{"id":3076,"date":"2009-05-09T21:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-10T01:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/?p=3076"},"modified":"2009-05-09T21:59:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-10T01:59:00","slug":"star-trek-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2009\/05\/09\/star-trek-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek&#8211;Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/image\/stars\/4o5.gif\" alt=\"4 Stars\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nTRAFFIC COP: Citizen, what is your name?<br \/>\n<br \/>\nBLOND PUNK KID: My name is James Tiberius Kirk!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you were a fan of the original <em>Star Trek<\/em> TV series, you pretty much have to go see the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0796366\/\"><em>Star Trek<\/em><\/a> movie. This is a witty but respectful tribute to the original series, with the same spirit but better special effects.<\/p>\n<p>Director J.J. Abrams reimagines the beginning of the story, showing us younger versions of Kirk, Spock, Bones, Uhura, Scotty, Sulu and Chekov as they enter Star Fleet Academy, meet each other and gradually bond as a team while confronting a threat to The Universe as They Know It.<\/p>\n<p>This probably wouldn&#8217;t look as good to someone who was unfamiliar with the original TV show. To someone who didn&#8217;t know the original characters and the Star Trek universe much of the humor would fall flat, and many of the actions might seem puzzling. Such a hypothetical naive viewer might judge this to be routine sci-fi, perhaps even somewhat incoherent. <\/p>\n<p>Still, anyone from a hard-core Trekkie to a casual fan will almost certainly enjoy this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRAFFIC COP: Citizen, what is your name? BLOND PUNK KID: My name is James Tiberius Kirk! If you were a fan of the original Star Trek TV series, you pretty&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2009\/05\/09\/star-trek-movie-review\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[283],"class_list":["post-3076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3076"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3081,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076\/revisions\/3081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}