Star Trek Into Darkness - Spoiler Free

[Mark CMG]

I saw Star Trek Into Darkness today and enjoyed it quite a bit. I like the use of familiar elements being used in new ways.

 

[Water Bob]

Saw the film today and freakin' LOVED it. They put some of the "Trek" back into "Trek"! I'd say it's the second best Trek film ever made. The Wrath of Khan still holds the title. Into Darkness makes J.J. Abram's first Trek film a better movie.

Big Thumbs Up.

 

[Zaukrie]

Very entertaining.

 

[tomBitonti]

I enjoyed it, but the movie rather did not seem to be very well thought out (in a worse than usual sense):

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A meeting of senior staff in a time of crisis in an exposed location? Would we do that even now? With transporters, how long would the firefight have lasted? The neutral zone is 20 minutes from Kronos? Standing up on a stage is a good way to engage in a firefight? Debris field? That dense? When much of the fight was in warp far far away? They ended up so close to earth when they seemed to be trucking along in warp with a ways to go? Kirk can call Scotty on Earth from the neutral zone with no latency? A big ship with a small crew doesn't have a very capable suite of intruder detectors?

And, did anyone else find the scale to be a bit off? The ship interiors seems quite a bit larger than possible, and the dreadnought crash seemed to make it a lot bigger than it should have been.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Just popped in to provide a link: the most brilliant deconstruction of STID ever written.

Warning: spoilers. Duh.

 

[Serpine]

I overall enjoyed it, other then groaning a bit at a few of the redone elements. What I kept wondering though was

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why nobody on the crew even mentioned the notion of getting the "magic" blood from one of the other 72 sleepers that they happened to have handy

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[tomBitonti]

I overall enjoyed it, other then groaning a bit at a few of the redone elements. What I kept wondering though was

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why nobody on the crew even mentioned the notion of getting the "magic" blood from one of the other 72 sleepers that they happened to have handy

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I wondered about that too.

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Maybe the problem of not knowing the correct way to defrost them. There is a bit of dialog earlier about how that is dangerous without the correct codes. But, they take one out anyways! Maybe the defrost takes too long, or maybe only Kahn as potent blood, or maybe they don't know if the other blood will work. Or maybe (rant) the producers are tuning our neurons to accept that entertainment is not compatible with rational thought.

Thx!

TomB

 

[jonesy]

Trying to explain the plot holes in this movie just creates more plot holes. It's like the whole extended Star Wars canon.

 

[Janx]

Trying to explain the plot holes in this movie just creates more plot holes. It's like the whole extended Star Wars canon.

I think a person has to just enjoy a thing, without looking too closely.

Read the rant that somebody posted. And that person was right on all their points of the stupid things in the movie.

But if I let that kind of thinking dominate, I just wouldn't enjoy Trek at all.