Star Trek

Pros: Terrific casting, clever and balanced screenplay, great effects, loads of fun
Cons: Not even a little

I began watching Star Trek as a wee lassie when the original series aired on summer afternoons.  Back then the monsters were scary, the dilemmas terribly deep and the whole thing very exciting.  I went on to become something of a middle ...

Pros: Exceptionally Accurate Casting, Decent Story, Phenomenal Special Effects.  Epic.
Cons: The story felt contrived at times.

Let me start by saying that I thoroughly enjoyed Star Trek.  The updated version introduced us to new actors as well as linking the film to the past.  The action segments provided seat-gripping fun with seamless CGI providing additional ...

Pros: Good character development, plenty of action and thrills
Cons: Could have used another 30 minutes

There had been 10 feature film productions of the Star Trek franchise prior to 2009 and I hadn’t seen one of them. I saw plenty of Kirk and Spock on TV as a kid, but Star Trek was never something I ever really got into. When I saw the trailers to ...

Pros: Very entertaining movie.  Great cast.
Cons: Some jerky camera work in few spots.

I’ve seen some of the Star Trek movies and various Star Trek television shows over the years.  While I have enjoyed them, I’ve never considered myself that much of a Star Trek fan.  I wasn’t sure about ...

Pros: great cast, lots of great action, fun and exciting, Abrams unique flavor,
Cons: some distracting camera techniques

The new Star Trek film has definitely gone where no film in the franchise has gone before, and presented a great way to not only get more people interested in the genre, but in the storylines of the Starship Enterprise.  With the last few ...

Pros: Great characters, action, humour, SFX, plot...
Cons: ... a couple of small niggles, that's all...

One of the most hotly-awaited movie releases this decade, Star Trek takes on not one but two notoriously tricky challenges - making a prequel to a series fans know in obsessive depth, and introducing a time-travel element to the plot.  ...

Pros: excellent casting, good script, great special effects, some reverence for Trek history
Cons: continuity nit-picks, status of characters at end of film feels rushed

I have to say that the trend to re-invent old television shows troubles me.  There are classic shows I grew up with that will forever be cemented in my memory as cornerstones of my formative years.  Though it ran for only one season, the ...

Pros: Great story, excellent acting from an all-star cast, great special effects and directing
Cons: None

I've been a fan of "Star Trek" since it first appeared on television in the 60's.  I actually thought "Star Trek-The Next Generation" was superior to the original but I still maintained a fondness in my heart for Gene Roddenberry's original ...

Pros: Daring creativity; score; pacing; Quinto, Pine, Urban and the whole crew
Cons: Not enough time with Bones (my only nitpick)

Heading into the theater to see the new J.J. Abrams directed Star Trek, I found myself assailed by memories of a bygone age. That age was my childhood, and the memories kept flickering like a television screen in a dark room. Sitting in ...

Pros: Great cast, lots of action, good story
Cons: Lens flares!

After being let down by the recent over-hyped Wolverine movie, I tried not to let my hopes get up too much for this new Star Trek movie. I figured it couldn't be any worse than the last three Star Wars movies, nor could it be any worse than half ...

Pros: Clever, if somewhat irreverent, reboot. Cool effects. Good cast.
Cons: It's not your father's Star Trek, that's for sure.

Considering that years that end with the number 9 have been, for good or ill, somewhat fateful for Gene Roddenberry's now 43-year-old Star Trek franchise, it's perhaps fitting and proper that director J.J. Abrams' eponymous feature film be ...

Pros: Stellar casting, solid effects, good script and story, nice reboot of a classic franchise. 
Cons: Eric Bana's villain isn't quite big enough for the big time. 

My wife is a wonderfully patient woman.  I've got a little bit of a media obsession...okay, a lot of one.  Sometimes that means action figures, sometimes DVDs, sometimes horrible cartoons or shows from the 1970's that should have been left in ...

Pros: Pine, Quinto, Nimoy, supporting performances, script, direction
Cons: Supporting players should have received more characterization

The journey ended for the crew of the starship Enterprise in "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country" in 1992. Director J. J. Abrams now goes back to the beginnings of the crew whose exploits have remained popular for generations of Trekkers and others. ...

Pros: Action, character development, laughs
Cons: The "reboot" aspect

When I started watching science fiction in college, Star Trek spin offs Deep Space 9 and Voyager were on the air.  I enjoyed them (not Enterprise so much) and the movies that hit the theater, but I never did become a huge ...

Pros: imaginative reworking of the series, Quinto, Urban, Pegg, Nimoy, terrific score
Cons: some may find it a tad too imaginative

This weekend, two of my all-time favorite televisions shows are united on the big screen. LOST creator J. J. Abrams helmed the 2009 theatrical reboot of ...