A pullapart of Star Trek 2009

Ok,

It's 2016 and even though I watched this film and really didn't watch it to the end, yeah, I pussed out when they transwarped to the Budweiser Brewery Engine Room.

Netflix co-incidentally is showing 2002's Nemesis and even Data's self sacrifice saved Nemesis. Yes, the crew look tired but the relationship between Diana and Riker is still good (I really think they fancy each other in real life).

Anyway, here's my little list of things I really didn't like about Star Trek 2009.

1. When the kelvin gets destroyed, how do those shuttles escape?
2. Scotty was mistreated (a can solve anything character)
3. Red matter (lame)
4. The handbreak part is just dumb & makes everybody look dumb
5. The traveling tube in the engineering room of the Enterprise
6. The ejection of multiple cores at the end?
7. A lot of the action scenes seem to be poorly choreographed or edited
8. Cadets are in charge of the flagship
9. Bones getting Kirk on the Enterprise (cos there's no other doctors at the academy)
10. Ejecting Kirk to a planet instead of a brig
11. CGI monsters
12. Iowa (hahahahahahahaha)
13. The amount of product placement
14. Would SF cadets bash up a civilian?
15. NOBODY on Vulcan doesn't evacuate until Spock does something (6 Billion people srsly 10k survived)
16. Romulus didn't evacuate either!
17. Spock stays to watch Vulcan destroy and wait for Kirk than to report it
18. Kirk throws everything and shoots at Nero & gets a reward
19. Ejected the core & goes to warp at the end!
20. Alternative timeline, ok.
21. No other ships at Earth, orly?

The soundtrack by the amazing Goldsmith for whom died in 2004. Overall special effects, good even if I get tired of the blue flashes ><!

Messing about with history

A conversation about modernising existing films recently cropped up and was focused around this.

Cgi Replacement for the TOS Enterprise bridge by Kevin George, originally found here. https://vimeo.com/12023417

It reminds me of Lucas treatment of Starwars, and howe the 'enhanced version' had more things in it, even a new song. I'm sure that a lot of work and effort and I wouldn't imagine that many hours of toil would go into each scene.

It features a short sequence, well executed but I feel there's a few things that are wrong, but I think it's more subversive tho. Look at the handrails, they've been turned into rails instead of future standing stations. What if the original had no top plate, could then the set of TNG potentially not have standing stations like they had done now. I look at things that were from the old series and think, hell, they could design that like this (in my mind). It gives me initiative to do something better.
On the other hand, the work made in modifying and mapping camera angles and such is pretty good. But the burning question is is it a good thing to do? That comes down to the context.

I mentioned Lucas before, with him updating movies; I feel the quaintness of 'at the time design' is what I find a bit unsettling, why would I watch Metropolis if for the fact that it's an iconic film, a modern version could see digital displays inserted, this is how I feel about 'modernizing' such existing films. They loose their quaintness, their time desgn. How they fit into the psyche of people in that universe. They might be subtle things, but it erodes from the narrative of the story.


ARGH!!!!!!

The City on the Edge of Forever: Guardian of Forever

Loved this episode, I liked how the age of it really demonstrated that this was created far in the past; infact this design reminded me of an amoeba, something rather old and very robustly designed.

Star Trek: Justice

When would it take place?

A law team service that would travel to different planets within the federation assisting starfleet in different cases.

What is the setting?

Various locations from starbases, shuttles, planets.

What is the conflict of the series?

Values vs Local laws.

What sort of crew would you assign there?

About 6 cast being from any Federation aligned system, with a plot twist from one of the characters mid way though season 1.