Well, one of the interesting things I read—and I don’t know if it was J.J. Abrams or the movie’s writing team—but a comment was made that the idea was to bring back that sense of “passion” that the TOS series had. The point was made that TNG, DSP, VOY and ENT all where interesting in their own way but none of them carried over that sense of passion the old Kirk Trek had.
Enterprise SHOULD have been the most pasionate of the bunch, but it also failed to tap into the spirit of original Trek.
So if, as this interview I read suggested, this new Star Trek movie brings back that old feeling, then I think it’s a winner.
In a thread I created a while back. a little self-promotion never hurt anyone I likened the Trek series to children in a family.
I do remember that. Very well said.
Reminds me also of what Chuck has said about movies and their sequels. “The first is always the best.” In other words, the first is the one that brought the freshness, broke the new ground, got everything moving. The first is often flawed, but it gets that special status of being first.
Motion carries!!
I’ve been a fan of Zoe Saldana for a while now…she does very few films, but stands out in all of them.
And she’s hot. Impossibly ridiculously amazingly hot
Not sure it’ll risk being a “paraody”…I think the risk is it just won;t be as good to fans. Not even talking about the die hards who will ask “where is Gary Mitchell?” or “McCoy wasn’t on the Enterprise at that point”. Just the folks who really liked the orgianl series and want that same kind of vibe. Think it was siad earlier inteh thread - if there’s not real chemistry–if you don;t feel the Kirk/Spock/McCoy triangle…it just won’t fly - not matter how many fights, effects or good lines there are.
But that’s just my two photon torpedoes