Simon Pegg as Scotty walks away with the entire movie once he shows up.

It was a good movie, too. I enjoyed it a lot. I expect the next film to be a lot better.

#1- The character of captain Johnathon Archer. (Enterprise)

#2- The Emergency Medical Holographic Doctor (Voyager)

#3- The second a woman gets command of the enterprise,she crashes it. Troi (Nemesis)

#4 The opening credits sequence of Enterprise, illustrating mankinds steps towards reaching the stars. I even liked the 'Mirror Universe" Enterprise credits illustrating mankinds formation of the nasty ass evil empire.

#5 The premise (not the execution) of both voyager and enterprise- More wild untamed frontier,less technobabble and less federation politics and hand wringing over the prime directive. Instead of just being sidetrips into the holodeck, or rehashes of old scenarios, we could get new stuff added to the mythos. Instead we got...rehashes of old scenarios, an overly unneccesary time travel conspiracy during the federations formulative years, and the holodecks fucking up a lot. And Jeri Ryans cyberboobs.

#6 The idea that a clone of picard could be a vicious evil bastard. The execution was lacking on all counts, but man was that an intriguing premise.

Everything else was a waste of a perfectly viable setting. Rick B ran the well completely dry.

#1- Instant Federation- Just add traitors! (Voyager)- When half of your crew is "yay starfleet" and the other half are renegade Maquis, there should be a lot more friction then dirty looks across the mess hall. Chakotay went into 'yes man' mode so fast I can't help but believe that Janeway gave him a casino somewhere on the lower decks as part of the deal. Starfleet had way too much of the "we need each other to survive" bargain. The Maquis should have outnumbered the federation survivors, so the very real threat of mutiny could have been thrown anytime the feds did something the dissidents didn't approve of and so the federation members couldn't just toss them out of the airlock when the need for expediency was required. Having the Maquis way prove 'correct' occasionally over the starfleet manner wouldn't have hurt either.

2- Neelix (Voyager)- Those morons thought Pete from Benson was going to be the breakout character; a cute,cuddly junk collector who only wants to help. The 'morale officer' from voyager is going to be the guy who has absolutely zero ability to understand what either crew lost? He's going to be better recieved then the acerbic doctor with no bedside manner? Keep dreaming.

3- In the year two thousssssssand(Enterprise) - Instead of just giving us that early frontier, we got a crazy and convoluted time travel/conspiracy story that constantly "reshaped the future-or did it?". Trekkies went nuts over their precious continuity changing (le gasp) and casual fans just didn't care about the ramifications if the first meeting of romulans was originally capt kirk but now john archer.

#6- Humans changed Vulcans way of life. And Klingon physiology, and the Romulan military ethic, and the dominion (all). Humans are the 'swing vote' race according to Q, we can be very great,or just another dead end. So why are the roots of star trek based in outright xenophobic racism (Enterprise), or blind idealism in beliefs not shared by anybody within 70,000 light years which continually hinder your daily efforts to survive(Voyager)? It's good to have a cause,it's good to have a system of beliefs to uphold, but spending 45 minutes of every hour flabbergasted that new species 5678356,543,201 upon learning that you are all alone in this reach of space,with vastly different technology, no method of protecting yourself, and no famailiarity of the surrounding region- these guys are in fact, going to eat you and steal your ship. Just like the guys last week tried to do. And the new species you meet next week? same thing. Yet somehow, humans turned klingons from guys with shoe polish and foam on their heads to heavily cosmetically altered guys, and then we learn that they used to be the heavily cranium changed guys all along until something embarrassing happened between TOS and Enterprise. Something embarrassing equals "rick berman".

TOS had the right idea, a bright shiny united race exploring the stars and having adventures.

TNG came along and turned it into some sort of xeno-social study. That's fine, and it made for some usually interesting stories- BUT Berman and company immediately applied that thinking to the material that predated TOS, and then applied a more cynical look at the TOS. Why is the federation so heavily regimented in every single era EXCEPT kirks? Where is the logic in that, my green blooded friend? You could argue that Kirk's cowboy demeanor fucked it up for everybody that came after, but Archer's got saddled with the same thing and a vulcan observer more annoying then saavik. By making Archers era tie so tightly into TNG's, they muddy up everything.

The new film wisely takes the elements of classic trek and infuses them with modern sensibilities. While I shall miss redshirts dying to a thrown pancake or an away team menaced by a mop head on a string,it got the core elements correct.

The kid who played Kirk wasn't bad. I think the writing let him down. His Kirk didn't offend me, but the character wasn't there for him to play. Extreme Kirk and I aren't going to get along. The kid who played Spock did the best job, although he may have been helped by the fact that Nimoy has apparently forgotten how to play the character. McCoy did the best after Spock, but he had less development than Chekov, for fuck's sake. The first priority of the sequel had best be more McCoy.

I also believe that this film would have benefitted from either casting older or holding off on placing everyone where they belong. By the end of the movie, I'm left wondering about the sanity of an organization that's comfortable leaving a starship in the hands of teenagers.

Eric Bana was pretty damn good. He rescued a lot of this movie.

I thought they did a pretty good job of rethinking the look of the piece while still making it recognizably from that particular continuatal era. This was a fine line to walk and they walked it admirably.

From the interviews I read, originally the plan was for shatner and nimoy to both appear as time travellers (because nimoy HATED the off the cuff kirk death and wanted to reverse it), and they opted for just spock to allow the reboot room to breathe instead of tying it heavily into the previous film series. Nimoy's weak performance almost has to be excused due to advanced age.

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As for Pegg, I must resort to rob's "you have no taste in movies and you suck' defense.

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We clearly have an example here of why I so frequently find myself resorting to it.

Simon Pegg is fucking hilarious. I just watched Shaun of the Dead for probably the third or fourth time and, as I proudly own it, I'll likely be watching it again.

Fucking great film, that.

And he was fine as Scotty. I wouldn't say he "walked away with the film," but I liked him in the role.

I liked this movie a great deal. I had completely given up on the franchise, but I'm totally back in now.

That's what a reboot is supposed to do.

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I totally agree here, but I can forgive it, just for the final shot.

"damn ensign, I have to leave the ship, you're captain now"

"damn trainee,I have to use the crapper, you're ensign now".

"damn suspended cadet, Nero just warmly introduced himself to me by first name, you're captain now" and so forth.

As far as the kids left without a babysitter on the enterprise, I don't find it nearly as hard to believe as 'old trek' letting the most experienced and seasoned crew in starfleet history stick around on one ship instead of hitting the convention circuit, training academies, PR appearances, and spreading the wealth across other vessels.