Amateur Movie Review: Star Trek

Viewed 05/08/09. Premiered 05/08/09. Most hardcore fans of the original series are griping about the changes the writers made to reinvigorate the franchise featuring their favorite starship captain! I guess I’m not that big a fan since I embraced the change with open arms. To the hard core fans: get over it! The change is a lesser evil compared to the alternative of having your franchise die off completely; besides the change is meant to bring over new fans while giving the loyalists what they want: new adventures with Captain Kirk. If it escaped most of you die hard trekkers, Romulan Captain Nero came from the future with complete utter disregard for the changes he would cause in the time line. One fan was trying to rationalize Nero’s lament about waiting 25 years for exact his revenge. Anyone who’s a Trekker or a fan of the Sci-Fi genre knows that time travel alters the traveler’s perception of time; as the older Spock explained “what seemed like years for Nero, only felt like minutes for me.” And as the younger Spock stated, “Nero’s presence has altered our destinies.” A cue from the writers to let the audience and the fans know that this will now be an alternate time line for the Federation (which was evident in the opening sequence as another fan complained that Kirk was born in Iowa not in space [and in the middle of a battle which again is symbolic of Kirk’s destiny in this new timeline]). A good amount of action, a tweaking of the design of Federation starships (I still have yet to warm up to the more fluid design of this "new" Enterprise) gives new life to an old and stale franchise. I’m looking forward to the next installment! This flick I give four stars.