Based on a respected friend's review...

[major_kerina]

I will not be seeing Star Trek. No thank you to that.

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[major-kerina.livejournal.com]

I agree it needed reinvention and there was actually a series idea floating around which I loved by a semi-professional where warp travel is made impossible due to an unknown event and the Federation is cut off from its various parts. And the point is to solve the mystery and restore contact and order to the quadrant/galaxy in the face of this disaster. The ideas with characterization were particularly captivating to me and it felt more like a long, single novel of Star Trek with the indominability of an idea and hope in the face of impossible odds.

Of course, looking back, Voyager was soooo dang cheesy. I agree all around there.

This film may surprise me when I do wind up seeing it in some form...or this film may wind up being like an anti-Star Trek 1. Instead of being utterly devoid of action, being utterly saturated with it to point of it feeling as dumb as no action. Hopefully, a second film may find the right balance between action, ideals, and character motion. I consider myself hopeful on the whole. I figure the film will be a financial success but I don't know if it'll work quite as well as Batman Begins did for that story universe.

My main feeling is maybe I see too much of Star Trek MMO style--- Star Trek "Blow Shit Up!" War stuff in this attempt.

[major-kerina.livejournal.com]

Exactly. And since the new movies' story is pre-Original Series timescale...I can't help but imagine they'll hold onto that same antagonism of a "classic villain" for at least a forthcoming movie or two.