I'd have liked Matt Damon as the captian, and I still have lots of
with the timeline of how Kirk winds up on the Enterprise before/after captian Pike from the original pilot episode. (Pike gets removed as captian to hide the secret of the Talos IV telepaths with squish head veins?)
And that Corvette the kid-Kirk threw over the cliff would have been what... 300-450 years old by then? (
Forgive me, for not knowing, I've been with women in the biblical sense, married, and had kids, and thus can't retain that needed level of trivia/nerd-dom...) I get that a "classic car" that was 50 years old (even a century) to Kirk would still have looked so futuristic as to look meaningless to the audience (brash joy-ride gone bad?) but the 20th century car still seems too incredible, even for a fantasy movie.
The hover-motorcycle cop with the face-mask and electronic voice also looks too fascist/stormtrooper-Boba-Fett for a policeman in Earth's peaceful golden age of the Early Federation. The Jodphur-style riding pants simply made me think of NJ State Troopers, which doesn't help...
They should have thrown a recognizeable touch of Andy Griffith Mayberry/rural Iowa county deputy in there somehow. Maybe even had him shake his head wearily and say "Damn, James. I should have known it'd be
you...."
I don't think the sex is over-done, it WAS what they were constantly alluding to in TOS. So be it.
Spock taking a poke at Kirk seems kind of out of place. He did do so in the TOS several times, but had Pon Far Vulcan mating blood-lust, alien flower emotion-spores, or mind-controling aliens forcing him. I'm sure it's going to be "Spock's Human and Vulcan sides battling..." blah, blah, blah. I'm sure on any real ship, even a harsh word the wrong way up the chain of command would end a career, much less a punch. :rolleyes:
That's the one thing I always liked about STTNG, they were much more formal and paid lip-service to chain-of-command more realistically, at least some of the time.
Despite all that, it indeed looks like it's in the "worth seeing" category.
I did like the next scene where now the older Kirk is on a hover-bike at dusk or dawn, and you're led to believe you're seing American Southwest mesa's then the shot pans and you realize the mesa's are gigantic arcologies or skyscrapers. That was kind of cool.
