The New Star Trek Movie
Nov. 12th, 2008 02:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shakatanyYesterday I came across a bunch of spoilers for the upcoming "Star Trek" movie. I don't know how well it will do when it comes out - the early reports are the special effects are gorgeous but, for me, the movie is basically going substantially AU from what we know of that time from ST: TOS canon.
Kirk is this action hero type whereas in canon the opposite was established as garnered from the following bits of dialogue:
Kirk is this action hero type whereas in canon the opposite was established as garnered from the following bits of dialogue:
MITCHELL TO KIRK: Well, I'm getting a chance to read some of that longhair stuff you like. Hey man, I remember you back at the academy. A stack of books with legs. (from "Where No Man Has Gone Before")
KIRK: I know the feeling very well. I had it at the Academy. An upper classman there. One practical joke after another, and always on me. My own personal devil. A guy by the name of Finnegan.
KIRK: I know the feeling very well. I had it at the Academy. An upper classman there. One practical joke after another, and always on me. My own personal devil. A guy by the name of Finnegan.
MCCOY: And you being the very serious young...
KIRK: Serious? I'll make a confession, Bones. I was absolutely grim... (from "Shore Leave")
The above dialogue makes the case that young Kirk was a serious student and implies that he didn't know McCoy back then unlike this movie. Also Kirk was in his early 30s when he took command of the Enterprise. In the second season young Ensign Chekov was introduced - a character in his early 20s and still wet-behind-the-ears so what is he doing running around with the others at a time when (according to the TOS canon) he would be around 12 or so?
For a plot contrivance (and pure stupidity) there's Federation Rule 691, which states that a doctor can bring on board any person who he deems to be in need of treatment - what even the most contagious case of symbaline bloodburn or Vegan choriomeningitis?
The villain is a Romulan named, of all things, Nero (how Vulcan-y!). In "Balance of Terror", it was established that the treaty which ended the Earth-Romulan Conflict, fought a 100 years pre-TOStime, had been unbroken since then so WTH is going on? Are they so limited in the choice of villains? Couldn't they have worked with some villain established in "Enterprise" and extrapolated what they would be like in TOStime? Or created someone entirely new? But Romulans - grr argh!!
There'll probably be no mention of Tarsus IV (what was young James T. doing there?), his brother George Samuel Kirk, Finnegan, Gary Mitchell or the Kobayashi Maru.
Anyway for those who love space adventure and ignorant armies clashing by night the new movie will probably be appealing but for old TOStrekkies like me I have serious doubts. Oh well, we'll see on May 9th if it's a hit and whether or not I think I'll be able to stand watching it :(
KIRK: Serious? I'll make a confession, Bones. I was absolutely grim... (from "Shore Leave")
The above dialogue makes the case that young Kirk was a serious student and implies that he didn't know McCoy back then unlike this movie. Also Kirk was in his early 30s when he took command of the Enterprise. In the second season young Ensign Chekov was introduced - a character in his early 20s and still wet-behind-the-ears so what is he doing running around with the others at a time when (according to the TOS canon) he would be around 12 or so?
For a plot contrivance (and pure stupidity) there's Federation Rule 691, which states that a doctor can bring on board any person who he deems to be in need of treatment - what even the most contagious case of symbaline bloodburn or Vegan choriomeningitis?
The villain is a Romulan named, of all things, Nero (how Vulcan-y!). In "Balance of Terror", it was established that the treaty which ended the Earth-Romulan Conflict, fought a 100 years pre-TOStime, had been unbroken since then so WTH is going on? Are they so limited in the choice of villains? Couldn't they have worked with some villain established in "Enterprise" and extrapolated what they would be like in TOStime? Or created someone entirely new? But Romulans - grr argh!!
There'll probably be no mention of Tarsus IV (what was young James T. doing there?), his brother George Samuel Kirk, Finnegan, Gary Mitchell or the Kobayashi Maru.
Anyway for those who love space adventure and ignorant armies clashing by night the new movie will probably be appealing but for old TOStrekkies like me I have serious doubts. Oh well, we'll see on May 9th if it's a hit and whether or not I think I'll be able to stand watching it :(
