Star Trek *spoilers*

[learnteach]

You have been warned!


James Tiberius Kirk...man, you gotta learn how to pick better fights, what is it, Napoleon complex? Fight with stepdad, fight in bar, fight with Romulans, fight on deck, saved by Pike, by Sulu, by...well, you lose the fights but win the war.

And that green chick? Totally hot!

Spock I for the win!

Comments

Re: Reboot

[metageek.livejournal.com]

and build a whole bunch of ships based on the knowledge that Spock the Elder brought back.

I don't know if they'll pick up on that. Did you see the last episode of Voyager? There's a 20-year time jump that brings back armor that, 20 years in the future, makes a shuttle strong enough to ignore two Klingon warbirds. But we never see that armor again; there's never any hint that Janeway has just disrupted the balance of power.

cvirtue just saw the movie, and I just talked to her about it. She made the point that Paramount pretty much had to do a reboot, because they were getting too limited in how they could fit into the continuity. The first thing I thought of was that they could jump into the future again; but the armor problem means that they'd have trouble giving the Federation sufficient challenges.

The movie producers walked a fine line between making a modern movie and keeping to the letter of the canon

What? No, they didn't; they nuked the canon from orbit. They kept faithful to the characters.

Pity about the green chick, though, she was hot.

Yeah, that was a nice touch. They played the "Kirk makes out with an alien babe" trope, but it turns out she's just as promiscuous as he is.