Poll: Star Trek: Yay or Nay?

[thewaever]

The Wrath of Khan had very clear themes from start to finish, the movie was about Kirk getting old, about life and death, an ically modified human, SO COOL...Even for the popcorn eating masses this is just way too dumb of a movie.

I have to disagree on the theme of the movie. They used the Khan character, but they didn't need to re-use the theme of The Wrath of Khan. Instead, the movie was pretty clearly a critique of the US's response to 9/11. I think you suffered the same problem Movie Bob did when he watched this movie. He was expecting one thing & was served something different. That can be a surprise & throw off the "flavor" of the rest of the meal.

For example, to answer your question of why Khan crashed the ship into San Francisco: that's where the academy is. You answered your own question. Khan is trying to destroy the Federation, so he naturally strikes as close to its heart as possible. You were expecting something different, though, & so you can't really see that the answer was already given. I don't see this particular point as a problem.

However, I agree with you on the strange lack of planetary defenses. I mean, even in today's real world we have satellites & the capability of deflecting meteors & things. At the very least, there should've been something set up to deflect a massive body falling into the atmosphere.

 

[uchytjes]

It was strange to me how the ships, despite being totally disabled 237,000 kilometers away from Earth fell into Earth so quickly, or even at all. I mean, shouldn't they be in orbit for that to happen?

I am REALLY glad I'm not the only one to notice that one. First of all, they seemed to be in orbit and following the moon (at least, from what I could tell), shouldn't that mean they just keep orbiting and, if anything, crash into the moon?

The other thing that I noticed was, how in the hell did all that debris get there? There seemed to be more chunks of spaceship out there than there should have been.

 

[Zantos]

EDIT: Oh yea almost forgot, get some Matte surfaces on the ship, I can't see shit past all the shiny lens flair.

I'm currently working on the theory that the sheer luminescence of all the consoles is their emergency lighting if power goes down. You couldn't see shit on that destroyer even when it was in full kill mode.

OT: I really liked it. I enjoyed it from start to end. It could do to be about 6 tribbles more ridiculous to bring it in line with it's source material. I was upset that there was no Scotty playing bagpipes. I liked Cumberbatch, although there were probably much better people for the role I can't actually name anyone in particular. The whole showdown on Kronus scene was pretty damn awesome. Needed more space planet magic (I mean, come on, bring him back to life with blood? Space planet magic!).

Also I hope next they're going to do time travel and kidnapping endangered species. Also also, vulcans are really smug. Oooh we're a super logical race but we believe in destiny. Whatevs Nimoy.