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[Steejee]

Can't unsee the ridiculous brewery set they used for this opening and later the Enterprise engineering section.
Shit is so weirdly out of place. Looks more like a vast oil drilling platform than a space ship.

EDIT: Also why is he not transporting out of there? Why do they not have transporter tech on any of the shuttles? Ah well, the usual too much thinking

Yeah every scene in the brewery looked silly to me. Maybe ST2009 takes place in a Futurama universe where booze is fuel...

ST2009 was entertaining, certainly an improvement over the last of TNG movies. Into Darkness was...sorta bad. I mean it looked nice and had some cool action pieces, but the entire movie relied on the idiot ball to go forward and the Enterprise falling from Moon orbit to Earth in like 10 seconds never fails to irritate me. Cumberbach is a fantastic Khan though.

Beyond was my favorite of the three reboots. Still had a little of the 'Abrams has no concept of distances in space' issue but not too much. Just felt more Treky than the others.

If they can build on Beyond and not have the next one based around yet another revenge plot then the reboots will have gone somewhere great.

 

[Guy.brush]

The ship was damaged to the point where most of the systems were down or damaged. It's likely that transporters were off line at that point. In Trek, the first two things that always seem to go down during a conflict are inertial dampeners or transporters.

Ok I buy it. still can't unsee the brewery though. When your bridge looks like an Apple store, why this:

I mean look at the exposed steel girders and pipes.

 

[Jack Random]

Star Trek 2009 is amazing. Too bad everything since has been pure garbage.

nah man, Beyond is fun, tight, trek

 

[Into the Light]

The opening to Star Trek 2009 was masterfully done. I had more feels during that sequence than I did from the final three TNG movies.

I have to agree.,

 

[lastplayed]

The Enterprise warping into Vulcan was my favourite moment. It's the first time I noticed the Enterprise having its own sound instead of the generic engine drone we've always had. Also all the smashed ships and the tension was pretty cool. This is what Wolf 359 should have looked like.

 

[GamerJM]

It really is a masterfully done scene.

Star Trek 09 is probably one of my favorite movies of the last decade, though I realize that's an extremely unpopular opinion. The other reboot movies were mostly just alright though, with Into Darkness having cool ideas with messy execution and Beyond feeling kinda fillerish.

 

[Sephzilla]

Ok I buy it. still can't unsee the brewery though. When your bridge looks like an Apple store, why this:

I mean look at the exposed steel girders and pipes.

Yeah I wasn't super fond of that either. Everything on the Enterprise is super sleek looking and then you get to Engineering and it looks like a factory. Hopefully [Star Trek Beyond spoilers]

Spoiler

the new Enterprise-A they get at the end of that film will be an excuse to present a different engineering section.

 

[Carn82]

I like the 'reboot' movies as well. But to reply to OP; I would consider Star Wars to be fantasy / space opera, very little 'science' in that, hehe.

 

[WillyFive]

Ok I buy it. still can't unsee the brewery though. When your bridge looks like an Apple store, why this:

I mean look at the exposed steel girders and pipes.

Budget. They built a proper Engineering deck for the sequels.

 

[Platy]

Only on my 3rd rewatch I noticed that the spaceship is named kevin and THAT is why it is called the kevin timeline =P

 

[-griffy-]

Only on my 3rd rewatch I noticed that the spaceship is named kevin and THAT is why it is called the kevin timeline =P

Kelvin. It was Abrams' grandfather's name, and it shows up in all his stuff. Rey tells BB-8 to avoid Kelvin Ridge on Jakku in The Force Awakens, for example.

 

[WillyFive]

Only on my 3rd rewatch I noticed that the spaceship is named kevin and THAT is why it is called the kevin timeline =P

Kelvin. It was JJ's grandfather, and it's why his movies always have something named Kelvin in it.

 

[CrocMother]

Star Trek 2009 is my favorite movie of the whole franchise

 

[Joel Was Right]

Honest to God, whilst the new Trek films are comparatively more light-hearted, there is nothing in the Star Wars films that comes close to matching some of the cinematic moments in Abram's 2009 adaptation.

Star Wars, to me, has always been pew, pew, pew. That opening sequence, I think, encapsulates why Trek has always had the richer narrative and vision of what a space drama should be.

 

[Schlorgan]

Kelvin. It was JJ's grandfather, and it's why his movies always have something named Kelvin in it.

Even Beyond had it (Kelvin pods).

 

[Sephzilla]

Honest to God, whilst the new Trek films are comparatively more light-hearted, there is nothing in the Star Wars films that comes close to matching some of the cinematic moments in Abram's 2009 adaptation.

Star Wars, to me, has always been pew, pew, pew. That opening sequence, I think, encapsulates why Trek has always had the richer narrative and vision of what a space drama should be.

Not to turn this into a Star Wars vs Star Trek thing.. I respectfully disagree

Star Wars has its fair share of great moments like that

 

[CSJ]

Ok I buy it. still can't unsee the brewery though. When your bridge looks like an Apple store, why this:

I suggest googling the name of large cruise liners/military ships engine room and bridge to see how it's not really far off.

 

[SlimySnake]

The Enterprise warping into Vulcan was my favourite moment. It's the first time I noticed the Enterprise having its own sound instead of the generic engine drone we've always had. Also all the smashed ships and the tension was pretty cool. This is what Wolf 359 should have looked like.

wow. great shot.

 

[TAJ]

Ok I buy it. still can't unsee the brewery though. When your bridge looks like an Apple store, why this:

I mean look at the exposed steel girders and pipes.

Ever seen the employee-only areas of a nice hotel?

 

[Sulik2]

Yeah every scene in the brewery looked silly to me. Maybe ST2009 takes place in a Futurama universe where booze is fuel...

ST2009 was entertaining, certainly an improvement over the last of TNG movies. Into Darkness was...sorta bad. I mean it looked nice and had some cool action pieces, but the entire movie relied on the idiot ball to go forward and the Enterprise falling from Moon orbit to Earth in like 10 seconds never fails to irritate me. Cumberbach is a fantastic Khan though.

Beyond was my favorite of the three reboots. Still had a little of the 'Abrams has no concept of distances in space' issue but not too much. Just felt more Treky than the others.

If they can build on Beyond and not have the next one based around yet another revenge plot then the reboots will have gone somewhere great.

They actually had star dates on screen after every warp jump in the original cut of the 2009 movie to show that time passed in warp, but ended up removing them.