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[Aaron]

Really good movie. I can't call it 'great' until I see it more than once.

I'm fairly into Star Trek - seen all the movies, all of the TV series - but have never gone to conventions, dressed up as a Romulan or learned Klingon.

I think the casting was superb, all of the main characters were cast perfectly.

There were a few things in the movie that struck me, as a Star Trek fan, oddly, but it didn't take away from the movie.

I felt at first like the main villain was underused, more something to move the story along than anything else, but then I recognized that the main conflict in this movie is between Kirk and Spock, not Good Guys vs. Villain.

I'll be seeing it again this weekend.

[impala454]

The one thing that's really stupid in just about all time travelling stories is that it never clicks to them that they could just use the time travel to solve whatever dilemma they're in.

I.e. this one: Spock doesn't save Romulus... Nero upset... Nero decides to go back in time and destroy Vulcan? Uh... hello dumbass, go back in time and tell Spock to hurry his ass up and save Romulus instead, since he f'd up the first time.

Star Trek Generations: Picard is in the "nexus" and can go anywhere he wants to try to stop Sauron. He decides to go back to the planet with Kirk, where they barely have a chance to stop him. When he could have just gone back to the Enterprise, when Sauron was on the damn ship standing right in front of him with him and his crew of 1,000. Or even gone back a day before, before he blew up that other star.

Back to the Future I: Marty decides to try to go back in time 10 extra minutes to save the doc... WTF? How about a day or two beforehand dumbass? Or a year? Perhaps before he met the Libyan terrorists??

Back to the Future II: Doc comes back in time to bring Marty to the future to help his kids? Uh, dipshit, just tell him what happens. WTF is the point of going forward into the future, preventing something, then going back to the present where said event hasn't even occured yet?