Yeah, so I went to see the new Star Trek movie last night.
If you haven’t seen it, and are planning to, you may not want to read any further as there may be a few spoilers.
Now, I’m not a trekkie, although I have seen more or less everything of Star Trek. I liked the new movie on its own. It had great special effects and a good storyline. I also liked the previous Star Trek movie for much the same reasons.
I am not gonna review the movie here in detail, just want to rant about a few things that annoyed me about it. Well, not “trekkie”-annoyed, they will complain about everything, just a few details they could’ve done much better.
My first complaint is obviously to the story line. We are witnessing an event that changes the course of Trek history when Kirk’s fathers ship is destroyed by a Romulan vessel appearing from the future through a black hole. The Romulans look like shit compared to the Romulans we’re used to, but never mind that. The point is that they split the time line by interfering with history. Thus we are now seeing a new alternate Star Trek reality. The course of the plot line takes us to the destruction of Vulcan, so this alternate reality can never be anything like the Star Trek we know from the first 4 series and 10 films. Obviously the 5th series is unaffected as it is set at a time before this film. Basically what they have done is create a brand new Trek universe, where they can do whatever they want without considering the old “reality”.
Another annoyance was the interior design of the Enterprise, it looks nothing like a federation starship. The Enterprise in the Enterprise series looks like what we would expect of an early ship, a bit like a submarine in the lower decks. This one just had a too heavy industrial look compared to the slick design we are used to in all the other series and films.
All in all, it was a good movie regardless, and as they have more or less freed themselves from the Trek storyline Roddenberry laid out, we may see some very different Star Trek in the future. J. J. Abrams (the director of this movie) certainly have brought a lot to Star Trek in the past.
