Morgan

The critical reaction to this film fits perfectly into a common theme of sci-fi movie pitfalls of the last 10 years, to the point that a lot of postmortems sound the same: They cut the dialogue down to three pages and sped up the action to accommodate a 3rd grader's attention span.

A lot of sci-fi blockbusters now feel like they were directed by the same two or three directors to roughly the same producer's demands. At least Ghost in the Shell wasn't as frenetic or loud as Transformers, but I have a feeling that that was a battle the production had to fight: We can't make this excessively loud or explosion-laden because we have to stick to source material.

The difference still feels like 1986 RoboCop vs 2014 RoboCop.

Awesome stuff, I've waited years for this. Kinda cool that we're getting all this stuff basically 25 years later.

Possible leakconfirming Cheyenne, Excelsior variants, Miranda variants, Planet of the Titans Enterprise concept, Sydney. (I'm imagining the Miranda variants to include Saratoga and Soyuz, while Excelsion variants could be four-nacelled study models from BoBW and Unification).

I'm afraid the aeroshuttle would have posed some weird plot problems, such as:

- why don't they use the aeroshuttle all the time to solve problems?

- why don't they use it all the time instead of shuttles which are easily bamboozled by everything?

- why didn't they use the captain's yacht on TNG when they could have?

Voyager had enough plot holes to ponder over without the shuttle, such as how could they have churned out the Delta Flyer so easily, and why they didn't make two of them.

Wow, some really obscure things, and a very diverse batch. Out of the latest batch of announcements it's probably the Romulan scout that I'm most excited for, because TNG and because it was a favorite Micro Machine back in the day. Hah!

Well, it's official; it's the odd-numbered ones in this film series that are the good ones.

Easily the best of the three, and avoids much of the sillyness of the first two. Good amounts of time spent on individual crew members -- it was nice to just listen to them talk instead of shouting just as something is exploding. In 2016, we have to compliment movies on having a normal pace and letting characters have a conversation, that's what it has come to.

Really liked it, will see it again.

Yeah, the Romulan shuttle will definitely be a hit. And who can forget the awesome entrance that it had on the show?

(Might watch the episode again tonight to reconfirm how awesome it was).

When is the Kyushu coming?

I'm honestly looking forward to this more than Star Trek Beyond. And now with Anton Yelchin's death it going to be so sad to watch, thinking about him.

I wouldn't take that stuff too seriously; actual pre-production drawings don't leak like that, and the people at the helm would not set fire to a Trek Encyclopedia like that. JJ might, because Narada, but not the assembled showrunners.

I'm gonna go ahead and infer some things based on the letter font.

Oh man, this post-TUC pre-TNG rumor is sooo early in the production, I'm taking it with big pinch of Whole Foods Organic Sea Salt.

But here's the thing; given the people who are confirmed to be helming this series, they are all fanboys of that specific Trek era. They all basically want a series in the TOS movies universe. Since they only get one shot in life to start a Trek series from scratch, what other time period would they go to?

As far as crowd-pleasing goes, that time period is about as crowd-pleasing as it gets and I think objectively the studio would back them on this. Like with Star Wars now, a big contingent of viewers would want a retro feel and a return to the "feel" of that era. I don't think I'm going out on a limb with that statement.

Oh god, must have seen this episode at least 30 times. Epic epic stuff. Great design on that shuttle too.

Maybe we'll get lucky and we'll get an Enterprise-B series with Alan Ruck as captain and the rest of the bridge crew like Demora Sulu.

(In the first episode Harriman is killed and Demora Sulu takes over for the rest of the series, promotes Tim Russ' character, named Lieutenant Tim Twovok to chief of security).

::sigh:: Wishful thinking, but something very retro, with TOS movies uniforms, would be awesome.

I haven't seen it, probably will, but in the trailers there is very clearly an actor playing a part that was written for Christoph Waltz. I like the fact that there are now Christoph Waltz impersonators. (He must have been busy with that James Bond film).

Having had a few days to think about it, its strengths outweighed its weaknesses for the most part, but:

- that JJ Abrams pacing in the second half of the film gave me heartburn and its given critics who are familiar with the trilogy some heartburn as well. I wasn't asking nor expecting for Peter Jackson plot speed, but the second half, I'm sure many would agree, didn't give enough time to stop and ponder at some plot turns or the scenery for that matter. It's a bit like when Abrams' first Star Trek film came out and people's neck were snapped in the jump cuts. In some parts the movie moved too fast and the big picture was drowned out -- an issue that all the Transformers films suffer from immensely (not intending to compare the two, but that's what happens). It's as if all parts of the film that didn't have dialogue were cut out, lest there be a silent moment. That's a common JJ feature.

- some characters definitely got shortchanged in terms of screen time in proportion to how they were hyped and their appearance on the film's poster, though at the same time they're not being overexposed like what happened in the prequels.

- I will see it again just to look around at the corners and spot things.