The star of the show has always been and should always be The Enterprise. Remember how you cried the first time you watched Kirk being forced to destroy her in The Search For Spock? More attention was needed to be paid to her and regretfully wasn’t. Also, the scene where Kirk pulls up on his “motorcycle” to see her being built suffers because she's barely recognizable behind all of that scaffolding. Fortunately the scene is so brief that it doesn't give you time to wonder about why a huge starship was being built on the ground instead of in space. Earth's gravity truly would’ve tested those engine and saucer section pylons to the limit and most likely beyond.
In conclusion, the movie, despite its flaws, is magnificent. I went in prepared to nitpick and hate it, but I applauded when the final credits came on. J.J. Abrams proved himself with this one, and it’d be a shame if they didn’t assign the inevitable sequel to him.
I think — no, I’m sure — that Gene Roddenberry is looking down from heaven and smiling.
Article comments
1 - Jet Gardner
One of my favorite movie reviews of all time is Opus from "Bloom County" who wrote a blistering and heartless review that completely trashed every aspect of a flick....
and then ended it with
"Well.... Maybe it wasn't THAT bad-but Lord it wasn't good!"
I think of that every time I write a review and try to make it balanced... :)
2 - Jet Gardner
This one wasn't balanced E.B.??
3 - Paul
worth seeing i think
4 - Jet Gardner
Absofuckinlootly-2 or three times Paul
5 - Jet Gardner
What irks me is that I was told to edit out Spock Prime's part of the movie, Young Spock's affair with Uhura, and the fact that the movie is about Spock Prime trying to save Earth from the Romulans because the article was too much of a spoiler.
6 - roger nowosielski
I still think the young Spock looks remarkably alike to the original.
What do you think of I, Robot, by the way? I thought it was a great movie.
7 - Jet Gardner
I didn't want to but I liked it a lot.
8 - Jet Gardner
In case you missed where the promised tribbles made an appearance, check out the scene where Kirk and Spock Prime meet Scotty for the first time.
9 - Jet Gardner
Perhaps with the large number of reviews Star Trek has had, we should start a new section just for them before we're all lost in the crowd?
10 - Jet Gardner
THEY FIXED FRESH COMMENTS! It's under that word "More" up there!
11 - Jet Gardner
According to MTV, Writer/producer Alex Kurtzman revealed that his favorite "Trek" secret is a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment from the scene where the Enterprise comes out of warp speed and into a battle above Vulcan. "When they arrive and all the debris is flying at the Enterprise, take a very close look at the debris," he explained, saying a cool Easter egg is in there. "You'll have to watch it on DVD, because it goes by very fast. But take a close look at what's floating in the debris."
12 - Pirate Spice
Seriously? You think Roddenberry is smiling upon this film? Gene Roddenberry was a pacifist, and deliberately kept the violence in Star Trek to a minimum when he had any kind of control over it. This travesty of a movie missed all of the major themes of Star Trek (y'know, things like moral dilemmas), and turned a beloved legacy into a popcorn film about explosions and fistfights. Roddenberry is turning in his grave right now.
13 - Jet Gardner
MSNBC: Astronaut to watch ‘Star Trek’ film in space-Mission Control uploaded new film to International Space Station.
LOS ANGELES - “Star Trek” really is going to the final frontier.
NASA astronaut Michael Barratt will watch the film while aboard the International Space Station, 220 miles above Earth, NASA said in a statement to Access Hollywood.
Paramount Pictures gave the film to NASA’s Mission Control in Houston, which uploaded it to the space station last week.
“I remember watching the original ‘Star Trek’ series and, like many of my NASA coworkers, was inspired by the idea of people from all nations coming together to explore space,” Barratt said in a statement to Access. “‘Star Trek’ blended adventure, discovery, intelligence and storytelling that assumes a positive future for humanity. The International Space Station is a real step in that direction, with many nations sharing in an adventure the world can be proud of.”
It won’t be the “Trek” franchise’s first appearance about the station. Former station astronaut Greg Chamitoff and his crewmates made viewings of the original series a weekly standby.
And NASA astronauts aren’t the only fans of the new film, which has earned high marks from audiences and critics alike " even President Barack Obama praised it in a recent interview.
“’Star Trek,’ we saw this weekend, which I thought was good,” he told Newsweek, raising his hand in a Vulcan salute. “Everybody was saying I was Spock, so I figured I should check it out.”