As I understand it the trailer, particularly the first trailer, does not do the movie justice. Even Lin and particularly the script writer Simon Pegg, yes Scott wrote the script, were not pleased with that first trailer at all as it misrepresented the film. I’d reserve judgement until you see the film. I mean the trailer for Independence Day 2 looked like it would be a good fun movie, and it was absolutely awful. Trailers are typically a bad way to judge a movie.As a friend of mine once said, “I’m a Trekker, not a Trekkie.” And that was in the 1970s.
Mr. Abrams is not a good storyteller. The same for Justin Lin in this case. I watched the trailer for Beyond and it’s a mish-mash.
Ed
Well, there’s more than one trailer and I’ll stick to that.As I understand it the trailer, particularly the first trailer, does not do the movie justice. Even Lin and particularly the script writer Simon Pegg, yes Scott wrote the script, were not pleased with that first trailer at all as it misrepresented the film. I’d reserve judgement until you see the film. I mean the trailer for Independence Day 2 looked like it would be a good fun movie, and it was absolutely awful. Trailers are typically a bad way to judge a movie.
Well I’ll let you know how it is next week. IMy wife snagged tickets to the IMAX world premier and red carpet in San Diego.Well, there’s more than one trailer and I’ll stick to that.
Ed
Really?Bah, TOS is overrated and only held in high esteem because it was the original. DS9 is the true standard bearer.
You answered your own question. DS9 takes about 2 seasons to really get going. There were some good episodes in 1 and 2, but by season 3 they hit their stride. They go for broke starting in Season 4 and don’t really let up the rest of the way.Really?
I recently watched Star Trek the Next Generation and Star Trek Voyager. I’ve just got started on DS9 and I don’t see how it’s the true standard bearer.
I haven’t watched any of the Star Trek reboot movies. Some of the fanfic shows on YouTube are pretty good.
I agree. I think 10 seconds is generous. More like 3.I saw Beyond this evening. Sulu’s partner is in the movie for something like 10 seconds. It’s almost literally “blink and you’ll miss it”. And really, in this very brief scene with them, there’s nothing (in my opinion) to definitively indicate they’re same-sex romantic partners … if not for the pre-release publicity, I think you could easily think they were just very good friends.
As for the movie itself, I enjoyed it. There’s some great interaction between Bones and Spock, something we didn’t get enough of with the first two reboot films. Scotty also has some good material (I would have hoped so, since the script was co-written by Simon Pegg, who plays Scotty) and I liked the alien Jaylah who helps our intrepid crew. Although if you didn’t like the supercharged action in the first two reboot movies, be warned, this one has more of the same.
Definitely. Bit slow for the first couple seasons but overall it is the best Trek series hands down.You answered your own question. DS9 takes about 2 seasons to really get going. There were some good episodes in 1 and 2, but by season 3 they hit their stride. They go for broke starting in Season 4 and don’t really let up the rest of the way.
Well the next chapter in the Star Trek Franchise was unveiled at Comic Con in San Diego this weekend.
Spoilers
I give you the USS Discovery (NCC-1031) and Star Trek: Discovery
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Details are light so far except that the ship herself is based off very old pre-production images of the Enterprise. And they’ve confirmed that this show is set in the “Prime Universe” that TOS, TNG, DS9 and VOY took place in, not the “Kelvin Universe (aka JJverse)” of the most recent movies. Where in the timeline it takes place is not known, but we can extrapolate from the registry number NCC-1031 that it likely takes place a few decades before TOS but long after Star Trek: Enterprise
There has never been one, unless I’m wrong, between an actual homosexual couple. There may have been a homosexual kiss in the mirror universe and there was the one between Denara Khan and Jadzia Dax. On the face of it, that was a homosexual kiss, but as I similarly explained before to somebody else, that was kind of complicated because was Denara after Jadzia or after aspect of the former male host that Denara had previously some kind of relationship with and the symbiont in Jadzia previously having been in that male host?There’s been homosexual kisses in Star Trek before - DS9 had at least one. Two, if I recall.
Depends if you consider Mirror Ezri and Mirror Kira a couple. They certainly had a relationship prior to the episode in question, but when the episode arrived, it seemed that Ezri had had enough of the abuse.There has never been one, unless I’m wrong, between an actual homosexual couple. There may have been a homosexual kiss in the mirror universe and there was the one between Denara Khan and Jadzia Dax. On the face of it, that was a homosexual kiss, but as I similarly explained before to somebody else, that was kind of complicated because was Denara after Jadzia or after aspect of the former male host that Denara had previously some kind of relationship with and the symbiont in Jadzia previously having been in that male host?