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I don't normally read graphic novels or comic books, but I bought this for my 10 year old because we love all things Star Trek. It's a quick engaging read and tells us the fate of The Next Generation characters following their last movie, "Nemesis" released in 2002, as well as being a prequel to the first Star Trek movie featuring younger versions of the original characters (2009). Suffice it to say, time travel is involved.

Recommended if you have seen the movies and are into Star Trek.

So that's how Nero became Nero and had that amazingly big and nasty ship that travels through time in pursuit of Spock. This is the missing prequel to the most recent Star Trek reboot movie. The book makes pretty good use of the characters from Star Trek: The Next Generation, although it is a bit trite that they are the ones that are constantly called out to save the universe. They almost do it, too.

A TV series starring Anson Mount (Paramount, May - Jul. 2022).

A spaceship explores the galaxy.

B (Good).

The first few episodes are hard to get through, but once it gets into its swing, it's the most fun I've had watching Star Trek since DS9.

(Dec. 2022)½

James T. Kirk is just about to be born when the Federation starship USS Kelvin is suddenly attacked by a Romulan ship. As the ship's acting captain, Kirk's father sacrifices his own life to give more people a chance to evacuate.

Years later, Kirk is a roguish Starfleet cadet who finds himself at odds with a young Spock. When the Romulan ship that killed Kirk's father suddenly reappears, Kirk and Spock must learn to work together in order to keep it from destroying everything they love.

Or at least that's as much as I can say without going into too many spoilers. There's not actually a whole lot to the story.
I'll start off by saying that, although I was a fan of Star Trek: Enterprise, Voyager, and some of movies based on the original series, I was never actually much of a fan of the original series. I'd watched a few episodes (I distinctly remember one in which the alien beast was clearly footage of a domestic cat that was still wearing its collar), but it never really grew on me. Which is to say that I may have a different perspective on this movie than a diehard fan of the original series.

This movie felt like a character cameo vehicle, and that's even without all the actor cameos that were originally planned, according to the Wikipedia article for the movie. Which wasn't necessarily a bad thing. I enjoyed recognizing the younger versions of all the original series characters, although the one I thought was most effectively cast was Zachary Quinto as Spock. Chris Pine was good as Kirk, but he was better when he shared the screen with Quinto's Spock.

The story was...okay, if a tad long. This was my second time watching the movie (first was in the theater), and I was left with several questions. I initially assumed that the Romulans had somehow managed to jump forward in time a little more, to catch up with Spock, but this time around I noted the dialogue stating that they'd waited 25 years for Spock to arrive. Where did they wait? Why did no one find or notice them? Also, how did average Romulan miners figure out how to use red matter? And what even is red matter? No one ever asked that question, not even Kirk, who should have been as clueless as me.

All in all, this was okay, but it did leave a somewhat sour taste that the action was more memorable than the destruction of an entire alien homeworld. Does the next movie even bring that up? I can't remember, but I have a feeling it didn't get the time and emotional weight that something that horrible and enormous should have.

Extras:

A gag reel that wasn't particularly funny, a commentary I didn't listen to, and a "making of" featurette that had some interesting info.

(Original review posted on A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions.)

This was a pretty good Star Wars movie! Like, it wasn't Rise of Skywalker good, but it was probably about on par with Rogue One! That part at the beginning with the boy beating another boy bloody was kinda disturbing, though? And then he like became one of the protagonists? That was a bit distracting. Like, the dude clearly has some serious anger issues, which honestly kinda continue throughout the rest of the movie. I think we're supposed to like him but I kinda just don't get it.

He also talks about "logic" a lot so maybe he's written this way to be a dig at Reddit or something? You know, those guys (and it's ALWAYS guys) who insist that they're guided by logic and accuse everyone else of having "feels" but they're just honestly the angstiest, most emotionally-fragile mfers ever.

Not that the other protagonist is any better. Worse, actually. He's basically every bad stereotype about frat boys. I love a good horny protagonist as much as the next enby, but wow he was super rapey and just… unsubtle. He was also a pretty huge himbo, though, so at least there's that I guess.

They were really heavy-handed about that whole alternate timeline thing? Idk. Felt weird. And they spend a lot of time on the ship!! I thought that was kind of weird in a Star Wars movie, but everything else felt very Star Warsy so that's alright. Like, that engineer guy had a little alien dude sidekick and he didn't do or say anything, but the movie sure made sure you noticed him anyway. And the bad guy's entire plan is just… imma blow up planets!!

