Star Trek

I did think that point myself. I would have expected that Vulcans would have had enough colonies around for there to have been a whole lot more of them left than 10,000.

But then if the movie says there's only 10,000 left, I can accept that. After all, if its said on screen, than makes it canon.
 
Actually, I quite liked that. Nero wasn't a hugely evil cheesy bad guy. He was a normal guy among a crew of normal guys who did something terribly evil in revenge for what he saw as the evils done to his people. Sometimes you don't need a Space Hitler. Sometimes you just need a miner with a grudge and some red CGI goop.
 
Thanks to those that answered my puzzling question. Appreciated.

Some cool little things in this movie. For example, I thought the bit where Spock gets in the turbolift in Engineering(?) and then just a second later steps out onto the bridge in one fluid take was really good. Turbolift indeed.
 
I just caught this last night and was blown away by it. I'm a so-so fan of Star Trek, but this movie stanRAB alone as great adventure story.

Personally I thought it was flawless, Abrams' nailed the casting.

DVD will be purchased as soon as it comes out, loved it as much as Dark Knight.
 
Whilst that might fit neatly into an ultra-realistic TV program like BSG, it's not right for ST. You need a larger-than-life bad guy to ballance the larger-than-life hero(s). Normal guys are, by definition, normal and therefore borring.
 
2012:cry:

And to make it even worse, they were going to publish some movie tie in books thisn summer which might have kept us busy until the next movie release. But they have been postponed and they have not given a date for when they will be released.
 
That was another point that bothered me...apart from the total sacrifice of plot for action.

My previous post seems to have confused some people. I never said that Star Trek was not in need of being reinvigorated. However, the whole point that I made was that a reinvigoration could have been achieved with a coherent plot as well as impressive action, which is what was accomplished in Casino Royale.

I can't help but feel that whilst Casino Royale secured the mid to long-term future of Bond, this film has secured the mid-term future of Star Trek (it is clear that there will be a sequel or sequels), but it has also secured the long-term demise of Trek owing to its lack of depth.
 
Then watch the TV series on which it is based, Firefly, then agree that Joss Whedon just ripped of Blakes 7.

Thank the lord the new Trek film was not just another Braga Berman snorefest.
 
I saw this at the weekend and thought it was great. I'm not a Star Trek fan tbh and although I watched the films years ago I can't remember a lot of it. But this seemed to have everything, which for me was a great suprise, there were bits that made me laugh, bits that made me want to cry and lots of action and good casting.
 
Did you not watch the film or get the point?
If you had then you would realise that it does 'invalidate' everything else, merely because the time line has been quite substantially changed by the events in this film.

Im not sorry im a die hard fan although i found some stories better than others, but i just think its a stupid premise on which to set one film by rubbishing its fan base and history, thats 'patently absurd'.

I think the best solution is what has already been suggested and that was to use a different ship and crew.

What the hell are you on about with regarRAB to Voyager?
I think you have missed to point with that and mixed it up with what im saying about the new film. When Janeway was 'medderling' with time lines it was 'future' events for the crew and the viewers she was interfering with, future events that we have not seen nor had a series written about, thats the fundemental difference.




I didnt say i didnt 'like' it i said i felt cheated by the premise of the plot. It may be just a movie to you but you cant deny that star trek has an historical place in the 20th century of tv and film culture, which has now been totally rubbished.
 
I wasn't too impressed with this film. Most of the new actors did a good job but the plot was too simplistic & boring, that Nero guy was a cardboard cut-out.....and Spock/Uhura?! :eek:
 
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