neither a huge fan nor anti it. I remember watching some of Next Generation as a kid and liked what I saw, but never got into it enough to become a Trekkie. However I really enjoyed the film. I felt making a "Star Trek Earth-B" opened the door to some possibly great new ideas for plotlines, which I hope to see more of in the future.

As for the film itself, I agree a lot with the nitpicks you mentioned, and hadn't considered others until now. However I was still entertained. I loved the fact the crew came together because they could each offer a unique skill to the team and I felt the acting was good. I hope we'll see a sequal and more soon.

By: psychokitty

psychokitty — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:42:59 +0000

True, I don't know the director so I wouldn't know if it's a style thing or not. Who knows. -shrug-

By: dennett316

dennett316 — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:45:52 +0000

Thing is though….why is there any lens flare in the first place? Most film makers go to great lengths to avoid it, yet there were shots in this film on the bridge and there was lens flare obscuring the view. What could possibly be bright enough on the bridge to create a lens flare? It was ridiculous and stuck out like a sore thumb whenever it was used.

I quite enjoyed the flick, it wasn't Wrath of Khan standard, but it wasn't Star Trek V bad either.

By: psychokitty

psychokitty — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:16:41 +0000

This movie is actually what made me curious to go watch the original series and I was surprised by how good it is, cheesy like you said, but good. I mean before this movie I had only seen one episode of the original series and that was tribble trouble. But beyond that and some well known quotes from the show I had absolutely no knowledge of anything. So I think this is actually a good thing, it invites younger generations to take a look at a classic show. Just like the new transformers movie, despite how bad that was, got me into watching the cartoons again. Or how the new Batman, Spider-man, and X-men movies made me want to go find the cartoons again and watch the series that I grew up with. I know I'm not an 70's/80's child so I don't have the same series as you might have had. I was a 90's kid, I grew up with Batman Beyond and X-men Evolution and Transformers Armada, not the originals. But that's kind of the point isn't it. All of these series get reinvented all the time and sometimes they don't always connect. But they invite more people in and possibly make them curious to watch the originals especially when they are done well and do the original justice. I mean just last night I watch the second Star Trek movie, Wrath of Khan, with my little brother who is thirteen and he liked it. Why? Because he saw the new movie first and it gave he basic knowledge of the series it was based off of. Enough to let him in enjoy the old movie.

Oh and a scenes where there is no lens flare off the top of my head:
1.Kirk and McCoy on the Starfleet campus talking about Kirk taking the test a third time.
2.Inside the Starfleet base on Delta Vega while talking with Scotty.
3.On Vulcan when Spock is saving the elders.
4.When young Kirk is driving the car down the dirt road and over the cliff.
5.Basically any scene that happens outside on a planet.

By: zenithl

zenithl — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:13:00 +0000

The only Voyager episode you claim to have seen is called Threshold. Yes, it doesn't get any worse than that. The writer of that garbage (Brannon Braga) actually openly disowned that episode. I wouldn't say that Voyager isn't still crap, but you had some amazingly tough luck that you picked one episode to see, and you saw the absolutely worst one.

As far as I know, while that episode is never explicitly stated to be non-canon (unlike ST5: Final Frontier, which was declared non-canon by Roddenberry himself), anything happened in it (lizard babies, warp 10 etc.) is never to be mentioned again anywhere else, ever.

By: zenithl

zenithl — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 10:13:00 +0000

By: maduce

maduce — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 15:56:38 +0000

The problem I had was with Nero's motivation for revenge. It wasn't as if Spock intentionally stalled so as to let Romulus get destroyed. He simply didn't make it in time!

By: Kris Donaldson

Kris Donaldson — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:48:30 +0000

Invertin has a point, the old timeline is still there going down a different fork. There are countless different timelines in trek anyway. The one where everyone is evil, the one where earth gets borgified, the one in the season finale where data and the series Enterprise are still around 25 years later. There`s even an episode of TNG where thousands of realities crash into each other, I dont remember fanboys going ape about that.

Besides I quite like the `selective amnesia` approach. I`ve been applying the same thing to the Terminator series since I made the mistake of watching Rise of the Machines (bile would have been more appropriate). Even though parts of Sarah Connor Chronicles entertained me, I still view it and anything after t2 as very well funded fan fic. Damn Mostow. My interest in Terminator chronology died a little after `talk to the hand`.

I used to be a low level trekkie when I was a kid. I liked DS9 and everything prior (though the old series reminds me of the old Batman series when I catch it now). Then Voyager spewed forth and kinda killed it for me. I never really bothered much with Enterprise. It just seemed like a bunch of mediocre stories that contradicted later events and never had much of a moral to them. I just hoped they`d let it die with what dignity it had left after that.

I liked this one, but I hope it doesnt give them license to run it into the ground again. There`s a sequel coming already though, so I guess we`ll just have to wait and see.

By: Garth's Brownie Girl

Garth's Brownie Girl — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 06:27:39 +0000

Oh, man… I went to see this movie with my siblings on this day, and when we came back from the theater we found out that our Grandfather had died. D: That kinda scarred the memories of this movie for me.