I saw Star Trek on Friday. Visually the movies was Awesome, but I really wish that they would STOP doing time travel stories! Star Trek has trivialized time travel to the Nth degree: Whipping around a star, through a black hole, countless space anomalies, etc...
I probably would have preferred J.J. just do a 'Batman Begins' to Star Trek instead of the whole, "this is an alternate time line" BS. Watching this, I felt like I was watching a bunch of role players trying to pretend to be younger versions of the original characters by rehashing their infamous lines to death: Damnit! I'm a doctor, not a [fill in the blank]; I'm giving her all she's got; and Checkov's weven worse Wussian accwent.
And for the life of me I'll never understand what was going through their heads as they felt that they needed more lens flares! "It needs more Cow Bell" ARGH!!! Were they trying to cove some poor shots? Are we supposed to be impressed that the future actually IS so bright we have to wear shades?! Sure, J.J. admitted that he may have overdone it in a couple scenes, but really! WTF!
So, is this a reboot or just another dimension/alternate timeline/reality in the Star Trek universe like the Mirror Universe with Evil Kirk & Spock? I'll go with alternate reality, and stick with the fact that the original ST Universe is still alive and well.
Here's a request to any future Sci-Fi screen writers out there. Please stop fucking with the classics (Star Trek, Star Wars, Battlestar Gallactica) and create something new for a change! Riding on the coat tails of the genre's greats is one thing, but trying to join should be what you should really be trying to achieve.
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