Does JJ Abrams Star Trek have any heroines?

[Nerys Myk]

That was awesome. Heroic, even.

UHURA STABBED A KLINGON IN THE BALLS!!!

If that's not good enough for people, well pfft.

Exactly. What else does she have to do for these people? Strip and dance with fans??

~FS

She could fumble through some hardcopy Klingon dictionaries.

 

[Amaris]

Carol saved McCoy's ass while he howled like a coyote caught in a bear trap when he failed to deactivate the torpedo.

Just sayin'...

To be fair, I'd be howling too.

 

[Shaka Zulu]

I'm amazed that fans go to see a major motion picture featuring handsome/beautiful young people who are all buff beyond the norm and yet expect them to stay covered up because Star Trek is "serious" science fiction.

This is what comes of supposedly 'progressive people (male and female) who think that the world needs to be more prudish.

Speaking of the main point of this post, I wonder when most of the ladies who've been hard on this movie and the last one are going to boot up their word-processing programs on their computers and are going to write a movie script, and then take a chance at selling it to a movie studio?

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I have personally sent over 132 scripts to movie studios so that means I can bash any movie I like into pulp. PULP.

 

[Therin of Andor]

I wonder when most of the ladies who've been hard on this movie...

I never specified gender. I've seen both males and females complaining about male and female flesh (and actors' attractiveness) in movies.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I wonder when most of the ladies who've been hard on this movie

I'm a lady and this movie gives me wood. Put that in your stats and crunch it.

 

[Opus]

I think folks may want to rewatch that fight scene between Spock and Khan. Spock was getting his ass handed to him until Uhura beamed down and phasered Khan. And she was the one who stopped Spock from outright killing Khan because they needed his blood to save Kirk.

She saved the day.

I think that if anyone else had beamed down, Spock kills Khan.

Actually Khan would have killed Spock. Spock seems to have a lot of endurance when he fights but he still would have lost the fight.

I think what BillJ is saying is that anyone else beaming down with a phaser to stun Khan wouldn't have been able to stop raging Spock from then beating him to death. BECAUSE of their relationship, Uhura could get through to Spock and stop him, thus being the only one who could "save the day."

And I agree with him. She was a true heroine.

And she stabbed a Klingon in the balls.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I wonder if when you stab a Klingon in the balls his whole family vows revenge upon you and yours or if it's just so embarrassing that they forgo honour in favour of face.

 

[Commishsleer]

I think folks may want to rewatch that fight scene between Spock and Khan. Spock was getting his ass handed to him until Uhura beamed down and phasered Khan. And she was the one who stopped Spock from outright killing Khan because they needed his blood to save Kirk.

She saved the day.

I think that if anyone else had beamed down, Spock kills Khan.

Actually Khan would have killed Spock. Spock seems to have a lot of endurance when he fights but he still would have lost the fight.

I disagree. Its the typical last fight scene in which the hero appears to be losing and then finally gathers enough strength to beat the enemy at the end.
Uhura's role was to rally Spock and give him the extra burden of taking Khan alive.
OK and the phaser bursts would have helped a bit.

 

[Opus]

Without any intervention, Khan kills Spock.

With anyone other than Uhura's intervention, Spock kills Khan.

With Uhura's intervention, Spock subdues Khan to save Kirk.

With Dr. Drew's intervention, Spock finally kicks his crack habit.

 

[Therin of Andor]

I wonder if when you stab a Klingon in the balls his whole family vows revenge upon you and yours or if it's just so embarrassing that they forgo honour in favour of face.

They go nuts. Or at least a bit teste.

 

[Clancy_s]

I'd like to see just one girl whose main role isn't to be the princess or the girlfriend.
They're making a bit of headway with Uhura.
Perhaps they can make Carol out to be the great scientist she was in TWOK.

For me this is the problem; Uhura in particular does some brave things but (to me) they came across as secondary, partly because she's a secondary character and partly because her relationship to Spock got more emphasis. For me to call her a heroine that'd have to be her primary function in the movie.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I wonder if when you stab a Klingon in the balls his whole family vows revenge upon you and yours or if it's just so embarrassing that they forgo honour in favour of face.

They go nuts. Or at least a bit teste.

And then the sack you.

No really, like the sack of Rome. That's how bad it is.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I'd like to see just one girl whose main role isn't to be the princess or the girlfriend.
They're making a bit of headway with Uhura.
Perhaps they can make Carol out to be the great scientist she was in TWOK.

For me this is the problem; Uhura in particular does some brave things but (to me) they came across as secondary, partly because she's a secondary character and partly because her relationship to Spock got more emphasis. For me to call her a heroine that'd have to be her primary function in the movie.

If you do heroic things, you are a hero/heroine.

 

[Cinema Geekly]

I'd like to see just one girl whose main role isn't to be the princess or the girlfriend.
They're making a bit of headway with Uhura.
Perhaps they can make Carol out to be the great scientist she was in TWOK.

For me this is the problem; Uhura in particular does some brave things but (to me) they came across as secondary, partly because she's a secondary character and partly because her relationship to Spock got more emphasis. For me to call her a heroine that'd have to be her primary function in the movie.

If you do heroic things, you are a hero/heroine.

THIS!

I mean if people are asking about in general sense of a heroine IE Lara Croft or something like that? Then no, but that is just Trek. Janeway is as close as you come, but as far as TOS goes the NUhura has done nearly more in two movies than Nichelle got in three seasons and six movies.