was my attitude before seeing the newest Star Trek, despite everyone else being worried after seeing the trailers. I love Hot Fuzz and Spaced. I have loved the Star Trek franchise ever since I was introduced to TNG when I was 18 (But at the same time could laugh about its flaws as well. After all this is my favourite Star Trek blog).

In other words the creator of a movie/series I love was taking on a franchise I love, which he loves as well. Warm fuzzy feelings all around.

I saw the trailer last Christmas, heard about the decision about Sulu and thought: I'm glad he noticed Star Trek needs more gay.

Then I saw the movie and had some stray observations:

• Yorktown is gorgeous


• This is the first time since TNG that I feel like I would love to live on the Enterprise


• This is the first time I actually like Kirk and would be ok with him being my captain


• Simon Pegg is a master of writing male friendships


• Do Scottish people really say "lassie" that much? I keep thinking of the dog


• All the Easter Eggs in this movie make me happy

I like my movies humorous, positive and hopeful and I was a happy fangirl coming out of the movie. Happier than I had been after the other two. So the week after I watched them again. Another list:

• Kirk is just such a complete ass in the first movie and the movie keeps justifying his behaviour by him being right


• The iceplanet cave is always very Empire Strikes Back to me


• Someone calculate the odds of Kirk, Spock prime and Scotty all being in the same area on the same planet. Ford and Arthur being picked up by the Heart of Gold makes more logical sense. Being out-logiced by the Hitchikers Guide is not a good thing.


• I always cheer a little when Spock is beating Kirk up


• I'm completely team Spock in this movie



• I like the idea of having a movie about the dangers of further militarization of Star Fleet


• Scotty resigning over drone strikes without any juridical process makes him my favourite character in this movie


• He could have disabled the ship before the first attack though, but I guess I had some hidden anger towards the crew members who were killed in the attack and felt that the Enterprise just making it back to Earth with Khan would have been too easy?


• And he straight up murders a guy. Still the best character in this movie.


• I actually like Kirks arc in this movie (finally learning the Kobayashi Maru lesson)


• Kirk should have stayed dead, from a storytelling perspective (not because I don't like him, or maybe a bit because I don't like him)

Other than the difference in tone (drama vs friendship and hope) I noticed another reason the other two movies annoyed me: Fan service. Both times clunky, both times for no other reason than to provide fan service:

Last time, Zoe needed to wear underwear, and this time it was Alice Eve's turn. You know, it's a rather large male fanbase, and JJ wanted to appeal to that.
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Yes, sadly that is also a bit of a Star Trek tradition, but Trekkies are proud to be more concerned with stories, characters and ideas that boobs and explosions. We are better than that.

A thought occurred to me while I was watching women standing around in underwear being ogled by Kirk for our amusement. Simon Pegg would not write this kind of scene. This guy would not write this kind of scene.

I like my Star Trek inclusive, I like my Star Trek hopeful, I like my Star Trek not automatically assuming I must be a cis-gendered male. I trust Simon Pegg with my Star Trek.