kelly_girl | So, saw Star Trek

Omg, I think my hardcore Trekker soul has been reawakened. From many years ago, I still have ST books, manuals, crew and ep recaps cards and a model ship(okay the ship is gone. It melted after my mom stuck it in a closet that had a heating vent in it)

*Pulls out my Trekker geek card*

I have Star Trek plates somewhere people.

About a year ago I was unpacking this stuff and looking at it like one might look at dinosaur bones and I said, "Wow, I didn't think I was this big of a Star Trek Geek." My hubby just looked at me in pure amazement and I could clearly read the 'she's nuts and all that Star Trek stuff in our old apartment didn't clue her in?' look on his face. I then reminded him of all the Star Wars stuff he had and he stopped looking at me with pity.

I really liked it. I need to watch it again and again.

Kirk- CP did a great job. I went from 'hmm, he's okay looking' to 'he kinda looks like Kirk' to 'HOLY CRAP HE LOOKS AND ACTS EXACTLY LIKE KIRK WOULD.' The scene where he's making out with the green woman? And he has on nothing but those boxers?

Rowr, helloooo future Captain. I kept waiting for him to do the classic Kirk move of using his feet to kick someone. He took getting beat up really well.

Spock- Awesome and the resemblance to LM was kinda creepy at times. I loved young spock and I loved 'I just aced my exams and you can take your Vulcan Science Academy invite and suck it' Spock and I loved Spock and Uhura. Oh my god did I love it. They were making out on the transporting platform.

Umm, suddenly I want mirror-verse bearded Spock and Uhura with the skirt and the knife and they're together and bad ass and I'm a puddle.

I remember reading in a Star Trek book that discussed the characters and situations that while Nurse Chapel liked Spock, Uhura was actually a better fit for him. I have no clue what happened to that book, but it made me want U/S soooo bad back then.

Now it's on the big screen and I want to just drown in it and watch them make out and try and not make out and just be there for each other. I already joined Spock_Uhura this morning so I will be checking it out later.

Sulu- Was awesome and when he and Kirk and the guy that should have been wearing a red shirt were all diving to the drill I kept wondering how it was going to work.

Captain Pike- Loved him and I loved that all the main characters had the characteristics and the 'look' of their older counterparts.

Chekov- Hee! A puppy! He's so cute and curly. You know when they go on shore leave, Sulu has to watch out for him and make sure he isn't kidnapped or something.

Scotty- Was brilliant and goofy and I loved him so much. There needs to be massive Scotty fic. On the original show didn't Scotty have a still in engineering? Or was that a book? Or just in my head? This scotty? Totally already has the still up and running.

Uhura- There was a time in my life that I wanted to be her so bad. I used to read all the behind the scenes stuff on her and I need to check if Nichelle Nichols has a autobiography because I need it right now. This Uhura was brave and fantastic and smart and knew it. She wasn't afraid of crap and I loved the tenderness she showed Spock and that she wasn't hesitant to do that. I loved the scene where she finds out what ship she's on and confronts Spock. *fangirls her hard*

Sarek- Did they clone some people? He looked a lot like Mark Leonard.

Bones- I loved him. He was grumpy and hilarious and I never noticed or paid attention that he's older than Jim. I loved him saying he liked Spock and then later asking if he was out of his Vulcan mind. Where are my tapes with the episodes on them? How much are the DVDs? I need mah show!

USS Enterprise- She looked great and I loved the engineering section and the bridge and the shuttlecraft! Hi wee shuttlecraft! I loved the scene where she appears out of smoke to rescue her Captains. This is the ship that Kirk will sacrifice for and die for and live for.

Plotty Plot- Hmm, I kept waiting for them to fix the whole 'let's fuck up the Vulcan home planet and kill most of the Vulcans' stuff and was surprised that they didn't. Oh, man. So this is alternate reality time and they're okay with that? Though the part where Kirk was trying to be nice to the crazy Romulan guy and Spock was all 'WTF?' made me giggle.

I need to think on this some more because one of my fave eps is the Sarek and Amanda show when they show up on the Enterprise for the first time. And crap, now I want fic where Amanda and Uhura talk about loving men trained not to show emotion. Oh they've got it but it's buried deep, and Uhura and Amanda talking would be the ultimate.

All in all I'm happy with it but that commercial that declares that this Star Trek is this generation's Star Wars needs to go away. No, it's this generation's Star Trek. No need to try and drag SW into it. Star Trek can stand on its own.

Am at home with youngest today. She's got a fever. Her viewing choice? Justice League Unlimited DVD. Yep, raising the next generation of geeks is awesome. She cracks me up because she knows who Sam and Dean are and will ask me when she sees them on TV, "Is this supanatuwal?"