Trekkin'

[sir_guinglain]

Yes, I should have gone to bed, but I caught up with Star Trek - Into Darkness instead. Several visually impressive moments, but the cast were underused and there isn't as much mileage in immature boy Kirk as they seem to think. I am not a Star Trek expert, but I had the feeling that it didn't mirror the beats of The Wrath of Khan as well as it seemed to believe; and it wore its legacy too heavily too. There were also far too many fisticuffs, and little sense of lessons learned on the part of people or institutions - but that is the mode of action films in our time, I suppose.

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[arcanetrivia]

My impression of Into Darkness was... basically a complete lack of impression. I remember liking the first reboot film well enough for what it was, and thinking I was interested to see where they would go with it, and then being left pretty much completely cold by Into Darkness.

I wouldn't call myself a Star Trek expert either, though... I have seen all the films at least once (though mostly no more than once or twice, except for First Contact which I have rewatched quite a few times) and have been through all of TOS, TNG, DS9, and VOY at least once as well, mainly because my husband and I got the idea to marathon-watch them off Netflix. (Can't remember if we did the same with Enterprise.) I had originally been converted to a fan by TNG somewhere around 1992-1993 and my mother bought DVD sets of those in the later 90s which I used to marathon-watch when I was staying home from work sick, so between that and the fact that like M.A.S.H. it seems to always be on in reruns somewhere, I've seen a lot of TNG more than once.