05-13-2009, 04:45 PM
Gotta agree with all the above......"Romulans" were crap ( I liked the original concept of them as 'honourable' foes with Klingons as the arrogant bad guys - reversed subsequently in the 'Star Trek Universe'.....even if the script for the first episode we see them in was stolen from that movie about an American destroyer v U-Boat, with Curt Jurgens as the U-boat Captain....)
"Olsen - Can't wait to get a crack at those Romulans and kick ass" in the red space-suit was a nice "in joke" for aficionados - and there were many more!
Lotsa creeky plot premises ( e.g.the 'Enterprise' takes minutes to get from Earth to Vulcan at Warp speed; the Romulan ship of 'Nero', said to be faster, takes hours/days on the reverse journey - just how long did Pike hold out?) Is anyone anal enough, like me, to own the books that trace all the plot faults/goofs?
Didn't like the Romulan mining ship.....too many things wrong to go into here, not least its size....
The whole Uhura/Spock thing (no explanation, obviously just a set-up for sequels.....anyone want to bet on an ' Uhura in danger/Spock on the horns of a logic/emotion dilemma' plot twist?)
The whole 'alternate universe' thing was clever - keep the characters without being bound by the old 'premises'.....does anyone remember the great episode where this was done with a plot-line about an 'evil' piratical crew in an alternate universe? Now there was a plot-line I wish they'd pursued...could even have been a spin-off series! :wink: ........
"Olsen - Can't wait to get a crack at those Romulans and kick ass" in the red space-suit was a nice "in joke" for aficionados - and there were many more!
Lotsa creeky plot premises ( e.g.the 'Enterprise' takes minutes to get from Earth to Vulcan at Warp speed; the Romulan ship of 'Nero', said to be faster, takes hours/days on the reverse journey - just how long did Pike hold out?) Is anyone anal enough, like me, to own the books that trace all the plot faults/goofs?
Didn't like the Romulan mining ship.....too many things wrong to go into here, not least its size....
The whole Uhura/Spock thing (no explanation, obviously just a set-up for sequels.....anyone want to bet on an ' Uhura in danger/Spock on the horns of a logic/emotion dilemma' plot twist?)
The whole 'alternate universe' thing was clever - keep the characters without being bound by the old 'premises'.....does anyone remember the great episode where this was done with a plot-line about an 'evil' piratical crew in an alternate universe? Now there was a plot-line I wish they'd pursued...could even have been a spin-off series! :wink: ........
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
