 Usually when I see one of these special movie events, I want to record my Impressions immediately afterwards get it on video real quick and then get out get it out to you as soon as I can Well, I saw Star Trek 2 last night Saturday, September 10th, and I wanted to sleep on it I wanted to think about it a little bit. So here I am on September 11th 2017 in the basement of the friendly bike guest house in Portland where I'm staying temporarily But okay, here's what I have to say about Star Trek 2 What a great movie What a great movie the only Star Trek movie that I think can be called great There are no others that have reached the level of expertise and maturity of this film Script wise execution wise acting wise That they did everything right. They did so many things right that there are so few problems with the film that I can I would I'm just nitpicking if whatever problems I have with it. This is what should have been the first Star Trek film Star Trek the motion picture was It was fun and weird For those of us who grew up with Star Trek in reruns throughout the 70s on television We knew that Star Trek was a thing of the past and that there would never be any Star Trek again And we were so familiar with the characters with Kirk and Spock and McCoy and then Star Trek the motion picture came out in 78 I guess and It was like a huge Trekkie orgasm That's all it was really everyone just loves seeing the characters again and seeing the Enterprise again and Then when that film was over Everyone was like wow it was great seeing those characters again, but Are we ever gonna talk about Veejer again? No not really and then Rath of Khan came up and It did everything right It's a sequel to one of the episodes of the original series It not only wraps up the events of that episode But it it gives a wrap-up and a closure to all the characters and their relationships as well Which the first Movie did not the script for this film was so So carefully meticulously and maturely written especially for Kirk it gave him a Finish to a character arc that he never got in the original series Here he was approaching middle age and He finally learned the lessons that he never did in the original series he finally became a Different person a different man and they tied it together with His son whom we never saw Who I believe was mentioned once in an early episode, but never again speaking of that All of these new characters that were introduced in Wrath of Khan Dr. Carol Marcus Kirk's son David Lieutenant Savick these are all great characters great characters with Tremendous potential built into them and and Great character building throughout the film because they had pasts they had pasts that we wanted to know about that We wanted to learn about and then there were all the new cadets on the enterprise like Ike Eisenman Ike Eisenman. I think was the only real problem. I think in the film. I would remove his scenes. I Was going to say earlier that there were no wasted scenes in this film, but Ike Eisenman scenes Could be removed and I would argue should be removed I think what the script writers were doing with this film They were preparing a new generation of Star Trek characters and wow, they had a great start This a new Star Trek series should have started immediately after this film the next generation should have started It should have been about Lieutenant Savick it should have been about David Kirk, but then with the third movie Paramount threw all those characters away. They got rid of them as soon as they could Such a mistake such a mistake when I saw the film as a kid I'm trying to think what year it was 81 82 My two younger sisters and I saw it with our mother and although we weren't Exactly Trekkies and of course I was the one who was most interested in Star Trek because I was a science fiction fan We we never call ourselves Trekkies, but we grew up with these characters We grew up with this show and my mother was familiar with all of it because we grew up in the house with her And by the end of the film all four of us were crying like babies because the the death scene with Spock was so good The the other small problem I have with the film is I didn't feel like there was enough of a reason for Spock To have gone in there the way he did but Disregarding that the rest of it was handled so well and the Spock's funeral with mr. Scott playing the bagpipes with amazing grace How can you sit there and not? Blubber like an idiot I did last night, but the thing that I was most emotional about this time as A Middle-aged man who hasn't seen the film in this was the this was the 35th anniversary of the film By the way, and I haven't seen the film at least 30 years at least If I've seen any of it at all in that time. It's been bits and pieces. I haven't sat all the way through it The thing that hit me in the emotions most was after the funeral when Kirk's son came to him and told him that He finally He finally felt that he understood him that he finally felt that he understood his father and that he was proud to be his son I'm sorry. I'm choking up because I'm experiencing this aspect of the film for the first time now here in my 50s Because these were the very things that I said at at my father's eulogy 20 years ago They did it right. They did so many things right so much character building So much introduction of new elements and new characters, and I wish Paramount had Learned that lesson It's an interesting coincidence that I saw this film the very day that I posted my review of Moby Dick because Moby Dick plays a role in the film as I said in my review of the book yesterday the the line From hell's heart. I stab at thee for hate's sake. I spit my last breath at thee that comes from Captain Ahab Moby Dick You can see the book on the shelf at one point earlier in the film speaking in which there is foreshadowing all over this movie And when you're seeing it for the first time you don't know that you're seeing what's coming You don't know that they're showing you That's how you make a film. That's how you make a film and I wish Paramount had paid attention All right, that's it See you next video whatever that ends up being Please remember to press that like button it helps my videos get seen and then subscribe so you can come back next time I do science fiction book TV and movie reviews all the time and please consider becoming a patron There's a link in the description below