Star Trek

FaLLGuY · Post by **FaLLGuY** » Sun May 03, 2009 10:49 am

Large popcorn and Coke for next Saturday.......

This movie is going to be sweet.

Post by **XMEN Gambit** » Sun May 03, 2009 4:14 pm

I'm hoping so. Check out the stills of the Enterprise.

One thing it's not, and that's canon. Be interesting to see what happens to Trekkies/Trekkers now.

XMEN Iceman · Post by **XMEN Iceman** » Mon May 04, 2009 4:56 pm

Yep, gonna go too.

TimberWolf · Post by **TimberWolf** » Mon May 04, 2009 6:59 pm

I may have time to see it this weekend. Cant this week as I've been tossed onto some projects with deadlines looming and will have to pull some over time.

Post by **XMEN Gambit** » Mon May 04, 2009 8:03 pm

If you've not seen this yet, the aforementioned still shot. I think it says a lot:

X Rogue · Post by **X Rogue** » Thu May 07, 2009 11:46 am

I dunno, I think the new Enterprise looks a little....squished or something.

Post by **XMEN Gambit** » Sat May 09, 2009 1:23 pm

We just got back from the early matinee. We liked it.

Abrams goal was to make Trek a little more approachable for the young 'uns. And I'd say he's done it. Lots of action, worked in a lot of old references (sometimes a bit contrived). Personally I don't think the Enterprise herself got enough screen time a la TWOK, but I'll forgive him this time.

I think the ship is nifty.

Plot's a bit weak but hardly the worst I've seen in a Trek film. They changed the past, so this supposedly excuses some of the variations from canon. Gobbledegook is bad (again hardly the worst) and there's a few obvious factual flaws (Saturn's rings do NOT have a magnetic field, sorry!) I liked Captain Pike. Not so much the Romulan baddies. Spock's probably a little too human, but acceptable. The thing with Uhura... not so much for me.

Overall I guess I'd grade it a B+ but as always YMMV.

FaLLGuY · Post by **FaLLGuY** » Sat May 09, 2009 10:04 pm

Just got back from movie I liked it too. The time altered thingy will make it so they can do more movies with different stories...Me thinks??

Witch will be cool.

Post by **XMEN Gambit** » Sun May 10, 2009 11:59 am

FaLLGuY wrote:The time altered thingy will make it so they can do more movies with different stories...Me thinks??

Definitely is what that's for. And it leaves almost all of the original situations from the old series there for them to play off of if they choose. Nomad, V'ger, Apollo, Trelane, McCoy's rare disease, Spock's pon farr, Guardian of Forever, not to mention Khan from the episode Space Seed. The planet eater, the flying pizzas from Operation: Annihilate (which killed Kirk's older brother Sam), the Horta, just bunches of stuff.

Some things they'd probably have to do differently would include the giant ameoba-thing that got the Intrepid (The all-Vulcan starship). Undoubtedly there'd be changes in Amok Time.

Hmm. I babble. Will stop now.

X Rogue · Post by **X Rogue** » Mon May 11, 2009 11:18 am

High time. :p

No, really, it'll be interesting to see how they play this.