Comments on: Star Trek Review

By: jon barss

jon barss — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:52:42 +0000

Liked the movie a lot. But one problem this is a star fleet and they dont have a special ops team to beam onto the other ship except the captain and the 1st mate. come on now.

By: Jeff Kalbfleisch

Jeff Kalbfleisch — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:38:04 +0000

Yes, I think you are definitly correct. If it was up to me I would give star trek best picture. Certainly over the competition from last year, it was clearly the best, what else would be possible. Terminator salvation or Harry potter the 90210 Years. (AKA half blood prince).

Now that I own the dvd I noticed a bug in the movie though. Something to look for for those that own the dvd.

Near the end when they are trying to escape the gravity well. Scotty calls Captain Kirk Captain Picard over the intercom a couple lines after Kirk says get us out of here Scotty. I know the movie plays with an alternate timeline but that seems out of place.

By: shotta

shotta — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:20:41 +0000

Hi just saw something in the movie that’s stuck in the back of my mind and wonder if anyone else have seen this, kirks mother i think is also sporks mother !!!! tell me if i am wrong…

By: Max D. Parrilla

Max D. Parrilla — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:06:07 +0000

i had seen the star trek movie and was pleasantly surprised on how well the movie was. the movie had inside jokes to those who have seen the movies original series. the green woman, dr. mcCoys famous line, and so fort.

i am just wondering how they will further explain the series of this movie to re-align with the original series story line or if this movie series will make its own story arc.

any solution or outcome and i will be in line waiting to see it.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Thu, 28 May 2009 02:26:40 +0000

Dude! Star trek the movie was amazing; I knew it was going to be awesome! I have to share this with everyone… I just got the Star Trek ring tone on my phone by Texting TREKKIE to 30303 and received the Star Trek: Next Generation Theme

I have to tell you guys this ring tone is awesome! Who’s seen the movie did you enjoy it?

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 27 May 2009 19:33:50 +0000

Check out…

http://johnaugust.com/archives/2009/trek-writer

… if you want some details from the screenwriters themselves why the storyline regarding Nero was cut back. For me, their reasoning makes complete sense.

They compromised Nero for the overall flow of the movie.

By: Trent

Trent — Fri, 15 May 2009 05:47:39 +0000

Great Review John.

By: g8tor

g8tor — Thu, 14 May 2009 20:35:03 +0000

practice what you preach, see rule #2.
“2) Disagree and debate, but no insulting other commenters or the author”
i’ve had posts deleted and i didn’t even call anyone names.
i can’t believe i’m going to watch star trek before i see wolverine.

By: Trekki

Trekki — Thu, 14 May 2009 19:40:24 +0000

Space Wars, because this is not Star Trek, was a good “Die Hard” in space. It was a good movie, but short of having a ship named Enterprise, it has very little to do with Star Trek. I cant understand why some Idiot “Artsy” director needs to re-envision something that has been so written about by it’s creator. If you are doing to kill off main characters and destroy planets that exist in EVERY SINGLE movie and TV show, then dont call it Star Trek, because it is not. If you are going to do an Alternate Reality movie, then fix it at the end like EVERY Star Trek has ALWAYS done. Paramount promised when they started this project that it would be a Star Trek, but instead gave some moron the keys and he just decided to make it some Die Hard, Star Wars, Star Trek hybrid. While you are killing main Star Trek characters, kill off Spock or Kirk and have a real Alternate Reality movie. If you are going to go to the extreme of putting down your vision and rewrite something that was good already, then don’t call it Star Trek. That way, you wont have to pay all the licensing fees and copyright fees that go along with it. Now, you have to pay all the extra fees and all you did was use a few names and a ship, and are stuck paying millions to use a name that you ruined. Good luck fixing it for the next movie douche, I hope it fails as miserably as you pathetic attempt to be Gene Roddenberry. You suck!

By: Vid

Vid — Thu, 14 May 2009 03:42:52 +0000

Star Trek works as a light action movie but as a sci-fi movie it lack any intellectual depth that the TV shows or movies had (as cheesy and dated as they are now). For that reason it doesn’t deserve a 9 out of 10. And 8 maybe but a 7 would be more appropriate.

Characters were the best part of this movie. Well acted and memorable particular Bones. I hope they tone down Chekov’s accent and don’t have Sulu doing unnecessary acrobatics that have nothing to do with his fencing training. Uhura unfortunately has little to do but be the love interest. Does nobody know how to write a relevant female role that isn’t tied to a man? Nero was a generic villain.

The plot has some pretty obvious contrivances. How random was it for Kirk to not only land on the same planet but also run into “you know who” who just happens to have the means to defeat Nero.

Also the transporter technology was used way too often and in the most overly powerful ways that it makes it hard to wonder what it can’t do. Another lazy crutch to move the plot forward.

Nero is about to kill Kirk but ooh some distraction occurs. The next Romulan is about to kill him but decides to brag instead. How cliche, lazy and predictable was that?

There was some bad science in here but that was something I could ignore somewhat.

Watchmen may have been confusing but there was an intellectual depth to it. Something which there is none of in Star Trek but that’s ok but hopefully the sequel will be somewhat thought provoking.