Two things about the new Star Trek

[csberry]

DISCLAIMER: I am not a fan of the original series. Just doesn't do anything for me. I enjoyed ST:TNG and really like ST:Voyager after the first season. Apparently unlike many others, I liked Enterprise. I missed the original airing of the first half of the first season (I think it aired at the same time as two other shows JD/I Tivo'ed) but followed the show closely after that. I saw all the Star Trek movies when they came out until the "time traveling whale" one. I honestly don't think I've watched the remaining "original cast" movies all the way through. I loved the first Star Trek movie with the Next Generation cast, but was slightly less interested when the last movie came out.

1. Spock <3 Uhura: I don't have a big problem with the concept of the two of them having a relationship, but as it unfolded in the movie, it just seemed a bit hokey.

2. The destruction of Vulcan: I understand the struggle as a writer to create something that must conform to an established canon. I think the writers did a superb job of how they used the time travel to create a good enough excuse to liberate themselves (and future writers) from previous canon. HOWEVER, they did future Star Trek writers a disservice with the destruction of Vulcan by Nero/Romulans and making Spock part of an "endangered species." If I was an aspiring Star Trek writer, I'd be working on my own way to negate that decision. Sure, let Spock's mom die from that event, but let there be another Vulcan colony or shadow planet so the Vulcans aren't nomads while the Romulan Empire is unscathed.

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[auronsgirl.livejournal.com]

*spoilery spoilers*

2. They did that at the end of the film. Spock Prime found a planet to set up a Vulcan colony and reestablish the Vulcan race. He was going to go do that, while his younger self did all the usual Spock-y things with the Enterprise. All of Spock Prime's loved ones are dead, he has outlived them all, even Kirk. So it is somewhat of a mercy that he will have something to occupy his time and efforts, and somewhere that will honor him at the last.

[csberry.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I caught that info about the potential planet, but what did they say there were...about 10,000 survivors? Vulcans are essentially a wandering tribe now. It would be nice to find that the number of Vulcans are actually in the millions and there aren't any complications with establishing a new home world. Vulcans have always been so noble and eternal in my mind. Them now being a hobbled victim of the offshoot Romulan race creates a completely different dynamic than previously existed.