Cover Price: $3.99
Bargain Price: $0.50
Cover Date: January 2009
I didn’t really care for J. J. Abram’s new Star Trek movie. I don’t think it’s a bad movie per se; it just isn’t for me. Still, I was interested in this mini-series, which relates the events that happen in the Next Generation era leading up to the time travel plot of the movie. Basically, Romulus has blown up and mining ship captain Nero and his cronies decide to kill a bunch of dudes while Spock, Picard, and Data try to save the universe from the phenomenon that blew up Romulus. As you can probably tell by the cast, which also includes the Geordi and Worf, both retired from Starfleet, it’s mostly a bunch of continuity porn that’s too busy using coincidence to get all of your fan favorite characters involved to bother with telling a compelling story that actually enhances the movie. It does serve to answer some unanswered questions from the movie, like what’s up with Nero’s head tattoo, but it largely just creates more, particularly when using ridiculous, fanboyish plot devices to explain things that don’t need explaining, like why is Nero’s mining ship so big and bad ass? Because a Romulan prison satellite outfitted it with indestructible Borg technology that has nanites in it that can fix any damage. Um, okay. Still, it was fun seeing Data run around a little bit, all reconstructed and promoted to captain of the Enterprise in the future, and that’s kind of good enough for me. I like Data.
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