Star Trek

I’m with you on Kirk, I didn’t warm up to him, but I want to watch the movie again.

I also had trouble because my brain recognizes Spock as Sylar from Heroes so I keep expecting him to do something villanous. 🙄 😆

I’m evil, I was also more flabbergasted by the Spock/Uhura thing…whereas blowing up Vulcan seemed a very dramatic way of burning bridges and forever parting from the ‘old’ timeline. (Maybe I’m not as distraught as I should be, because both timelines exist in my head equally?)

Well, at least seeing the movie has got me rewatching season one OS episodes again! 😀

I’ve not seen it yet but I want to. I have a friend who lives near DC and he’s seen it at the IMAX at the National Air and Space Museum – Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center twice now. That’s where space shuttle Enterprise is on display.

I actually really liked it. Now they can take the stories to places they never could before. I’m not a Trekker but I am a nerd, love my sci fi/fantasy pics so I can appreciate how others were upset. But it is really, really, really annoying to have a bunch of guys sitting behind me in the theatre constantly going…”they would never have done that”…”that didn’t happen in the first series”…”that shouldn’t have happened”… I finally had to turn around and say, “What part of alternate reality don’t you boys understand?”. That finally shut them up though I could still hear them muttering quietly.

I do hope they explore Spock and Uhura relationship more. And I think time will temper Kirk’s wild side, and he did get a big dose of humility when Uhura kissed Spock on the transporter platform. And while they did destroy Vulcan, there are still survivors on other planets, Tuvoc could potentially be a progeny of one of those.

I kept comparing things to the way they were, but I still really liked it. I am ready to go back again. I get the impression that now that Kirk is captain he’ll settle down into the likeable womanizer we all know and love.

I started watching in the mid 70’s and not only did I go to conventions I worked some too. I got to meet a bunch of actors. Most of them were really nice. From the original show, the only ones I didn’t meet were Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelly; although I did hear Nimoy do a talk at one of the colleges. From Next Generation I believe I met them all, although meeting Patrick Stewart was kinda a passing thing. I am ashamed to say I am drawing a blank as to whom I met from DS9.

I guess with the kids screaming in the other room is killing some brain cells. Before what little is left of my mind, I had better go mediate.

Beth

By the time I got to see it the first time, I’d already been told by numerous customers that 1) they loved it, 2) they hated it, 3) I would love it, and 4) I would hate it. The MAIN thing that came through was that the movie was either bad because the story didn’t fit anywhere in the canon of Star Trek, or it was good IN SPITE of not fitting anywhere within the canon. And each person took pains to point out the major things that just couldn’t have happened.

When I sat down in the theatre, which was almost empty (last showing on Saturday), I was expecting the worst, but it only took a minute to realise that it was just a typical Star Trek alternate reality episode. You can do anything in an alternate reality episode, as long as you are internally consistent and have some clue that something happened to cause the rift.

But, in Jasmine’s words, “What part of alternate reality don’t you boys understand?” Well, clearly a whole bunch of Star Trek die-hards, who surely should know better, just simply didn’t grasp the “Alternate” part.

Anyway, I loved it. Kirk was a brat, but had redeemable qualities. Bones was Bones. Spock was Spock, Uhura was Uhura, and Scotty was Simon Pegg.

There were bits that I thought were over the top, or were played for humour without me finding them funny, but when we rounded up the family and all went to see it as a Mother’s Day treat, in a crowded theatre so I was able to follow the crowd’s mood, I pretty much thought the entire thing was perfect, at least within the constraints of having to have the same characters unite in this timeline as we are familiar with from the other. Simon Pegg even began to seem not entirely a caricature of a young and exuberant Scotty, but perhaps a young and exuberant Scotty himself.

I’m really hoping they do more movies. Ted, our son who has never previously shown any interest in Star Trek [“We brought him up wrong!” – Linda & Dave, May 2009] and who, whilst watching a few seconds of a TV documentary had to ask “Which one’s Spock?”, came out of the movie having enjoyed it thoroughly. He suggested it would make a good TV series, and that if they DID make a TV series of Star Trek, he’d definitely watch it.

Me too.

I remember reading about Randy Pausch getting a part in the movie. What a neat thing! 🙂

It’s fun when the audience emotes–there was someone who started clapping when Leonard Nimoy first made an appearance.

And yes, taking on something like that, which has been around so long and had a lot of a passionate fans, definitely takes courage!

I hope it makes enough he’s encouraged to do a sequel. It will be fun to dig deeper. 🙂