Favorite part of Star Trek 2009

[omgahitsbritt08]

This thread is to express how much you like or dislike the film. What was your favorite part?

My favorite part was the fighting between Kirk/Spock. For some reason alittle hott in my own demented mind. Wink!

My second favorite would be, when young kirk drove his father's car off the cliff and then stated his name.

Third, would definitely have to be the bar fight scene.

Last, but not least when Spock confronts Kirk that he cheated!!!

As you can tell I love Star Trek. And I believe I think you do too. =]

 

[6079SmithW]

My favorite part was the Kelvin prologue because it had lots of action and emotion. Second, I would say coming out of warp into the debris field was great because it was a very tense few moments.

I liked all the actors as I thought they did excellent jobs portraying their respective characters, especially Bones. This is the sixth movie I have seen with Karl Urban in it and he is just great every time.

This movie reinvigorated the franchise by putting the fun and adventure back into it.

Oh yeah the new warp speed effect is pretty awesome too.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

The whole Vulcan destruction sequence is my favorite. It was traumatic as hell - to me, watching Vulcan blown up in a movie is on par with Earth (maybe worse) - but that's how Zach Quinto laid definitive claim to the character of Spock, something I never thought was possible for any other actor. And in a movie with Leonard Nimoy in it!

The key of course is that the introduction of a radically new backstory for Spock will spin the character off in unpredictable new directions. I only hope the writers know how to capitalize on this, but if they didn't, would they have blown up Vulcan to begin with? For now, I'll have faith that they've got a plan and this isn't all just cheap theatrics.

 

[omgahitsbritt08]

I think I pretty much just love the movie! Most of it was so intense. But, then it had little moments of humor. =]

 

[Agenda]

I liked the s/u turbolift scene.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I loved all of it. I know that sounds like a cheap cop-out but it's true. As a lifelong fan, seeing Spock Prime tell his younger self to "put aside logic" and "do what feels right" was awesome. I loved the last shot of Nero, realizing that he's failed, that his wife and child may be doomed all over again. I loved the Kelvin scene at the start. Chekov struggling past his accent/speech impediment to get his authorization code out. Amanda's death was really well done - like a kick to the stomach. When Sarek tells Spock that he married Amanda because he loved her (woulda saved Spock a lot of confusion in life if he said that at the start!), when Sarek tells Spock that he's grateful for him, and finally accepts Spock as who he is (i.e. an emotional hybrid). At the end, when the two Spocks are talking, and it sinks in that they haven't "pulled a Voyager" and undone the destruction of Vulcan, and that they're not going to, gave me the weirdest OMFG sinking feeling. I grew up visiting that planet on TV!

 

[shapeshifter]

Vulcan was a great planet, but that was another time!

When Pike eased back into the Captains chair and he was 'eye-lighted', I literally peed a little.

 

[6079SmithW]

Greenwood's Pike was very nicely done. I loved the speech he gave to young Kirk: "Your father was captain of a starship for twelve minutes. He saved 800 lives including yours and you mother's. I dare you to do better." And there was his belief in being a risk taker and "leap before you look." He was just like the epitome of a starfleet officer.

 

[number6]

My favorite part was watching the haters' heads explode as all the reviews came in.

This was easily the best film since First Contact.

 

[6079SmithW]

My favorite part was watching the haters' heads explode as all the reviews came in.

This was easily the best film since First Contact.

I wholeheartedly agree. Screw Insurrection and Nemesis! Sheesh.

 

[number6]

My favorite part was watching the haters' heads explode as all the reviews came in.

This was easily the best film since First Contact.

I wholeheartedly agree. Screw Insurrection and Nemesis! Sheesh.

I didn't hate either of those films, but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know which films were popular and resonated with fans and movie goer alike.

 

[indranee]

Spock's slo-mo internal monologue after the destruction of Vulcan and his mother's death. nicely acted and filmed.

