After giving this universe over seventy hours of my life through the 60’s TV show and the short animated series that followed it I’ve finally to the films in the release order, and considering how over the past few months this world has become one of my new favorites I’ve ever had the pleasure of mentally escaping to and I’m now finally seeing it for the first time in my favorite art medium it’s absolutely no surprise that my experience went so well. As someone who’s watched over 100 episodes of these characters in the same contained format it was an absolutely incredible experience to see how Robert Wise and his creative team managed to expand on that world, there’s genuinely way too much for me to even begin complimenting individual expansions but I’ll say that my jaw was metaphorically on the ground for a big portion of this runtime. I loved that they brought back each key cast member almost a decade after the live action show ended and 6 years after the animated, it was absolutely pivotal in maintaining the amazing Star Trek charm that the original show created and I loved each one of them with Bill Shatner of course standing out. There were a few changes that I wasn’t too big a fan of so I’ll get those out of the way now, the costume changes, even though they aren’t awful, are terrible in comparison to what they were doing in the original show, I have no idea who’s idea it was to put the crew in onesies but I sincerely hope they weren’t involved in the costume choices for the next entries. Spock also felt a bit off to me, he felt much colder in this movie than he ever did in the show which threw me off and disappointed me even if he still had his pristine logic. Besides that though I’m not sure I could name a single flaw, the space visuals are some of my new favorites of all time with the lighting and cinematography outside of that also looking great, like I said every member of the cast delivers well, and for the reason I kept going with Star Trek and found so much enjoyment in the world, the sci-fi concept for Kirk and his crew’s mission is phenomenal. If I were to rank this concept among the TOS episodes I’d put it top 3 behind Trouble with the Tribbles and The City on the Edge of Forever, I love what they did with consciousness here and the question of meaning in our reality and the way the story unfolded was some of the best Star Trek writing I’ve ever seen. In the end I’m left in complete awe of what Robert Wise managed to achieve with this, absolutely one of the most underrated movies I’ve seen on this app as it truly accomplishes pretty much everything I could want out of a space thriller and earns its solidified spot as one of my new favorite sci-fi movies ever made.
“Each of us… at some time in our lives, turns to someone - a father, a God… and asks… “Why am I here? What was I meant to be?””
After giving this universe over seventy hours of my life through the 60’s TV show and the short animated series that followed it I’ve finally to the films in the release order, and considering how over the past few months this world has become one of my new favorites I’ve ever had the pleasure of mentally escaping to and I’m now finally seeing it for the first time in my favorite art medium it’s absolutely no surprise that my experience went so well. As someone who’s watched over 100 episodes of these characters in the same contained format it was an absolutely incredible experience to see how Robert Wise and his creative team managed to expand on that world, there’s genuinely way too much for me to even begin complimenting individual expansions but I’ll say that my jaw was metaphorically on the ground for a big portion of this runtime. I loved that they brought back each key cast member almost a decade after the live action show ended and 6 years after the animated, it was absolutely pivotal in maintaining the amazing Star Trek charm that the original show created and I loved each one of them with Bill Shatner of course standing out. There were a few changes that I wasn’t too big a fan of so I’ll get those out of the way now, the costume changes, even though they aren’t awful, are terrible in comparison to what they were doing in the original show, I have no idea who’s idea it was to put the crew in onesies but I sincerely hope they weren’t involved in the costume choices for the next entries. Spock also felt a bit off to me, he felt much colder in this movie than he ever did in the show which threw me off and disappointed me even if he still had his pristine logic. Besides that though I’m not sure I could name a single flaw, the space visuals are some of my new favorites of all time with the lighting and cinematography outside of that also looking great, like I said every member of the cast delivers well, and for the reason I kept going with Star Trek and found so much enjoyment in the world, the sci-fi concept for Kirk and his crew’s mission is phenomenal. If I were to rank this concept among the TOS episodes I’d put it top 3 behind Trouble with the Tribbles and The City on the Edge of Forever, I love what they did with consciousness here and the question of meaning in our reality and the way the story unfolded was some of the best Star Trek writing I’ve ever seen. In the end I’m left in complete awe of what Robert Wise managed to achieve with this, absolutely one of the most underrated movies I’ve seen on this app as it truly accomplishes pretty much everything I could want out of a space thriller and earns its solidified spot as one of my new favorite sci-fi movies ever made.
“Each of us… at some time in our lives, turns to someone - a father, a God… and asks… “Why am I here? What was I meant to be?””
