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movie review - Star Trek Section 31

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

We have multiple streaming services for some reason. Sometimes this works out, such as seeing an interesting sci-fi flick about kids on the moon I'd never heard of. Other times, or I should say sometimes in the same example, the streaming provider yanks the movie from their platform and you go back to finish it with your twelve year old but it's gone.

So maybe not a great example there.

Other, other times you notice a Star Trek movie you'd never heard of until a colleague mentioned it at dinner a few days prior. And so it was with this movie. It features one of the only interesting characters to emerge from Star Trek in a long time, so despite the fact that I can't remember the last time I enjoyed a Star Trek movie I gave it a whirl.

I made it to the fifteen minute mark. It suffered from many poor decisions, including unnecessarily trampling on nice outdoor sets with CGI, needlessly introducing overwrought characters twice in a row, and having heavily, heavily stilted dialog.

Avoid.