I saw the Star Trek

[bolson]

I feel cheated out of a Star Trek movie because nothing in that movie takes place in the canonical Star Trek universe. It all happens just after a point of divergence into some kind of time-travel addled alternate reality.

At the end of the movie I was saying "I hate time travel, they never do it right." But now that I think about it more they may have actually done time travel to my definition of right, just not to a plot I liked. (SF timetravel done may way has no possibility of paradox, a traveller arriving in the past poofs into existence as if out of random fluctuations of matter. Future guy meets past guy and nothing bad happens. Past guy will not become future guy, but just older past guy, they are separate and distinct, though oddly similar.)

Being a whole movie of apocryphal star trek, if they make another, will I bother to watch it? Do I like this new universe they've made enough to go for more? Eh. It might be just another scifi action movie. Maybe I'll go see GIJoe instead.

Anyway, it does have a lot of Trekkiness, which does delight. In summary, it was just OK or moderately good. Other reasonable people could easily watch it and like it and not be annoyed at what I was annoyed at.

Comments

[flexagon]

I thought the alternate-universe thing was great, but it seems to have bothered others as well. Hmmm. For my part, I found plenty of logical inconsistencies that seemed much worse than the things you're picking on, but I enjoyed it anyway because I don't really expect Trek movies to make much sense or to display any adherence to the laws of probability.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I agree that the reboot sucks like a giant black hole suddenly created by !oh noes! red matter. But I loved (most of) the interpretations of the characters, which had a very giggly, affectionate, fan-produced-film-shown-late-at-night-at-con feel to them for me.

Having *seen* what I was waiting for, though, I don't think I actually care at all about watching them become *other* characters. Kind of defeats the purpose.

- L