Ahh! So the Orion girl is Scarlett? Wow! I would've never have known that if you hadn't mentioned it. That is cool.

I guess I'm just a hard one to please when it comes to certain things. I did like the movie, however I do doubt I'll see it again. Small things got to me though, like why are there thrusters at the ends of the warp engines? Warp engines create a warp field, for instance.

I did like the idea of using the warp core, with their anti-matter to briefly create a white hole--which is thought to be scientifically possible. Reminds me of Rodenberry's Andromeda, using Nova Bombs against point-singularity weapons.

Fortunately everything in Star Trek can be easily dismissed as being the alternate timeline Spock was speculating about. Too bad in many ways because I always thought Kirk's character had a richer background than what was shown in the TV series. Kirk had a brother, for instance. At least 4 TOS episodes dealt with elements from Kirk's past, specifically his service on another starship before coming to the Enterprise.

Personally I think there are other ways to really drum up lots of interest with ST. For instance Starfleet, wounded and traumatized by the Borg and Dominion war delevops a prototype commando wing. Fast action space-based adventure could revolve around a Kirk-like figure, leader of a squad of these Starfleet commandos. Use holographic emergency commandos for when the ship is overrun, each hologram programmed with all known fighting diciplines in the Federation, etc. Lots of possibilities there alone. Another idea Klingon Wars. Or even Star Trek from a Klingon perspective. Instead of the Enterprise zooming around, how about Klingon explorers, deep into some remote quadrant, exploring for possible expansion of the Empire. Imagine their personalities like that of a pirate ship: dicipline to the Klingon code, yet unpolished. They learn as they go, yet make many mistakes, but get better over time. Much like how Worf progressed.

Anyway, just some thoughts and musings. Not complaining though. It was an entertaining movie. Left me with lots of questions.. why use this mysterous red matter to make a black hole so close to Romulous? Made better sense to evacuate the planet.. and we know they have the technology to detect when a star is going to go nova. Use that material that scientist dude from ST Generations to collapse the star. Certainly better than living with a black hole in place of your sun. Having a space miner fuming to destroy worlds 25 years after over the loss of his girl seems odd to me. 25 years later and his anger is just the same. I guess that's possible.. after all, who can understand the mind of a Romulan?

Anyway, now I hear there's a sequel in the works. It would be interesting to see what that one would be about, and if there's an effort to correct the timelines. That's something though. Kirk always managed to correct the timeline. But, that's now a different timeline. ;-)

Well, that feels good getting off my shoulders. Thanks all for your patience.

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