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Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Jan. 22nd, 2013 06:57 pmI'd never seen it. Through a roundabout series of events that included limited exposure to the last three TNG movies[*], all of which I'd previously boycotted based on how astoundingly shitty Generations was, my husband insisted we play the original Trek film for an impromptu Movie Night before I spoilered myself for it.
I probably wasn't supposed to laugh my head off at the plot twist when we find out what the alien entity V'ger actually is. Oh man, I howled and howled. It was a cute twist, though, even if my general knowledge of Trek meant that I'd already predicted exactly what was going to happen to "Captain" Decker once the Enterprise crew got to the heart of the mystery. It was a pretty good film, though-- not as boring as I'd heard, though all the exterior spaceship pr0n shots were overmuch. I dunno... it's kind of like Tron for Star Trek fans? The outfits everyone has on are godawful, but overall it's really one of the better films, and I think it demonstrates just how amazingly far the TNG films and the reboot got away from what the spirit of Star Trek actually was. Kirk-- the "reckless" captain-- wasn't interested in killing poor lonely V'ger just because V'ger ate a space station, put all Earth in peril, and fucked with the Enterprise. No, Kirk wanted V'ger to self-actualize! How Trek is that? Totally Trek!
I mean, the baseline spirit of the series used to be "Because humans and other sentient beings can be better than this, and we will be." And that didn't necessarily lead to black/white morality where all the good choices were the easy ones to make. Hell no. But then you have this spate of shitty movies wherein the characters are basically rejecting everything they used to be about and, uh, NO. The reboot was a fun film but Gene Roddenberry's ashes are quivering somewhere from the stupid.
* They look awful. Even First Contact. Seriously-- TNG was a great ensemble show, and I have no use for these films featuring Action Hero Picard (what) and Data With Emotions (no) and, oh yeah those other ppl who aren't Data and Picard.
I probably wasn't supposed to laugh my head off at the plot twist when we find out what the alien entity V'ger actually is. Oh man, I howled and howled. It was a cute twist, though, even if my general knowledge of Trek meant that I'd already predicted exactly what was going to happen to "Captain" Decker once the Enterprise crew got to the heart of the mystery. It was a pretty good film, though-- not as boring as I'd heard, though all the exterior spaceship pr0n shots were overmuch. I dunno... it's kind of like Tron for Star Trek fans? The outfits everyone has on are godawful, but overall it's really one of the better films, and I think it demonstrates just how amazingly far the TNG films and the reboot got away from what the spirit of Star Trek actually was. Kirk-- the "reckless" captain-- wasn't interested in killing poor lonely V'ger just because V'ger ate a space station, put all Earth in peril, and fucked with the Enterprise. No, Kirk wanted V'ger to self-actualize! How Trek is that? Totally Trek!
I mean, the baseline spirit of the series used to be "Because humans and other sentient beings can be better than this, and we will be." And that didn't necessarily lead to black/white morality where all the good choices were the easy ones to make. Hell no. But then you have this spate of shitty movies wherein the characters are basically rejecting everything they used to be about and, uh, NO. The reboot was a fun film but Gene Roddenberry's ashes are quivering somewhere from the stupid.
* They look awful. Even First Contact. Seriously-- TNG was a great ensemble show, and I have no use for these films featuring Action Hero Picard (what) and Data With Emotions (no) and, oh yeah those other ppl who aren't Data and Picard.
