{"id":2755,"date":"2010-01-04T08:00:34","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=2755"},"modified":"2010-01-03T21:15:44","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T02:15:44","slug":"to-boldly-go-where-no-star-trek-movie-has-gone-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=2755","title":{"rendered":"To boldly go where no Star Trek movie has gone before&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And, hopefully, stay there.<\/p>\n<p>Now, <a href=\"http:\/\/locustsandhoney.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/why-recent-star-trek-movie-was-awful.html\" target=\"_blank\">this is funny<\/a> (HT: <a href=\"http:\/\/hellinahandbasket.net\/?p=1976\" target=\"_blank\">hellinahandbasket<\/a>),<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;it is simply not reasonable for a 19-year old punk to be plucked off the Iowa plains, given a prized appointment to Starfleet Academy, immediately promoted above all of his upper classmates, and then immediately commissioned as not only a junior officer, but a captain &#8212; and then given command of a major vessel. This is stupid and asinine, and was only written because it makes 14-year old girls swoon.<\/p>\n<p>Star Trek might attract 14-year old girls, but it should not be written with that as its primary goal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While I thought the movie was enjoyable, to a point, I was completely annoyed with the incessant reflections on the bridge of the Enterprise, and found the video-game-like battle scenes to be tiring after, say, 10 &#8211; 15 seconds. Critics claim that the standard Star Trek series \/ movies are dull banter. Well &#8211; yeah &#8211; what did you expect? It&#8217;s Star Trek!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And, hopefully, stay there. Now, this is funny (HT: hellinahandbasket), &#8230;it is simply not reasonable for a 19-year old punk to be plucked off the Iowa plains, given a prized appointment to Starfleet Academy, immediately promoted above all of his upper classmates, and then immediately commissioned as not only a junior officer, but a captain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,24,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-movie-reviews","category-rusty"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}