It was kinda weird how the one protagonist threw the other one off the ship for insubordination!! Is that how discipline works ordinarily in this universe? It was pretty funny how Kirk ended up on the same part of the same planet as that other super important character, though. classic Star Wars right there.

I can't wait to see how the sequel expands upon this pretty serviceable opening act and definitely doesn't just repeat the exact same conflicts as this one but dumber and less good. Also I'm sure these characters will grow on me eventually, right?

I mean, it is a Star Wars movie after all.

Prelude to the 2009 movie Star Trek, this colour graphic novel weaves Spock (Leonard Nimoy), with Captain Data (returned by way of imprinting his neural nets onto B-4's), Admiral Piccard, and the Romulan, Nero. Also stars Geordi and Worf. Quick read. Also includes the 1967 Gold Key comic "The Planet of No Return" by Dick Wood.

Too much Klingons! The props and scenery budget is way more than the original. Some character complexity perhaps.

A spaceship investigates some time-travelling BS.

2/4 (indifferent).

I guess it wouldn't be Star Trek if it wasn't bad half the time. Unfortunately, with a season-long "story" arc, in this era that means it's bad for a 14-episode stretch.½

A prequel to the Abram's rewrite. Eh.

And it's the end, I binged it over a weeked and really enjoyed it, The Observers have invaded and the team are in amber, it's decades since they were last here and Peter and Olivia's daughter, Henrietta, rescues them. Now they want to reset the timeline so the Observers never happened and life will be better.

It's a good series, a good season and it wraps things up nicely.

Like Federation Old Home Day.

A travesty. Rufus Sewell can't help but be cool as the villain, of course, but he's the movie's sole redeeming feature. They took one of the best modern adventure films and made a cartoony string of nonsense. I'm sad just thinking about it.½

For me, a below average film. I like the Brendan Fraiser Mummy films a lot.
I found this "reboot" kinda boring. Generally I find Tom Cruise a reliable and watchable actor but I just didn't like him in this film. And the female lead was so colourless as to be practically see through! I'll stick to the 1990s versions thank you.½

An experimental ship fights in a space war.

Great. It's Star Trek for grown-ups, what they call "dark and edgy." And I strongly dislike that about it. It gets a lot more right than it gets wrong - it's often gripping, it's got a great cast, and Tilly is the best Star Trek character ever. But it tries so hard to look and act like other popular shows that, despite being much higher quality than past Star Treks, it ultimately feels unimportant and forgettable.½

Yes it played fast and loose with history and what would have happened but it was also a fun romp of a movie that kept me watching and entertained throughout.
Tom Cruise plays Nick Morton, a vaguely immoral scout who theives from archaeological digs whole checking out situations. This time he's fallen on a burried tomb, there are a lot of warnings about the mummy within, and they, and the archaeologist, Jenny Halsey (Annabelle Wallis) rescue the sarcaphogos before the town disappears. Things only get stranger from here and on the way to England the plane crashes and Jenny is apparently the only survivor. Nick wakes in the morgue and things get strange from there.

It's pretty predictable but a lot of fun and I enjoyed watching it.

The Old West.. where a lone cowboy leads an uprising against a terror from beyond our world. 1873. New Mexico Territory. A stranger with no memory of his past stumbles into the hard desert town of Absolution. The only hint to his history is a mysterious shackle that encircles one wrist. What he discovers is that the people of Absolution don't welcome strangers, and nobody makes a move on its streets unless ordered to do so by the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde (Ford). It's a town that lives in fear. But Absolution is about to experience fear it can scarcely comprehend as the desolate city is attacked by marauders from the sky. Screaming down with breathtaking velocity and blinding lights to abduct the helpless one by one, these monsters challenge everything the residents have ever known. Now, the stranger they rejected is their only hope for salvation. As this gunslinger slowly starts to remember who he is and where he's been, he realizes he holds a secret that could give the town a fighting chance against the alien force. With the help of the elusive traveler Ella (Olivia Wilde), he pulls together a posse comprised of former opponents-townsfolk, Dolarhyde and his boys, outlaws and Apache warriors-all in danger of annihilation. United against a common enemy, they will prepare for an epic showdown for survival.

