Star Trek (2009)
In simple words, wicked awesome.
In a fans words, simply satisfying.
In everyone’s words, applause. Simply.
We saw more then a few people dressed in uniform, heard giddy cheering multiple times through out and left thrilled to know Star Trek’s future is bright. Cue lens flare. Engage.
More. SPOILERS:
I do still follow the Star Trek’s universe and I did get a lot of new story and interesting possibilities out of this change of the crew. I was actually surprised that they didn’t reset the disaster of the movie.. The new fate of the Vulcan race is a major shift in the Star Trek we know. Timetravelling Old Spock is in the past so anything cold technically happen. I think that is a key point to whatever happens in the universe and whether or not we see the crew resurrecting Vulcan to save Romulus. I don’t believe that is what we will get at least not right away. The people who made this movie understand the history but I think they will continue to reinvent it.
Where this leaves the stories of TNG, Voyager and DS9 is an unknown. No Tuvok? I read the prequel comic (The Countdown) which involves Captain Data, Admrial Picard and Laforge. That story set in the TNG timeline goes beyond what Spock told Kirk in the ice cave. So will new Kirk fit it it all to the point of having Vulcan’s and Romulans alive in the same TNG preserving timeline? Or are we really headed off into a new frontier? I suppose a little of both but then Nero could also survive the round trip through a black hole.
Trivia: It’s established in the comic that the technology of Nero’s upgraded mining ship is of Borg origin.
I thought that Christopher Pine made TOS Kirk young again. The character is there on the screen but also with a perfect natural imaging of Shatner’s physical presence.
Young Spock was good, I’ve watched zero Hero’s to date.
Young Bone’s is great.
Young Scotty is great.
Young Scotty’s sidekick is great.
Visuals/effects, including the lens flares are something Star Trek has deserved.
I want to see this movie again right now.
