Star Trek movie

[ratcreature]

I went to see the new Star Trek movie last night: It was a lot of fun.

Admittedly the black hole plot didn't make much sense to me (I mean, is there now some sort of matter sucking anomaly near Earth in this universe? and why didn't anyone else on Vulcan at least try to shoot the giant drill to pieces that was doing something to their planet like they did on Earth later on?), but I liked their reboot approach in principle, and all the characters overall. I also enjoyed the comic relief thrown in, even the silly bits, like with Scotty and the small alien, Bones giving Kirk the faked illness/cures and Kirk's hand and tongue swell and such.

I'm not sure whether I like the destroyed Vulcan when it comes to a longterm impact on the Federation, but it certainly gave Spock even more angst potential. I liked the Spock/Uhura ship, though I agree with all the comments I've seen that wished she had gotten to do some more stuff besides being a romantic interest and awesome with languages in theory, though we never see much of that. Looking back I also agree with everyone on the lack of female characters in general, but while watching I had too much fun otherwise to be bothered much by it.

I've never been a huge TOS fan, having grown up with TNG as the Star Trek I watched as a kid, so I'm not attached to all the details of the characters and their histories, but I thought they did a great job with the characters.


So is there any fannish infrastructure for the rebooted Star Trek universe yet? Communities, newsletters, that kind of thing?

Comments

[idlerat]

The black hole gave new meaning to sucking plot hole. It was so JJ Abrams. At a less cosmic level, I was annoyed when they went into the atmosphere wearing nothing but space suits and didn't burn up.

[ratcreature]

Comic fandom taught me to fanwank on the fly, so I don't need real science or plausibility, and just assumed their space suits were some wonder material or something.

But I want some minimal consistency, and whatever space/time anomaly the "red matter" created sucked in stuff nearby (like Vulcan or the ship at the end), so that has to create problems. I mean, they were close to Earth, weren't they? Even if it doesn't grow and endangers Earth directly or something, it has to be hell on space travel down the line. Or maybe these things just conveniently collapse and vanish afterwards, and I missed that part? It's probably best not to think too much about this...

[idlerat]

I see what you mean - at least you can write in magic suit fabric, but there's nothing to hang magic black hole limiting on. Anyway that whole floating red ball was off of Alias - urg. I think he just did it to show Vulcan collapsing from inside.

[ratcreature]

Huh, I've never watched Alias. I thought that was some kind of spy story? How does that have red balls of destruction? Do I even want to know?

[idlerat]

It is, but it's krazy - there's crazy stuff on Bond, too, but Alias has that special JJ touch, which tends to be just whatever he thinks will seem whack, but never makes sense. It's the same with Lost, just this incoherent rambly string of things that seem freaky, with a sense of a mystery that will be uncovered but it never is. The red ball wasn't black hole stuff on Alias, it was some other kind of destruction. Various kinds, at various points - it kept reappearing in different seasons.

[ratcreature]

Ah. I think Star Trek is the first of his movies or series that I've actually watched. I'm not into Alias, Lost or Fringe or anything, so I'm not at all familiar with his style. Though I thought overall it was great fun, and didn't drag anywhere or had too much squeezed into it, so I can overlook random spherical red doom, I guess.

[liviapenn.livejournal.com]

I have found spock_uhura, startrek2009 and startrekfics so far... :D

[ratcreature]

Cool! I knew there had to be some already.

[liviapenn.livejournal.com]

Oh, and newtrekslash... although the moderator advertised the comm by posting a big spoiler outside a cut on the trek2009 community, sheesh.

eta: hm, my mistake, I don't think that was the mod, just a random person hyping the comm. Still! We're not even out of opening week yet! C'mon people!

[ratcreature]

Very true. At least this one opened here the same time as in the US. For Serenity I had to avoid spoilers for several months, even though I saw it on its opening day here in the very first showing. I managed to remain unspoiled, but that was due to a Mad Moody-like constant vigilance and a total avoidance of Firefly fandom. At first it wasn't so bad, because while it had premiered somewhere, it wasn't in US cinemas or something, but then after a few weeks some of my flist blithely assumed that everyone who cared about spoilers would have seen it already.

[beck-liz.livejournal.com]

Pssst. There's no "s" at the end of startrekfic. Just in case anyone was wondering why that link doesn't work. :-)

There's also st_reboot and trekfics.

[ratcreature]

Thanks for linking these.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_bettina_/]

I just liked that Uhura was much more present in this movie then she usually was in the original series/movies. I'm still not sure about Spock/Uhura.

[ratcreature]

It didn't exactly turn me into a Spock/Uhura shipper, but I liked them together in the movie.

[hugglewolf.livejournal.com]

Well, it's my birthday on Monday so me thinks I will just pad off to see it. Been thinking about it, then someone said it was rubbish, but if it gets the rat!stamp of approval then I'm in.

But, uh...Spock/Uhura? Mmmm.

[ratcreature]

All posts I've seen about it were mostly squeeful, though admittedly I don't hang out in hardcore trekkie circles, and several people disliked one thing or another in the movie even if their verdict overall was positive. IMO it's definitely worth watching.

The Spock/Uhura came a bit out of the blue, but it worked for me. There were lots of slashy vibes too.