Star Trek: The Franchise

[cyclonevkc]

May 26, 2009 16:41:48 GMT -4 @kungfuwaynewho said:

May 26, 2009 14:06:45 GMT -4 Neurochick said:

You make plenty of sense because I felt the same way. I felt that way when I saw Star Wars and when I saw Fellowship of the Ring. It felt good to feel that way again. ;)

MTE. There is nothing like pure, unadulterated geek joy.

Just saw it for the second time and am almost certain to go for a third. That would tie my personal record with Two Towers, Return of the King, and Star Wars III. Nothing wrong with that!

Man, I just realized I've become a SciFi/Fantasy geek when I wasn't paying attention. I mean, I've always known I was a nerd, but this is an entirely new level. *Must adjust self-image.* Also have to make room for yet more crushes on fictional characters... :)

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May 28, 2009 16:01:24 GMT -4 cyclonevkc said:

May 26, 2009 16:41:48 GMT -4 @kungfuwaynewho said:

MTE. There is nothing like pure, unadulterated geek joy.

Just saw it for the second time and am almost certain to go for a third. That would tie my personal record with Two Towers, Return of the King, and Star Wars III. Nothing wrong with that!

Man, I just realized I've become a SciFi/Fantasy geek when I wasn't paying attention. I mean, I've always known I was a nerd, but this is an entirely new level. *Must adjust self-image.* Also have to make room for yet more crushes on fictional characters... :)

I'm seriously contemplating a third time, tying with Arachnophobia and Harry Potters 1 and 5.

[bklynred]

Just saw this a 2nd time, and I was equally entranced. I jumped again >>>when Yael bonks Kirk on the head on the Romulan ship <<< I'm such a buster. The theater was still crowded and that reverent silence was still in check. Pretty cool.

[alpierce]

Hated the music. James Horner's score to Star Trek II remains to be topped for me. Didn't really like Spock openly kissing a woman, it just goes against everything else we have been told about Vulcans and just says to me that someone had to put this in there to sensationalize the character a lot. Scotty was to comedic as was Chekov. They shouldn't just be comedy relief.

don't get me wrong, I liked this movie, but the plot is pretty easy to pick apart

1. Why didn't the federation or romulans know long before hand the sun was going to explode? I think we can even do that now, No explanation given there

2. Spock's entire plan to save romulus seemed reckless at best. Besides he would have known that the sun was going to explode long before it did.

3. Why are 2 officers (spock and Uhura)allowed a relationship and no one says anything about it?

4. The number of times Kirk has to be snuck onto the enterprise was just to much for me to believe. Any medical professional would not risk a medical license the way McCoy did and an engineer would not do that either.

It's a fun movie, as long as you don't examine it to closely.

[tabby]

Aww. This movie's creating a new generation of nerds, y'all.

Yay for nerdlings! I run an internship program for undergraduates each summer, and I've gotten into some very excited, nerdly conversations with students during the past week or so about the awesomeness of the movie.

[LurkerNan]

This movie prompted me to assign watching the original Star Trek episodes to my tween. Call it a cultural acclimation essential... if he's going to be raised by geeks, he'd better know the basics.

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Jun 4, 2009 1:53:36 GMT -4 alpierce said:

Hated the music. James Horner's score to Star Trek II remains to be topped for me. Didn't really like Spock openly kissing a woman, it just goes against everything else we have been told about Vulcans and just says to me that someone had to put this in there to sensationalize the character a lot. Scotty was to comedic as was Chekov. They shouldn't just be comedy relief.

Aw, I liked Chekov, all eager and adorkable. And I don't think he was really comedy relief except for that bit with the shipwide announcement where he had to log in. Scotty, on the other hand... yeah. A little (not a lot) over the top.

