Where No Man Has Gone Before
Both my kids went to see the new Star Trek movie and both thought it was great. My son liked it so much, he has already gone twice. Admittedly my son is a much bigger Trekkie than my daughter. But neither of them grew up with the original Star Trek. Since this movie was supposed to be based on the original characters, I had to go see it.
I have never been a Trekkie, but it was hard to grow up in the 60′s and not see Star Trek. With the stilted, overly dramatic Captain Kirk, the pessimism of Bones, the logic of Spock and the fabulous accent of Checkov. Along with many a young girl, I was a big fan of Checkov.
Each of my kids had one objection, so naturally, I was watching out for them. My son, who has just gone through a years worth of Russian language classes, objected to Checkov replacing all his v’s with w’s in his talk. In true Russian language, there is a ‘v’, but no ‘w’. My daughter’s objection has to do with changing the last statement from “where no man has gone before” to “where no one has gone before”. I have to presume that it was some politically correct version, but come on, who is really going to be insulted.
I did notice these two items, but did not let them distract me from enjoying the movie. They really did a fabulous job with the characters. Spock was just as logical and stubborn, Bones was pessimistic and loyal, Sulu was serious, Scotty was quirky and Kirk was all over the place. Okay, Checkov wasn’t as dreamy as the original, but he still had the accent. The movie even had Leonard Nemoy in it.
Seems like Hollywood enjoys making these ‘going back in time’ movies lately. This movie took you back to before any of these guys even considered being on a Star Ship. Gave you a little perspective on their characters. Gave it a nice story line. There was still a lot of shoot em up scenes, more than I care for. But the special effects were definitely a huge step up from the 60′s. For anyone who grew up on Star Trek, I would recommend seeing this movie.
May 13th, 2009 at 12:33 am
I’m hoping to go see this one myself this weekend but I believe I’ll be going alone as there is no way that my daughter would have any interest at all in going with me. So I’ll boldly go to the movies by myself and hope I enjoy the movie as much as everyone else who has seen it!