Star Trek

[eirenical]

Saw the new Star Trek movie Saturday night. I... still don't entirely have a handle on how I feel about it. *grumbles* I will say this, though. On some level, I was so disturbed by the things I liked about the movie that when I got home at 1 AM, I had to go watch "City on the Edge of Forever" to get the movie out of my head. I left that movie feeling like I'd just watched my best friend die. Which makes no sense, because I actually did enjoy the movie. The new cast was frickin' awesome and the new character interpretations, though in some cases similar, were different yet appropriate for this new century. I mean... anyone who didn't love the way Uhura *coughs* got assigned *coughs* to the Enterprise... *eg* And the Uhura/Spock moments were unbelievably sweet and make sense. Spock accepting touching/PDAs, though... that made me massively twitch. Again, I understand it's a new interpretation of the character that, again, is appropriate for this century, but still... it disturbed me.

Even though I know that this is alternate timeline... I guess the flat out truth is that in the past, whenever a new "wrong" timeline has subsumed the current one, our intrepid band of heroes would go back and fix it. This time, the universe got fucked seven ways to Sunday... and no one cares. No one's going to fix it. Even "Spock Prime" is just accepting things the way that they are. You can bet your ass that if it had been Jim Kirk who had been flung back in time, he'd have moved Heaven and Earth to set time back on its appropriate path. That won't happen this time. And so, even though I do admit that I liked the movie, the new cast did some serious justice to the characters ((Oh Karl Urban, Hell Yeah! I knew I loved you for a reason! *_* *_*)), and the new wonderful tension/angst-ridden start to Kirk and Spock's friendship will give me many pleasant thoughts *waggles eyebrows* ((though, damn it!, he and Uhura are just so wonderful, I don't think I want them split up... *sigh*))...

...I still feel like this isn't my Trek. I feel like an impostor killed my Star Trek and slipped into it's place. And not only did no one notice... everyone welcomed the change. Thus this feeling of mourning. But the thing that's causing me the most angst... there's a significant part of me that also likes this new little sister to my favorite show. ;_; Thus the feelings of conflict. I want to like the new Trek, because it really did live up to the original...

I'll get there. Eventually. :-P

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Hee, a reply! *bounces* I've been waiting for this since two seconds after I hit post. *grins* And yes, I have an iPhone, so it was a little easier than most phones, but still. I think I was crossed a bit at the end of it.

And I wholeheartedly agree that this deserves a phone call. Unfortunately, I've been working closing shifts all darn week so far, so it hasn't been conducive to calling you and talking your ear off. Grr.

Okay. Counter-discussion:

Oh -- and as a side-note... how much did I love the "up-yours" moment of Spock with the admittance committee for the Vulcan Science Academy?? I can not say it enough.

I loved that! I even turned to Justin and said, "In other words... F You All!" It was probably as close as a Vulcan would get to using a phrase like that. Loved it and laughed my ass off.

And did you notice the nod to ST: IV when Spock gave Scotty the formula for beaming onto a ship at Warp speed? ^_^

I did indeed! Another moment where I laughed. You know, that's something I realized almost immediately - after my post-sacrifice bawling, that is: I did an awful lot of laughing during this movie. The OS certainly had its moments of humor, don't get me wrong, but they weren't as blatant and in-your-face as the scenes in this movie. That entire scene where Bones snuck Kirk onto the Enterprise? Hilarious! I spent a majority of the movie with a grin on my face, and that's unusual for a Trek movie.

And hello, shouldn't Sarek have lost his bleeding mind when that happened? Marriage bond, anyone? Especially since Spock clearly didn't meld with him to keep him sane...

There is that, too.. My only guess is that they were trying to pare down the movie to keep a general audience engaged and involved. If they had stopped to play out such a scene, it would have broken the momentum of the movie and likely confused/bored people who were being newly introduced to the Star Trek universe, which was a major goal of this movie. Also - supposedly the book version of the movie has a great many more scenes which were deleted from the film, so we may want to try there. Another interesting point.. the writers and directors of the movie went out of their way to read certain books in the Star Trek universe, namely Spock's World, to get a solid grasp on critical aspects of Vulcan culture and history that weren't necessarily cannon. That leads me to believe that they did indeed understand what Amanda's death would do to Sarek, but simply couldn't include it in the movie for a variety of reasons. Sniff. Amanda.

I love Nichelle Nichols with all my heart, but I've also loved Zoe Seldana since seeing her in "Center Stage", and her Uhura is what Nichelle Nichols' Uhura should have been... but couldn't be because the show was filmed in the '60s. Damn was she good. ^_^

Yes she was. *grins* This was the Uhura that we loved in the books, especially.

If you decide to see it again, I'll be curious to know what your second take of it is. *hugs*