I state this now: I've never been much of a fan of Star Trek and I always assumed that, unless you've seen it from the beginning, the whole story just won't ever make that much sense. And it didn't to me and I never made any effort to trying and watch through the countless number of episodes across all of the different series.Despite that, I have seen a few of the old movies (including the not-so-old-yet-not-so-new movies such as Star Trek: Generations and Star Trek: Nemesis). I've honestly liked those movies better then trying to pick up on the TV shows.
Cutting a long, drawn out story here that will likely bore the world to tears, I got curious when I heard this new movie would be a reboot.
And boy was it ever...
As I had told my girlfriend countless times after the movie was over, what I loved so much about the movie was the attention to detail and the fact that the characters felt real. Real as in they had emotions and thoughts and everything, rather then just being a bunch of people on a space ship. What was cool to me was getting to see how each of the crew got to be in the position they would end up being in for a very, very long time.
The movie itself had a fair amount of action to it and it was something to see such a big cast of well known (or at least people I ended up recognizing) in one movie (Karl Urban, Eric Bana, Simon Pegg and Winona Ryder, to name a few). It was like watching a sci-fi version of Ocean's Eleven!
Funny thing that came to my mind as the credits began to roll: Isn't it sad, despite the fact that all of these characters had such powerful personalities, they would all end up losing that as the characters grew older? Then again, considering how the movie panned out, maybe their lost of character would ultimately be avoided?
One can only hope...
PS: Best way for me to confuse myself with this odd little ditty: It was strange to see Slyar, posing as Spock, meeting Spock and having a conversation about life, feelings and all that jazz. How strange it would have to be to just walk into a place and see yourself standing there? Damn those space and time paradoxes!
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I am a hard core original series trekkie and I really enjoyed the new reboot. I had to watch it twice to determine how I felt about it, though. After I watched it the first time, I was over-analyzing it. The second time I just watched it instead of picking apart every little detail. That's when I figured out that I liked it. I think they did an excellent job creating characters that work well together. They had good chemistry. Just like Shatner, Nimoy, and Kelley. ^_^
Did you read about what William Shatner's role in the movie would have been? He would have appeared as a hologram, which old Spock was to show young Spock in a way to convince him that he needed the friendship with Kirk.
Maybe it was just me, but when Spock talked about Kirk, it reminded me of Sam and Frodo... *shivers*
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