Category Archives: Analysis

Is Into Darkness Really “Star Trek”?

There are plenty of legitimate criticisms of Star Trek: Into Darkness. There are issues with the plot, there’s a gratuitous underwear scene, a perplexing amount of punching, and their use of “cold fusion” is pretty funny. Those of us who liked the movie can argue its positives outweigh the negatives, but those negatives are undeniably true. But there’s a particular complaint about Into Darkness that seems to be more about a feeling of misplaced possessiveness rather than legitimate criticism: That Into Darkness isn’t really “Star Trek”.

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Star Trek (2009)

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In anticipation of Star Trek Into Darkness opening next week, and our subsequent review, we’re going to review the 2009 Star Trek movie. We’ll be rating the Star Trek movies differently than the individual episodes. Instead of the scoring system being out of 5, it’ll be out of 10, and eventually we’ll also rank all the movies. For being a tightly executed, well cast and particularly exciting Trek movie, and in spite of some plot holes, we give the 2009 Star Trek an 8 out of 10. More on why we gave it this rating after the jump…

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Alternate Voyager – Season One Overview

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Our first entry in Alternate Voyager: Season One focuses exclusively on what our version of the premiere, Caretaker, would be like. As we’ve mentioned before, we like the first episode of Voyager a lot, and a lot has remained the same, at least compared to what we have in store for the rest of the season. Future installments also won’t be as detailed, and will include 2-4 episodes worth of story.

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[TOS] Season One Rating Comparisons

We love looking at what other people have said about Star Trek, so we’ve compiled some of the ratings for season one of The Original Series all in one place to compare. We took the ratings from a few different reviewers and calculated what their scores would be out of 100. Keep in mind that they originally didn’t rate the episodes with that exact scale, but we tried to accurately translate their rating. It’s also important to keep in mind that each reviewer may have different meanings behind their ratings. Continue reading

[ENT] Season One Rating Comparisons

We’ve compiled some of the ratings for season one of Enterprise all in one place to compare. We took the ratings from a few different reviewers and calculated what their scores would be out of 100. Keep in mind that they originally didn’t rate the episodes with that exact scale, but we tried to accurately translate their rating. It’s also important to keep in mind that each reviewer may have different meanings behind their ratings.

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[TNG] Season One Rating Comparisons

We love looking at what other people have said about Star Trek, so we’ve compiled some of the ratings for season one of The Next Generation all in one place to compare. We took the ratings from a few different reviewers and calculated what their scores would be out of 100. Keep in mind that they originally didn’t rate the episodes with that exact scale, but we tried to accurately translate their rating. It’s also important to keep in mind that each reviewer may have different meanings behind their ratings. Continue reading