Star Trek Movie - Possible Spoilers

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Originally Posted by i_amtrunks

Saw it Saturday night.

Damn it was good, why couldn't Orci and Kurtzman have written Transformers to be that good (I have a feeling Bay doesn't like "smartly written films", he cannot understand them :p).

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Orci and Kurtzman were reportedly actual Trek fans. Therefore more love and familiarity = a better movie. Oh and J.J Abrams actually knows how to work with characters. :rolleyes:

In contrast with transformers however, orci and kurtzman involvement with the franchise was basically 'yeh we watched the cartoons as a kid, wouldn't a movie be cool?'.

Basically I feel that not enough love, respect and understanding went into the transformers film (on a leadership level).

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Originally Posted by Paulbot
I got bugged when Uhuru ordered a Cardassian drink. Partly because Cardassia and that sector (Bajor, Feringinar) were in the fringes of the Federation 80 years later. Partly because at that time Cardassian's would already have invaded Bajor I believe, so if the Federation did know about them and didn't liberate Bajor for another 80 years... no wonder the Bajorans are always so pd off.

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Maybe they knew about Cardassians but had no diplomatic relations, like the Klingons In Enterprise. Perhaps its to far out of Federation space to do anything about I thought it was cool to refrance a race synonymous with later Trek series.

But thinking back about that movie 2 days later now and I have to say, yeah it was just plain fun all the way through.

Star Trek is a much more venerable, much more respectable fiction that demands kid-gloves careful treatment even though this is the single-biggest shakeup in the history of the franchise.

Orci and Kurtzman were essentially tasked with the same goal for both = revive both franchises for the big business and make it accessible to everybody else, not just the fans. They succeeded. Transformers was hugely successful and had good word-of-mouth according to market research. Star Trek possibly has less wide appeal due to the stigma of it being Star Trek, but it has extremely positive reviews overall, what is expected to be very good word of mouth, and the opening weekend so far suggests it will do very well.

But yes, JJ Abrams is a better director and a much more pleasant person than Michael Bay.

Great movie! Highly recommended! :):cool:

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Saw it the other day


HEY!!!!!!!!


Read my review in full or die in Spain!

I eventually roped someone into seeing it with me, my friend had seen it before but was happy to see it again.

The trailers before this film are great, TRANSFORMERS 2!!!! Terminator 4 Time for War and something else that was good but i cant remember

Okay, because im not like the rest of you, ie: I dont like spoilers unlike you, i don't look up the plot and story on the internet prior to seeing the actual film.

I first got into Star Trek when channel 7 showed the Animated series

after i saw First Contact i was hooked

Star trek 11 breaks the old rule that every odd numbered Star trek film is crap (Spaced)

Definitely better then Star trek 10 Nemesis, man that was a piece of crap!!!
Not written for hardcore trekker of common man off the street, not even marketed toward testosterone charged teens, it was so bad!!!

The good thing about Star Trek 11 is that it caters to most people with a functioning brain. And its in continuity with the other films... you have to see it to understand.

The Romulan ship looked like crap, just like the Romulan ship from Nemesis

Simon Pegg did a pretty convincing scotch accent
New spock is great

The references to other series etc was good, not too many and not too nerdy. Woooo 'Enterprise' got a mention, take that Lord zed!!!:p DS9s not too hot now is it:D

New Kirk is okay, because of the pace of the filum, i didnt feel as though teen kirk received alot of screen time.

Doctor McCoy, was great! I didn't think the actor looked like a typical male from the Confederate states of America, the voice sounded a bit fake.

finally, a reason to fantasice about Uhura :p:D:D:D:D

Kinda Spoilers ahead....but then again you all like spoilers!!!



Lord Zed is correct, thats how they know about the Cardassians

Also, Spock is now trapped in the alternate universe, i declare that this universe be called the "Sexy Teenagers Cadet appeal to general public" universe or as Kup called it last year "Star trek 91210" :D

i shall see it a second time, its that good!

Im so glad it wasn't written or had anything to do with the idiots Brannon and Braga

they are the 2 responsible for having good ideas but crap execution.

Eg: DS9 , Voyager and Enterprise seasons 1-2


Read this, these guys are full of themselves and their disregard for continuity

http://www.startrek.com/startrek/vie...icle/9772.html

And that woman who writes the original series novels, cant remember her name but you can tell that she is someone who thinks its still the 1960s and computers have giant magnetic reels on them still. honestly, her stories are so woeful and bizarre, almost every book she writes involves a giant organic spaceship or aliens who make the protagonists question their sexuality.

the new movie is so good i immediately bought some toys after the film, the playmates company has the Star trek brand again. They churned out an impressive number of action figures in the 90s and early 21st century.

unfortunately the new movie toys are not in scale with the old playmates figures.

The figure bases double as badges!!!!

Hooray!!! Pike is in the film, he rocks!!!

If anyone has any Star trek toys and wanna give them away or sell them, call Roller NOW! :)

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Originally Posted by roller

Star trek 11 breaks the old rule that every odd numbered Star trek film is crap (Spaced)

Simon Pegg did a pretty convincing scotch accent

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He had to hold that one in. :D

SO, watched it at last :D

I enjoyed it from start to end, and as a relative noob to the whole Star Trek thing, I had to ask the mate of mine that I went to watch it 'did they mess up continuity'? And pretty much got told that they screwed it up from the very start of the film. Har har XD

So, like I said, I enjoyed it - but I think as a comic reader that may be slightly jaded at the concept, ALTERNATE REALITIES... they just... feel so ... fanwritten or something :\
Feels like something out of some crisis or other and I guess LISTENING to characters onscreen discuss the complexities of alternate realities (not that complex, really) had me cringing a bit and wanting to roll my eyes... waaaay too much exposure to that kind of thing in years before I suppose :\

Didn't stop the enjoyment though - Kirk did however - only seem to have one expression: "I've just been beaten up - OW"

XD

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Originally Posted by roller

If anyone has any Star trek toys and wanna give them away or sell them, call Roller NOW! :)

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Not toys as such but I have these beautiful fob watches in leather casing I may be interested in selling...

1st one.
http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/4062/fob1.jpg

Open.
http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/6596/fob3.jpg

2 one.
http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/5192/fob2.jpg

Open.
http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/1060/fob4.jpg

Size comparison with Bombshell.
http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/2844/sizem.jpg


Of course they are expensive.

well i charge by the hour

we can use the watches to check the time :D