Why is Star Trek considered a miracle?

[ashling]

I find this copycat highly illogical.
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[LeftyMom]

1. It was an odd numbered Star Trek movie that didn't suck.

Which is the best argument in favor of divine benevolence that I've heard in some time, now that I think of it.

[DarkTirade]

4. Not really though... they stopped numbering them after 6.

So after 6, none of the movies were even-numbered. So by that logic, none of them should have been good. :P

[baldguy]

2. Have you seen the other shit the networks were putting out then?

[hedgehog]

3. It keeps getting utterly destroyed, then returns better than ever!

[ReverendDeuce]

5. Saw it last night. I thought it was sort of poop, honestly...

I was not expecting much, but I was hoping -- what with all of the positive press and reviews from Trekkies that I know are hard-core fans, it's hard not to hope!

But really, my hopes were destroyed the second I saw the "engineering section" on the USS Kelvin. WTF? Concrete floors? The whole engineering section looked like a goddamn brewery! I really don't think this issue makes me one of the Star Trek canon fanatics. Come on! Concrete in space? Did they really run out of money and had to use a Budweiser distillery as a practical location in exchange for product placement?

Chekov is 17? It took Kirk three years to become an officer. Did Chekov enlist at age 14? Starfleet takes 'em young, I guess.

When Nero put that brain-bug thing into Pike to get him to reveal information... Where did that go? What happened to that entire plot line? What the hell?

Some of the dialogue was simply ridiculous... Spock's mind meld with Kirk to explain his story was simply awful. "He flew into the black hole. I flew into the black hole." Hell, we all flew into the black hole! Great.

Wasn't it convenient that Scotty and Spock were on the planet that Kirk was marooned on? Even Spock seemed surprised at that one!

Again, this is a total non-canon, non-fanatic point of view. I really, really felt let down by this film. It was so, so very sloppily written and executed...

This Star Trek reboot reminds me of the Lost in Space reboot from 1998.

[hedgehog]

6. Actually, that part makes sense. Spock dumped Kirk on the nearest planet,

which happened to be where Nero dumped old Spock to ensure he had a ringside seat on the destruction of Vulcan. Here's the real kicker - if old Spock knew what Nero was up to, why didn't he high tail it over to the Federation outpost to warn Scotty to warn the authorities?

[ReverendDeuce]

7. Excellent point...

Okay, so that part sort of makes sense now... Barely. But your second part, absolutely dead accurate. WTF?

Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy...

[hedgehog]

8. I'm just going to have to go back and see it a few more times

to see if there are clues as to why that all makes sense.

[hedgehog]

9. Unless....... Old Spock was on his way to the station to try to warn

them and that's how he ran into Kirk. They were both headed the same way. Unless I missed something entirely, and Spock was unaware of the station until Kirk told him.


Rats! I am going to be forced to see the movie again to resolve this question!

[MedleyMisty]

10. Nero did get to Earth and past its defenses

so I guess he got the information.

By the way, Khan used a similar brain-bug thing in Star Trek 2.

We watched Star Trek VI recently, and it had lots of odd things too - like why have unauthorized phasers just randomly on display in the ship's kitchen? Why even have a kitchen when you have replicators?