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Another Star Trek Footage Review, Criticizes J.J. Abrams - Major Spoilers 

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By GustavoLeao / 04:13, 19 November 2008 / Star Trek: Nemesis

Reviewer and Star Trek fan Jordan Hoffman of UGO posted a detailed review of the Star Trek footage show in New York early this week. While impressed with the 25 minutes of footage, Hoffman also criticizes director J.J. Abrams in his article. Here are few excerpts of his report, including his review of scene 3 :

 

"J.J. Abrams struts up like the smartest kid in Hebrew school.  The first thing out of his mouth - the very motherloving first thing out of his mouth - is "I've never been a fan of Star Trek." the reviewer wrote "WTF?!??!  Not only is this insulting and lame, it is rehearsed.  He's said this in interviews fifteen times already.  Maybe he thinks it is cute, but I just find it rude. J.J. Abrams needs to understand that he is a guest in our house.  If he can't be polite, we won't invite him over to play anymore.  It's as simple as that."
 
THIRD SCENE


I think this is actually fourth in the timeline of stuff we saw.  Spock is now in control of the Enterprise and he dispatches Kirk on some planet.  There he meets someone - old Spock.  L-Nim!  Leonard Nimoy.  The man that makes all of these canon paradoxes okay.


While we weren't given the set up, precisely, of what Spock is trying to do, we know that he must get Kirk back on the Enterprise.  To do this, they meet up with Scotty who has been dispatched to some lonely part of the galaxy for killing a chief muckity mucks dog with his intra-warp beaming techniques.


Simon Pegg is terrific as Scotty.  In fact, if it weren't for Urban as McCoy, I'd be losing my mind about Pegg.


To make a long story short, Spock gets Scotty to get Kirk back on board.  But not before raising an eyebrow, saying, "Fascinating" and slipping out a "Live long and prosper." Also - it would appear that Spock's closely vested emotions will become a major plot point in the story.  That Kirk will only be able to save the day by getting Spock to admit that he is an emotional creature.....or something.


a final nod to the audience, Kirk admonished Spock for his plans, saying something to the tune of "Time travel - isn't that cheating?" While this may be a little dig at the screenwriters, Spock keeps it in house, firing back an "I learned it from an old friend."


If you are a true Trekkie, you know haw fantastic it is to see Nimoy as Spock one more time.  I don't know if any closure is given to the TNG episode "Unification II" (I kinda doubt it) but the decision to include Leonard Nimoy in this project is without question the smartest decision anyone on the team made.  I know for a fact I'll pay for tickets at least four times just to see the scenes he appears in.  I should probably erase that last line, lest it gets saved for the commitment hearings that no doubt await me.

The full review of the trailer and scenes 1, 2 and 4, plus comments on the NY screening can be found at UGO.



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RE: Even if the movie is a financial sucsess...it will lose. | Report this post to moderator
By: TommyHawk (Odo's file, contact) @ 14:43:38 on Nov 19, 2008

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...Yes, Because they've decided to slap the hardcore fanbase in the face by taking away all the serious elements of Star Trek, instead choosing to appeal to the boorish preferences of the mainstream moviegoer (in your face explosions, car chases, etc), but they forgot one thing: the mainstream moviegoer already hates Star Trek. The average young person nowadays has only seen little snippets of Voyager as they flip between channels, and even if they've managed to drag themselves to the theaters, they've been treated with a series of downright horrible films. In either case, what they've seen, they hate.

Maybe I'm wrong and the dazzling special effects space firefights and quick shots of some hot teenage-looking actress's boobs will lure in millions of viewers (probably what's going to happen, now that I think of it), but the loyal and dedicated fans of the series that mounted a letter-writing campaign to name the first U.S. Space Shuttle "Enterprise" are already disillusioned,


Comments like these that give the fanbase a bad rap. People see 2 minutes of a teaser trailer and already they know how the movie goes, and can tell us POINT BY POINT what is and what isn't in the movie. Yep!

Please, do tell us more about your "knowledge" of the new movie.

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RE: Even if the movie is a financial sucsess...it will lose. | Report this post to moderator
By: critch (Odo's file, contact) @ 19:03:18 on Nov 19, 2008

People like you remind me of the tiny fanbase of the original Galactica that endlessly think that Ron Moore ripped them off and that the new show is horrible for no reason.

Guess what genius, Star Trek was DEAD. Your Trek that you love so much did so horribly that in a year span it had a cancelled show and a flop movie. You didn't support it, you lost it.

If it's a financial success, it'll have gained millions of new fans while getting the vast majority of the old. Star Trek will be alive and relevant for the first time in decades.

Why do you hate Trek?

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By: rassmguy (Odo's file, contact) @ 12:41:02 on Nov 19, 2008

"but the loyal and dedicated fans of the series that mounted a letter-writing campaign to name the first U.S. Space Shuttle "Enterprise" are already disillusioned,"

Some, perhaps, but definitely not all. I'm from that generation, and I'm very excited about this film, as are most other die-hards I know personally.


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