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People either really loved or really hated the new StarTrek movie by J.J. They claimed he either saved the saga or destroyed it. I’m obviously not going to settle it here. You know what, why not, I’ll settle it here right now. He did neither. Nobody can destroy the franchise with a single crappy movie – and I’m not claiming the movie is crappy, it’s a hypothetical statement. I mean look at all the previous crappy star trek movies, in particular Insurrection. There actually wasn’t much good star trek at all after the original series.  TNG came close some times, but it didn’t have the same mystery and battle strategy.

The star trek movie was great!  I would see it again happily.  I loved the action, and I loved the look, and most of all I loved the characters. I never thought people could replace the original cast, but these actors are incredible.  I easily believed they are who they play, and I grew up on startrek the original series (I’m not that old, I saw it in syndication).   And some serious events happen to make every star trek fan go into a shock, if they had the time to realize how permanent they are.  That’s the problem with time-travel – yes – again.

Did I mention there is time travel again?  Enterprise the series was so bad at the beginning because of all that time travel, as if there weren’t enough stories to tell otherwise.   The movie didn’t break form there. It did however dispense with any remaining logic, while remaining loyal to some star trek guidelines.   I would forgive bad science – and there’s a lot of it in the movie – from needing to embed black holes in the middle of planets to free fall from space.  It’s worth it for the action.  But mostly I’d forgive it since most star trek science is bad.  I was like you once and believed it was the future, because they had those cool disks our before the real disks were out, but it’s just silly.   Transporters, humanoid aliens, instantaneous warp driven by some rare diamonds, subspace, stop in a second, reverse or turn immediately.  I’m not saying they aren’t trying to talk to scientists, just that most of it is rubbish anyhow – not to mention close proximity lasers/phasers and slow ass photon torpedoes, phased cloaking shields that somehow disable firing and some weird energy shields  - it makes for nice TV anyhow.

No, my major problem with the movie was the story.  It was nice in the parts where it related Kirk’s history to what we know from the series and movies.   However, there was no strategy involved except in a very limited degree.   The villian, he had no real purpose other than destroy everything in revenge for something that hasn’t really happened yet (and presumably he can alter).  He had no strategy, no cunning.  About what I would expect from the Incredible Hulk.  Kirk was almost as bad, wanting to just go to action and improvise.  Where I would beam half my ship to fight the enemy, he decided to go alone with spock, the most stupid tactical decision possible.   He didn’t even take red shirts with him.  Why oh why didn’t JJ kill some red shirts?  Would have made the movie so much better for me!   He didn’t even threaten with his Cobermite device – Kirk always threatens with it when he has no weapon to fight with and it always works.

Other than that, the movie is really entertaining, more so when the enemy is unknown, which is always the case in the original series, and what made it special – along with the tactics.

The purpose of this post: for the next star trek I would like to see David Weber (Saganami Island Series) writing and Josh Whedon (Firefly/Serenity) directing.   Between the two of them Spock will turn into a sexy Borg, while Kirk will go on to annihilate the federation fleet against the Q continuum.

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