I'm rewatching The Search for Spock and there is absolutely nothing wrong with the score!

By which I mean to say that if the new Trek had even just a few small but familiar cues sprinkled throughout to trigger the Pavlovian response before breaking out into full swing at the end would have been nice.

Unless they were sort of saving that for when they were all truly united as a crew? Not unlike the end to a Casino Royale where he *finally* says the classic line.

Is the music topic spoilery?

Also, I want Sulu's leather jacket in SfS. How very dashing.

I saw Trek today, and I loved it!

Except that I hated the score, for the same reasons that Jessica and Juliebird did.

I also did not like Spock/Uhura. I kind of wonder if Nurse Chapel was a character in early drafts of the script, and had her character combined with Uhura later on.

I saw it this afternoon. Overall, I was underwhelmed. I thought way too many things were shorthanded too quickly, and wasn't crazy about the plot, the villain, the frenetic action sequences, the abyssmally unfunny attempts at comedy, or Kirk in general. (In TOS his character had earned both his overconfident, flying-by-the-seat-of-his-pants approach and his command. Here, NSM.) What I did like were Quinto's, Urban's, Saldana's, and Greenwood's performances. And, of course, I was filled with squee whenever Leonard Nimoy was onscreen .

I"m wondering if I'm going to have the same reaction to the new Trek as I did to the Mission: Impossible movies when I found out who the bad guy was in the first movie. I'm not a fan of having heroic characters gutted.

I actually really dug the Spock/Uhura romance. It made Spock so much more interesting to me.

Another thing I absolutely loved? The ship that future!Spock came in. whirl whirl whirl flip whirl whirl

The Spock/Uhura thing made me REALLY happy. The pure fact of it, but also how it was slowly revealed to the audience. It's never quite hidden, but there are little moments here and there and then suddenly you sit up and realize "Oh. Spock is fucking one of his grad students. Huh." (And then a few scenes later it's made explicit.)

ST soundtrack: I really enjoyed the use of the erhu for Vulcan. But I'm a sucker for that sort of thing.

Also: Spock's Fuck You to the council or whatnot after they dissed his human parentage. That "Live long and prosper" was priceless in it's delivery.

What Juliebird said about that line delivery. Just perfect!

I am so squeeee about the new Star Trek!!

I love Spock/Uhuru! My new OTP for the franchise.

I was very much afraid I'd have a hard time seeing Zach Quinto as anything other than Sylar on Heroes, but he was perfect as Spock. So nicely sarcastic and just enough smug to actually make him come across as closer to human rather than purely Vulcan.

I have to agree with Jessica that it was the building up of the Spock/Kirk relationship that makes this movie work. The way they start out so diametrically opposed in outlook, but end up having to work together and compromise with each other to achieve their goals until they get to where they can appreciate the other person's style for what it is.

It was a pretty damn tight movie. With so many bloated three hour extravaganzas where the plot gets lost at sea after the first hour, it was refreshing to have a movie be able to hit all the main points with good timing and do it in two hours. At no time did I get squirmy in my seat wondering how much longer could they drag it out, nor did I feel short-changed at the end. I liked this one so much, I'm almost afraid for anything coming after this one. I'm afraid it will break the spell.