g forward to re-watching it. Now that they hype has died down the film can be watched and enjoyed on its own merits.The pacing of the film is fearsome and no sooner are our eyes adjusted from one spectacle than we are blown away with another. Though it's not all whizz bang and the characters, the classic crew, are built up well even if the bulk of the time is given to the trinity of Kirk, Spock and McCoy.
Now I'm no Trekkie but I do enjoy the original series as well as all its spin offs so I can't really comment on the original continuity that the film has trodden upon and ignored. But I was watching an episode of the original series, Shore leave and there's a character Finnegan and Kirk mentions that he was his rival at the academy but the new film ignore this. Though I'm not sure if the alternative universe thread in the movie explains this or not - my head hurts when I try to think about it.
As a reinvention of the original series the movie works well and the characters really felt like Kirk and crew - McCoy especially, I thought, was spot on. The DVD comes as a two disc package and there are some great deleted scenes amongst the extras. Among the don’t-miss extras are several deleted scenes: the birth of Spock, an expanded passage concerning Kirk’s dalliance with a green girl (he’s only using her to sabotage the computer against which he is pitted in a training exercise) and a long sequence in which the villain Nero (Eric Bana) and his crew are captured by the Klingons and sent to a hellish prison planet from which they eventually escape.
Willam Shatner was choked at not being able to make a cameo in the film, though there's no logical expla
nation given the alternative timeline that would make it impossible for him to do so. But it was nice too see Nimoy here - perhaps next time the Shat will pop up.A great space adventure.
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Despite being a Trekkie I still bought the cheap one disc version without all the acres of add-ons. I agree that the film will stand up for some time to come. The fast editing is a bit irritating, but that's the way it goes these days. When Spock intones I have been and always shall be your friend, you really do need a thirty second pause to sigh a lot, not to blast on at warp 9 through another ten lines of dialogue.
The cast though are all just close enough to be right, with McCoy especially being excellent. The only one that jarred with me was Chekov. He was always supposed to be the idiot who gets injured every time, but he most defintely was not a boy wonder genius.
On continuity, it has all gone out the window with the alternate reality. Spock was supposed to have served under Pike for some time and Kirk was supposed to be the youngest ever captain, but I'm sure that didn't mean getting promoted while still at the Academy!
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