I loved it. Of course I did, but let me say it anyway, I loved it. I saw it on dvd this time, had no rush to go to the cinema because I had heard nothing juicy about it, only that there was one, but nothing more to thrill me and get me to the cinema (unlike the second movie: when Into Darkness came out I knew already that Benedict Cumberbatch was going to be Khan, and that was thrilling, I couldn’t wait to see that!). This obsession against the so-called spoilers is rather annoying, when it goes too far: okay don’t tell me everything, I want to see it, but at least a little something to raise curiosity!!!
My favourite part were the Spock-McCoy scenes :-D lovely bromance :D
Story: it starts with Kirk acting as a messenger of peace between two species, the Teenaxi (I think) and the Fibonians, but it doesn’t go well :-p and it was rather funny when those menacing-aggressive-beast-like creature with big eyes got angry and attacked and they turned out to be rather little, but a lot of them :lol: He offers them a gift from them, and they ask “what’s wrong with it? why don’t they want it anymore?” :lol:
It reminded me of the BTVS episode when Fear turned out to be very very small :-p
Also it reminded me of the Sherlock episode with The Woman, when she told them that someone loves him because he hit him without ruining his face, and here too, the many Teenaxi (I think), after talking about fearing that the Fibonians will kill them all in their sleep, they attack Kirk and we can see that although small they attack all together but they avoid the face completely, they avoid all the skin actually, only rip his shirt :-p
When he’s beamed on board, a couple of Teenaxi are taken as well :-p and are not brought back because we see them on the ship during Kirk’s speech (to us: his personal log I guess).
Kirk seems to be rather bored, or discouraged: “just another day in the fleet”. It’s the 966th day in space of their five-year mission.
They stop at Yorktown “Federation’s newest and most advanced starbase”
Kirk feels off, maybe as Bones says he’s just trying to figure out if this is really the life he wants or if he’s only doing it for his father.
Kirk asks Bones to keep his birthday a secret and Bones replies : “you know me, Mr sensitive” yeah right, as if I’d believe that for a second :-p
—but excuse me, but 966th day in space means this it at least his third birthday in space with the same people around, so what about the other two??
Bones understands he doesn’t like it because it’s also the day his father died. Bones asks “are you gonna call your mom?” - “of course I’ll call her today” and let me say this, but it seems so sad to me this mom-figure:Kirk always thinking of his dead father, when does he think of his alive-mother??? So focused on what he has missed, never thinking of what he has.
We see that he asked for a ViceAdmiral position at this base!
The 966th day is stardate 2263.02… (read below)
Bones calls Yorktown a monstrosity “couldn’t we just rent some space on a planet?” and Spock “showing geographical favouritism among inducted Federation worlds could cause diplomatic tension” :-) my Spock :)
It seems to Bones a “big snowglobe in space waiting to break” :-p I find it beautiful, specially the close-up shots.
Twelve minutes in, Spock receives some news from two Vulcans, and a tear came to my eyes when I saw what it was: Ambassador Spock is dead. Yes he is, isn’t he? *sobbing*
—side note help please. Those stardates: 2230.06-2263.02 are because he would actually, by dates only, appear as old as young Spock of course, right? All his years in between those dates were all in the future :-)
Spock and Uhura broke up, so did my heart :(
An unidentified vessel comes asking for help, so of course the Enterprise goes as it always does. An uncharted nebula, an unknown part of space, where a lot of little ships attack them simultaneously and damage the Enterprise very very badly. They want the Abronath. Spock is the first to tell Bones “we must evacuate, now”. The ship is in pieces, literally, and those still alive leave in pods, but they’re all taken—well, all but three: Kirk Chekov and Scotty.
Spock and Bones were taken but fought back and took the assailant’s ship.
The alien tells Kirk a story about being forced to take them here to be attacked, in order to protect her crew..
Spock is badly injured and Bones does what he can given the circumstances, to stop the bleeding.