—Universal Pictures

Han pasado dos años desde que el joven Sam Witwicky salvara al universo de una decisiva batalla entre dos razas de alienígenas robóticos en guerra. Pese a su extrema heroicidad, Sam sigue siendo un adolescente normal con las preocupaciones cotidianas de prepararse para ir a la universidad, dejando atrás a su novia Mikaela, y separándose por primera vez de sus padres. El objetivo de Sam es llevar una vida universitaria normal pero, para hacerlo, deberá olvidar su destino. Mientras Sam ha hecho todo lo posible por dejar atrás el conflicto de Mission City y volver a su rutina diaria, la batalla entre los Autobots y los Decepticons, aunque haya sido un incidente súper secreto, ha provocado muchos cambios. El Sector 7 ha sido desmantelado y el agente Simmons, despedido. En su lugar se ha creado una nueva agencia, NEST. Empleando mandos con experiencia de campo como Lennox y Epps, NEST pretende trabajar codo con codo con los Autobots para evitar otra confrontación mortal con los Decepticons.

Dos razas de robots extraterrestres transformables (los villanos "decepticons" y los amistosos "autobots") llegan a la Tierra en busca de una misteriosa fuente de poder. En la guerra que estalla entre las dos razas, los hombres toman partido por los "autobots". Sam Witwicky, un avispado adolescente, que sólo desea conquistar a la bella Mikaela, se convierte en la clave de una guerra que puede destruir a la humanidad.

This is so exciting for me! I grew up with the original Star Trek show, watching every week, worrying about what they would get into next. This new crew does a wonderful job of reinterpreting the original one. Love it, love it, love it!

This is a mind bender of a series, very complicated and with some great acting by the actors, particularly when a lot of the episodes take place in two worlds and the actors have to play two different people. At the beginning Peter is gone and forgotten but things change and the events change. It's an interesting series to watch.

A time-traveling Romulan has a vendetta against Spock.

Fun and fast paced. There’s some nice comic relief, and loads of geek-pleasing moments. The action scenes are a mess. The plot isn’t very interesting, mostly just getting the characters re-introduced – which is fun for a fan, since it’s extremely well cast (especially Karl Urban’s Bones) and the characters and dialog are well-written – but there’s still not much plot. It’s not a science fiction movie, and it’s not a submarine movie like previous good action versions of Star Trek have been. In place of those elements, there’s standard loud, fast-moving-camera, dumb action. They’ve got the characters down right; now they just need to put them in a movie.

Concept: A
Story: F
Characters: A
Dialog: A
Pacing: A
Cinematography: F
Special effects/design: C
Acting: B
Music: A

Enjoyment: B

GPA: 2.8/4½

Cowboys fight aliens.

The writing committee tried pretty hard to fuck this up, but it still manages to be fun. It's a great cast (even though none of them are acting particularly well here, they're still a great cast). And they go for a classic western style, which is nice in itself, but also manages to make the same old alien invasion crap seem somewhat less identical to every "science fiction" movie from the last ten years. It would have been nice, though, if they'd managed to do anything at all original.

Concept: A
Story: D
Characters: D
Dialog: C
Pacing: B
Cinematography: B
Special effects/design: B
Acting: C
Music: C

Enjoyment: B

GPA: 2.4/4½

As a fan of the original series when I was in High School, I wasn't sure I even wanted to like this, but was won over right off the bat. The entire franchise makes rather too much use of time travel, but here it's a master stroke--two events happen in the film that are drastically different than the original Star Trek timeline, and they alter everything, including the way classic characters behave. Thus we have the familiar characters and Trek universe developing and unfolding in both familiar and unfamiliar ways. There are plenty of bits to cheer old fans, such as when McCoy says his ex-wife took everything but his "Bones," or the first time he utters, "Are you out of your Vulcan mind?" And the scene where Enterprise comes roaring in on the attack is awesome because we've never really seen the likes of it in Star Trek. Beautifully cast, well written and acted, and J.J. Abrams affection for the whole thing is apparent. The fact that he's now working on Star Wars is a cause for celebration among fans everywhere.

Enjoyable series. Not quite the X-files. Some humorous moments. Though, every strange phenomena/case they examine seems to relate or have been caused by Doctor Bishop and his experiments.

Enjoyable series. Not quite the X-files. Some humorous moments. Though, every strange phenomena/case they examine seems to relate or have been caused by Doctor Bishop and his experiments.