Star Trek (revised post)

Star Trek

This is a picture of the original Green Alien Chick from Star Trek. I just realized she looks like Pat Benatar.

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The new Star Trek movie is set in maiden voyage days of the Enterprise. A young verison of Kirk, Spock, and Uhura are all in their 20's. Chekov is 16! It is sort of like take your kid to work day! It's all good.

My expectation was to be placed in a state of shock and awe. It delivered on the giant spaceships blowing things up in space formula and the green alien chick was ok BUT from a thinking man's perspective I was slightly disappointed with combat tactics in this movie.

Speaking as war movie fan and a SciFi fan and hoped the two genres would Vulcan mind meld together into one kick-ass movie. I expected the Federation to have learned and developed smart technology and smart tactics and show this progression of learning from a long history of success and failure. However the United Federation of Planets has a lot to learn!

• The Big Ass Romulan ship has it's way with Federation vessels and pounds them with volleys of energy torpedoes, yet, the Federation ships have no counter measure devices such as electronic jammers, decoys or point defense phasers. Really?!?
  

• Why didn't the Federation deploy high powered projectile weapons in lieu of of using energy weapons which drain precious energy from the warp drive? After all, the shields and engines need all the energy they can get. Right? Why wouldn't they use self propelled missiles and projectile weapons to inflict primitive gaping holes on the enemy ships? These projectile weapons could be used as backups or even primary weapons systems with no drain on those darn finicky dilithium crystals.
  

• What about space fighters? If they can launch shuttles why can't they launch small stealthy fighters?...more weapons to aim at the bad guys and more targets for the bad guys to keep track of?

• And check this out... In the year 2009 the US Air Force Predator drone has killed so many bad guys I have lost count. Why wouldn't the federation deploy unmanned, heavily armed drones to encircle the Roms and have them fire at the same time thereby overwhelming the Rom's defenses?

• What about a Department of Homeland Security? Poor Planet Vulcan had no evacuation plans or Code Orange threat warnings. The Federation is too big to be covered by one fleet. Perhaps the Vulcans learned nothing from the famous attack on Earth. Hello? It happened at Pearl Harbor.

• Where the heck are Vulcan’s orbital defenses? Would they consider space based lasers/phasers? Also annoying, that vessel next appears at Vulcan, and Starfleet only sends seven ships against it? Were the writings of Sun Tzu somehow lost over the years?

--> I liked the Beastie Boys track "Sabotage" during the scene where Kirk steals the vintage Corvette and goes for a joy ride. Awesome fun!