Lileks Star Trek Review

From lileks.com:

Bottom line: Loved it. Loved it, loved it. O I loved it. Except for the moments not seen because I was out on the aforementioned errand, I loved it all. The opening was just a big shovel of chocolate for the fans - been a while since you saw something with NCC on the hull fire phasers and get hit with torpedos and generally blow the hell up, eh? Here. On the house. And it’s emotional, too – thus was Odysseus born!

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I’m not a purist; it would be a ridiculous thing to be. A purist would have to worry about things like starships with vector-graphics on their displays. A purist would have to live with things like Worf having an opinion about Cole Porter. I think DS9 is better than TNG, overall, the last season of Enterprise was as good as Trek got, and Voyager was often better than people remember in the latter years, even though the entire show squandered the opportunities of its premise. It did have one interesting two-parter about a man who prowls through timeon a giant spaceship  destroying planets, but that’s neither here nor there.

No, this wasn’t for purists. This was the effort of some talented people who got the original idea at the subatomic level, and said “It’s ours now. Here we go.” 

Read the full, ridiculously hilarious review here. It is mostly spoiler-free for those of you who haven’t seen it yet. On a side note, Star Trek did fantastic in theaters over the weekend, with its final tally bringing in $79.2 million dollars from Thursday to Sunday, exceeding box office expectations — Paramount had guessed that it would make about $50 million opening weekend. SciFiWire has more here.