to boldly go where no ...
May. 9th, 2009 08:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
astroaztecIt was good once more to hear Leonard Nimoy reciting the mission of Enterprise. Beyond that I still have much to process about the movie that arrived this week. But I will process some of it here, in a pretty much spoiler-free way.
The opening sequence left me shivering, perhaps because it was pure information overload with so many things happening at once. The panoramic CGI shots of the 23rd century cities were like nothing that the original series could have produced. The space shots were flawless, punctuated by camera angles which paid no attention to up or down, and the judicious use of utter silence in places where there should be no sound.
Enterprise is beautiful, with loads of peeping glimpses which were not gratuitous, but integrated with the narrative and characters. Yet somehow I value the trailers even more in that regard, for on the computer I can freeze frame or slow the video for a more satisfying eyeful of starship.
The line aboutCaptain Admiral Archer's beagle left me and the girls missing much of the subsequent dialog as we discussed where they had seen Archer and his beagle before.
And I was surprised. I was surprised that I was surprised, for I knew some of what was coming, but what I saw was different than I could have expected. Very different. Completely different. Shockingly different. A whole new reality of difference for all the characters.
Taking the step back, Star Trek has always been about telling stories -- stories about people, what people do, what people feel, what people think. Star Trek spent 40 years constraining itself ever further and risking any semblance of continuity in order to tell more stories. Now they're free to reinvent the 23rd century instead of having to cautiously go where many scripts have gone before.
The opening sequence left me shivering, perhaps because it was pure information overload with so many things happening at once. The panoramic CGI shots of the 23rd century cities were like nothing that the original series could have produced. The space shots were flawless, punctuated by camera angles which paid no attention to up or down, and the judicious use of utter silence in places where there should be no sound.
Enterprise is beautiful, with loads of peeping glimpses which were not gratuitous, but integrated with the narrative and characters. Yet somehow I value the trailers even more in that regard, for on the computer I can freeze frame or slow the video for a more satisfying eyeful of starship.
The line about
And I was surprised. I was surprised that I was surprised, for I knew some of what was coming, but what I saw was different than I could have expected. Very different. Completely different. Shockingly different. A whole new reality of difference for all the characters.
Taking the step back, Star Trek has always been about telling stories -- stories about people, what people do, what people feel, what people think. Star Trek spent 40 years constraining itself ever further and risking any semblance of continuity in order to tell more stories. Now they're free to reinvent the 23rd century instead of having to cautiously go where many scripts have gone before.
