New Star Trek Movie
Whitcoull’s had a sale on Blu-Ray last week, and as I recently got a PS3, I thought I’d treat myself to the new Star Trek film on BD. We watched it last night, and I had a few thoughts.
Firstly, I was blown away that it was actually pretty damn good! I thought it was very well written and acted, especially as I really can’t stand ‘Lost’. There was just enough of a nod to the old-school Trek to make even the most die-hard Trekker happy.
The effects didn’t seem at all incongruous to the rest of the film, an inherent potential problem with any film of this genre, APART from <Spoiler Alert> the bit on Delta Vega where the big insect thing chases after Kirk – it just, for me, didn’t look quite right.
My major gripe was that they reduced Scotty to a comic character, akin to Reg Barclay in TNG. Simon Pegg is a much better actor than that, and I can only hope they flesh out his character more in future films, and use him in as much of a supporting role as the original Scotty. Along with that, the way that old Spock gave Scotty the Trans-warp beaming equation was eerily similar to the way Scotty gave the formula for Tri-aluminium to a guy in ‘The Voyage Home’…… 
Zachary Quinto IS Spock! He looks remarkably similar, and he’s got Leonard Nimoy’s air of quiet detachment about him too – I whole-heartedly approve of this casting!
Overall I thought it was very good, and I’m really looking forward to hearing of another in the pipeline. Even Catie liked it (not that she’d admit it to anyone!)
