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]

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.