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Originally Posted by jammies
I'm going to see this tonight, based solely on getbak mentioning Uhura's green room-mate. Green alien chix are what made Star Trek great.
I will be seriously annoyed if Kirk doesn't put the Prime Directive to her, though.
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***SPOILER*****
I wasn't disappointed.
Other nods to the original series were:
The guy in the red shirt getting 86'd when they try to shut down the drill.
Scotty doing a MacGuyver to get the Enterprise out of a jam.
Kirk cheating that test and being the only one to ever pass it.
Kirk wrestling the Romulan for possession of a weapon when they are on the drill platform (except they needed the cheezy fight music)
Uhura being one sexy biatch.
I couldn't care less about whether the movie holds to canon. I hated all the new Star Trek crap after TOS because it was the chemistry between the characters that drove the original show, not the make-believe world which is, frankly, nothing but poorly done pulp SF.
I don't want tamed Klingons with vulva-heads, what I want is simple: Kirk wheeling alien babes, and the rest of the crew kicking alien butt. This movie delivered exactly that, and thus I proclaim it excellent.
(That is, other than the scene of 12 year old Kirk stealing the car. Utterly, completely unnecessary and dumb. It's like Michael Bay was consulted and said, "No car chase? I don't care if this is the 23rd century, I want a car chase!")