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The Raping Of Star Trek ***Spoilers***
« Thread Started on May 27, 2009, 4:57pm »

I saw this Star Trek movie last night. As a stand-alone it was a really good movie. As part of the Star Trek legacy it was fuckin’ horrible. I viewed it as a slap in the face of every fan of the original Star Trek and subsequent spin-offs. The movie is supposed to be a prequel. It’s supposed to show us the origins of the characters, how they meet and how they come to be these iconic characters with whom so many of us nerds have grown-up and actually made us nerds.

It was hard enough for me to get over different actors playing these beloved characters from way before I was conceived. Ray Liotta and Mark-Paul Gossler’s love child plays Kirk (as a fuckin’ ginger. Kirk’s not a ginger. They might as well have had an Indian play him.), Harold plays Sulu (as a magical ninja), Charlie Bartlett plays Chekov and Shaun Of The Dead plays Scotty. I will say Karl Urban did a damn fine job as McCoy. It was obvious new actors had to portray the characters, so I tried to go in with an open mind and let the story take hold and follow the characters not the actors. The actors were all actually quite good and did not detract from my enjoyment of the film at all.

The story was good. The movie was fun and exciting. As a prequel to the original series it failed miserably. Instead of giving us a prequel and showing the actual origins of our beloved characters J.J. Abrams and writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman decided they wanted to give the Star Trek Universe a “reboot.” They used time travel to accomplish this “reboot.” It’s this “reboot” that is a problem for me. Instead of giving us stories that shaped the characters and lead up to the original series they completely cop out and create a scenario that allows them to completely ignore the entire history of the franchise. Instead of creatively fitting their story into the over-all story they usurp the whole future with an alternate timeline cop out. J.J. Abrams in an interview with Memory Alpha admits he doesn’t even “know and love the world of Star Trek.” He says, “…we wanted to make our own brand new thing, and at the same time embrace and honor what had come before.” So why the fuck didn’t they just do a sequel? They could have very easily created a post-Voyager crew to deal with new adventures. It was completely unnecessary to destroy the original characters and journeys in order to create new characters to go on new journeys.

It’s been said that the flap of a butterfly’s wing on another continent could have an effect one’s life, that the slightest alteration to the past could have enormous affects on the present/future. They blew-up a fucking planet, a very important planet in the Star Trek Universe, so now Kirk gets to be captain a few years earlier. Kirk is a ginger. The Enterprise is not the Enterprise internally, at all. Uhura sits on the left side of the captain’s chair and is romantically involved with Spock. Actually all those changes happened before the destruction of Vulcan, save Kirk’s accelerated promotion to captain.

They also abandon canon when they have Romulans, who look nothing like Romulans, go back in time and they are recognized as Romulans when Kirk is the first human to see Romulans in “Balance Of Terror,” which is set at least ten years after this encounter.

The timeline is all fucked-up, too. This “red matter” (they couldn’t come up with a better fuckin’ name for a substance of which a golf ball sized amount held the amount of power to destroy a fuckin’ planet) they use to destroy everything was, according to Star Trek: Countdown, a prequel comic book series to the prequel movie, red matter was created by the Vulcan Science Academy, which is on Vulcan. When the Romulans went back in time and destroyed Vulcan, the Vulcan Science Academy ceased to exist and therefore never created red matter thus voiding Spock’s ability to create the initial black hole and young Spock’s ability to destroy the Romulan ship with the red matter. Also, upon destruction of Vulcan and the loss of his mother the young Spock’s character would have been dramatically altered and Spock would cease to exist, so ginger Kirk would not have met him on Delta Vega (which was moved in the movie so the writers would have a familiar name). Spock would not be in the past and his memories of the real timeline would not exist as the real timeline no longer exists.

George Lucas gave us a prequel, or three, you may remember. He made some faux pas and explained away something too simplistically (why the hell did Jimmy Smitts erase C3PO’s memory? Why did Senator Palpatine just discontinue the droid army?) , but he rose up to the challenge and gave us a whole new nine hours of Star Wars to enjoy. Except for the remastered Anakin at the end of The Return Of The Jedi. That was lame. What if George Lucas wrote and directed Star Trek? Oh shit, nerdgasm.

As a movie I liked Star Trek. The actors were actually pretty good. I really don’t care that Kirk was a ginger. He was actually more of a day-walker anyway. As a part of Star Trek it was horrible. It was a lame cop out way to do a “prequel”. The writers just want to take these classic characters on their own adventures without having to follow the paths that have been set that lead these characters to their futures. So now the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise never goes all the places we’ve seen them boldly go and they are going to boldly go where they never went, thus voiding the original series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, all ten movies, the animated series and countless books and graphic novels. It also virtually voids the entire canon. Fuck that. This is blasphemy. This is urination on the grave of Gene Roddenberry (figuratively, of course, as he was cremated and some of his ashes were launched into space) and all that he created. I’m shocked Majel had anything to do with this.

« Last Edit: May 27, 2009, 4:59pm by Dyluminati »

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