You know what, I am tired of the next bad guy having to top the last one, be badder, have a wierder costume, have the bigger ship, destroy that planet that much fast. Next they will throw in the Doomsday Machine ala duce and a half size, swallow entire solar systems in a single pass, being ridden by some alien madman, with an exhast port as the only means to destroy it or some action centered BS. Don't get me wrong, action is necessary, but there is a way to do it with what is at hand, just as it has been going with everything being over the top.
It would have been blasephomy before, but was touched on in DS9, but I can see these two thoughts of what Star Trek is becoming having a good on screen battle that is not devoid of intellectual contemplation as this movie was. (Don't get me wrong I enjoyed it for what it was, and in and of itself. But taken as a whole, it was but a shadow of its predecessor. Like a kid trying to put on adult shoes. It's cute; fun to watch; but not the real thing.) The Youth oriented, shoot first, ask questions later, conquer by force of will and young unending labedo fighting for dominance of Starfleet and the spirit of the Federation over the older, wiser, more thoughtful and peaceful explorers of a generation overlooked. Say the difference between a young butter bar who leads his platoon over the top for the direct assault, as compared to the older captain who leads his element to flank the enemy to destroy their supply line and reduce their will and ability to fight. (Maybe this is why I might have been part of the minority who disliked seeing Picard becoming Kirk-Lite in the movies (I didn't need to see him win the girl, or fight hand to hand, etc.))
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"The Federation needs men like you, doctor. Men of conscience. Men of principle.
Men who can sleep at night... You're also the reason Section Thirty-one exists --
someone has to protect men like you from a universe that doesn't share your
sense of right and wrong."
-Sloan, Section Thirty-One
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