Of course, I loved it. Spoiler Alert if you haven't seen the movie and still want the surprise.
- There is a lot of fast-paced action, of course.
- The original Wrath of Khan is still my favorite Star Trek movie, but Benedict Cumberpatch makes an awesome Khan. I figured it was Khan when Kirk said there were seventy two torpedoes. I remember from the original episode Khan had seventy two shipmates in cryo-stasis. But it was still a good reveal. We could tell who in the theater were Trekkies: When they made the reveal, we were the ones spitting up our food, croaking "I KNEW it!"
- While Uhura does make a good hero figure, I wish there were more female heroic figures. Carol Marcus may eventually be such a character, but for this movie, she was strictly bikini filler.
- I wish Admiral Christopher Pike had ended up as he did in the original timeline, badly injured and in a wheelchair. It would have opened up the original pilot, The Menagerie, as a possible storyline.
- If you read the credits, they mention George and Winona Kirk. That would have been a neat trick had George Kirk not been killed in the first movie. After looking on the internets, it turns out they were snippets that Kirk heard when he woke up from his death nap.
- James Dohohan's son, Christopher, got a credited role as the transporter officer. He played the same role in the first movie but wasn't credited.
We've seen the movie twice now, both at dinner/movie venues. I just love the fact that we can get our reserved seats online, and we no longer have to show up an hour before the movie just to get our favorite seats. We've also been going to night movies (we used to only go to afternoon showings -- fewer people). Now that the summer has started, with afternoon temperatures in the 110's, it's not longer life- or epidermal-threatening to see a movie.
Live long and prosper...
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