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

[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.