I saw the new Star Trek movie the other day, and totally loved it.  It had a story line that could clearly stand on its own, but still featured enough geek-out material and historical information for old-school (or just plain old!) fans of the original series.

I found myself thinking a couple of things during the movie, though.  They aren’t story spoilers at all, but if you haven’t seen it yet, and you absolutely don’t want to know anything about the movie before you do, then you may want to just skip ahead a couple of paragraphs.  Now then.  I thought that the orange creature from the ice planet didn’t look like it was the kind of creature that would survive in an environment like that.  No fur, no feet even, just spindly little insect legs and a safety-orange body (absolutely zero camouflage in white and gray surroundings) which was seemingly held together by anger alone.  Please.

Also (and this is not Star Trek’s fault, per se, I’ve noticed it in about a billion other movies), I’m tired of the cliché that good guys live and work in bright, pristinely clean buildings and spaceships, and bad guys ooze through space in ramshackle ships that resemble floating sewers on the inside, with steam and water seeping everywhere, and half-destroyed (or half-built, depending on your view of life) landings and walkways that constantly teeter the pedestrians along the edge of bottomless abysses, without so much as a handrail between them and certain death.  WTF?  Just once I would love to see a bad guy who didn’t instantly LOOK like the bad guy, and who didn’t live in a sewer with countless elevated walkways.  Please?  Thank you.

All that being said, the movie was really awesome, and you should totally go see it.  I may see it again once it makes its way into the second-run theaters.

Oh yeah. . .just for the record, the actress who plays Uhura is smokin’ hot.  I’m just saying.