NP Note on Star Trek with a mild spoiler alert

[kelber at mindspring.com]

I don't think the Star Trek premise lends itself that well to movies.  The show is more about gadgetry and character interactions than sustainable plot.  On TV, you can reduce a plot to a clever premise (Tribbles, City on the Edge of Forever), but on the big screen you have to develop a basically cute or silly premise into a full three acts -- it's not impossible, but unlikely for Hollywood to be able to develop it into something intelligent.  The action sequences were boring, and the time travel was gratuitous -- all tossed in to bulk out the prosaic premise.  I'm a huge fan of the TV show Lost and was hoping JJ Abrams would come up with something better than this.  Agree with Monroe that Watchmen was much better.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>Sent: May 27, 2009 10:43 AM
>To: Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com>
>Cc: Pynchon Liste <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: NP Note on Star Trek with a mild spoiler alert
>
>I thought it was visually entertaining.  But the time-travel twist
>was, as usual with time-travel twists, a cheap device.  But the TV
>show was full of cheap plot devices too...  as is a lot of Sci-Fi.
>
>David Morris
>
>On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> That's nice...
>>
>> ...saw the movie too and I don't know if I like it.