07.06.09
Suicide
Went to see the new Star Trek fillum this evening.
Well hmm.
Overall it was a nice fun ride with big bangs and swooshy noises. But there are buts.
The main one was the central plot device. Talk about ludicrous. I shan’t give out many spoilers here but come on! “Red matter”? Pfft.
Then there are 2 major omissions of action. Parts of the action take place on Earth and on Vulcan. Apparently these major advanced civilizations with all their warp drive, weapons and technology can’t deal with the attacks (the drilling rig thing) but 2 blokes with parachutes and basic blasters can.
Some of the others are a bit more minor (eg when they arrive at Saturn’s moon Titan they have a wonderful vista of Saturn’s rings – oops big howler here – Titan is on the plane of the rings so they wouldn’t have seen owt but the thin edge – not a great visual tho – and thanks to the SGU for pointing that one out).
And on one further odd note. Star Trek has always been a bit American-ethics-conquer-the-galaxy-y. So what? The start of the film has Kirk’s dad in charge of a star ship. He’s outgunned and clearly in a weaker situation than his attacker. So what does he decide to do? That’s right – “ram them”. Yup Kirk’s dad was a suicide bomber. Nice.
It does look like the reinvention of the Star Trek universe though so future fillums should be coming out regularly. I hope they can be as fun and not so contrived as this one.