![]() ![]() After launch the fuel tank and the booster rockets would be jettisoned, and the orbiter would orbit the Earth. In the meantime, you want space opera, you got it.The space shuttle was composed of three components, a reusable orbiter, a large fuel tank, and two booster rockets. Perhaps the next one will engage these characters in a more challenging and devious story, one more about testing their personalities than re-establishing them. The movie deals with narrative housekeeping. The new movie essentially intends to reboot the franchise with younger characters and carry on as before. But the franchise has become much of a muchness. I understand that the character types are as familiar as your favorite slippers. I understand this is not science fiction but an Ark movie using a starship. I understand the Star Trek science has never been intended as plausible. I thought about these things during “Star Trek” because I could not help myself. ” Between “2” and “1,” you could jump a million galaxies. Consider, at light warp speeds, how imprecise it would be to say “At my command. Lots of verbal commands seem implausibly slow. Battles consist primarily of jump-suited crew members running down corridors in advance of smoke, sparks and flames. Spatial relationships between spaceships are unclear because the Romulan ship and the Enterprise have such widely unmatched scales. Eric Bana’s Nero destroys whole planets on the basis of faulty intelligence, but the character is played straight and is effective. Scotty ( Simon Pegg) seems to have begun life as a character in a Scots sitcom. She seems wise and gentle and unsuited to her costume. Uhura ( Zoe Saldana) seems to have traveled through time to the pre-feminist 1960s, where she found her miniskirt and go-go boots. There are times when the command deck looks like Bring Your Child to School Day, with the kid sitting in daddy’s chair. A few years after he’s put on suspension by the Academy and smuggled on board the Enterprise by Bones McCoy ( Karl Urban), he becomes the ship’s captain. Does poor young Spock realize he faces a lifetime of people trying to get a rise out of him? Nimoy, as the elderly Spock, must have benefitted, because he is the most human character in the film.Ĭhris Pine, as James Tiberius Kirk, appears first as a hot-rodding rebel who has found a Corvette in the 23rd century and drives it into the Grand Canyon. Because Zachary Quinto plays him as a bit of a self-righteous prig, it’s satisfying to see him lose it. Young Spock is deliberately taunted in hopes he will, as a Vulcan, betray emotion. The concept of using warp speed to escape the clutches of a black hole seems like a recycling of the ancient dilemma of the rock and the hard place.īut there are affecting character moments. This method of transportation prevents any sense of wonder at the immensity of outer space and is a convenience not only for the starship but also for the screenwriters, who can push a button and zap to the next scene. ![]() That would be because of warp speed, which for present purposes consists of looking through an unnecessary window at bright lights zapping past. Also that lifeboats can save the crew, despite the vast distance from home base. It’s encouraging to learn that not even explosions and fires can quickly damage a starship. Apart from details from the youths of the characters and the Spock reunion, it consists mostly of encounters between the Enterprise and the incomparably larger and much better armed Romulan spaceship from the future. ![]() I mention these details only to demonstrate that the movie raises its yo-yo finger to the science, while embracing the fiction. Clark’s “space elevator,” but instead of fullerenes, the cable is made of metallic chunks the size of refrigerators.īut stop me before I get started. fists and swords? The platform is suspended from Arthur C. After they land there, they fight with two Romulan guards, using. The logic is also a little puzzling when Scotty can beam people into another ship in outer space, but they have to physically parachute to land on a platform in the air from which the Romulans are drilling a hole to the Earth’s core. ![]() Anyone with the slightest notion of what a black hole is, or how it behaves, will find the black holes in “Star Trek” hilarious. Time travel as we all know, is impossible in the sense it happens here, but many things are possible in this film. Holy moly! Time travel exists, and this may be me! It’s more like a little ambiguous dialogue is exchanged, and they’re off to battle the evil Romulan Capt. And when Leonard Nimoy himself returns as the aged Spock, encountering another Spock ( Zachary Quinto) as a young man, I was kind of delighted, although as is customary in many sci-fi films, nobody is as astonished as they should be. ![]()
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