June 10 movie: Star Trek. This was great! So good I burst into spontaneous applause at the end. They did such a good job of capturing the spirit of the original series. Great action, really fun, and when it was stupid (let's have a brawl on the bridge! In front of MPs who will just stand there! Now I'm declaring myself Captain!) it was stupid in exactly the same way as Classic Trek. All the actors did a good job of bringing the original characters back to life, without relying on cheap mimicry. And when they did vary the characters, for instance Scotty seemed much more comic, it was a good change I thought.
We saw it with our old friend Charles and his partner Zac, who are big Star Trek fans. Afterwards they filled us in on the references we'd missed -- for instance the thing about the Admiral's beagle, we never watched Enterprise so that went completely over our heads.
This movie made me excited about Star Trek again for the first time since ... well since the best years of Next Generation. I actually found myself wondering how long it will take them to come out with another movie, and wanting them to hurry up so I can see it. Well done!
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