09
May 13

Star Trek Into Darkness

It’s cold in space.

It was also cold in the theatre.

Brr, the wrong day to decide to forgo my cardigan while wearing a short sleeved dress.

As for the movie?  Well, I don’t want to spoil anything so will leave it to you, dear reader whoever you are, to determine how well I called it in my previous post.

I think I shall need to watch it again. It was definitely darker than the previous movie, some relief was there but not of the order of magnitude of, say Iron Man 3′s interludes of humour. Similarities with events in the ‘prime’ universe may have been a bit too heavy handed.*

I’m going to go and have a read back through some of the IDW comics for any retrospect references, but shall leave you with two things…

The Tribble was back, and so was Cupcake.

 

*But that could just be me, I know Trek very well so the references have been just too clear for me. For someone coming to it without having seen anything but the previous movie it probably wouldn’t have been an issue.


08
May 13

Star Trek Into Darkness

I’m off to see Star Trek Into Darkness tomorrow. A few years back, well six years ago, I wrote a rather scathing post upon hearing that J.J. Abrams was to take on the franchise; words I mostly had to eat. This time around I’ve been preparing by avoiding all spoilers, which is new for me. I did this also for Iron Man 3 and it was well worth it. I’ve been keeping up with IDW’s Star Trek comics which form a canonical bridge between the Abrams movies and have some theories* about what may be going on; to paraphrase Agent J, I suspect “there is some next level shit going on” at Star Fleet.

 

* These involve A Private Little War, Section 31 and what if (a part of )Starfleet encountered the Botany Bay much earlier and came to… an understanding…