I’m a big fan of the Nicholas Meyer battles (Khan and Undiscovered Country). They – and the others in that series – had a nice weight to them; slow-moving, massive starships that were scalpel-precise with their phasers, and booming with the torpedoes.

I liked Abram’s Star Trek battles because they were kinetic and had a more shotgun blast feel with their pyoo pyoos – I guess mainly because the Federation ships were more concerned with shooting down Nero’s torpedo swarms, and the fact that his mining ship was of unknown design and so the Enterprise and Kelvin wouldn’t know what areas to subtarget.

TNG’s I never liked. Absolutely no weight to the sound effects. The phasers and torpedoes and the impacts sounded like someone brushing food crumbs off a pillow.

1) Does it annoy either of you when they reboot/remake/reuse/recyle a movie or franchise and then everyone dismisses all it’s shortcomings because its a “summer movie” or a “popcorn movie”. If it does annoy you, is it people’s reactions to the terms (i.e. “summer movie”) or the fact that the beloved franchise should have been given better treatment then just being an “entertaining ride” for summer audiences.

2) Do you agree with me that if an actor originates (in TV or FILM) a character that is based from a script alone (as in NOT from another medium like books or comics…so like James Bond, Superman, Batman) then they ARE that character. Such as Shatner IS Kirk, Nimoy IS Spock, Robert Englund IS Freddy, Kurt Russell is Snake Plisken…etc.? If so, how does that effect your view of movies like Star Trek 2009?

3) In the film it seems that Earth nor Vulcan have no homeland defenses that could easily destroy the drill head attacking their planet…why did young spock have to bother with destroying it at all, shouldn’t earth’s defenses have taken it out almost instantly, especially considering it was in the heart of a city right next to Starfleet? discuss.

4) Whats worse…nitpicking Star Trek 2009 to death…or people complaining about the inevitable nitpicking of Star Trek 2009 to death?

5) Uhura was hot. So they got that right, right?

6) Reed, are you annoyed as I am that we now, most likely, live in a world where young kids LOVE Star Trek, BUT will go back and watch the real Star Trek and say they are boring and the effects are bad? Also, noting how satirical it is that this is an actual complaint among Trekkies, that Star Trek doesn’t belong to them anymore and will be replaced in the minds of the young, is it not a valid grievance even to the slightest degree? It is ok to be bitter and old?

7) I realize they couldn’t beam young spock to the room with his parents in it…but couldnt they beam him closer…he had to like climb a mountain to get to them.

8) What is a better spoof of Star Trek…Galaxy Quest or Star Trek 2009?

9) Several upon several complaints have been made, including by Reed, about Spock abandoning Kirk on the lethal ice planet…do you think this is because it was a monumentally stupid plot device or because it was a monumentally stupid plot device? Yes…that question is a tad bias.

10) The Green Girl…would you?

I’d be curious about that. For me the last good Star Trek movie was The Undiscovered Country, though people seemed to dig First Contact. I was only old enough to catch Return of the Jedi on laserdisc, and I never saw any TNG movies in theatres. I kinda feel the theatre experience is a big part of it. I guess it would all depend on how the reboot sequels do.

But then again, I can see myself re-watching Star Trek whereas even though I like the Star Wars movies, you would have to force me to re-watch The Phantom Menace.

Comparing TPM and Abram’s Star Trek, the latter has better performances, and on the strength of the Kelvin scene and much too brief Enterprise pyoo pyoo pyoo moments, has better action. Yes, Jedi battles are the stuff of awesome, but for me, they can be a bit tiring mainly cuz it’s a lot of martial arts flash; I find the starship battles in Star Trek much more engaging because it’s between two colossal objects that have to either present themselves from an angle that makes them smaller to deflect glancing blows or stick out their entire body to take the entire shot. I love broadsides. And sides of broads.

“Dirty babe
You see these shackles
Baby I’m your slave….”

Very good point…is it the young and sexy aspect of this nostalgic romp? I think so.

I wont because I wont see Transformers 2. I thought the first one was the worst blockbuster of the last 10 years. But no, Star Trek is not getting some unfair treatment from me relative to that movie, thats for sure.

what happened to captain kirk and the rest of the crew between the end of TOS and star trek: the motion picture?
im only 6 episodes into TOS
but i cheated and watched (most of) the movie, and i am very confused.
so i decided to wait until i can understand before starting in with the movies, maybe you can help.

Are people going to complain about the inconsistencies of the Transformers plot or Bay’s aesthetic choices to this extent, no for some reason they think it’s cool when robots kick the shit out of each other and are able to let that shit slide. This was a solid summer movie that felt more like an introduction/reset to the characters and world

I don’t think it was a perfect movie by any means; there are story structure problems and a bland Bana. I’m not a fan of that particular universe (The Voyage Home is a fun movie though) so I do have a distance from previous entries but what do people want, the franchise was dead! Trekkers should rejoice that a continuation of that world exists at all, they should be happy they are getting anything close to this quality in this age of Hollywood. Mabye they should look at the state of other franchises before they cry rape.

I also didn’t mind the lens flares one bit.