Sorry, I edited the comment to include more context. The captain thing was a reference to the actor: http://memory-alpha.wikia.c…

Well, not exactly. The lines aren't as rounded (check the angles where the neck meets the back of engineering- actual corners!), the warp engines are much skinnier, and they changed the only thing I really disliked about JJ's version, the warp engines now splay out the way they did on the original version of the ship…

Agreed 100%. In the first movie, the Enterprise never really got a scratch on here, in STID she was dead in the water after a couple of seconds without ever getting one shot off, and then down for the count after Khan took a couple extra pot shots, but in this one, the Enterprise finally put up a fight. It was similar…

That's the main reason I never liked Roddenberry's idea that the original Enterprise-A was the Yorktown, renamed. You see the Yorktown at the beginning of the The Voyage Home, not more than a few weeks before the -A is unveiled at the end of the movie. The captain is a sad tennis player. So either his crew failed to…

When Spock was looking through and found what turned out to be the picture, I thought they might be finally making good on the proposed Shatner cameo for Star Trek '09.

I saw someone make a similar comment somewhere else that it seemed contrived Spock would've carried a framed photo of his old crew in his clothes when he flew off to save Romulus, which it really seems just as likely he had tens of thousands of photos on his pocket-sized vPhone (iCorder? If you have a better joke, let…

Amen to that. Maybe more than the Romulus Problem, this makes me disappointed the novelverse is contractually prohibited from using anything from the Kelvin films explicitly.

You say hell, I say beauty, tomato, tomahto.

Balthazar Edison. Let's just start with the name; It's something that Star Trek did occasionally, using names that would be old-fashioned now to suggest that they're old-fashioned to the heroes, as well. Zefram Cochrane is another example. He sounds like a 19th century U.S. senator or something. And Balthazar Edison…

I think it might've helped if they showed more extras crowding the Franklin. Once they're all on board, we barely see anyone aside from the main seven, which leaves some sad implications about how much of the crew actually survived.

Nope. Earth isn't even seen in this one (a distinction only shared by "Insurrection").

In the later series, we see full blooded Vulcans being hypocritical assholes and getting quite emotional at times. Spock, as a halfie, chose to be more Vulcan than Vulcan to prove himself (and ST IV is a lot about him reconnecting with his emotional human side).

Seriously? I thought he lost the capacity for joy after the design for the NX-01 was revealed.

Gahh, there's one blink-and-you-miss-it tidbit about Krall that was so tantalizing that I want to just riff on it and explore it, but no one else has seen the movie yet. This is the flip-side of catching it as early as possible to avoid spoilers.

If you want, you can find the Spoiler Space on this very site and read what's probably a cumulative book on why I and others didn't like it immediately.

Yeah, I've seen this a couple of places and, honestly, the only time there was a big-idea-driven Star Trek movie was in 1979, and most people whine about how boring it is.

I'd like to move for a Spoiler Space. I saw the preview screening last night, and I'd really like to cut loose on this one, but it would be completely fucking monstrous to do it where people who haven't seen the movie yet might see it accidentally.

“He said, stupidly.”

I believe that was from the "Glove of Darth Vader" series of YA books. And now that I've remembered that that exists, I'm going to take a few minutes to just scream and curse the heavens.

There was a cell-phone tower that was located in the wrong place by the police due to a typo. During Jay's interview when the tower was misplaced, he said they were in the vicinity of that location, but once the error was corrected, his subsequent interviews moved him and Adnan in correct tower location. That's only a…