Say What You Will, Janice Rand Is A Badass Who Takes Her Job Seriously. A Powerful Alien Might Just Destroy

Say what you will, Janice Rand is a badass who takes her job seriously. A powerful alien might just destroy the ship any moment now? Well, she has a job to do and nothing is going to stop her.

To be more specific, it generally gets better with the treatment of women, but it still likes its innuendos.

On a non-Stargate note… is all of Star Trek so fraught with innuendo and sexual situations? Or is it just the first 10 or so episodes of OG Star Trek that I’ve watched so far?

I just felt like you would all know the answer. To be clear, I’m a completionist. The answer won’t affect my decision to watch it.

Okay, but why does Into Darkness try to deal with like 10 different things at once?!

I don’t think its issue is being a bad remake because that usually comes to misunderstanding the original and just remaking it without knowing why it worked in the first place.

I think ID gets the emotional arc of The Wrath of Khan well enough. It knows what changes need to be made so it works for this Spock and this Kirk (the one who doesn’t seem to get that having good intentions doesn’t absolve you of the consequences).

But that is kind of the only thing it gets right because then it’s also trying to deal with terrorism and politics of a destabilised Federation and revenge and the Spock/Kirk friendship and playing god and and there just isn’t enough time?

Look, TWoK has dozens of hours of preceding material. ID has one movie and half of that one is basically just a backstory, which results in things like there being little emotional weight behind Spock’s grief; we never truly experience his friendship with Kirk so his reaction to Jim’s death doesn’t feel deserved. We don’t get to enjoy the utopia of the Federation so we don’t really understand what is at stake. And so on and so on.

So you basically just end up with a movie where, to fully appreciate what it’s trying to do, you need to already be familiar with Star Trek (mostly TOS specifically). But if you are, then you mostly just see how much better it could be. And if you aren’t, well, tough luck, you don’t have the context to properly enjoy it.

And none of this is me saying ID is terrible, I think it has some cool ideas worthy of being explored, but that just makes it all the more frustrating when it fails to deliver.

This would honestly deserve a proper essay-style post (and it’s the reason this is like my 6th attempt at writing this) but I am really trying to just keep this a silly little fan blog but also - I am fascinated and I have thoughts so we shall see.

Semi-based on that reboot elevator scene and also just my love for Uhura and the need for her and Kirk to be friends.

I don’t even think it matters which one of them is currently dating Spock, these two need someone who understands.

It’s not just the first 10 episodes.

On a non-Stargate note… is all of Star Trek so fraught with innuendo and sexual situations? Or is it just the first 10 or so episodes of OG Star Trek that I’ve watched so far?

I just felt like you would all know the answer. To be clear, I’m a completionist. The answer won’t affect my decision to watch it.

I hadn't even been a shipper or fanfic person before I saw Star Trek The Motion Picture.

I went into the movie knowing very little about Trek.

I left the cinema obsessed. I have not slept in weeks. I speak of nothing else. I dream of nothing else. I think of nothing else.

Send help.