Do I wake or sleep?

Saw the Star Trek movie--SQUEEEE! It is bleepin' AWESOME. I love everything about it--the story and script are great (and FUNNY--Kirk with the hands was killing me), the performances are really remarkable. VERY, very strong cast. It's so cute, it's like watching Tiny Toons with these baby-faces saying these lines (Sulu especially looks young). I have to single out Zachary Quinto who just completely rocked Spock. He was even sexy and I've always been a Kirk fangirl.

The opening sequence was heart-breaking.

I love how they showed death--how abrupt and horrible it was, when the crewmember was sucked out into space in the opening sequence, and (another death) the graphic saying "TERMINATED." That was quite shocking, actually.

LOVED the guy playing McCoy. Scotty was also terrific, and I've always been a fan of Zoe Saldana, ever since Center Stage. She's just so sexy and badass. And I happen to love Anton Yelchin anyway, so his Chekov was adorable. The best part of the whole movie of course, was the relationship between Kirk and Spock. They were just great together.

One quibble--there was certainly, uh, a lot of fraternizing going on--visibly. That's very un-Naval (Starfleet is based on the Navy). But what the heck, I liked them together.

And how AWFUL was that ship? Did that look evil or what? *shivers*

The whole thing had such an incredible joy and energy to it it was infectious. Very fast-paced, and I liked that. Oooh it was terrific! I have to see this again!

I wanna Star Trek Barbie doll!

I'm re-reading one of my favorite Start Trek (OS) novels now, called The Entropy Effect. It's really good, very well-written. It's about a convicted criminal who's a physicist--he specializes in temporal physics (i.e., having to do with time), and he's been sent to some prison and the Enterprise has to transport him. The ship is actually called away from another mission--the Enterprise is in orbit around a naked singularity. (I'm not exactly sure what these are--I know it has something to do with black holes which means time, because black holes are so dense that nothing can escape, not even light, and that slows down or stops time, right? Doesn't relativity mean light, time and matter are all interconnected? tenner or any other physicists here, feel free to explain it--I've always been fascinated by temporal physics and relativity but have never studied physics.

Anyway, the ship is orbiting the singularity so Spock can study it, and they're called away to transport this prisoner before he can replicate his first round of calculations. But he knows that something is really messed up with the universe's time, and according to his preliminary observations, entropy is building up way too fast, and we have something like less than a century left. The prisoner is picked up and kept in the brig...

( Cut for Duncan, who has yet to read this )

So I was wondering--in the 4th ST movie, The Voyage Home, they find out Earth is doomed because they killed off the whales 200 years ago. Kirk & Co. decide to go back in time to get whales, to bring back to the future, to communicate with the giant floating tube sock that's about to destroy earth. Not that I want the earth to be destroyed, but that seems a rather cavalier reason to...y'know, tear up time. It's not as though the universe was going to be destroyed, it's just Earth. Okay, that sounds bad. It's just that they weren't correcting an error--they were introducing one. I happen to love that installment (Duncan, you definitely need to watch it, it's hilarious) but it's something to consider.