Comments on: Trekkies Attack New Star Trek As Too Entertaining

By: Evan

Evan — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:15:48 +0000

wow. This was a great movie. im not a trekkie but i definitely enjoyed this. as far as all the trekkies who are so against this film for whatever reason i believe you should grow up. this film has introduced millions ofnew fans to the world of star trekt who would have never otherwise been. i believe the reason trekkies dislike this film with a passion is because it was so liked and popular with the majority of all people.trekkies dont want to see ‘their’ franchised be mainstreamed and enjoyed by the rest of society.
wheres all the morals and good will in bashing someones creative work. its really easy to be a critic. i would like to see more compassion and understanding from you trekkies since that is what you guys preach.
live long and prosper :)

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:28:42 +0000

I finally got my wife to watch a Star Trek movie, and enjoy it.
For me that means the movie definitely increased the general public acceptance level.

By: Keldab

Keldab — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:38:54 +0000

Does anyone ever watch the movie? Maybe I’m an old stick-in-the-mud Trekker or Trekkie or whatever the hell it is that we’re called, but the “reboot” as someone put it up above simply says everything else that was great about the original series NEVER happened. Poof! Lots of the shows and other movies had big plot holes so I don’t spend too much time on the ones in this show, but time travel is common place in Star Trek. So, when the planet Vulcan is destroyed and the civilization lost, time traveling Spock shrugs his shoulder and says, ‘Wow. That’s too bad.’ So, I guess in five or ten years when this crowd is too old they can start over again. I know this is only a show, but it did have a particular message of hope and inspiration and for me, this feels like it is completely sacrificed on the altar of new profits. That’s the movie biz, but I don’t have to like it.

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:17:11 +0000

Whether or not you will like this movie will problably boil down to 1 of 2 things, if you want a movie like the other Trek movies, that offer social commentary and show the future as the way we hope it will be like, you’ll probably hate this movie. If you want a movie that offers non stop mindless action then this is the movie for you. The movie starts off with a bang and with an interesting premise. But I began to suspect something illogical was happening when the villian from the future who comes back to kill Spock realizes that he he is 25 years to early. So what does he do in the 25 years he has to wait for Spock to grow up? Does he go back to Romulus to warn the planet or at least save his family? No, he does nothing at all (must have been a boring 25 year wait). Then as we watch the characters grow up I see that they changed Kirk from an educated, Shakespeare quoting very likable character into a selfish, over the top horny, jerk. I slowly realized that most of the other charcters were just the same. Obviously the film is only geared for 17 year old boys. The final blow was when they destroyed the planet Vulcan and changed the timeline effectively erasing all the Television series and movies that were so full of important social commentary and made us like the charcters so much. its as if everything i knew and liked about the show was a lie and this new reality with plots and charcters dummed down to the level of a teenager is the new future. Thanks, but no thanks.

By: jaderman

jaderman — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 05:31:21 +0000

Batman I’ll bet all of love the new Batmans! If there ever was a story line that got flushed down the toilet, oh yeah no shit. You’d think most ever one here just found out that Star Trek is not a religioun. the more I read the More I know the Nay Sayers didn’t even see the movie. Spock kissing a stranger, you jackass. Did you not pick up on the Sexual enuendos between the 2 or were you too damn busy being a damn Nay Sayer?

By: jaderman

jaderman — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 05:24:18 +0000

Oh yea? let’s not even get into the acting that went on in the holy trillogy x’s 2. damn nay-sayers.

By: jaderman

jaderman — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 05:17:02 +0000

All the negatives are rediculous here. First and formost, take off the “ears” for a moment and listen up. The Next Generation took the Trek history way out. SO WHAT? They needed to delv all the way into Enterprise the series to explain the Klingons appearance from the “weevle” episode in the origional. Why so closed minded? The old school Trek, well let us face up to it, you kinda had to be a “dork” to get into it. I say run with it! Is that not the idea behind any sci fi, that you never know, or any thing is possible? StarGate sg1, sux something aweful. There is nothing redeamable about the acting in that. I say to all you hard core Treksters like me, look beyond yourself and have some fun, open your mind and quit being a damn nay-sayer. Trek is Trek…period!
live long and get with the program!

By: John Hoogesteger

John Hoogesteger — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:12:19 +0000

First off, let me say that the movie overall was entertaining, and there were some good action sequences and some good character moments.
That said, I have a lot of problems with the film:
1. I love time travel stories where time travel is used to actually create some issue or conundrum that need to be solved. Here it is used to: A. Give the writers an excuse to ignore any existing Star Trek lore they find inconvenient and B. So Leonard Nimoy can be in the film. It was really a pretty uninspired use of time travel.
2. One of the things that set Star Trek apart was the fact that it frequently dealt with some intellectual/moral/ethical issue of some sort. It used science fiction to tell stories that applied to today. This movie doesn’t do that at all. Clearly the goal here was to recreate Star Trek to be more like other current-day action movie franchises.
3. This whole notion that filmmakers have that when they tell an origin story, characters that normally work together must be in conflict is horribly flawed. One of the many things that ruined the “Wild, Wild West,” movie was this business of having West and Artemus Gordon at odds with each other instead of working together as they did in the series. The “Starsky and Hutch” movie, again bad on so many levels, was made even worse by the notion that Starsky and Hutch were not friends, and, in fact, did not like each other at all. And so it was with Kirk and Spock having to be at odds with each other, engaged in a power struggle. Couldn’t the writers have come up with a better story where all these young officers are thrust into a situation and realize the need to band together, but have trouble because they simply don’t know each others strengths and weaknesses?
4. The Star Trek of Kirk and Spock was a very slick and clean one, not the gritty, dirty future of the “Alien” movies. I bring this up because the scenes in engineering were very jarring. For some reason the bridge was slick, but the scenes in engineering looked like they were shot in an abandoned manufacturing plant. Even the engineering of “Star Trek: Enterprise” looked more modern than this.
5. Although Zachary Quinto did the best job of looking and behaving like a young Spock, as opposed to simply remaking the character to suit the new franchise, this whole business of him having a relationship with Uhura was right out of left field, totally out of character for Spock of any age and clearly was done just to make Star Trek a more generic action franchise going forward.

By: greg

greg — Sun, 24 May 2009 01:03:11 +0000

your mouth gods ears. if rodenbury was here still this would never have happened he would have taken this script flushed it downt he toilet or set it on fire like it deserves and yelled get out of here and never come back! if you ever wondered what hell would be like for rodenbury this is it. he is looking down at the idiots trashing his world he created. its a sad sad day.

By: greg

greg — Sun, 24 May 2009 00:57:24 +0000

oh sorry i almsot forgot. i guess me trying to block it out is finally working. sixth winona ryder (poster child of shoplifters are us as spocks mother. what were the people that were in charge of casting thinking. my god save yourselves now flush what ever drugs or booze you might have been smoking, swallowing, shooting up, snorting, and or drinking cause you should realize its bad and tainted to cause you to pick winona ryder to play spocks mother. good god what a HUGE mistake! she couldnt have done a worse job playing the part is she tried to make it worse and they gave her a billion takes to try it!