Finally got to see the new Star Trek and it rocks. One of the best things about this prequel is that you really don’t need any previous knowledge of the series. The casting was superb for almost every character.

First, what I liked. The conflict worked. Out of all the most recent Star Trek movies the only other one that I’ve liked was First Contact with the Borg. This conflict was superb.

The actors, again, were very well chosen. There were a couple that seemed to be a bit off in the age, but overall very good. The special effects of course were also amazing. In fact, perhaps there were too many. There was so much action throughout the whole film that it almost removed itself from the Sci-Fi genre and deviated a bit more towards the Action/Adventure genre. That, however, is debatable. On a side note, there’s one thing that really removed me from the film, but it had nothing to do with the story or with the characters. It was actually having to do with a technique. Lot’s of new films these days, including Transformers, use it here and there to spiff-up the look. I’m talking about lens flare. In Star Trek, pretty much every shot in the film had lens flare of some sort. So much so that it became increasingly distracting.

For the most part, I loved the film. Good story, great characters, and great actors acting like actors playing the characters… if that makes sense.

SPOILER ALERT
The film works because it’s a prequel, obviously. If it was a sequel and they simply replaced the actors, it would be atrocious. The problem arises when they try to make this into a new franchise, which you know they will Due to this film’s conflict (time travel), they effectively erased everything that Star Trek ever was. Now they can literally do whatever they want without having to follow the original story lines. So, basically, for the next few films we’re gonna have a lot of people trying to act like other people playing characters (Shatner, Nemoy, etc). And that sucks.

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