Star Trek

It was awesome.

Good job in part on Zachary Quinto and his way of breaking away from a character everyone knows him as.

Why?  Fencing Sulu was an awesome homage to The Naked Time, in which Takei had to learn fencing for the filming of the ST episode after he had lied and said he already had training in it.  That sword was kickass.

I agree the sword design and idea was kick-ass.  If they had Sulu just plain fencing, would've been cool.

Let me preface this before i say anything. I hate the original start trek movies, shows, and pretty much everything else that was star trek related. That being said I really really liked this new movie. It has some good action sequences, some really funny moments, and just a generally good story line. The fencing sulu part may have been a little cheesy but whatever, anything is better than the old star trek and thier phasers that looked like garage door openers. The actual space ship fighting was also pretty cool. In the end i thought it was a pretty good movie and I would definately see the next one that came out. I also give them an A+ for making a movie that people other than star trek fans would like.

IIRC the original phasers were very slightly modified commissary salt and pepper shakers.

I thought that is was medical scanners that were originally designed to be the salt shaker for the salt creature episodes, but when it was pointed out that they would have to explain that the weird looking thing was in fact a salt shaker before having the creature go after it, it was decided that they would be re-used as a different prop that needed less explaination for the plot to move on.

Though I'm digging into the adolescent nerd-ity for that one... which I have completely overcome now that I am an adult

I liked the movie a lot... McCoy was awesome... spot on with the voice, you close your eyes and "you are there".

Was a little iffy on Spock's emotions... then I remembered that in the Cage, he showed much more emotions, and figured that we are seeing him when he is younger, when Pike was his commander, and he had less control over his emotions... but still, too much.

The rest was good enough for what I was looking for.

I thought Zachary Quinto was a fantastic Spock.  There was a lot of depth to his performance and you could see Spock struggling with his human side