{"id":3262,"date":"2010-02-07T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=3262"},"modified":"2010-02-07T11:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T16:45:00","slug":"best-read-something-that-really-bugs-me-about-the-recent-star-trek-movie-tor-com-science-fiction-and-fantasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/07\/best-read-something-that-really-bugs-me-about-the-recent-star-trek-movie-tor-com-science-fiction-and-fantasy\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Read:: Something that really bugs me about the recent Star Trek movie: Tor.com \/ Science fiction and fantasy"},"content":{"rendered":"

This has ruined the Star Wars reboot for me, read the whole thing if you dare. Damn didn’t think of that.
\nDamn reminds me of what a friend says about reboot Spock. Reboot Spock was an asshole counter to the original series spock where he was irritating not for being an asshole but for being sooo damn logical.
\nty to Brad Delong for the pointer<\/p>\n

Something that really bugs me about the recent Star Trek movie
\nMitch Wagner
\nThere\u2019s a scene at the end of the movie\u2014and I don\u2019t think this is a spoiler, the movie has been building to this point the whole time\u2014where Kirk has the bad guy on the main bridge viewscreen. The bad guy is defeated, his ship crippled, and Kirk offers amnesty. The bad guy proudly refuses, and instead dies with his ship.
\nSpock approaches Kirk afterward and asks if Kirk was really going to help the bad guy out. And Kirk smirks and says, no, of course not. Spock is happy about that.
\nIt seems to me that one scene spits in the face of one of the greatest things about the original Trek. The show was primarily an action-adventure program, with plenty of fistfights and stirring ship-to-ship battle. But in the end, Gene Roddenberry and the rest of the people who created Trek were espousing a philosophy of peace and forgiveness. Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise extended forgiveness to enemies many times, including the very first time they encountered the Romulans, in a sequence that the movie echoes.
\nThe message of Trek: It\u2019s better to talk than to fight. It\u2019s better to forgive your enemies.
\nvia Tor.com \/ Science fiction and fantasy \/ Blog posts \/ Something that really bugs me about the recent Star Trek movie<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This has ruined the Star Wars reboot for me, read the whole thing if you dare. Damn didn’t think of that. Damn reminds me of what a friend says about reboot Spock. Reboot Spock was an asshole counter to the original series spock where he was irritating not for being an asshole but for being … <\/p>\n

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