JJ Abrams' Star Trek

[James]

maybe not necessarily destroy two whole planets

One planet. Romulus hasn't gone anywhere yet, and you don't really think Spock's going to fail at saving it a second time, do you?

The science in Star Trek was pretty dumb, but I decided not to worry about it. I wish it was a decision I didn't have to make, but I still had a great time even after that. Thinking about how close the ice planet would have to be to Vulcan to get that view (and why wasn't it destroyed as well, being that close?), or why a star light-years away from Romulus would have had any effect other than major radiation bombardment, or how far away the Enterprise was when they transported on to it, or...

-sigh-

Yeah, it's got some problems. Still a lot of fun, though.

James

[Frogacuda]

One planet. Romulus hasn't gone anywhere yet, and you don't really think Spock's going to fail at saving it a second time, do you?

For the purposes of the current timeline, sure, I was just saying it was going a little over the top, JRPG-style. Reminded me of Star Ocean in that regard.

Thinking about how close the ice planet would have to be to Vulcan to get that view (and why wasn't it destroyed as well, being that close?),

I assumed it was a moon or something.

But yeah, the science was generally nonsense, but it sort of always was. That didn't even bother me as much as the constant coincidences and the fact that they kept accepting Kirk's presence and forgiving him for being such a scamp.

[Uriel]

I dont think you should use TOS for realism. Cheesiness is an integral part of it.

If this was a reboot of TNG or something, then I'd be concerned.

[Cowutopia]

lol nuke the fridge.

Indy 4 was the WORST

[Space Pirate Roberts]

[AstroBlue]

LOL

[SpoDaddy]

Saw this over the weekend, had a great time but it didn't really feel like Star Trek. I was always more of a TNG fan though. Bones was awesome, although he had a few fanservice lines that made me cringe ("Dammit Jim, I'm a Doctor not a blah blah!"). Basically, I have a lot of complaints about the movie but I still enjoyed it. If the sequel doesn't have a real plot I'll be annoyed.

[Anthony]

I felt it was a 6/10, maybe 7/10. I don't regret seeing it though. Bear in mind I have only seen one star trek episode in my life, but I enjoyed that. I found the kirk character unbearable on the screen, it felt like I was watching the lead from fast and the furious, and not in a good way. I also thought that changing the asian dude from fencing to samurai swords gave him way less character (a friend told me he fenced in the show, which sounds more interesting).

The good parts were new Spock, Scotty, and especially old Spock. I don't know why people thought the new cast could act circles around old Spock, I have barely seen the tv show, so sans fandom I thought he put out more emotion in a guy having no emotion then the rest of the crew put together.

The villian was awful, but maybe thats the par for star trek movies. I kinda wanna see some of the old ones, which one's should I start with?

[cka]

movies or shows?

pretty much all the movies except 5, insurrection and nemesis are good; as for tv I think most/all of TOS is up on youtube by CBS so you can easily view it that way, TNG from season 2-7 is decent, and the latter 2/3rds of DS9 is what you're gonna wanna watch (voyager and enterprise can rot in hell)

comedy "star trek animated series" and fan-made internet films suggestion

edit: wow I just read that flowchart and it's spot-on

[TODE]

For movies, a good place to start is The Trilogy (movie 2-4) because you have RICARDO MONTALBAN as Khan in the first part. First Contact (movie 8) has a good villain. Movie 6 has a Shakespeare-quoting Klingon!


I know I really shouldn't, but I really feel like I need to watch Star Trek 1 again, even though it's the longest, slowest movie ever made.