 

[Kelso]

Fanboy moment: "James T. Kirk. How did you find me?" I just love that after all these years, Spock's immediate assumption is that Captain Kirk figured it all out and came to rescue him.

Emotional moment: George Kirk hears his baby crying over the intercom. I don't know how any daddy could help but feel the old heart strings a tuggin' during that scene.

 

[Joel_Kirk]

Too many to name:

-Opening sequence with the Kelvin and Narada.

-McCoy and Kirk seeing the Enterprise for the first time.

-The Federation ships going into warp to fight the Narada.

-Seeing Sulu and Kirk kick some Romulan ass...

-Zoe Saldana

-The Asian chick in red on the Enterprise bridge

-The blond, white chick in blue on the Enterprise bridge

-The black chick in yellow at the helm, on the Enterprise bridge

-Kirk going through the sickness motions due to McCoy getting him on the ENT...(And Uhura crying out, 'Oh my God, what happened to your hands!')

-Scotty telling Kirk and Spock he's potentially beaming them over to the Narada where there won't be a Romulan in sight...and he beams them in the middle of a group of Romulans.

-Seeing Leonard Nimoy continue to bridge the franchise...

-Michael Giacchino's music score

-Mixed cast of people in the main cast as well as the background...(Won't see that in Berman's Trek!)

-Nero's 'Spoooooock! Spooooock!'

 

[F. King Daniel]

-Mixed cast of people in the main cast as well as the background...(Won't see that in Berman's Trek!)

I loved that too. JJ 100% gets the "united earth" concept underlying Star Trek.

 

[Hartzilla2007]

Well My favorite scene had to be the Kobayashi Maru scene.

Oh and the opening, when Kirk and McCoy fly to the Enterprise, when McCoy first showed up, and some others that were already mentioned.

 

[T'Cal]

Greenwood's Pike was very nicely done. I loved the speech he gave to young Kirk: "Your father was captain of a starship for twelve minutes. He saved 800 lives including yours and you mother's. I dare you to do better." And there was his belief in being a risk taker and "leap before you look." He was just like the epitome of a starfleet officer.

I liked the way Greenwood read it in the trailers even more. In the movie, he actually laughs a bit when he tells Kirk, "I couldn't believe it when the bartender told me who you were." in the trailer, he says it with a sense of frustration, even a little disgust. And when he read your line in the trailer, it was so much more dramatic, so much more of an homage to George Kirk, and so much more of a challenge to Jim. Same thing goes for the voice of the motorcycle cop to young Jim - much more authoritative than what was used in the film. These are relatively minor complaints.

My favorite scene among so many, was the one with George at the helm of the doomed Kelvin telling his wife, who was giving birth to their first child that he won't be there. I get choked up everytime I see this. It really sets a different, dramatic, and emotional tone. One of my other favorites is when Spock and the Vulcans beam to the Enterprise without his mother. In that close up of Quinto, he looked childlike, and I saw a real resemblance to the actor who played him as a pre-teen in the previous scene. Very nidely done.

 

[6079SmithW]

-Zoe Saldana

-The Asian chick in red on the Enterprise bridge

-The blond, white chick in blue on the Enterprise bridge

-The black chick in yellow at the helm, on the Enterprise bridge

And to think some people say women are neglected in this movie.

Did anyone notice how there were a lot of female extras in the background on the bridge? And how both helm and navigation were taken over by female officers when Sulu and Chekov were absent?

 

[Temis the Vorta]

When Pike eased back into the Captains chair and he was 'eye-lighted', I literally peed a little.

Remind me not to sit next to you for the next movie!

Another favorite part: the two Spocks talking about how them meeting didn't make the universe explode. Fascinating!

And all the gags with Kirk - the hands, Spock punching him, always dangling off something and about to fall to his death, etc. He's the big hero, but he gets used as the main punching bag. Nicely counterintuitive.

 

[6079SmithW]

When Robau walked onto the Kelvin's bridge. Thus the greatest internet meme was born!

Also the lens flares. The future literally is bright and shiny!