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posted by martyb on Saturday July 23 2016, @03:18PM   Printer-friendly
from the catch-it-if-you-dare dept.

Just when you thought it was safe to go to the movie theaters again, the latest in the "alternate universe" Star Trek films hits the theaters today. Ars Technica and El Reg have two reviews of the flick.

El Reg, with its usual caustic brand of British humor, calls it "An unwatchable steaming pile of tribble dung", while Ars describes it thusly: "Trek by numbers is no Trek at all". Both articles do heap praise on Karl Urban's dead-on portrayal of Dr. McCoy. Still, it might be worth watching in the theater, for as as we all know there are is no bad Star Trek. Ever!

As for myself, I think I'll do what I usually do and wait for it to come out on video and see if it is truly targ manure.

[From a more general perspective, the Rotten Tomatoes meta movie review site has a critic score of 85% and an audience score of 86%. -Ed.]


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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 23 2016, @06:32PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 23 2016, @06:32PM (#379115)

    I'd get a lot more out of your comments if you didn't abbreviate the names. I don't know which ones you're talking about. "Save the whales" I know. Not sure which Enterprise replacement you're talking about. They seemed to be blowing one up every movie for a while there.

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  • (Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Saturday July 23 2016, @11:41PM

    by kurenai.tsubasa (5227) on Saturday July 23 2016, @11:41PM (#379218) Journal

    TMP = The Motion Picture (I)
    TWOK = The Wrath of Khan (II)
    TFSF = The Search for Spok (III)

    Enterprise 1701 self-destructed above the Genesis planet in Search for Spock, and 1701-A revealed at the end of The Voyage Home (save the whales)
    Enterprise 1701-D (saucer section after a warp core breach) crashed into Veridian III in Generations (VII) and 1701-E revealed in First Contact (VIII)

    So, 10 movies, two enterprises destroyed. 3 season TV show and 3 movies with the 1701, 2 movies with the 1701-A (not counting the end of The Voyage Home, just The Final Frontier and The Undiscovered Country), 7 season TV show and 1 movie with the 1701-D, and 3 movies with the 1701-E.

    So far with JJ Trek we have 2 movies with the 1701, which is destroyed either in low Earth orbit or near the moon—they couldn't make up their damned minds but it sank into the swamp one way or another. So they built another one, also the 1701. And it sinks into the swamp in this film after a span of time that didn't even last the entire run of TOS (The Original Series). I bet they build another one, which will burn down, fall over, and sink into the swamp. By the 5th JJ Trek, we might actually have a San Francisco that isn't the West Coast Matchstick City [animeworld.com] and a 1701 that can last more than 2 films.