Originally posted by DinoDoc
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As for TWOK, while it didn't explore any deep philosophical themes--score one for DD there--it had a serious leg up on its recent imitator insofar as it made coherent sense. All the actions the characters took were believable in light of their personalities and what they knew, and the technological conceits were consistent. There wasn't, for example, that problem where everybody in Starfleet knew Kirk Senior's story--it's clearly famous from the way Spock talks, Pike even knows exactly how many minutes the guy was in charge--but Kirk has to personally remind them of it because whole shiploads conveniently forgot it, along with apparently all of their top brass. Did they even read the script before shooting?
And yeah, TOS had godawful SFX, rotten acting, uneven dialogue, etc. The only thing to like about it was its infectiously hopeful humanistic faith in a brighter science-driven future. I'm a cynic and I think that's all BS, but it's fun to sojourn in that mindset for a while. Oh, and the aforementioned willingness to go out on a limb philosophically. I expect that kind of thing from Star Trek. If I want mindless action, hell, there's a billion comic-book movies better suited to that sort of thing, and nonsensical plots are traditional there.
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