"Star Trek: Into Darkness - Living with the Remake"

"Star Trek: Into Darkness - Living with the Remake"

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr.

So it was one of those days that I just wanted to go out with my wife...so I did.

We went to the earliest showing possible in SM Valenzuela on a weekday a little after lunch and the cinema was empty. It was like a little private showing of Star Trek: Into Darkness.

The plot is simple and would really get a lot of the new fans in as well as those who know the franchise from way back.If you have not watched the movie...there are a lot of spoilers here.

The Plot:

A madman is not what he seems , while 

Someone within the Federation is planning a war between the Klingons...

The Good:

- Kirk and Bones being chased by the Natives!

- Spock being saved from the Volcano

- The Enterprise being worshipped by primitives...probably the basis for Ancient Aliens on that planet...

-The Return of Khan Noonien Singh

(and once again he does not look Mongolian or Indian)

-The reference to the Eugenics war , an intriguing time for me

-The movie screen appearance of the Dreadnought class and its subsequent destruction...

-The savage spock

- Both Spocks talking to each other...Mr. Spock?

 , Mr. Spock?

-The Enterprise acting like a gigantic obstacle course for Kirk , Scotty and Chekov as it plummets to earth.

-The reference to the Mudd Incident

-The appearance of a tribble and its subsequent revival that helped in Kirks revival...

- A Savage Spock giving Khan a savage beating!

- Hubba Hubba Caroline Marcus!

- Section 31 appears...Always loved those shadowy groups like the Obsidian Order and the Tal Shiar...

- The two feline femme fatales Kirk sleeps with...Im not sure if they were Ktarians.Hubba hubba...

-Scotty was hilarious in this one...

- Sulu taking the captains chair for the first time , Kirk foretelling that he would be good at it...and he was...

-Remind me never to piss you off Mr. Sulu , Said Bones McCoy

- The way everyone gets a spotlight in this movie is just great...

- The explosion of the Section 31 archive...

- The first appearance of the Klingons in this alternate reality...

- The Klingon Birds of Prey were awesome!

- Uhura speaking Klingon...Sexy...

- Spock shouting....Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!!!!!!!

- The twist about Kirk dying instead of Spock...

- The beginning of their 5 year journey...

- The sure fact that there will be a Part 3 and even more of this stuff!

The Bad

- A Savage Spock...

- A Spock that gets kissed every movie...getting frisky with Uhura is one thing but for older fans there really is something grating about those scenes...

- The Death of Captain Pike...I liked the one where he was in a made up world so much better...

- The realignment of the Warp Core...Kicks make the whole difference...makes me want to do it to my laptop sometime when it misbehaves...

- Not really bad but all of this stuff should look a bit archaic...well everything looks much better than the stuff on Voyager or DS9! Makes me wonder how those franchises would look like after a face lift...

The Ugly...

- The Klingons...The prosthetics were awesome but I had to put something here yet again. 

All in all this wasa great movie to relax too, the movie starts off running and ends with that too. There was well paced humor and all the heroes and villains each had ample air time. I can't wait for part 3!