Next Generation?

Rating: 8/10 (10 May 2009)

I've just got back from the cinema & too be honest, I'm not sure, i cant make my mind up. When they 1st said they where making a new Star Trek based on the original series, i was like, No, don't ruined it! But after seeing trailers, started to get my hopes up...
But then, the opening sequence & straight away, i realised this wasn't a Star Trek i was used too. It was the usual view of seeing the crew from the view-screen of seeing the view-screen from just behind the Captain's chair. The camera was always at slight angles & even though it was all clean & white sets, there was this feeling that it was abit more cramped for quizsmo & screens here there & everywhere. Supports struts etc cutting across at odd angles. And no more big huge shuttle bay for a couple of shuttles, it looked more like a hanger. Too be honest, i was abit shocked. It was clear this was a nitty gritty take on Star Trek. Action packed through out to be honest & it was really good!
But being a life long Trekkie, even though the i wasn't even born when the original series came out, i grew up watching the films & the re-runs on telly etc & sadly just like in Enterprise series, history has been altered. Though i did enjoy Enterprise, i had to think of it, as separate & you have to do the same with this new film as well & sadly they use the same excuse as they did in Enterprise! And I'm left thinking, yes it was really good but surely they could of done this film, just as good & yet kept in in line with current history, as a Trekkie & original series fan, i would of like to see the way, Kirk really got command!
But never mind, we stick with it & it was a really good film, fantastic effects, a lot of action, apart from a couple of minor things, a pretty good script.
Those things being, aleast for me, starting with the least annoying to the most annoying!
5. In Enterprise, the Sulban, a race of species never seen before turns up & in this film, it look more like Star Wars, with weird aliens popping up all over the place, the only way i can get over the fact, is in VI, in the Klingon prison was quite a few aliens, we've never seen before. 4. Scotty is funny, which on its own isn't bad, but he's funny than McCoy & it seems like he's not a genius but more of an accidental genius. 3. Bones, they tried too hard with him, to many clichés, throwing too man old jokes in. 2. Spock leaving Kirk on a planet. When really, in that situation would of put him in the brig. Only reason this happens, is, just so he can meet the older Spock, its so obvious. 1. Spock & Uhura getting intimate! Never mind in front of 5 other crew members! I'm just hoping in a later film, he realises, he's being embarrassing to his race & goes cold turkey to fit in with his frigid attitude in the original series. And the ultimate reason this film is annoying, is they use the excuse, is that this isn't the way history was meant to play out, this is the destiny they where meant to have, this is an alternate universe!
Isn't that why the Enterprise series failed to ignite the Trekkie fan base? Even though as Trekkies, we still watched it anyway?!
So as a stand alone film, its amazing! As a Trekkie, i think i would of made sum slight changes to the script.
Overall, i get the feeling, this film isn't aimed at the current Trekkie audiences but as been made, to lure in the next generation of Trekkie fans & thanks to there excuse, the old fans cant complain too much with out being told but its an 'alternate universe' though!
Whatever you do guys, don't turn it into a TV series, it'll just flop & u'll not get anyway near as visually stunning either. Not that, i think they will, i don't think a trilogy would do it justice though, so maybe another 3 to 5 films explaining this latest alternate universe of the Star Trek universe.........
.... oh & please, in Enterprise, i thought they should of really made the Romulan war (instead of the Expanse war), this would be a good time to make the Romulan war, you've already given command to Kirk sooner than he original got it, so it could of been soon enough for him & the Enterprise to be involved in the fighting. Though i think an Enterprise failed based on the Romulan war would fit better.... but as a Trekkie, the Romulan war, is something that has always been hinted at, that there had been one but we've never seen, sadly.