Oh, wouldn’t warping be excellent if instead of a lever they used giant scissors to cut a ribbon - every time?
And endanger the yarn people of Nylar IV? I think not!
I’ll tell ya one thing. I sooo want to pop over to the alternate timeline where they’re showing Harold and Kumar get some Arcturan Poontang.
You stow that shit, mister! :mad:
Actually, I’m not quite sure now why I thought it would be a continuity break. I think it had something to do with how long it took them to find the Botany Bay, and having them find it so soon after the new movie would be a mistake. But, from what I’ve just read, the ship was only 20 lightyears from Earth, so it could still be found pretty easily. (That’s only 60 days away at Warp 5.)
I just went to see it last night and while the film was rolling, I was enjoying myself. I thought the relationships between the characters was well done.
But… I didn’t buy the Spock-Uhura thing, that kinda bugged me. I kinda hoped they would find a way to undetroy Vulcan. I didn’t like that Kirk was such a cocky little bastard. TOS set up some back story that would have made some interesting stories. I guess what I was really hoping for was to see how these characters we like, became the characters we like. I went in hoping for some Young Sherlock Holmes cleverness, but all fans of TOS got was a big “fuck you.”
I had a small snicker in my mind at that point, thinking how great that a pack of geeks like us could affect a director’s artistic vision like that 
We finally saw this last night. It was MilliCal’s first Star Trek Movie in the Theater, and she loved it.
I’m not going to wade through the entire thread to see if I’m duplicatimng anyone’s comments, but I just had to say:
1.) “My name is James T. Kirk. You killed my father. Prrepare to Die.”
2.) Why the hell does a mining ship carry multiple warhead fragmentation torpedos capable of destroying several top-class military vessels. Even granting that they’re from the future (actually the future’s future), this is a bit like the Nostromo taking out the Sulaco. (Do I get extra Geek Points for that?)
3.) Bonus points – Pepper Mill noted this. I said something about Kirk shacking up with green Orion women, but she pointed out that Kirk never actually did this. We’ve seen Christopher Pike with one, and Scott Bakula with three, but I can’t honestly recall Kirk with a green woman, now that I think about it.
MilliCal just showed me this:
Nero: Who is this? Identify yourself!
Director: Starship NCC-1701; J.J. Abrams, Commanding. Who are you?
“Whom Gods Destroy.”
For extra geek-points, the green woman was played by Yvonne “Batgirl” Craig.
That was a Sim about Susan Boyle, the Scottish singer. 
On the same page is a Sim Film of Star Trek, based on the movie
Ah, I see it now, scrolling across the middle with the others. Thanks.
The missus and I hiked out to see it last night. Now, I was a teenager when TOS was first aired, and I’ve been through all the subsequent incarnations. So I come at this with the viewpoint of someone who grew up on Star Trek.
I thought it was fun. Sure there were a couple of points in the movie that pegged my WTF meter, but then I thought “well, let’s see where this is going.”
The only thing that took me out of the movie so far that I couldn’t get back into it was a pre-teen Anakin Skywalker racing his pod – excuse me – a pre-teen James Kirk racing a Corvette that was, by my estimate, something like 275 years old, across the back roads of Iowa before having it plunge over a cliff. Excuse me, but I’ve been all through Iowa, and there ain’t no cliffs. Maybe a quarry here or there, but they’re more like 20 feet deep.
But once we got through that (and the product placements for Nokia and Budweiser) I was pretty much able to sit back and enjoy the ride.
And while I haven’t read every one of the last 20 pages, I noticed early on that some were criticising an Enterprise full of rookie cadets. Wasn’t that also a subplot in The Wrath of Kahn?
Yes, but there were experienced officers on hand in each of the major departments, the mission didn’t seem all that urgent at first, and no cadet was ridiculously promoted after the crisis had passed.
Forbidden Planet would have been my choice for a Trek movie. It is, after all the standard TOS plot.
Not to mention classy lines like, “Formidable sidearm” and Anne Francis’, “What’s a bathing suit?”
Well, heck, Roddenbery ransacked FP for Star Trek – the triumvirate of Captain, First Officer, and Ship’s Doctor, the Communicators and Sidearms, the Saucer-shaped FTL ship with the alphanumeric title instead of a name. And he scarfed the look of the Transporters from the Stasis beams.
Indeed, as
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admitted when the local PBS station interviewed him by phone when showing TFP about a hundred years ago.
It would be the perfect TOS pilot. The First Officer buys the farm, and Spock would retain SO as well as becoming FO.
Do these movie people listen to me? No, they do not. :rolleyes:
It was definitely a quarry – the rock was worked. Oh, and in the future, quarries will be deeper!