Moments when you knew you were watching Star Trek

[Elder Knight]

When I got home and found the real thing on the television.

 

[Amaris]

I have to say the very first moments also, but it actually hit when the title screen came up.

Wow, I'm getting cold chills by just recalling that first moment in the theater.
November 17th better get here faster!

J.

 

[Creedence]

When the movie started. But before that...

When I left the house to go to the theatre to watch it. But before that...

When I saw the ad blitzes on TV for the new film. But before that...

When I saw the first teaser at some forgettable crap-fest some months before the movie came out. But before that...

Four or five years ago when I read that Abrams was going to ressurrect the original franchise. I thought it might be a case of Kirk and Spock "looking back and recalling a story" at that point. It didn't matter - it was Kirk and Spock! It was destined to be good!

HUZZAH!

 

[Shazam!]

I thought it might be a case of Kirk and Spock "looking back and recalling a story" at that point.

If only...

 

[LeahBoBo]

I thought it might be a case of Kirk and Spock "looking back and recalling a story" at that point.

If only...

I'm glad they put a little more thought into the script than that. An aged Spock and Kirk regaling young'uns with tales of their dashing youth. Bleh.

 

[Shazam!]

Heh, yeah, it would've been cheesy but I think it could've worked. In an ideal world though, I would've preferred a full reboot with no ties to existing continuity.

 

[Mr. B]

...when it said "Star Trek" right on the screen... the rest was just generic action blockbuster garbage.

 

[JarodRussell]

Heh, yeah, it would've been cheesy but I think it could've worked. In an ideal world though, I would've preferred a full reboot with no ties to existing continuity.

Spock on his death bed, telling a group of friends (including some Romulans, and Picard) a story of a classified mission back in TOS days that nobody knows about.

 

[T'Girl]

When nu-Kirk sat on his motorcycle and look up at the Enterprise being built in the middle of that corn field, it was just the same scene with Shatner from the second pilot.

 

[Sector 7]

From the very beginning it was Star Trek. As many have said, the sounds were spot on. Each time I have seen Star Trek in the theater, I noticed no one in the seats spoke or made a sound during the Kelvin scenes, but a loud cheer when the title logo hit the screen.

 

[Cyke101]

All joking about his greatness aside, when Robau asked the question, "What gives you the right to attack a Starfleet vessel?" was my moment.

(or was it Federation vessel? Either way, Starfleet and Federation are Trek terms. We're back, baby!)

 

[Lapis Exilis]

It all felt like Star Trek.

The opening Kelvin sequence felt something like Balance of Terror.

Bones' first scene in the shuttle felt something like Bones in City on the Edge of Forever.

Sadly the rest of the movie felt somewhere in between Star Trek V: The Final Frontier and Spock's Brain, story structure and plotting-wise.

 

[Doran]

One of the beauties of fiction is that you can ignore continuity. Those who are timeline obsessed need to lighten up, it's fantasy. I do see how little aspects might irritate the purists, but set it aside and enjoy it for what it's worth. Check your brain in at the door and enjoy the movie!!! Well worth the money spent.

 

[Crazy Eddie]

It was pretty much start to finish for me too, but there was something powerfully Trek-like in the opening scene, just before the Title Flash, with all of the Kelvin's shuttles crawling through space with the crippled Narada in the background. It was, for me, the most perfect Trek moment since the stolen Enterprise backed out of space dock.

 

[Trekwatcher]

When I got home and saw "Arena" on TV.

In the theater the first time I didn't know what I was seeing. I liked it better the second time, but it was a big adjustment. I think the movie has some merits and in some parts it is really well done, but it still does not feel like Trek to me.

 

[Devon]

From the *pings* and chatter of various ship wide Departments heard as the closeup Kelvin flyby occurred in the first seconds of the film.

This.

 

[Shazam!]

I do see how little aspects might irritate the purists, but set it aside and enjoy it for what it's worth. Check your brain in at the door and enjoy the movie!!! Well worth the money spent.

Wouldn't that make it worthless? The whole idea of the movie is that it is Star Trek and not some random piece of sci-fi action.

Also, if you have to check your brain in at the door it most definitely is not a good Star Trek film.

 

[Devon]

You know, I never once had to turn off my brain and never once felt like I had to. Perhaps this is why I understand most of the film, and in using my brain, I answered any remaining questions I may have had. Brainless? Definitely not. So you do have to use your brain in this one and in doing so you actually discover that a lot more of it makes sense than some give credit for.

However, this is not to be confused with past Treks where the sometimes haphazardly thrown around phrase "makes you think" actually meant that it spelled out what you were supposed to think for you.

 

[God Magnus]

From the *pings* and chatter of various ship wide Departments heard as the closeup Kelvin flyby occurred in the first seconds of the film.

Ditto. The chatter and the pings were perfect. The pings clearly paid homage to the original series, the chatter felt like something we would have heard in the original series if we listened to what Uhura listened to on her ear piece. It was a nice blend of the old and the new, which sums up this movie perfectly for me.

 

[Iamnotspock]

Most of it felt like Star Trek, and an honourable mention has to go to the very last scene, when Kirk strides onto the Bridge in his captain's uniform and calls out, "Bones!" The way Chris Pine channelled William Shatner was spooky.