Star Trek movie

I saw the Star Trek prequel with my brother over the holiday weekend. I enjoyed it quite a bit. Some nice twists on the original, but including the requisite throwbacks: "I'm a doctor, Jim, not a physicist."

"I'm givin' ya all she's got, Captain!"
That was a good one too. I thoroughly enjoyed the movie.

Spock bumping uglies with Uhura was not an approved change. Grrrr.

Pie;569447 wrote:

Spock bumping uglies with Uhura was not an approved change. Grrrr.

It was, in fact, highly illogical. [COLOR=slategray]Sorry, had to do it.[/COLOR] :blush:

Otherwise, an outstanding movie with excellent casting. Young Spock was perfect. Chekov and Scotty were great also. They managed to squeek in a scene where Chekov's inability to pronounce the letter V created comic relief and a nod to the real geeks who remember that.

The guy in red on the "away" team is killed. Perfect!

And Sulu isn't Japanese this time; he's Korean. But you know, us Asians, we all look the same. :rolleyes:

It's a two-edged sword (speaking of Sulu). When people know enough Asians to differentiate, you'll cease to be 'exotic'.

Although, to be fair, Roddenberry wanted Sulu to be "pan-Asian"

George Takei recalled Gene Roddenberry wanted the character to represent all of Asia, which symbolized the peace of the Trek universe in spite of the numerous wars in the continent. Roddenberry did not want a nationally specific surname, so he looked at a map and saw the Sulu Sea. "He thought, 'Ah, the waters of that sea touch all shores'," the actor recalled, "and that's how my character came to have the name Sulu."

He didn't end up with the more-clearly Japanese given name till ST:VI.

Finally saw it last weekend, and speaking as a Trekkie since the show originally ran on TV when I was a lad, I enjoyed it thoroughly and have zero problems with anything they did.

The whole notion Abrams came up with to portray Trek's universe and history as having changed because the new film begins on a different/parallel timeline was brilliant, and frees future films from the fetters of what we've known before. This allows new ideas to be built upon the framework and characters we know and love.

I wish I was that smart.

I have deliberately not read this thread since I am holding out on seeing Star Trek in Imax. I was hoping to see it down the shore in July, but it looks like the theatre will be switching to Transformers.:sniff:

If I can't see it in Imax, then I will wait to buy it used for $7. There is no way I'm going to pay $12 a ticket to see it in a regular theatre. It's IMAX or home video.

rl -- just make sure it isn't Imax Digital. :angry:

Elspode;571298 wrote:

The whole notion Abrams came up with to portray Trek's universe and history as having changed because the new film begins on a different/parallel timeline was brilliant, and frees future films from the fetters of what we've known before.

You mean they can boldly go ... where ... no ...

sorry.

Pie;571402 wrote:

rl -- just make sure it isn't Imax Digital. :angry:

Let me guess. Is "IMAX Digital" like digital zoom where optical clarity is faked using algorithms instead of truly being achieved through better optics or larger film stock?

regular.joe;569457 wrote:

The guy in red on the "away" team is killed. Perfect!

I saw the movie in a packed house--when the camera panned over to that guy, just about everyone in the theater groaned at the same time.

richlevy;571525 wrote:

Let me guess. Is "IMAX Digital" like digital zoom where optical clarity is faked using algorithms instead of truly being achieved through better optics or larger film stock?

I went on a bit of a rant over here. In short(!), the screen is not the towering seven-story monster of yore; it's a brazen rip-off.

Finally saw it last night. I loved it. Much better than I expected, and I expected it to be good.

I'll see it one of these days...
Just tell me - is the Pegg lovely?

Oh hang on, of course he is.
He's all I have to hold on to in a queasy universe where the Doctor is younger than I am.

He's very good in the role.

Sundae Girl;572517 wrote:

I'll see it one of these days...
Just tell me - is the Pegg lovely?

Oh hang on, of course he is.
He's all I have to hold on to in a queasy universe where the Doctor is younger than I am.

He's not younger than us. He's over 900 years old!

All that experience..... swoon

Overall, I liked it, but I had a few problems:

Scotty's sidekick.
The Galaxy Quest engine room design.
The destruction of a planet being visible - even huge - in the sky of another planet several minutes away at warp speed. There were plenty of forgivable science problems, but that wasn't one of them.

I would agree with you, HM, if Star Trek were science fiction. But it's not. It's space opera.

Scotty's sidekick was annoying, yes. But considering he only had like 45 seconds total of screen time, it was fine.

dar512;573379 wrote:

I would agree with you, HM, if Star Trek were science fiction. But it's not. It's space opera.

I forgave, even enjoyed, quite a bit of stuff for that reason. But I'm not a big fan of ewok/Jar Jar types even in space opera, and even Star Wars didn't have the destruction of Alderaan visible from Tattooine.

Well, they conveniently had The Force.... "I felt a great disturbance . . "