Yep. I'm off on a triade...
Watched it when it first came out...thought it was a load of rubbish.
Pity the scriptwriters couldn't keep to the main characters (Kirk) early life story line, but turning him into some ill-disciplined spoilt brat just to get the younger generation into the cinema's was horrible to watch.
Collin:ernae:
Boy I totally agree. I frankly don't understand why people like this movie, sorry. It's just pure garbage, in my own,
personal, opinion.
The movie alone has very little plot, and it was so poorly written, Leonard Nimoy had to came out of retirement to save it with the whole timeship/red matter story. I could go on and on with the glaring plot holes but why bother. The fact is, it's a typical J.J. Abrahms mess, as most of his "movies" are, and only intensifies this haphazard disaster of a flick. A movie of nothing more than visual special effects of explosions for two hours with some sexy scenes added in. That's all, folks. The only thing it shares with the original Star Trek is strictly it's title.
The only thing they got right is that this is totally an alternate universe not connected at all to the original Star Trek one. The names of the characters just happen to be the same.
The fact is Star Trek didn't need to be "re-made", it was doing just fine as long as the good writing and directing continued. That's what made it great TV in the first place and why its persisted for almost 50 years. Gene Roddenberry's vison offered a better, hopeful future where people had honor and integrity. Something that is very lacking in today's society.
And face it, honor and integrity just doesn't fit into Paramount's corporate money making policy of stamping out assembly style, schlock, formulaic movies of the present day. Quality story just no longer matters as long as you make a buck off of the masses. That's how most movies are judged by Hollywood these days. Box office receipts.
BTW, and finally, setting the record straight. James T. Kirk was born in Iowa, but he grew up on the colony on Tarsus IV, he was a witness to a massacre there by Governor Kodos when he was thirteen. His father and Lt. Mallory, a security officer on board the USS Enterprise would inspire him to join Starfleet. His first assignment after graduating Starfleet Academy was under Captain Garrovick, on board the USS Farragut. Kirk had a rapid rise through the service, and after making Captain, was assigned the USS Enterprise.
His father lived long enough to see James become a Captain. He attempted to rescue his brother George on the Deneva colony when it was attacked by an alien species. And Kirk would later accept Mallory's son aboard his ship as a junior officer.
