Yes, I am a trekkie. I know it's hard to tell, but you can spot the tell tale signs if you look hard enough...
Anyways, I saw the new reboot of Star Trek a few weeks ago, not on opening weekend. I was lazy that day.
I wasn't terribly impressed by the first movie of the reboot series. That movie was more about Spock and setting the stage for the "alternate universe" in which this new Star Trek resides. Zach Quinto was fantastic as Mr. Spock. However, Kirk was lackluster. As we all know, Kirk makes Star Trek.
JJ Abrams redeemed himself with this movie. Kirk had a much more pronounced role. We started to see the Kirk that we all loved in the original series. He was young, brash, fiercely loyal, with an incorruptable sense of justice. He was a man's man. Every man wanted to be him. The audience could really put themselves in his shoes and relate to him.
Zach Quinto was again fantastic as Mr. Spock. His time was reduced but still played a prominent role in the movie. He was the cooler head that grounds Kirk's penchant to shoot first and ask questions later. His friendship with Kirk was developed further in this movie.
Dr. McCoy also had reduced screen time. His character suffered the most from Kirk's increased screen time. We did not see his character develop in any significant fashion. But that's just fine, as this movie is pretty much devoted to develop Kirk's character and their friendship.
We can skip Sulu and Chekov as they did not have prominent roles in this movie.
Simon Pegg's Mr. Scott was the comedian, something the original Mr. Scott wasn't. His role was not all that big but injected some humor into an otherwise fairly serious movie.
Since this movie has been out for a few weeks, I will assume people have either watched it already, or know enough about it that I won't spoil it by revealing critical plot information. But just in case you don't want me to ruin the movie for you, stop reading here!!!
SPOILER!!!
This movie was a tribute to Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. The character of Khan was discovered by the Enterprise in her deep space missing in the original movie. This movie explained it by way of Star Fleet intelligence looking for any tactical advantage against the Klingons and the Romulans in its top secret deep space missions. Instead of Kirk, it was Star Fleet spooks who found Khan and his people. They wanted to use Khan against the Romulans and Klingons in case of war. Of course Khan didn't like to be used, so he hatched a plan to retrieve all his people from Star Fleet, using Kirk, in order to start a new colony of super humans.
A new character was introduced, Dr. Marcus. Those of you who are familiar with Star Trek II would recall Kirk's son was also Dr. Marcus. That Dr. Marcus was not this Dr. Marcus, but her son. Yes, it looks like Kirk's baby mama will be a regular part of the movie. She became a part of his crew at the end of the movie.
/SPOILER!!!
I would give this movie a 9 out of 10. I was so satisfied with the treatment of the characters and the pace of this movie I would have given it a 10 out of 10. However there were some giant plotholes: photon torpedo from the neutral zone to the Klingon homeworld? need to capture Khan to use his super blood to save Kirk's life when there are 72 other super humans in stasis, waiting to be harvested? Enterprise hiding under water? These things just annoyed me to no end.
As a comparison, I would give the first Star Trek reboot a 6, maybe 7, out of 10. Time travel? Mystery Red Matter that can collapse an entire planet, but sits just fine in some weightless liquid? Kirk gets marooned on a planet which just happened to be where Scotty was stationed at? Zach Quinto single-handedly saved the first move from noisy mediocrity.
By the way, the law of Star Trek movies still holds: even numbered Star Trek movies are better than odd numbered Star Trek movies.
There is only one exception - Star Trek: Nemesis.
Anyways, I saw the new reboot of Star Trek a few weeks ago, not on opening weekend. I was lazy that day.
I wasn't terribly impressed by the first movie of the reboot series. That movie was more about Spock and setting the stage for the "alternate universe" in which this new Star Trek resides. Zach Quinto was fantastic as Mr. Spock. However, Kirk was lackluster. As we all know, Kirk makes Star Trek.
JJ Abrams redeemed himself with this movie. Kirk had a much more pronounced role. We started to see the Kirk that we all loved in the original series. He was young, brash, fiercely loyal, with an incorruptable sense of justice. He was a man's man. Every man wanted to be him. The audience could really put themselves in his shoes and relate to him.
Zach Quinto was again fantastic as Mr. Spock. His time was reduced but still played a prominent role in the movie. He was the cooler head that grounds Kirk's penchant to shoot first and ask questions later. His friendship with Kirk was developed further in this movie.
Dr. McCoy also had reduced screen time. His character suffered the most from Kirk's increased screen time. We did not see his character develop in any significant fashion. But that's just fine, as this movie is pretty much devoted to develop Kirk's character and their friendship.
We can skip Sulu and Chekov as they did not have prominent roles in this movie.
Simon Pegg's Mr. Scott was the comedian, something the original Mr. Scott wasn't. His role was not all that big but injected some humor into an otherwise fairly serious movie.
Since this movie has been out for a few weeks, I will assume people have either watched it already, or know enough about it that I won't spoil it by revealing critical plot information. But just in case you don't want me to ruin the movie for you, stop reading here!!!
SPOILER!!!
This movie was a tribute to Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. The character of Khan was discovered by the Enterprise in her deep space missing in the original movie. This movie explained it by way of Star Fleet intelligence looking for any tactical advantage against the Klingons and the Romulans in its top secret deep space missions. Instead of Kirk, it was Star Fleet spooks who found Khan and his people. They wanted to use Khan against the Romulans and Klingons in case of war. Of course Khan didn't like to be used, so he hatched a plan to retrieve all his people from Star Fleet, using Kirk, in order to start a new colony of super humans.
A new character was introduced, Dr. Marcus. Those of you who are familiar with Star Trek II would recall Kirk's son was also Dr. Marcus. That Dr. Marcus was not this Dr. Marcus, but her son. Yes, it looks like Kirk's baby mama will be a regular part of the movie. She became a part of his crew at the end of the movie.
/SPOILER!!!
I would give this movie a 9 out of 10. I was so satisfied with the treatment of the characters and the pace of this movie I would have given it a 10 out of 10. However there were some giant plotholes: photon torpedo from the neutral zone to the Klingon homeworld? need to capture Khan to use his super blood to save Kirk's life when there are 72 other super humans in stasis, waiting to be harvested? Enterprise hiding under water? These things just annoyed me to no end.
As a comparison, I would give the first Star Trek reboot a 6, maybe 7, out of 10. Time travel? Mystery Red Matter that can collapse an entire planet, but sits just fine in some weightless liquid? Kirk gets marooned on a planet which just happened to be where Scotty was stationed at? Zach Quinto single-handedly saved the first move from noisy mediocrity.
By the way, the law of Star Trek movies still holds: even numbered Star Trek movies are better than odd numbered Star Trek movies.
There is only one exception - Star Trek: Nemesis.
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