Thanks pigsback! Last night I got to see Star Trek, the 11th (!) film made about the Star Trek universe, in UCI Tallaght. I was a little apprehensive, I haven't seen anything Trekky in a long time, and was worried that it might not be that great....but I was very impressed.
The film is set before the original series (TOS), just as the crew (Kirk, Uhura, Bones et al) are graduating from Starfleet Academy - suddenly all the just-graduated cadets are pressed into service as the federation reacts to an immediate threat (turns out to be those dratted Romulans again). That's all you need to know, anything else might spoil it for you!
I was very impressed at how the actors reflected the characters we know better (Shatner's Kirk, Nimoy's Spock etc) from when they were older (yes, I did mean to say that), they must have spent a long time watching the original actors to pick up their characteristics.
Effects were great, and the film looked very slick. Technology, whilst looking better than technology from earlier films, didn't generally look any more futuristic than it should have done, and the same goes for uniforms. Everything was obviously carefully checked to make sure it looked more primitive than anything we'd seen before - though the bridge of the NCC-1701 is an exception. Only the Romulan vessel was any way out of "character" - even with disbelief firmly suspended - it looked great, but it didn't really look like a spaceship, let alone a Romulan one, nor did it look very believable as a mining vessel with all its tentacles. They also showed phaser fire as more "pulsing" than as the single beam of energy you'd be used to.
It's also got the dry humour that most of the earlier (and even some later) Trek films had, and there will be plenty of laughs from the seats. Overall, a thoroughly enjoyable film. I'd give it 15 out of 17, definitely one to see. I sincerely hope the same crew make the next film.
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