As for Spock kissing Uhura, I don't know. Sarek admitted even full-blooded Vulcans can feel love, and Spock was half human and "emotionally compromised". So I can see it.

don't get me wrong, I liked this movie, but the plot is pretty easy to pick apart

1. Why didn't the federation or romulans know long before hand the sun was going to explode? I think we can even do that now, No explanation given there

2. Spock's entire plan to save romulus seemed reckless at best. Besides he would have known that the sun was going to explode long before it did.

3. Why are 2 officers (spock and Uhura)allowed a relationship and no one says anything about it?

4. The number of times Kirk has to be snuck onto the enterprise was just to much for me to believe. Any medical professional would not risk a medical license the way McCoy did and an engineer would not do that either.

It's a fun movie, as long as you don't examine it to closely.

Oh, and more:
5. Why in the hell did Spock kick Kirk out in a lifepod when there was a perfectly serviceable brig on the Enterprise? The only reason was so Kirk could run into Spock Prime.

6. Speaking of which, that was a lucky break running right into the cave where he lived, wasn't it?

7. And where the hell is this planet, anyway? It's close enough to Vulcan that Spock can clearly see it collapsing, but that'd make it closer to Vulcan than the Moon is to Earth.

8. How long does the drill take to work? In the beginning, Starfleet gets a distress signal from Vulcan, assembles a fleet of half a dozen ships, then warps over. But even at high warp it takes several hours to go one light-year. Either that's a slow drill, or Warp speed is damn fast in this timeline.

Still... The movie was too cool and fun for me to care much about the plot holes and the silly science.

[syve]

I have other questions, which may not be plot holes, so much as things I didn't get.

1. What was the whole thing with the Klingons being attacked? Were they being attacked my the same future Romulans, and if so, why?

2. Was the enterprise supposed to be a new ship, or had some of the people already served on it? Why wasn't there already a first officer etc, and why the hell was Checkov working there if he's only 17?

3. And if it wasn't new, was Spock already working on the ship, or teaching at the academy, or both?

I enjoyed to movie when I was watching them, but afterwards, thinking about it, I was just going "huh?".

[Witchie]

I have other questions, which may not be plot holes, so much as things I didn't get.

1. What was the whole thing with the Klingons being attacked? Were they being attacked my the same future Romulans, and if so, why?

2. Was the enterprise supposed to be a new ship, or had some of the people already served on it? Why wasn't there already a first officer etc, and why the hell was Checkov working there if he's only 17?

3. And if it wasn't new, was Spock already working on the ship, or teaching at the academy, or both?

I enjoyed to movie when I was watching them, but afterwards, thinking about it, I was just going "huh?".

1) Nero's plan was to destroy the Federation, with Vulcan and Earth first. By destroying the Klingon armada, the Klingon homeworld would be vulnerable. The black hole also dropped the Naruda in Klingon space 25 years earlier. It's where Kirk's father was killed.

2) The Enterprise was new. Spock was the 1st officer. Chekov was a genius.

3) Both. Spock was teaching until the Enterprise was completed and the fleet was ready to leave space dock.

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Jun 4, 2009 18:20:16 GMT -4 syve said:

I have other questions, which may not be plot holes, so much as things I didn't get.

1. What was the whole thing with the Klingons being attacked? Were they being attacked my the same future Romulans, and if so, why?

2. Was the enterprise supposed to be a new ship, or had some of the people already served on it? Why wasn't there already a first officer etc, and why the hell was Checkov working there if he's only 17?

3. And if it wasn't new, was Spock already working on the ship, or teaching at the academy, or both?

I enjoyed to movie when I was watching them, but afterwards, thinking about it, I was just going "huh?".

1. Romulans and Klingons are always fighting. At that point, the Federation and Klingon Empire are still enemies, so it was probably just for shits and giggles.

2. It was the maiden voyage. I believe Spock was first officer, then when Pike left the ship, it made Spock captain, then Pike gave Kirk a field promotion. I figured Chekov was some kind of prodigy.

3. Spock was teaching, but he left on the Enterprise because Vulcan is his home planet.