Star Trek Reboot

[bluflamingo]

I don't know if anyone reading this is a Star Trek Reboot fan, but I'm guessing someone is, so... would anyone have time to give a quick read through to a 1500 word Kirk/McCoy fic for torachan's transfic mini-fest, preferaby by the end of the month?

New fandom is making me nervous, especially with, you know, *decades* of history that I don't know at all (what is it with me and coming in at the end of something? Like SG1 wasn't bad enough!).

That said, I love the film so much, despite my lack of Trek knowledge - seriously, I don't think I've ever seen a single episode of any of the TV series. Do I have to hand in my sci-fi fan badge now? But I love that they're all *smart* - I mean, them being the Enterprise crew at the end is still implausible, but less so. And Uhura is awesome (I love Zoe Saldana, ever since I saw Center Stage), and so is Captain Pike (I'm not the only one who's really, really strongly reminded of Gibbs from NCIS whenever he's on screen, right?).

And Spock: I intend to assist in the effort to reestablish communication with Starfleet. However, if crew morale is better served by my roaming the halls weeping, I will gladly defer to your medical expertise.

I love that line, it makes me grin every time he says it.

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Re: Not a die-hard fan, really, but I've seen most of TOS and read a lot of the novels

[bluflamingo]

Can I just say, I was a lot happier when I wasn't thinking about this stuff?!

Maybe they meant to send the cadets since it was supposed to be a non-crisis, and they seem like they've nearly graduated, plus they had some crew who were more experienced (or at least I assume so, since people like Sulu and Chekov are called by military ranks from the start, instead of Cadet like Uhura and Kirk), so they figured they could send them first of all while they recalled everyone else? Since it didn't seem to take them long to get to Vulcan but a recall of everyone else would have taken longer, since I assume they can't beam everyone from around Earth.

Re: Not a die-hard fan, really, but I've seen most of TOS and read a lot of the novels

[skieswideopen]

Can I just say, I was a lot happier when I wasn't thinking about this stuff?!

Sorry, I'll be quiet now. ;)

This stuff kept occurring to me while I was watching, which I think kept me from enjoying the movie as much as I otherwise would have. Because it did have some great aspects, like how smart and competent everyone was, and the casting, and so on.

Re: Not a die-hard fan, really, but I've seen most of TOS and read a lot of the novels

[bluflamingo]

Sorry, I'll be quiet now. ;)

That's okay :)

Though it sort of bothers me that I can actually come up with a possible explanation on the spot, and that you noticed the gaping plot holes, but that apparently no-one on the entire crew noticed or thought to toss in a better explanation than we got.

Because it did have some great aspects, like how smart and competent everyone was

So much. Especially Kirk - it's nice to have a military leader who they acknowledge is smart, rather than trying to put across as sort of dim compared to the scientists.

Re: Not a die-hard fan, really, but I've seen most of TOS and read a lot of the novels

[skieswideopen]

I get the feeling that plot consistency wasn't really their primary concern. But yeah, one of the things I found most frustrating is that a lot of these issues seem terribly obvious and could have been dealt with by a couple of lines of dialogue, and it seems so lazy not to deal with them.

I like Kirk being smart, but truthfully, the whole rebellious leader thing irritates me. Purely a personal objection--I realize lots of people love that--but it's not my thing. Which is probably why Spock was my favourite character when I watched TOS as a kid.

Re: Not a die-hard fan, really, but I've seen most of TOS and read a lot of the novels

[bluflamingo]

I like Kirk being smart, but truthfully, the whole rebellious leader thing irritates me

Yeah, in real life I'd probably hate him.

Re: Not a die-hard fan, really, but I've seen most of TOS and read a lot of the novels

[skieswideopen]

Also possibly why Picard is my favourite captain. (Though if you're not familiar with the rest of Star Trek, that probably doesn't mean anything to you.)

Re: Not a die-hard fan, really, but I've seen most of TOS and read a lot of the novels

[bluflamingo]

Picard is...Next Generation? And I think the guy who played him acts at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, though I wouldn't bet anything of importance on that.

Re: Not a die-hard fan, really, but I've seen most of TOS and read a lot of the novels

[skieswideopen]

Yes, and probably yes. Patrick Stewart is very much a Shakespearian actor, so it makes sense that he'd act at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre.

Re: Not a die-hard fan, really, but I've seen most of TOS and read a lot of the novels

[skieswideopen]

Oh, but I don't see any reason they couldn't have beamed everyone from anywhere on Earth. They've never indicated any sort of limitations that way. And now I will stop.

Re: Not a die-hard fan, really, but I've seen most of TOS and read a lot of the novels

[bluflamingo]

It didn't seem like a serious enough crisis to bother? Like, you wouldn't recall an entire ship's crew because a couple of drunk students tried to get aboard, but you would if someone bombed the ship? And they thought Vulcan was closer to drunken students than a bomb and by the time they realised it wasn't, it was over anyway.

Re: Not a die-hard fan, really, but I've seen most of TOS and read a lot of the novels

[skieswideopen]

Maybe, yeah, but it still seems like they would have had at least half experienced crew, and half new cadets serving as back-up. I don't know--maybe we're intended to think that's what they did do. But again, it's something that could (and IMO should) have been explained fairly easily, and wasn't.

Re: Not a die-hard fan, really, but I've seen most of TOS and read a lot of the novels

[bluflamingo]

I don't know--maybe we're intended to think that's what they did do

I think so - that's why we have Sulu and Chekov, and Spock who's obviously supposed to be there. Plus the lieutenant who Uhura replaces. But yeah, it could have stood to be made a little clearer.