Moments that really made you cringe or disliked

[M'Sharak]

That THING that follows Scotty round. Why do we need a Jar Jar Binks in Star Trek?

Why do you see him as a Jar Jar Binks type? I didn't get that impression at all.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

That THING that follows Scotty round. Why do we need a Jar Jar Binks in Star Trek?

Yep. We don't need no Star Wars muppets mucking up our Star Trek!

I wasn't too happy about the portrayal of Nero and Romulans in general since I was expecting this move to finally move them beyond stock-villain status. But it didn't make me cringe, exactly.

That THING that follows Scotty round. Why do we need a Jar Jar Binks in Star Trek?

Why do you see him as a Jar Jar Binks type? I didn't get that impression at all.

He was obviously a character that belonged in the Star Wars universe. To me, he was more Ewok, but that's not much better than Jar-Jar.

 

[SiorX]

And really, he looks more like an Ewok. Or possibly the offspring of an Ewok who mated with a cabbage.

 

[Mistral]

Spock stranding Kirk. Just wrong. They have brigs-that would have done nicely. Or even beaming him down to a holding facility on the planet would have made more sense.

 

[Jeyl]

Kirk being an unlikable jacka**.

 

[M'Sharak]

And really, he looks more like an Ewok. Or possibly the offspring of an Ewok who mated with a cabbage.

Now, I've got that image running around inside my head.

 

[JustKate]

My first thought was also "Eek! An ewok!"

 

[Shazam!]

The plot.

 

[BlastHardcheese]

That THING that follows Scotty round. Why do we need a Jar Jar Binks in Star Trek?

Why do you see him as a Jar Jar Binks type? I didn't get that impression at all.

At least the little raisin didn't talk.

 

[pookha]

yeah he did but not much.

i could have done without two monsters chasing kirk.
one would have been enough.

 

[Mrs_Whatsit]

yeah he did but not much.

i could have done without two monsters chasing kirk.
one would have been enough.

All I could think about that big red monster was that it just didn't look like it would come from an ice planet. Didn't it get cold without fur to protect it? Every time I see the movie, that bugs the bejeepers out of me.

 

[Sector 7]

I agree with JustKate and M'Sharak, the Kobayashi Maru would have been awesome without the smarta** Kirk portrayal. He should have been slightly more serious to show he really did not believe in the 'no win scenario'. The attitude presented shows he is NOT ready for command, nor will he be in time to earn the Big E captaincy.
The Spock/Uhura relationship probably would not bother me as much if she wasn't all over him in the elevator and transporter pad. It appeared to be more of a sexual relationship than a serious one.

 

[Chrisisall]

I think the Kobayashi Maru wins for me too. But a close second is the Uhura-unwittingly-strips-to-her-very-21st-century-underwear-in-front-of-Kirk scene. It wasn't classic Trek sexy, it was like cringemaking fourteen-year old boy fanservice.

You must be sexually restrained not to realize the brilliance of that moment, sir. IMO.

 

[TenLubak]

I really didn't like the whole beamed into a pipe thing in the engine room. Silliness.

 

[Chrisisall]

I really didn't like the whole beamed into a pipe thing in the engine room. Silliness.

'Cause silly was never a part of Trek, clearly.

 

[pookha]

I truly loathed the Kobayashi Maru scene - not the way he won, but the twerp-like way he acted as he was winning. Almost everybody else seems to have loved it, and I don't mean any disrespect to them (or to Chris Pine) when I say how much I hate it, but I thought it made Kirk look like an arrogant and immature jerk, not at all like somebody who ought to be made captain anytime soon.

I liked the movie a lot, but that scene just made me want to smack that apple out of his hands (yes, yes, I know the apple was one of those nods to canon - I don't care) and say, "Behave yourself! You want to be a Starfleet officer, you should stop acting like a smart-alecky teenager."

i think that it was there to show that while yeah kirk had breezed through the academy he still has some maturing to do.
and we see it as he progresses through the film.

plus, to a degree he may not have wanted to really reveal just how deeply he felt about this.
wouldnt be the first time kirk hadnt just bravado and humor to deal with a situation.

or he may not have really faced all of his own motives until the confrontation with spock at the hearing.

 

[PhasersOnStun]

i could have done without two monsters chasing kirk. one would have been enough.

Maybe it was a homage to two sci-fi movies: the first monster was rather "Empire-snow beast like" (I forgot the name) the second one very "Starship Troopers like."

That whole "happens to be jettisoned to the same planet as Spock" is contrived, so I just ran with it. Really, it's all just a great roller coaster, so none of it really made me "cringe."

Some movies are deep, other movies are popcorn fun. This was a fantastic popcorn movie, that unlike many had some really nice character moments thrown in. But I don't cringe when popcorn movies get...well...popcorny. I cringe when philosophical drama's get hokey, but not popcorn movies.

 

[M'Sharak]

I think the Kobayashi Maru wins for me too. But a close second is the Uhura-unwittingly-strips-to-her-very-21st-century-underwear-in-front-of-Kirk scene. It wasn't classic Trek sexy, it was like cringemaking fourteen-year old boy fanservice.

You must be sexually restrained not to realize the brilliance of that moment, sir. IMO.

She's not a sir, sir, and the brilliance of the moment is clearly a matter of opinion.

And "you must be sexually restrained"? Harrumph. Not a particularly graceful choice of words, methinks.

 

[Gepard]

I truly loathed the Kobayashi Maru scene - not the way he won, but the twerp-like way he acted as he was winning. Almost everybody else seems to have loved it, and I don't mean any disrespect to them (or to Chris Pine) when I say how much I hate it, but I thought it made Kirk look like an arrogant and immature jerk, not at all like somebody who ought to be made captain anytime soon.

I liked the movie a lot, but that scene just made me want to smack that apple out of his hands (yes, yes, I know the apple was one of those nods to canon - I don't care) and say, "Behave yourself! You want to be a Starfleet officer, you should stop acting like a smart-alecky teenager."

I'll go along with that.

As it played in the movie, Kirk came across as too cocky and too smug -- an arrogant jerk, you said, though a less-polite term also comes to mind. If Abrams had had Pine play it less broadly, had Kirk less pointedly thumbing his nose at the onlooking test administrators and making a mockery of the exercise, they should still have been able to make it plainly apparent to the audience that Kirk was gaming the simulation, and there would have been no need for the administrators' reactions to be changed at all. I think that it could have been a better scene for turning Kirk down a couple of notches. That was really the one place in the movie where I was thinking "Oh, come on, now, that's really overdoing it."

I second all of this, and add to it almost all of Kirk's behavior over the entire film, for those same reasons. Yeah, we're told he graduated after only three years in the academy, but never once do we see him behave himself, act mature, kuckle down and study, or take what he's doing seriously. Kirk's supposed greatness is a major informed attribute.

I also had a problem with:

• All the jokes, especilly after Vulcan was destroyed. I get it, the writers are funny. But it's way overdone, and comes across as inappropriately jocular to be playing scenes for laughs ten minues after genocide.
• Kirk's promotion (duh). Do I even need to say why?
• The Enterprise wailing on the Narada as it's being torn apart in the black hole. People contest this, but it's right on-screen: "Your ship will not survive." Plus we actually see Nero's ship being twisted and torn apart by the tidal stresses. As a result, Kirk's attack looks sort of petty, like he's kicking a drowning man.

I have plenty of other complaints with the film, but most of the rest are structural or conceptual issues and not one scene or moment.

 

[Shazam!]

I have plenty of other complaints with the film, but most of the rest are structural or conceptual issues and not one scene or moment.

Go on.