It's Trek, Jim, but not as we know it

[karohemd]

and it is indeed very good. What really made the film for me were the little touches and references and I think it's a really good vehicle for revitalising the franchise, just like what the new BSG did.
My only real problem was the design of the Enterprise, too clean, too white, too bright, too shiny but I liked the tech elements of it, the mix of touchscreen and hands on button pushing/switch flicking.

Comments

[sea-cucumber.livejournal.com]

It was a mighty film :D

[akcipitrokulo.livejournal.com]

I liked it - a few niggles, most notably Sarek & Amanda (I was expecting to be disappointed with Sarek though!)

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

They did make a reasonable stab at explaining the rift between Spock and Sarek, though. The only thing I didn't like about Quinto was that he couldn't do the Vulcan salute properly, with the fingers slightly curled forward instead of straight (or even stretched back a bit).

Other than that I found that all the main cast members made the characters their own while adopting a few characteristics of the originals, I was really pleased with that.

[akcipitrokulo.livejournal.com]

I felt that the rift wasn't really explored properly - and was irritated that they seemed to be talking - they should still have been in the pre-Babel estrangement?

I was more talking about the actors though. I knew that mark Lenard was going to be the one that I would miss the most, so was prepared for that, but Winona Rider was so wrong imo. Amanda was beautiful, graceful, full of a sense of serenity (except when she got pissed) that was very missing, I felt.

McCoy was fantastic!

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

No, it wasn't explored properly, but I thought "Ah, that's how it started" (so possibly not enough for newbies).
Yeah, Sarek felt more like a cardboard cutout Vulcan, he was missing Lenard's pained dignity. True, Amanda should have been better.

I think McCoy was the biggest surprise for me (after Kirk), he worked really well.