{"id":8602,"date":"2016-07-24T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-24T20:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=8602"},"modified":"2020-07-02T20:15:35","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T00:15:35","slug":"star-trek-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/star-trek-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;Your father was captain of a starship for 12 minutes. He saved 800 lives including your mother&#8217;s and yours. I dare you to do better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Star Trek,<\/strong> released in 2009<\/p>\n<p>Kirk and McCoy are still at the academy when they go onboard the Enterprise under Captain Pike and Lieutenant Spock. They are responding to a distress call from Vulcan. A Romulan from the future, Nero, has come back for revenge &#8212; on Vulcan, and most of all on Spock.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights include<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kirk&#8217;s father George taking over as captain and fighting Nero while his crew escapes in shuttles<\/li>\n<li>The first sight of the USS Enterprise when Kirk and McCoy are heading to it in a shuttle<\/li>\n<li>Kirk and Sulu doing a space jump and then fighting Romulans aboard the mining platform<\/li>\n<li>Spock from the original universe, particularly his first meeting with Kirk<\/li>\n<li>Everything Montgomery Scott says &#8212; he&#8217;s very funny<\/li>\n<li>Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Uhura, Sulu, Chekov, and Scott working together<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This movie answered the question: What would <strong>Star Trek<\/strong> be like as an action movie? It&#8217;s action packed &#8212; you won&#8217;t be able to tear your eyes from the screen.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s visually stunning, it&#8217;s hilarious, the actors are perfect, and it will give you hope for the future.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Bruce Greenwood, and Leonard Nimoy. Directed by J.J. Abrams (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/star-wars-the-force-awakens\/\"><strong>Star Wars: The Force Awakens<\/strong><\/a>). The music by Michael Giacchino is breathtaking (my favourite track is &#8220;Enterprising Young Men&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>This is the 4th time I&#8217;ve seen it. My previous review is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/star-trek\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;Your father was captain of a starship for 12 minutes. He saved 800 lives including your mother&#8217;s and yours. I dare you to do better.&#8221; Star Trek, released in 2009 Kirk and McCoy are still at the academy when they go onboard the Enterprise under Captain Pike and Lieutenant Spock. They are responding to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6,5,8,59],"class_list":["post-8602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-movie","tag-review","tag-science-fiction","tag-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8602"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16264,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8602\/revisions\/16264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}