Let's Talk Movies: Star Trek

Last weekend, we watched Star Trek on the big screen. Now, I'm not a big trekkie, but I'm familiar with some of the old characters. Imagine how much fun it was to see Zachary Quinto (playing young Spock) and Leonard Nemoy Nimoy (the original Spock from the series) meet in the movie. Young Spock meets future, pruny Spock.

I haven't scoped out the general sentiment of the people who've watched it, but i'm happy enough. I'm poor with names, but I can name some of the actors by the movie or TV shows they've been in.

• The dude from Hot Fuzz and Shawn of the Dead was in the movie, he played Scottie.
• The Korean dude from Harold and Kumar played Zulu.
• The black pirate girl who slapped Captain Jack Sparrow at the end of Pirates of the Carribean 1 played Ahura Uhura.
• Zachary Quinto, who played young Spock, plays Sylar in the TV series Heroes.
• The doctor McCoy was played by the actor who played the main role in The Pathfinder.
• Eric Bana from Troy and The Incredible Hulk (the failed version) portrayed Nero.
• Chris Pine played James Tyberius Kirk.
• Jennifer Morrison from the TV series House played the mother of Jim Kirk.
• Winona Ryder (Reality Bites) played Spock's human mother.

Kudos to the casting director for casting Chris Hemsworth as George Kirk. He does look a lot like Chris Pine and would pass as a younger version of his father. Also, for finding a kid who really does look a lot like Zachary Quinto. Not a lot of casting directors take note of these little details.

The only thing that felt weird to me was that in the movie, Ahura Uhura was Spock's girl.A big contrast to the fact that in the series, Ahura Uhura was Kirk's girl. I just wished William Shatner had appeared in the movie. But that's another controversy that I wouldn't want to get into. Haha.

Also, I recommend that you do go out and watch Star Trek. It's funny and exciting. And now you can actually see what's happening to the external of the ship when they're being attacked, and not just some shaking cockpit. Haha.

Have you seen it? What do you think of the movie?

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Thanks to Martin for pointing out the wrong spelling. He's worried I might piss off trekkies.