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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Atlatl Jones" data-source="post: 4797701" data-attributes="member: 54620">I really liked that the Applied Phlebotinum plot device was called "red matter", and never explained.  It's a big blob of red paint that creates black holes.  That's good enough for me.I gave the movie a 3.5.  It was far from perfect, but it was immensely enjoyable, and shows even more promise for the future. Some random thoughts:- This was a character movie, not a plot movie.  The plot was, at best, mediocre, and the villain was one-dimensional and boring.  Nero and the Romulans were basically a plot device that set up a dramatic situations for the characters to react to.  Fortunately, the characters, and their relationships and banter, were fantastic.- I loved the way they jettisoned canon by cleverly using Star Trek temporal pseudoscience against itself.- I LOVED the reveal with the green-skinned woman.  I laughed out loud when they turned on the lights.- Karl Urban as McCoy was fantastic, and the new Spock is a valid and interesting direction for the character.  Simon Pegg was, of course, lots of fun. - I was dubious about the actor playing Kirk at first, but by the end I was sold on him.  He managed to portray the cheeky essence of Kirk without doing a Shatner impression: he wasn't playing Shatner playing Kirk, he was playing his own Kirk.  - The only characters I wasn't entirely enthusiastic about were Chekov and Sulu: Chekov was played mainly for laughts, and didn't have any depth.  Sulu was too bland; the Sulu I remember had a strange gravitas to him, helped by a deep voice and odd accent, while the Sulu of this movie acted and sounded like any random American college kid.</blockquote>

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