OT: Star Trek Movie (XI)

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Why would I want realistic fiction? I get enough of that annoying stuff in reality.

[Randallw]

I like me a bit of realistic fiction. It makes a change from trying to read a book which puts you off by getting too fantastic. I just finished the final book in a series where the space ship battles are hard scifi. The crew is subject to high gees when they change course. They have to sling shot around planets and at one point the enemy are inconvenienced when the loyalists throw off a wormhole by throwing too much matter through one way upsetting the balance. It takes the enemy months to slow down and turn back once they miss the wormhole.

I am always intending to read all the Seaforth saga books. Basically Hornblower in space where you have to start young otherwise space travel causes T-Cancer. Through a sequence of events involving the senior officers being killed by a new enemy and the sole officer dying from T-Cancer a teenage midshipman becomes captain. He doesn't want the responsibility, the officer was too delirious to realise what he was doing, but he cannot refuse. He is the highest rank there is and must obey the rules.

I have read one book that is nearly perfect. Maybe too perfect. Instead of aliens that think like humans it had aliens evolved from dragonflies that cannot physiologically recognise other life unless it personally effects them. You can stand next to them and as long as you do nothing to hinder them they pay no attention. Which is what made it horrifying when a scientist gets in ones face to inspect it and it bites his head off. Generic horror doesn't affect me because it is not scary.

[gregebowman]

I defintely will see the movie, even if I don't know the plot. (Kind of ruined Empires Strikes Back for me when I read the novelization before the movie came out). I agree Gary Sinise would have been my choise for McCoy too, but I guess he learned his lesson in greed.

As far what "camp" I'm in, I haven't really thought about it. I consider myself a trekkie, because I'm only a year or two older than the origanal show myself, and vaguely remember seeing an episode or two prime time. I think Roddenberry went too far out of the way when he didn't want a violent solution to a crisis. Not that the show back then could have handled a Federation vs Klingon war in Errand of Mercy budgetwise.

I think today's audience want the violent solution over the peaceful one, unless it's a very creative way to resolve the differences. I'd rather see ships shooting it out in space than Picard talking himself hoarse trying not to shoot.

I just hope this movie is as good as the "Genesis" trilogy of films (2-4), and not some debacle like V or last 2 NG films. I guess we'll find out next year.