Jailah helps Scotty and takes him to her ‘home’: the USS Franklin, lost since the 2160s. Kirk Chekov and the alien go back to the saucer and find out she was actually working for Krall and following them to get the artifact. Sulu and Uhura try to send a distress signal but fail, and Krall shows them how he managed to prolongue his life by consuming others.
Since apparently ‘massive blood loss’ makes Spock philosophical, he starts talking to Bones. He tells him that he started feeling the obligations of making ‘little Vulcans’, and that then he learned of Ambassador Spock’s death, and Bones doesn’t notice he’s crying. Young Spock tells Bones he wants to live as older-Spock did, so he decided to “continue his work on New Vulcan”, which would mean leaving Starfleet but hasn’t found the time to tell Kirk yet.
“Hell I don’t know what he’d do without you. I mean, me on the other hand, I’d throw a party, but…” and now Spock laughs and Bones finally notices “my God, you're getting delirious” :-p
When Kirk and Chekov set off one of Jaylah’s traps they reunite with Scotty (who calls them “wee man” and “handsome bastard” :lol: )
Aboard the Franklin Kirk finds a motorbike like the one his dad had when he was a kid (and the italian translation went : when I was a kid, which of course makes no sense:-/ what a pity, it was going so well)
They try to trace the others, and when they locate Bones and Spock, Scotty asks Kirk’s permission to try and beam them aboard “because if I mess it up I don’t want it to be just my fault” :-p
Bones helps Spock walk; “leaving me behind would significantly increase your chances of survival Doctor” but of course Bones says it’s out of the question. Spock says “it is imperative that you locate any surviving crew” - “and here I was thinking you cared” :p - “of course I care Leonard”
!!! He called him Leonard! My heart! Don’t know why, but it touches my heart, coming from Spock. I mean, he called him Leonard… sigh.
“I always assumed my respect for you was clear. The dialogue we have had across the years has always..” - “It’s okay Spock, you don’t have to say it” (because he knows and because it sounds like a dying man’s speech I guess). They are surrounded by enemies and Bones says “well, at least I won’t die alone” and right at that moment Scotty beams Spock away and he disappears :-p As he prepares to fight alone he’s brought aboard the Franklin too. :-) and now Bones can treat Spock better with some old medical equipment.
Spock:”the miserable have no other medicine but only hope” - Bones:”Death’s door and he’s quoting Shakespeare” :-p
I love how they get back to acting all bickering in front of others but sometimes exchange secret glances that nobody else sees :-) I love it :-D
Kirk gave the artifact to Ensign Syl, but now she gives it to them to save Sulu’s life, and later she’ll be killed by that weapon-artefact.
To confirm the location of Krall’s base, Spock has Chekov look for Vokaya, “a mineral unique to Vulcan which emits low-level radiation”
because Uhura “wears a Vokaya amulet which I presented to her as a token of my affection and respect”
Bones:”you gave your girlfriend radioactive jewellery?” :-p
“the emission is harmless doctor, but its unique signature makes it very easy to identify” - “you gave your girlfriend a tracking device” :lol:
They all look at him :-p “that was not my intention” :lol:
It belonged to his mother, so it must have been very important to him :-D
At that phrase, Bones says “I’m glad he doesn’t respect me” :-p adorable, they are among people, they have a reputation to uphold :lol: lovely :)
Jaylah knows the place because that’s where she escaped from, but is scared and doesn’t want to go back to that ‘place of death’, and Scotty follows her to talk to her. Kirk says “let her go” and Scotty “she’s lost people too, Captain” Good Scotty :-D He calls her ‘lassie’ and I find it so sweet :-)
When she was there, many people were killed, and her father too, to let her escape, but Scotty tells her “my wee granny used to say, ‘ya cannae break a stick in a bundle’. You’re part of something bigger now lassie. Right? Dinnae give up on that, ‘cause we’ll sure as hell never give up on you. That is what being part of a crew is all about”
They make a plan and Spock suggests that Chekov would be more useful on the Franklin and that he should replace him on the field.
Kirk: “how is that logical, Spock? You just got back on your feet” - “lieutenant Uhura is in that facility Jim” no other explanation needed of course. Bones: “I’ll keep an eye on him” :-)
Of course Kirk will use the bike, that was obvious, otherwise why show it right? Also, he uses Jaylah’s holographic device to appear in many places at the same time (like Loki does, always cool).
