New Trek film

[Mikey]

One credit I will give to me liking the new Trek movie goes to New Voyages.

New Voyages was crude but it got me partially accepting a new cast playing the old crew without it being a comedy sketch.

[Mikey]

I hate the new movie. The reason I hate it is because it takes the entire trek universe and flushes it down the toilet.

Like someone said in a earlier post they could have taken the move and placed it somewhere down the trek time line and it would have been better.

I agree they could have done that, but i'm glad they didn't.

The whole trick of this movie was a reboot of the Classic Series -- aka Trek's blue chip stock.

If they would have set it in another timeline it would have been Next Generation with a different crew - nobody wants that.

The fans want to see James T. Kirk ... and I have to admit, the CHiPs sarge son guy (I forgot his name) did a hell of a good job as Kirk

[Earth 2 Chris]

Yeah, Chris Pine pulled it off. Everyone was all about Quinto going in, but Pine had the movie on HIS shoulders, and he made it work. If those two hadn't worked on screen, no script or direction, good or bad could have salvaged it. They both did admirable jobs.

Chris

[Sideshow Spock]

I hate the new movie. The reason I hate it is because it takes the entire trek universe and flushes it down the toilet.

How so? All the events in the "new" (more than a year old ) movie take place in an alternate timeline. The original one still exists just as you knew it.

[jds1911a1]

Mike, you dissapoint me. This from the person who started the thread, "J.J. Abrams the Idiot Circus Boy and His New Toy!" before the film even came out? The end of an era, really...

My brother still keeps trying to make me sit through it I got board after 20min and turned it off. maybe I'll get around to it when there isn't any thing better for me to put on ....sometime in 2012 maybe

[bizzaro megomauler]

My brother still keeps trying to make me sit through it I got board after 20min and turned it off. maybe I'll get around to it when there isn't any thing better for me to put on ....sometime in 2012 maybe

I am a total Trek purist, and with the explaination offered, I fully accept AND enjoy this reboot of sorts.

[Trappy Trek Freak]

I LOVE the new Star Trek! I think they should have showed the Romulans shaving their heads and tattooing their faces, it's supposed to be the names of the loved ones they lost. I really liked Kirk and I think he nailed it. I especially like the green chick scene just like Eddie Murphy said Kirk was so smooth he could get green women. McCoy was awesome and Spock looked so much like Young Nimoy it was crazy. I wished Ray Liota would have been Pike instead of the guy from Double Jeopardy. I liked George Kirk and the battle scenes were so intense. My friends Hate Star Trek but when they all saw the movie they Loved it as much as I did. The young Kirk Corvette scene was awesome too. And Uhura, smoking Hot! How could you not like the new Trek movie? I swear since Harold is Sulu, there was a scene where it showed Kumar in a blue shirt on the bridge for a second, but Kal Penn is not credited. And hey the redshirt always dies on the away team. Next movie I hope to see Klingons or a revamp of Space Seed!

[Captain]

The new film was ok, but its what I like to call "superficial Trek". The direction they chose really cast aside a lot of the background..the meat...of what made the characters so believable...and/or enjoyable in the original.

I know they had to modify some things...I'm ok with that...but stuff like throwing Jimmy T in the big chair after only three or four years in the academy is insane. Everything was too contrived, when it didnt need to be.

I have other issues too, but I guess looking at the big picture, I would rather have a half assed redo of Classic Trek, than any of the other non classic crewed films and series we have gotten over the years. Besides, after another two or three films, somebody else will be rebooting the whole thing over again anyways.

[trekman101]

I know they had to modify some things...I'm ok with that...but stuff like throwing Jimmy T in the big chair after only three or four years in the academy is insane. Everything was too contrived, when it didnt need to be.

I,m hoping they leave Pikes character on the enterprise as admiral with kirk as his captain(like voyage to the bottom of the sea)this way it remedies this

[The Bat]

Yeah, Chris Pine pulled it off. Everyone was all about Quinto going in, but Pine had the movie on HIS shoulders, and he made it work. If those two hadn't worked on screen, no script or direction, good or bad could have salvaged it. They both did admirable jobs.

Chris

And don't forget Karl Urban as McCoy...he TOTALLY nailed the Character!

[huedell]

And don't forget Karl Urban as McCoy...he TOTALLY nailed the Character!

Kelley was always my greatest joy watching TOS...so its cool
they got a great guy like Urban to take over.
Urban was one of the things that kept me entertained while
I was watching a movie that had me thinking: "Wow this is a sloppy
way to get all the elements together for a reboot that was connected
to TOS." on the whole while I was sitting there in the theatre.

[ctc]

>maybe I'll get around to it when there isn't any thing better for me to put on

It’s not a bad film, and it is entertaining; but it’s not a really good film either. A decent sci-fi flick.

>The direction they chose really cast aside a lot of the background..the meat...of what made the characters so believable...and/or enjoyable in the original.

That’s kinda been my complaint with a lot of the newer series, and with a lot of movies/tv/whatnot in general.

>stuff like throwing Jimmy T in the big chair after only three or four years in the academy is insane.

One of the things that really bothers me about military themes sci-fi is that it very seldom shows any kind of military mentality. I suspect it’s due to limited experience on the part of the writers.... But if you watch the OLD one, there’s lots of little things that remind you they’re part of a space navy vessel, and not just buds in space: they pipe senior ranks onto the ship, there’s deference to rank, folks actually come to attention when speaking to Kirk in a few episodes. (Especially if he’s reprimanding them.) Crewmen were trained for specific jobs, and didn’t pilot the ship one episode, and assist the doc with surgery the next.

Funny thing: Kirk getting command in this movie was REALLY similar to how Homer got command of the sub in the Simpsons....

>The original one still exists just as you knew it

THAT part kinda scared me.... If the insta-reboot catches on it’ll mean ruination for sci-fi films.

>The fans want to see James T. Kirk

....which is why I blame the fans for poopy movies. (Not necessarily THIS one, but in general.) Everyone complains about remakes, reboots and the same old same old; but how many of ‘em would give a damn about something genuinely new?

Don C.

[ironmanfan]

I think Trek needs to retire period before some Hollywood moron messes it up even more.Hated the new film.

[The Bat]

I won't waste time responding to the negative comments individually...except to to say that I LOVED this Movie to no end! And I'm a life long hardcore Star Trek:TOS Fan...I was raised on that show.

[Hector]

I won't waste time responding to the negative comments individually...except to to say that I LOVED this Movie to no end! And I'm a life long hardcore Star Trek:TOS Fan...I was raised on that show.

Amen brother...amen...