What do you diehard TOS fans think of the new movie?
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Then you're missing a great movie. Let me ask you this: Did you go see Insurrection and Nemesis?
If you paid to see those two crapfests, then you should DEFINITELY go see Abram's film...this is a much, much, much better movie.
Those last two were just bad TV episodes...and NO Star Trek film has had the scope of this one.
This is something that has to be seen...and on the biggest screen you can get to.
If you paid to see those two crapfests, then you should DEFINITELY go see Abram's film...this is a much, much, much better movie.
Those last two were just bad TV episodes...and NO Star Trek film has had the scope of this one.
This is something that has to be seen...and on the biggest screen you can get to.
Spoilers Ahead...
I've only watched TOS and TAS...I saw some of Next Gen...but i stopped watching around the time the blonde chick left.
I liked the movie and I'm not easy to please when it comes to these blockbusters...if the masses like it then usually I don't/won't.
Were there things I would of done differently...hell yes but on the whole I really did enjoy it!
I agree w/ many of the gripes in this thread...the spock/uhura thing, the loss of vulcan, Kirk getting promoted right away, i found it odd that spock would jettison kirk to an ice planet where he just so happened to meet old spock....but these things aside it was a great ride...now they really really have to deliver on the sequel -- if they screw that up then thank god for my dvd's!
One thing I would of liked ........why couldn't Shatner recite the space the final frontier lines at the end of the film? I would of been happy with that...I would count that as participation and they are his lines!
I've only watched TOS and TAS...I saw some of Next Gen...but i stopped watching around the time the blonde chick left.
I liked the movie and I'm not easy to please when it comes to these blockbusters...if the masses like it then usually I don't/won't.
Were there things I would of done differently...hell yes but on the whole I really did enjoy it!
I agree w/ many of the gripes in this thread...the spock/uhura thing, the loss of vulcan, Kirk getting promoted right away, i found it odd that spock would jettison kirk to an ice planet where he just so happened to meet old spock....but these things aside it was a great ride...now they really really have to deliver on the sequel -- if they screw that up then thank god for my dvd's!
One thing I would of liked ........why couldn't Shatner recite the space the final frontier lines at the end of the film? I would of been happy with that...I would count that as participation and they are his lines!
The new take on the Vulcans was rather interesting - they clearly had more than just logic driving their actons.
I am indeterminate.
I really liked it. I plan to see it again.
Considering this was ten times better than any Berman Trek Film -- what does that say about Berman-Trek?
I thought I already answered this. I've been a fan of Trek since the mid-1970s, and I loved this movie! I'd love to see more of Christopher Pike the way Bruce Greenwood played him.
TOS fan from 1969 on (TOS is the #1 Star Trek series for me); and I loved the film; and enjoyed the nods to TOS here and there. Very much looking forward to the sequel; which I hope will also be 100% original (ie I hope they DON'T decide to take a story from a classic TOS episode and do it in the new universe; but not because I don't think they'd do a decent job; but after going through all this to create a decent alternate universe reboot...) 
That said, the TOSer in me found a few quibbles (much like Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - which I still think was the best of ths TOS films); that did not affect my enjoyment of the film; but which I still found interesting:
1) 'Delta Vega' (at least in the original timeline) was the planet a mere light days from the edge of the galaxy where Kirk hoped to maroon Gary Mitchell. THAT'S the planet give Spock a clear, unobstructed view of Vulcan?!
(As for Scotty being there; hey it had a Lithium cracking station in the original timeline - so it seems to still have it in this one; no harm no foul).
2) Montgomery Scott created a 'Transwap Beaming Formula'; that allows people to be beamed across the Galaxy in the 23rd century - and it works; yet we NEVER saw it used in the 24th century?!
3) At the end of the film, 'Spock Prime' seems a bit too accepting of this alternate timeline. Is he getting senile; as the Spock I know would be working on a way to fix this and restore/return to his own time (and with Vulcan destroyed in this alternate timeline; I'd think he'd have ample motivation to try SOMETHING).
Sitll a very fun and enjoyable film, and as I said, definitely looking forward to the sequel.
That said, the TOSer in me found a few quibbles (much like Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - which I still think was the best of ths TOS films); that did not affect my enjoyment of the film; but which I still found interesting:
1) 'Delta Vega' (at least in the original timeline) was the planet a mere light days from the edge of the galaxy where Kirk hoped to maroon Gary Mitchell. THAT'S the planet give Spock a clear, unobstructed view of Vulcan?!
(As for Scotty being there; hey it had a Lithium cracking station in the original timeline - so it seems to still have it in this one; no harm no foul).2) Montgomery Scott created a 'Transwap Beaming Formula'; that allows people to be beamed across the Galaxy in the 23rd century - and it works; yet we NEVER saw it used in the 24th century?!
3) At the end of the film, 'Spock Prime' seems a bit too accepting of this alternate timeline. Is he getting senile; as the Spock I know would be working on a way to fix this and restore/return to his own time (and with Vulcan destroyed in this alternate timeline; I'd think he'd have ample motivation to try SOMETHING).
Sitll a very fun and enjoyable film, and as I said, definitely looking forward to the sequel.
You sure he didn't watch "Wolverine" by mistake? Plenty of TOS connections in this film.
Except for Vulcan and Amanda, I really enjoyed it. Just wish they'd found another way to reboot.
That said I have already seen it twice and expect to be seeing it again this coming weekend. And fan since day one back in September of '66!
That said I have already seen it twice and expect to be seeing it again this coming weekend. And fan since day one back in September of '66!
Your brother is wrong. There's TOS-love all over the place in that movie.
See it for yourself.
Joe, right
Considering this was ten times better than any Berman Trek Film -- what does that say about Berman-Trek?
As my wife would say, "Set the bar nice and high, why don't you?"
It's a rental
Fantastic movie that has rekindled my absolute enthusiasm and joy for all things Trek once again, a enthusiasm and joy that had been dormant a might add since Nemesis and Enterprise.
Trek is back baby, and this movie sets the whole kit and caboodle off on course again.
Trek is back baby, and this movie sets the whole kit and caboodle off on course again.
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