It Was Time for Retooling (Retelling)

Rating: 9/10 (26 August 2009)

I got a great deal of enjoyment from this film. As one who watched the original in a dormitory TV room every Friday night, I have always embraced this canon, though I've never reached the lunatic fringe. Now that the original crew is either old, fat, or dead, I see nothing wrong with taking the characters and recasting them. If Basil Rathbone had been the only Holmes, we would never have had Jeremy Brett. I hope this sets up a future because there was nowhere to go with the originals (this is a fact of life called aging). The scenes of the founding of the relationships among the characters is nicely done. Those that criticize the look of the ship need to look what has happened here on earth in the last twenty years. Why should the bridge not change to become more true to the future as we can view it now? I thought the new characters found their individual ways. We forget that Kirk was always a bit of a loose cannon and we get to see why. Starship captains needed to have controlled recklessness to boldly go, as they say. The plot is up to the plots of the early series and all the bells and whistles complement this. The strength is the new characters. About fifteen minutes into the film I forgot that they weren't Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner. I just started enjoying the film.