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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Nim: [QB] Also, $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ tribbles are back and they are bigger and juicier than ever. Bet you could make five steaks out of one of them. No little tennisball here. Starfleet low-rank officers now wear Imperial Snub-Caps for dress occasions, very foreboding. At the Starfleet hearing I almost did a double-take. To me, the costumes and uniforms were all gorgeous and well-chosen throughout the movie (especially Peter Weller's "TMP" uniform), except for the dark grey [URL=http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MHXQXI0g5ck/T8msVm9D-II/AAAAAAAAMzQ/tQu6SYQ5YQM/s1600/StarTrek12AnjiniAzhar1.jpg]Starship Troopers[/URL] dress uniforms and the Death Star caps. I really liked the Zero-G outfits and sensible helmets, best in Trek so far, especially compared to the [URL=http://borgdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/extreme-risk.jpg]spacewalk stuff in Voyager.[/URL] The Dreadnought Class "Vengeance" had three things going for her: 1:, the two spherical weapons clusters under the deflector were boss as fuck, used to great advantage. Exactly the right width and length of the phaser-volleys too (maybe a bit knifier), and red, like in TWOK. 2:, the reason for the hole in the saucer was explained, it held a massive, downwards-expanding gun platform. Made me think of three-nacelled 1701-D. 3:, The Vengeance made the Enterprise look like a small and nimble pearly-white frigate. She finally looked the part, like the bobbing and weaving thing seen in The Undiscovered Country. I kinda wish they would've thrown a nebula in there too. And they should've made the Vengeance slick gunmetal grey, would've made her look like a DeLorean battleship, completing the 80's lovefest circle in a stylish way. I'm not crazy about Zoe Zaldana, but my opinion of her style is opposite from Ginger's, I think she had way too much frowny, scolding [i]attitude[/i] in the first movie, while Nichelle Nichols was a glittering little happy flower most of the time (until TWOK, where she got cooler). In this movie she did get a bit passive-aggressive, but at least not as insubordinate as the last movie. I never saw her do [URL=http://wpc.556e.edgecastcdn.net/80556E/img.site/PHaax4LsM1DBdf_1_m.jpg]this[/URL] in any of the Klingon scenes, though, was this in the movie? If so, I never caught it. I liked that Spock got subtly bothered by Alice Eve's presence, implying (more or less) that the ship was too small for "two" bridge science officers. Using only perfectly logical tone, of course. I enjoyed seeing the new alien crew members. The cartographer or whatever he was seemed to be a Bynar, for lack of a better guess. Their first showing in TNG wasn't a "first contact" meeting, was it? They'd already established diplomatic connections by then? Those torpedoes looked appropriately 1982-ish, I thought. I liked the exhaust nozzles. I don't think Michael Giacchino has enough balls to be Trek music composer. Not that Jerry Goldsmith ever bit the heads off of bats or anything, but James Horner's pomp was sorely missed here, I thought. Sure, he uses the same Horn-blasts in Avatar, Aliens and TWOK, but damnit it works for me. I wonder if he says [URL=http://i.imgur.com/QnTbK.gif]"You just got Hornered"[/URL] when submitting his final drafts. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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