My Gripes with STID!

[Squiggy]

I'm talking about something between the two extremes, and this isn't gripe I have, it's just an observation, or a preference. I don't remember watching Apollo 13 or Gravity at the cinema thinking 'this looks boring'

You do have to admit that both those films were demonstrably different than any Trek film, both in setting and in content.

Absolutely, but they both completely nailed what I imagine outer space to be like. I'd just like a slight sprinkling of that in Trek that's all, I just found the space scenes in STID to be too colourful and comic book like, and I don't level that criticism at ST09. Like I said earlier this is a long way away from being a deal breaker.

The difference in those movies was that the nothingness of space was where all the drama was. It was a character as much as Hanks or Bullock. You were "in" space.

Not so much in Star Trek. You're in the Enterprise. We've conquered space.

 

[Smellmet]

I can live with that assessment. It's just a subjective thing at the end of the day, it's more just a design thing for me, I just thought it all looked a bit too colourful and comic book like for a live action film that's all, but I suppose that's just a by product of them going for a colourful TOS style look I guess.

 

[Lakenheath 72]

The Enterprise is in the Qo'noS star system after her warp engines fail. She is 20 minutes away from Qo'noS at impulse speed. In Star Trek: The Motion Picture, it took the Enterprise at .5 of warp speed 1.8 hours to reach Jupiter from Earth. Which raises a question, why is there a Neutral Zone in the system?

 

[M'Sharak]

Purple: because aliens don't wear hats.

 

[Franklin]

Purple: because aliens don't wear hats.

 

[martok2112]

the nothingness of space was where all the drama was. It was a character as much as Hanks or Bullock. You were "in" space.

Indeed. So was the orbiting debris. They were the bad guys....the marauders, the murderers, the vandals...in Gravity, that is.