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I have to do this now don't I?

Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

it had a good story line

Lets see, villain out for revenge?
Star Trek II, Star Trek Insurrection, Star Trek Nemesis.
Earth is in danger?
Star Trek I, Star Trek IV, Star Trek First Contact, Star Trek Nemesis
Time Travel:
Star Trek IV, Star Trek Generations, Star Trek First Contact

and fantastic casting.

Personally I though the actor playing Chekov was mediocre. Everyone but the actors playing Spock and Bones were just average.

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

I too thought the reboot was very well done - and the issue of "canon" was dealt with very cleverly, I thought, since the actions of the villain traveling back in time essentially created an alternate past and timeline for the entire ST universe and the most important characters. Now the rebooted version is free to go where no ST has gone before without contradicting the accepted canon of any of the other incarnations.

Bah contradictions? Nero blows up one Federation ship and Starfleet's technology jumps ahead 100 years? Why is the Enterprise-Nil now the size of the Enterprise-D? EAS has a great article on that! Oh and why is it powered by a Brewery? Is booze a substitute for Deuterium now in this alternate Abramsverse? Good news there is finally a shuttlebay that can fit the Delta Flyer! Unfortunately it could carry a squadron of them... and I'm surprised it didn't...

Speaking of the ship Nero blew up? WTF is wrong with her registry? 0514! Didn't someone tell them that when you write out numbers you don't include zeros before numbers greater than zero. It's not like we have not seen Federation Ships with three digit registries before!

And I agree, the casting was brilliant. Karl Urban - who I could not have imagined in the role prior to seeing him do it - totally nailed his performance as a younger but no less crotchety McCoy,

Urban nailed the Character of McCoy!

and the guy who played Kirk... well, even watching the movie I didn't quite see it until towards the end...

I'm still waiting to see it...

And don't even get me started on Spock. Also - crap, I can't remember names today but the guy who played Scotty, loved him as well.

Spock was good but Scotty? Simon Pegg was a lousy choice. Did you know that Paul McGillion tried out for the role but was rejected for Scotty...

Yea that Paul McGillion... an actual Scotsman!

Simon Pegg not a Scotsman...

I guess the producers felt so bad they did give Paul a role. I think he is credited as "Guy in Hat" or something. At least he gets to tell Kirk to F off.

Bruce Greenwood was also great in the movie, I would have rather seen the whole movie with him playing Pike commanding the Enterprise than this "New Kirk"...

Originally Posted by Weiss Pinguin

yup... but those lens flares

Ah you mean the lens flares they ripped off from Firefly? Yea they were horrible...

Oh not to mention people being blow in to space when the hull is breached... Firefly did it...