Haven’t watched it just yet, but at least now I know to get good and sloshed first.

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    I’ll say it.

    In spite of everything we saw in Discovery, Michelle Yeoh was always a delight, no matter which character she played

    If we got more of her, regardless of the rest, I’ll enjoy it

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    At least it’s following the “every other” rule for Star Trek Movies. Final Frontier was awful. Undiscovered County was great. Generations has a Rotten Tomatoes score of 47 while First Contact is at 93. See my table below. Now that we’ve gotten a bad one out of the way, I’d watch four to six movies with the SNW Crew.

    Film Year RT Rating
    Motion Picture 1979 52
    Wrath of Khan 1982 86
    Search for Spock 1984 79
    Voyage Home 1986 81
    Final Frontier 1989 23
    Undiscovered County 1991 83
    Generations 1994 47
    First Contact 1996 93
    Insurrection 1998 55
    Galaxy Quest 1999 90
    Nemesis 2002 38
    Star Trek 2009 94
    Into Darkness 2013 84
    Beyond 2016 86
    Section 31 2025 24
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    Star Trek Discovery was so bad I had to just stop in the second last season… and I was only playing it as background noise at that point! I guess I’ll try this movie but if even Michelle Yeoh can’t save it I’m going back to old 1990s episodes…

    Update: I got through it but holy shit… It had some good moments and other bits that felt like a Red Alert cut scene…

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      As of this comment, about 20ish minutes in. Yeoh can hold her own whilst maintaining the established character from DISCO.

      I wouldn’t let that show’s performance discourage viewing other modern Trek. Lower Decks and Prodigy each have their strengths. The latter having a slightly more serious tone and requiring less accumulated knowledge of the series as a whole.

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    I mean… From the very first article written about the rough idea of the movie we all knew it was going to be trash, and certainly not anything deserving of the name “Star Trek”.

    The moment the first trailer dropped a couple of years after that, I personally knew this movie wouldn’t even be worth pirating.

    The effort I’d spend on finding a pirate source, and the time I’d waste watching this, are far too valuable.

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    Look at it this way. A lot of the memes that get made are from the absolute worst episodes. This entire movie is going to be prime meme fodder.

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    I would not recommend watching it sloshed. That combination would just put me to sleep.

    It’s a terribly simple MacGuffin-chasing plot, yet somehow feels weighed down by exposition. All of the characters are super flat and under developed. It’s not bad in any entertaining way, it’s just boring.

    There was a lot of talk around here before hand about whether Section 31 should ever be used as protagonists, or if that represents a betrayal of the principles behind Star Trek. This movie was not worth that level of discussion. It doesn’t raise any murky moral quandaries or even really glorify the idea of an anything-goes type secret organization. This could just as easily have been an on-the-books Starfleet team - apart from the fact that they didn’t seem all that competent. The concept implies a darker version of a Mission Impossible team, but what was delivered was a bunch of goofballs more in line with Guardians of the Galaxy.

    Pluses:

    Michelle Yeoh does a great job with what she’s given. That’s not much, but she’s fun to watch as always.

    The woman who plays young Rachel Garrett does a good job - she has some of the cringiest dialogue in this, but she delivers it well. I wouldn’t mind seeing more of her in this role, though that seems very unlikely at this point.

    The action is executed well enough, and the effects are all very pretty. It doesn’t mean much without a compelling story behind it, but it’s still worth saying.

    The idea of a microscopic character is interesting, and they used it in some fun ways. The character himself was awfully annoying, though!

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      The editing was also really jarring. Constant cuts to really tight close ups of characters who haven’t been introduced to the audience. And the fight scenes were somehow too shakey and too slow.

      As someone who’s studied extensively at the Gizmonic Institute of Deep Hurting, it’s just not a very good movie.

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      Haven’t watched yet but its funny to me the idea that the Federation with their lofty principles still has a secret police – but its actually a make work program for all the incurable psychopaths in the galaxy that resembles a black ops wetworks deep cover operations in every way, except you give them “very important and secret missions” just chasing each other around the edges of the galaxy to keep them away from the rest of the federation

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        I love it - much more consistent with Star Trek concepts than whatever it is they’ve been going for. I could almost see Lower Decks sneaking an idea like that in if they were still around.

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    It’s alright. Didn’t really feel like a star trek movie but I really like Georgiou. Also it seemed really rushed.

    Edit: Also I just remembered. Rachel’s cameo seemed kind of fan service-y. There was no reason for her to be there.

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    I was already unmotivated because I don’t love Section 31 (conceptionally) in Trek that much and Discovery is the one series I struggle to get though…

    Really my singular reason to watch it is that Michell Yeoh is awesome

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    Oof. I haven’t read anything about it; I’ve only seen commercials. I was hoping it would at least be tolerable. Oh well.