Here, if you care about this sort of thing, it's not very believable that he can ride that bike that way, on such a tough, unrideable terrain.. even an off-road champion would find it hard I believe..
Spock and Bones free the crew but since Uhura is not with them Spock goes to find her but is attacked and being already injured it’s not going well for him, but Uhura saves him by hitting the bad guy over the head with a rock :p She always saves her boyfriend :-D
“Spock, what are you doing here?” - “clearly I am here to rescue you” :-D adorable :)
Jaylah fights Manas (or something) but it’s clear she couldn’t win in the long run, although she stands her own pretty well, and it seems from her expression that for a moment there she thought they’d leave her behind (good scene, great shot of Jaylah).
The others are all on board, the last group is McCoy’s, but he waits: “wait for my signal” and “damn it man we’re not leaving without them” :-) of course he’s a doctor and that actually means everything in movies.
He was waiting for Spock and Uhura, Kirk and Jaylah had their own devices (that they were supposed to activate to be beamed on board), but in the fight she lost hers.
The guy tells Jaylah “they will leave you here” but of course Kirk gets her in mid-air, literally. It's one of those scenes, you know, good to see but that don't completely make sense, do they? He activated his device far in advance, then he called her name, launched himself towards her, finally took her hand, and that's exactly when they are beamed up... one could say, how come it was taking a long time to beam him up and yet as soon as he touches her hand in mid-air they disappear?....
They ‘jumpstart’ the ship by throwing it down a canyon, then they ‘disorient the bees’ with loud music (… really? …) and Spock goes among them in one of their little ships and suggests to Kirk that Bones go with him because he’s familiar with his injury and the ship as well “he’s gonna love this” :lol:
They cause a chain-reaction that brings down the whole swarm :-/ just like that :-/ with some loud music :-/ Again, it's one of those cases when a terrible enemy is presented, one that seems unbeatable, and at the end they use some simple trick to destroy it: sometimes it's 'they are all controlled by one mother-ship, just destroy that one and you win', or maybe they are all controlled by just one main computer, on in this case they were all connected and all they needed was to interfere with that connection... with loud music... and the enemy ships exploded... just like that... it doesn't really make a lot of sense, but it's rather spectacular to watch, specially when they gave the music to the Yorktown base too and they amplified it, and the station's shields resonated like a big loudspeaker..
Watching an old video of the crew of the Franklin, Uhura recognizes Krall in Captain Edison (but if only three remained of his crew, who are all those people around him?)
Edison fought the Xindi and the Romulans in his days.
When Edison tells Kirk that he’ll die, Kirk says that it’s better to die saving lives than live taking them, and I guess that’s the moment when he sees who he is and what he wants to do.
Kirk stops Edison from using that weapon to kill everyone in Yorktown, and Spock saves him after that. “what would I do without you Spock?” awww
Commodore Paris tells him that the Vice Admiral position is his if he still wants it: “vice admirals don’t fly, do they?” - “no they don’t” - “where’s the fun in that?”
Spock finds a picture in old Spock’s stuff of the Enterprise main crew, after their last mission I’d say given the age, hair color and big collars.
Of course they’ll both stay :-)
At the end, Bones has thrown a surprise birthday party for Kirk :-)
Uhura tells Spock “I thought you had to finish your mission report” - “I do, but I thought it would be more pleasing to engage with you socially” - “you old romantic” :adorable: :-D
Kirk got Jaylah into Starfleet Academy :-)
The end is a lovely shot of them all getting closer, looking out the window at the Enterprise being rebuilt, except Uhura and Spock that look at each other :lovely:
Kirk-Chris Pine
Spock-Zachary Quinto
Bones-Karl Urban
Uhura-Zoe Saldana
Scotty-Simon Pegg
Sulu-John Cho
Chekov-Anton Yelchin
Krall-Idris Elba
Jaylah-Sofia Boutella
Syl-Anita Brown
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