| Well I came across the approved synopsis of "Star Trek into Darkness", the next ST reboot movie, coming out in the summer of 2013, and it sounds dreadful:
When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis.
With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction.
As our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew.
Just another mess of mindless acts of senseless violence or, in other words, a computer game brought to "life". All that I loved about the original "Star Trek" has been disregarded; there is no sense of wonder, no optimistic exploration of the galaxy. As they say, this is not your father's "Star Trek" nor is it most certainly your mother's "Star Trek" - it's fanboy fodder. I'll probably go see it but I'm not holding a countdown until its premiere. |
That said, I did like the way the reboot messed with young Spock's head. He was so young and he thought he knew so much more than the silly humans that watching older him point out a few home truths was nice. However, in that summary for the new movie, I don't see much potential for a "heart" in the storyline.