more star trek ramblings
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wickedcherubI've been thinking more about Star Trek and why I liked the movie so much, so if you've seen it,
So when I was growing up, Star Trek was the uncoolest thing ever. It involved funny hand gestures and pointed ears and bad special effects. Star Wars, while geeky, had lightsabers and the Force!
I grew up thinking that Trekkies were traitors to the Star Wars fandom and so I never watched any of it. Not even one little bit.
I didn't even see the trailer for this new movie. But I went along to see it because I hadn't seen a movie at the cinema for ages and I recognised practically every single person on the cast list.
The first thing I noticed, (besides the fact that everything looked so pretty) was that this was *our* future. It wasn't some other world like Star Wars, it was Earth! And it was a nice universe - we didn't screw it up! The whole world was so optimistic - not like Bladerunner or Alien or Serenity, everything was clean right and good except for some real bad guys. But we have Starfleet for that!
And you know, even though I had never seen any Star Trek before I must have picked up some of it through popular culture. When they first showed the ship, my heart almost exploded - "omg I know that ship.... it's the.... Enterprise." Wee!Spock was the best. I didn't know that Vulcans were these logical beings. But that sequence was amazing for character exposition and my first exposure to a "live long and prosper" was done as a FUCK YOU!!!!!
It was like something lit up inside me everytime I recognised something.. "God God Jim, I'm a doctor.." and Scotty being the teleporter guy so that's where the Beam me up thing comes from etc.
I loved that they kept all the aliens (okay well most of) mostly humanoid, even with today's special effects. Though I still have to laugh at Vulcans being a different race due to them having a bowl haircut and silly eyebrows. (ok and pointy ears. And the whole unemotional thing)
I cried like a baby through the opening sequence.
Adam was grinning like a maniac all throughout the test sequence with Kirk and his apple, so they must have done something right there, Adam being a really huge Kirk fan.
Is it sad that I recognised Leonard Nimoy only because he voices all the quotes in the Civilization IV game?
I didn't recognise Winona. I thought it was Tina Fey. I don't know why.
The big unnecessary monsters that looked like they came out of Spore scared me, so I liked them.
I liked that everyone on the ship was there due to merit. Not because they were The Chosen One or because it was Destiny or they were royalty or anything. I love the fact that there are so many token minorities on the ship that they're no longer token.
A lot of the movie was reminiscent of other space movies though - fighting on platforms? check. Flying little ship into huge ship to destroy it? Check. Ice planet? Check.
I don't know but the PDA between Spoke / Uhura didn't fit right for me, but the pairing definitely did, omg. I loved all the characters. The female character wasn't annoying, the comic relief wasn't annoying, everyone fit well!
I hope they make a million sequels.
So when I was growing up, Star Trek was the uncoolest thing ever. It involved funny hand gestures and pointed ears and bad special effects. Star Wars, while geeky, had lightsabers and the Force!
I grew up thinking that Trekkies were traitors to the Star Wars fandom and so I never watched any of it. Not even one little bit.
I didn't even see the trailer for this new movie. But I went along to see it because I hadn't seen a movie at the cinema for ages and I recognised practically every single person on the cast list.
The first thing I noticed, (besides the fact that everything looked so pretty) was that this was *our* future. It wasn't some other world like Star Wars, it was Earth! And it was a nice universe - we didn't screw it up! The whole world was so optimistic - not like Bladerunner or Alien or Serenity, everything was clean right and good except for some real bad guys. But we have Starfleet for that!
And you know, even though I had never seen any Star Trek before I must have picked up some of it through popular culture. When they first showed the ship, my heart almost exploded - "omg I know that ship.... it's the.... Enterprise." Wee!Spock was the best. I didn't know that Vulcans were these logical beings. But that sequence was amazing for character exposition and my first exposure to a "live long and prosper" was done as a FUCK YOU!!!!!
It was like something lit up inside me everytime I recognised something.. "God God Jim, I'm a doctor.." and Scotty being the teleporter guy so that's where the Beam me up thing comes from etc.
I loved that they kept all the aliens (okay well most of) mostly humanoid, even with today's special effects. Though I still have to laugh at Vulcans being a different race due to them having a bowl haircut and silly eyebrows. (ok and pointy ears. And the whole unemotional thing)
I cried like a baby through the opening sequence.
Adam was grinning like a maniac all throughout the test sequence with Kirk and his apple, so they must have done something right there, Adam being a really huge Kirk fan.
Is it sad that I recognised Leonard Nimoy only because he voices all the quotes in the Civilization IV game?
I didn't recognise Winona. I thought it was Tina Fey. I don't know why.
The big unnecessary monsters that looked like they came out of Spore scared me, so I liked them.
I liked that everyone on the ship was there due to merit. Not because they were The Chosen One or because it was Destiny or they were royalty or anything. I love the fact that there are so many token minorities on the ship that they're no longer token.
A lot of the movie was reminiscent of other space movies though - fighting on platforms? check. Flying little ship into huge ship to destroy it? Check. Ice planet? Check.
I don't know but the PDA between Spoke / Uhura didn't fit right for me, but the pairing definitely did, omg. I loved all the characters. The female character wasn't annoying, the comic relief wasn't annoying, everyone fit well!
I hope they make a million sequels.
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Date: 2009-05-11 08:32 am (UTC)Is it sad that I recognised Leonard Nimoy only because he voices all the quotes in the Civilization IV game?
OMG YES.
Did you notice that they muted the sounds as soon as the camera pans into outer space? I love it.
God the cast was perfect, the back story was all so spot on so non-trekkies CAN love this film, but they didn't overdo it so that trekkies would be facepalming in boredom.
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Date: 2009-05-11 11:24 am (UTC)That's really what I've always loved about Trek. It's a hopeful vision of the future, not perfect, but not a dystopia. It's easy to find dark dystopian sci-fi these days. It's not as easy to find something that suggests that the history of the future could involve things getting better.
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Date: 2009-05-11 05:09 pm (UTC)