The board always seems to churn along well when I have little time to visit, and then days like today when I'm stuck at a computer from morning to night, nobody has anything to post. Go figure.




Yeah, McCoy really had nothing at all to do in that one once Kirk was aboard. Assuming future sequels don't have Nimoy, however, I assume he'll get to have a larger role as they go forward. Getting the proper screen time balance in Star Trek movies seems to be really difficult.

Admittedly, with the original series the rest of the crew were always bit parts, but I kind of felt bad for all the others in the Next Generation films. They were never really given anything decent to do in the films, it seemed... At least nothing memorable.





I remember liking parts of it, and then finding other parts grinding to a halt or spinning off the rails into truly bizarre territory. I liked that it was contemplative, however, and as you said not just a smash 'em up (though that can be fun if done well.) I do remember being somewhat disappointed, however, because I had recently read a "Hulk" novel by Peter David and it gave me all sorts of insights into the character that I hadn't had before that the movie didn't match.

I especially liked the idea the novel raised that getting cursed with the Hulk was divine judgment, because God gave Banner the gift of an intellect that could change the world and instead of using it to help solve the problems of the world, he used it on gamma bomb weapons development. And so he was cursed to repeatedly lose that intellect and transform into a living bomb as penance.