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Posted: **Tue Apr 28, 2009 7:38 pm**

Via Trek Movie. Mostly positive, although he does seem to raise some legitimate criticisms.

Is Star Trek a great movie? No. But it is a good one and a great set-up for a great Trek movie with the entire crew in place and now ready for a piece of the action. When the inevitable sequel is up and running, hopefully we can dispense with time travel, and instead embrace a little more philosophical subtext, metaphor, character development and a lot more going boldly. And with the great wordsmith Damon Lindelof (who's currently finishing off an amazing season of Lost) beaming onboard as a co-writer, I'm deeply optimistic that the best Trek film ever is yet to come. With J.J. Abrams in the captain's chair, the franchise finally has a capable steward at the helm - and hopefully it's full thrusters ahead. Make it go.

There seems to be a widely held expectation that the new Star Trek franchise will go from good to awesome Ã la The Dark Knight.

Posted: **Tue Apr 28, 2009 7:53 pm**

The only thing missing was a flying kick.

Maybe they'll have one in the sequel.

Posted: **Wed Apr 29, 2009 1:51 am**

Any spoilers in that review????

EDIT: Nevermind, I read it anyway.

Posted: **Wed Apr 29, 2009 2:31 am**

Not really, no.

Posted: **Thu Apr 30, 2009 1:25 am**

Another review: http://www.cinephobia.com/startrek09.htm

This is my film reviewer mate who took me to the media preview, so I am shamelessly plugging his site. He is a "serious" film reviewer but also a Trek-, Bond- and Star Wars-nerd, so there is plenty worth reading on his site. Also I can testify that he owns and built the Lego Millennium Falcon kit.

Mild spoilers only - nothing you wouldn't have read from all the other reviews.

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