(Also, it starts me wondering what core themes they will revisit in future movies.)
Yes, I'm really looking forward to future additions to this series, now, since they seem to have beaten the 'every other Trek movie tends to suck to some degree' curse. (Or maybe they're just making up for the fact that the ST:TNG movies ended with two relative stinkers in a row, in "Insurrection" and "Nemesis", making "First Contact" the only really good, consistently re-watchable entry in their part of the movie franchise.)
...by that point in the movie I was just plain tired of fist-fights...
Agreed! At times, the explosions and fist-fights reminded me of the last two ST:TNG movies, in which they kept trying to add more and more 'action' and explosions and fast rides, to make up for the increasing ossification of the characters and the general backwards trend in their relationships. Perhaps I didn't mind the super-abundance of action so much in THIS film because the characters still seem so very fresh and the relationships so full of future potential, making up for the "Yet ANOTHER scene aimed straight for the teenaged boys in the audience?!?" overdone action stuff.
[Uhura] was a warrior in the "Mirror, Mirror" episode that she pretended to seduce alternate-Sulu, but the story treats it as play-acting to buy time for the men to do the real work.
And Uhura only got a back-handed nod to her warrior skills in "The Gamesters of Triskelion", fighting against slave gladiators in the initial battle, after which there's a gratuitous scene of her having to fight off the attempted rape by 'Lars' her drill-thrall who's been 'selected' to breed her! :(
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Yes, I'm really looking forward to future additions to this series, now, since they seem to have beaten the 'every other Trek movie tends to suck to some degree' curse. (Or maybe they're just making up for the fact that the ST:TNG movies ended with two relative stinkers in a row, in "Insurrection" and "Nemesis", making "First Contact" the only really good, consistently re-watchable entry in their part of the movie franchise.)
...by that point in the movie I was just plain tired of fist-fights...
Agreed! At times, the explosions and fist-fights reminded me of the last two ST:TNG movies, in which they kept trying to add more and more 'action' and explosions and fast rides, to make up for the increasing ossification of the characters and the general backwards trend in their relationships. Perhaps I didn't mind the super-abundance of action so much in THIS film because the characters still seem so very fresh and the relationships so full of future potential, making up for the "Yet ANOTHER scene aimed straight for the teenaged boys in the audience?!?" overdone action stuff.
[Uhura] was a warrior in the "Mirror, Mirror" episode that she pretended to seduce alternate-Sulu, but the story treats it as play-acting to buy time for the men to do the real work.
And Uhura only got a back-handed nod to her warrior skills in "The Gamesters of Triskelion", fighting against slave gladiators in the initial battle, after which there's a gratuitous scene of her having to fight off the attempted rape by 'Lars' her drill-thrall who's been 'selected' to breed her! :(