Spock and Kirk

On Delta Vega, after Kirk is ejected from the Enterprise by the green-blooded hobgoblin.

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Generally though, it was all rather spectacular and the fights were cool

:edit: ARG it ate my white post and turned it into a single square bracket; WTF?

Let me try that again...

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I liked it - I want more Star Trek like this. There were so many things I liked about it - it could have been an FX lead film, but it wasn’t. I felt it was moved along nicely with characters providing the momentum. I think I was grinning like a loon all the way through it.

I thought the warp speed effects were wonderfully minimalist, and a nod to the way Star wars handles FTL speeds - al never liked the Trek “rubber band into a flash” effect.

My criticism - it was too short. I get the feeling that there is a good 20-30 minutes of necessary story on the proverbial cutting room floor. It did jump along at times, and the Spock/Uhura thread seemed introduced in a heavy handed way. I felt that it was a second or third encounter. I hpe the Blu Ray of this has an extended version.

Spock and Uhura? I know this was hinted at in early TOS episodes, but on a one way basis.

I’m still buzzing from it. I may go and watch it again.

so I'm the only one who appreciated the irony of that?

I'm clearly missing something here so I'll bite. Irony?

it was kirk and uhura who kissed in the series... spock and uhura in the film...

I've not seen the film yet, but does the Spock/Uhura kiss necessarily mean a Kirk/Uhura kiss isn't going to happen?

In the series, certainly the early episodes, Uhura was clearly keen on Spock, but he never reciprocated. The kiss between Kirk and Uhura in the series was not a voluntary one, but forced by alien powers (to keep the racist bigots in America happy).

I liked the fork lift trucks they were using. Not an anti-gravity hovering thing anywhere. There were valves and large industrial things in the engine rooms. I half expected to see people stoking coal and a big steam engine.

There is a part of Star Fleet is grubby and messy in this one. There is a definte “us and them” when it comes to the engineering sections and the bridge sections of the ship. It successfully creates the atmosphere of pioneering and exploration that Enterprise totally failed to do.

Rumours abound that the release date for Star Trek on DVD & Blu-ray is late OCTOBER!

I enjoyed the visuals and it was a good story and it kept true to the series but I wouldn't watch it again. I was never a fan of the original series, it was too funny, I prefer the more realism in the others.

Just came back from watching it today...

I felt that for a general Sci-Fi film or for those new to Star Trek i would probably rate it a 8 or a 9 just because i did like the whole clean look and special effects etc. of it although i do agree that the Spock/Uhura thing was a bit... rushed ?

However as a Star Trek film i think i would probably lower it to about a 7-8 just because i personally kept spotting what i thought were inconsistencies with the general "universe". I mean i know they explained things with Kelvin got destroyed therefore Alternate Universe but there are some things i felt were just not right ¬.¬

Anyhow, overall i liked it and will hopefully get it on blu-ray when released.

Don't get me started! Next you'll be saying that you don't rate Quantum "as a Bond film"

Come on, you've got to give us some examples now