British critics compare new Star Trek movie to President Obama

[wyldwolf]

"...the $150 million film is being rapturously greeted by preview audiences as the funniest, cleverest, most action-packed Star Trek movie ever. But just how did it manage to get it so right?

One fashionable theory involves the miraculous, golden, healing rays of the mighty galactic God-Emperor Obama. It has been suggested that the previous Star Trek movie – Nemesis (2002) – was dark and depressing and a bit rubbish because it coincided with the vile, Klingon-esque George W Bush administration. Whereas the new one was always going to be great because, hey, so’s the world now Obama is President.

But the latest critic to put forward this thesis got badly flamed on the internet by conservatives..."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/5196001/All-of-a-sudden-its-cool-to-be-a-Trekkie.html

The movie looks gorgeous. Gone is the gloom of the last Star Trek film, Nemesis (2002), which seemed cast in the depressing shadow of George Bush’s post-9/11 America. The prequel, though conceived before the rise of Barack Obama, taps into the optimism of his presidency. If thoughtful philosophical discourse of the Star Trek kind is at a minimum here, there’s certainly no shortage of narrative momentum, a skill Abrams earlier exhibited as co-creator of the hit TV series Lost.

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/film_reviews/article6135968.ece

[HopeOverFear]

1. Way cool!

[NYCGirl]

2. Considering that James T. Kirk was consciously modeled on JFK by Gene

Roddenberry, that's interesting.

[roguevalley]

3. I can't wait. I think it opens May 7th.

[damonm]

4. A swing and MISS on the point...

Optimism and hope for the future have been at the core of Star Trek since its very inception. When it failed, it did so because it got away from that idealism in an attempt to pander to the dystopian elements among SF fandom.

Yes, I AM a TOS trekkie.

[roguevalley]

5. I dug them all HUGE-but find Tom Paris of Voyager a hoot because

he's (or was) such a bad boy, criminal.

[RobertSeattle]

6. If you haven't seen the trailer...

http://www.startrekmovie.com/