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[Doc]

It really reinforced for me that I miss Star Trek as a TV show. Having to save the universe all the time isn't what they should be doing, they should be mediating a border dispute or discovering a weird new planet or something. I think there'd be a lot of potential in doing those tinier stories again.
Hell, half the cast is either no name or TV actors and JJ Abrams does TV, maybe this is the back up plan?

[Bimmicus]

They're not gonna be no-names anymore. This movie is going to make a godzillion dollars.

I was supremely indifferent about the whole thing when I walked in but I was ready to sit through it again when the credits rolled. Good flick.

[Choop]

I thoroughly enjoyed this one, much moreso than the last couple TNG movies. I really liked the Kirk dude, he payed great homage to Shatner's terrible acting without acting terribly. Pike was great too, especially considering that character only existed in the pilot and pre-pilot from the original show back in the 60s. Quinto was good as Spock, I didn't think of him as Sylar at all (okay maybe a little) but good christ Nimoy is old.

I would have been happiest, I think, with an almost-no-conflict story of like... them all being friends at Starfleet Academy and overcoming some really minor obstacle and becoming closer, and at the end they all get assigned to the Enterprise.

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz nobody wanted to see starfleet academy 90210 we already had that with the wes crusher bullshit that ruined tng ugh

[littlefallsmets]

It is good that this thread got rolling before it seemed right for me to start posting up my own song parodies.

It is good for everyone.

[Toaster]

I really liked the Kirk dude, he payed great homage to Shatner's terrible acting without acting terribly.

I thought that, too. This Kirk seems like he just really loves adventure and loves his job. So in the moments he acts like Shatner, it's kinda just like a guy being enthusiastic and not being afraid to show that he is excited. Like in the last scene, when he's all like "Bones, buckle up," and pats Bones on the shoulder, and Bones rolls his eyes, I got the feeling that he was thinking, "Yeah, that was cheesy, especially since we don't actually have seat belts on this ship. But I'm the captain of a fuck*ng starship, my life is awesome!"

I just realized something: someday space travel is going to be a lot more common than it is now, and a lot of cliches from today are going to be perfectly normal things. That'll be awesome.

[KeithHernandez]

Is Simon Pegg in this movie?  How was he? 

[Choop]

who else could play scotty? and when is simon pegg ever less than awesome?

[wombat]

I really liked the Kirk dude, he payed great homage to Shatner's terrible acting without acting terribly.

Sigh. Now I'm going to have to see this, to see what this could possibly mean. I really didn't want to.

[Choop]

then my work here is done

[KeithHernandez]

and when is simon pegg ever less than awesome?

How to Lose Friends and Alienate People?  Run Fatboy Run?

[dejavroom]

Sigh. So. Cinema nearest to my house only has dubbed versions of this. Fuckers. This screws up my plans to show up for the screening baked, since any other option is too far for me to make it still under the effect. And I really see no reason to watch this type of eye-candified adventure stone sober. But then the Lady wanted to see it near her place (subtitled version yay). But of course we cannot ever make to anyplace in time, she's just that good a delayer (if I hadn't half expected that we would be late, I'd be pretty bummed). It's a friggin' long queue, she says go get me popcorn while I buy us tickets (we were already late). I come back with this stupidly big and expensive popcorn bag for her (I don't even like eating while watching movies, God bung it) but then her credit caaAARABLOABLOOBLOOBLOO

You know what, fuck it! Fuck you in your pointy ear Star Trek. Fuck you long and proper.

[wombat]

Matthew Baldwin suggests that Spock has Asperger's , and the future will be a better place:

Watching Kirk and Spock—two men with vastly different worldviews—form a friendship based on mutual trust and admiration, I found myself thinking, “That’s the future I want my child to grow up in, one in which he will be judged not by the conventionally of his cognitive process, but by the content of his character.” In spreading its message of diversity, Star Trek once again identifies the final frontier, and plots a course straight through it.

Although my favorite part was actually

And lazy science-fiction authors can no longer use “black American president” as shorthand for “the distant future.”

[littlefallsmets]

Next up for "way-out crazy future president"... lady of Middle Eastern extraction.

[Toaster]

I'd vote for her.

[lprkn]

According to my hopelessly inaccurate internal reckoning of time, it is still the mid-90s and 2000AD is the distant future because I am a teenager. And also a British publication I have never read but know about because of Judge Dredd.