Silly, Shallow & Boring

Rating: 3/10 (8 October 2011)

What a load of twaddle! Here is a classic - as an example of trying to make a movie work entirely on the basis of special-effects.
The outset already had me yawning. We see the captain of a starship left on the bridge as his pregnant wife is evacuated along with the surviving crew. He gets to play his disposable man routine while she's giving birth. Trite or what? When will women finally become so emancipated as to start sacrificing themselves for their men? How many centuries before males obtain equality? From then on it's downhill all the way. Even the special-effects are second-rate. Characterisation is two-dimensional. Storyline is the typical mishmash of space/time paradox. There is the usual long-standing grudge, the usual fundamental misunderstanding.
The original crew had been in the business so long through TV and the big screen they were typecast. But - my-oh-my - they had CHARACTER. These juvenile chuckle-heads have all the charisma of bowling pins. Trekkies got short-changed big time here. And I'm not one of them.
Save your patience. It's on TV as I write, halfway through and I've given up. Get DVD's of the original cast. This twaddle is a non-event.