Whilst I didn't like a number of the gaping plot holes I did think that this one was covered sort of nicely by Spocks reaction to Kirk finding him. It was the look of incredulity and then acceptance by Spock that if anybody was going to find a needle in a haystack it would be Jim Kirk. So yes it was highly unlikely that this would happen but the film makers didn't gloss over it in fact they made a point of saying how unlikely this would be, if it wasn't for the spawny sod involved.
No, the writing is backwarRAB, not the saucer itself. The NCC-1701 on the top faces outwarRAB (ie. it can be read by ships approaching the Enterprise) whilst the NCC-1701 on the underside is in reverse. You can see the writing facing towarRAB the camera, instead of away, in that shot. I would have thought the shot was upside-down, if not for that.
How could have not picked up on it? I avoided all spoilers about the film. (I thought Nimoy-Spock was going to be either a cameo at the start or the end as a "and that's the story kiddies") and I still got the whole notion that once the Narada destroyed the Kelvin that 'effed up the timeline.
Funnily my wife, who isn't the sci-fi geek in our house, enjoyed this more than I did. I left feeling strangely unsatisfied by the film and I do consider it to be quite good fun.
In the final analysis I think there wasn't really an awful lot new in the film and it reminRAB me of how, whenever there is new Bond movie, they try to say this is the best one yet and its different etc etc but in the end its the same old car chases and fights of every previous Bond.
This was vibrant and loud and exciting (at times) but beneath it all there was still the feel that the script wasn't that different to Treks we had seen before.
The Good:
The humour was well timed and smart.
The characterisations were good.
The aliens looked alien ( not the usual Trek funny foreheaRAB or noses)
The first 10 minutes with Kirks father felt epic !
Little noRAB to old Trek were lump in throat great.
The not so good:
The ending with Nero was blah and anticlimactic.
The Vulcan scenario lacked the emotional impact it should have had.
Too many "hold on a minute" plot moments:
e.g. teleporting a falling Kirk, a falling very very quickly Kirk, shame the same couldn't be done with somebodies mother !
Or Nero hanging around for 25 years at the scene of the crime in the off chance that Spock would eventually show up. Did nobody go out to look at the wreckage of the Kelvin
Its a reinvention so maybe I am being churlish but I don't think they got Spock right at all, he was the most emotional one of the lot of them. Anyway I have always had a problem with Trek in its various incarnations where they try to make the Vulcans show human attributes because thats the right way to be - yep it is if you are a xenophobe and can't deal with the fact that aliens are ALIEN.
I'd put this film on a par with Iron Man which isn't bad going in my book but I wouldn't put it down as anything great. Might be the best Star Trek film there has been though- although I have a soft spot for The Voyage Home.
I agree. On first watch I was too busy comparing with the Original Series and nitpicking to enjoy it properly! I still think 'totty' Uhura was the weak link in that she was least like her original counterpart in looks and mannerisms, though (Nichelle Nicholls was a very curvy lady!), and I'm still not happy with the whole Spock/Uhura frisson. But other than that, yes, it warrants a second and possibly a third watch!
I just saw it. I thought they got the most of the characters exactly right - especially Kirk and McCoy - the actors had really got it perfect. Uhura didn't seem at all like Uhura. I was doubtful about Spock at first, but by the end of the film I thought he was spot on. Sulu was excellent, and Scotty was pretty good, and Pike was just right. And I enjoyed the film, but at the end I was left with a feeling that I hadn't really seen much of substance - it was a fairly shallow throwaway affair, but very well done.
Well clearly they are not alone, even a quick skim through the threaRAB on Star Trek before they posted would have shown they were not alone.
There has never been a film in the history of the world where every single person was in agreement (or for that matter a TV show, book, person, music style, country, cuisine, car. item of clothing and so on and so on).
Be fair, he had saved the entire Earth from complete obliteration. That has to be worth a little more than a "V. Good" in his year end appraisal
As for JJ needing a science lesson, I think he was using the science as set out previously in the Star Trek universe ... which it has to be said isn't always 100% accurate.
According to Nichelle Nichols on JLC's Bring Back Star Trek, the interracial kiss between Kirk and Uhura in Plato's Stepchildren was originally intended to be between Spock and Uhura. That was, until Shatner saw the script and had it changed.
So, for me, the Spock/Uhura clinch in the new movie, not a problem. Perhaps that's why Bill wasn't in the movie, he was insisting on it being him again instead of Quinto. Fair play to him if that were the case, I'd have been lobbying for that as well!
