jnselko

I am still (though less so with every iteration) willing to overlook the various non- and indeed anti- science aspects of this Science Fiction franchise, but... No red shirts guarding the aliens in sick bay? When one of the aliens gets up and runs away, no security alert? Instead, they have a nurse chasing him down the corridors. Really?

And the alien makes two turns, runs into an elev atop and winds up next to the bridge? Really? Is this a star shop or a schooner?

A ship enters a worm hole within a lightyear of a planet and two weeks later that planet has a "Warp Bomb"? Really? If you set off a hand grenade a mile away from Julius Cæsar, would the Romans have a Javelin ATM by the Ides of March?

The first episode, and Capitan Pike takes it upon himself to violate the Prime Directive in the most egregious manner ever shown thus far on any Star Trek-related show, and it's cool and he's good to go.

Really?

Instead of transporting hypos directly into the waiting hands of the away team, why not transport the "Warp Bomb" far out into space. No violation.

Are all the higher-ups in Star Fleet Morons?

And let's not get into the absurdity of the captain and the First Office leading every away mission (unless it is 150% certain that no "action" will occur). Militaries haven't acted that way (with strikingly few exceptions) since the Napoleonoic Era.

Let's get this straight: Star Fleet has spent two decades training what began as an Ensign up to being able to command a starship, spending millions of dollars on each Captain, and they allow said Captain to be the sharp point of the spear in every single mission where almost everything about the mission is an unknown but where the possibility of things going south with extreme rapidity is high? I don't think so.

If you can't get the science right (and you can't), at least get security and the way things are done in the military are done. It's SOP, n to catch-as-catch-can. Military systems can't operate like that. They didn't when the Macedonians faced the Persians, and they sure as heck won't when engaged in interstellar diplomacy and warfare.

Thes cience is off, of course, but no where near as much as it usually is in movies like this

The non-science part of the film, however, is like a documentary, 100% right on. It's like a film that will be made fifty million years after the comet hit the earth showing how politicians back in the day reacted to the warning of a disaster of more than biblical proportions.

An exact representation of the lunatic right and the manipulations of its followers by its leaders, who themselves are only slightly smarter than fire hydrants.

Sometimes I wish that we were able to give a single movie two reviews, and this is one of those times. I gave it a two-star rating because it is an excruciatingly bad move in every sense of the word. The plot, writing, acting, direction, camera work, sets, continuity, and everything else you can thing of relating to a film are bad, bad, bad. . . And yet, on an entertainment level, I would have given it eight stars A lot of bad movies are terrible to slog through, but this one. . . . This one was a joy. It was fun and so jaw-droopingly, gob-smackingly awful that the feeling of disbelief that washed over me as I watched it lifted me almost to a euphoric height. I'd rather watch a movie like this than ten $100,000,000 Jar Jar Binks -style atrocities.