Kovacs Caprios wrote:
Wasn't Pike the captain in TOS pilot episode. Then Replaced by Kirt for TOS?
And showed up crippled and in a wheelchair, communicating ludicrously via flashing lights on the front of the chair, in the episode that was made up out of the re-cut pilot, the one where Kirk was on trial.
Really enjoyed it. Funnily enough, the only bit I could have done without was:
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...the whole section on the iceworld. Really? There was no more elegant and cohesive way you could have woven in the time-travel plot and Old Spock than that? A massive Exposition Dump and an even more massive coincidence that Kirk got marooned on the same world that Nero dumped Spock on? Why wouldn't Nero have just kept Spock on the bridge of his ship? Couldn't he have seen the destruction of Vulcan from there? Hmmm and ahem and come on now.
The time-travel thingamy was such a cool idea it deserved a lot better.
That's nit-picking, though. Like I say, really enjoyed it, really good fun, nice performances all round particularly from Kirk (who had the Kirk Smirk and the Kirk Slouch bang-on), Sylar, Captain Pike and Bones. Within the first ten minutes I'd laughed, I'd cried and I'd seen the vehicle I DO WANT more than any other in movie history, knocking the Speeder Bike, Batman Begins Batmobile and hoverboard out of Back To The Future 2 down the charts.