My thoughts on Star Trek…
First let me say that it was easily one of the most entertaining movies I’ve seen in a long time. I drank the whole thing in and had a smile on my face thoughout the viewing experience. I very much enjoyed the new cast and found myself shifting my mythic view of Jim Kirk from the bloated but beloved Shatner to this more appropriate young rebel of a Star Fleet Officer. This was easily the best Star Trek Film to Date.
But it was not The Dark Knight of Trek films, itself called The Godfather of Comic Book films. Star Trek was both Wildly entertaining and deeply imperfect.
The problems with the film can be found mostly in looking at the following:
*SPOILERS*
The Villain: Boring, lackluster and with no personality. Not even a shadow of other notable Trek Villains. And really… “Nero”?
The Villain’s ship: Mmmm…Nice and pointy, for no other reason than to be bad ass. This heavily armed…mining vessel? (or as Chekov says… vwessel)
The Villain’s motivation: See… he’s all crazy because his loved one died, right? So he’s going to destroy the federation. Cuz his wife died. In an event totally unrelated to the Federation. Oh, and his crew of “miners” as generally okay with that. And he’s really pissed at Old Spock…cuz he tried to save everyone. How bout that?
Old Spock. *sigh* Nimoy has forgotten how to play Spock. There was absolutely nothing Spocklike in his performance. Hell, Sylar was more Spockish than Nimoy, and he was getting Jungle Fever Action. Oh, and WTF was Spock doing with the Red Matter thing? No other currently practicing Scientists in the universe to say…”Dude! That’s my specialty! Go back to the Ambassador stuff before you hurt someone!”
Now, all that being said… there was far more fun, action and goodness than bad… which is a testament to just how good those other things are to override the utter crap of the above.
