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Thursday, May 14, 2009

STAR TREK TEN: THE "FRANCHISE REBOOT" EPISODE

Steve Cole reports:

I went to see it. Not bad. I had to keep telling myself: "It's a romp, it's a romp. So what if it doesn't make sense?"

GOOD PARTS; Lots of action, not bad acting (Pike was great, Spock-younger better than I expected, Spock-older was brilliant), ships with odd-numbers of engines (which Paramount once declared verboten). The fact that two people you would never guess are in love was, strangely, nice. Some random mention of "drone defense".

BAD PARTS: The fundamental silliness of taking a cadet who hasn't even graduated and giving him command of a starship. Five-sixths of the graduating class is killed in combat but there isn't a vacant seat in the auditorium in the final scene. The silliness that anybody on the Bridge can jump up and go do something else anytime he wants. The silliness that a ship short on pilots would take a pilot who volunteered for hand-to-hand combat when they had security troops trained for that sort of thing on board.

QUESTIONABLE: There's an emergency and the fleet must go to Vulcan right now, but we're going to wait while Star Fleet Academy picks just the right assignment for every cadet? (Ok, maybe the ships were busy refueling anyway and they just used the time wisely. Ok, maybe the ships were "stood down" for some reason and most of the crews were gone and they had to use cadets to fill them out?)

The bedroom scene (with no real nudity) had Cadet Kirk making it with Cadet Orion Slave Girl. Now, THAT was a hoot!