Star Trek

    I've never seen Star Trek before watching it for class, but I get why it is such as popular, well-liked movie! I really enjoyed the character development of Jim Kirk and Spock. Jim started the movie as a reckless, careless man who did not think it was possible to live up to his late father's accomplishments. Throughout the movie, he went from fighting in bars and cheating on exams to literally saving planet Earth from Captain Nero and the Romulans. Jim Kirk became the captain of the U.S.S Enterprise. Spock's character change was less about his achievements and more about his emotional development. As half-Vulcan, he was told he was not supposed to have feelings. However, being half-human, he went through life suppressing his feelings. When Captain Nero destroyed the planet Vulcan, Spock's home, and killed his mother, Spock said he had an uncontrollable rage. After his father told him he married his mother because he loved her, Spock finally began to open up. He realized that having feelings maybe was not a disadvantage, which finally allowed him to build a connection with Jim Kirk.

    To me, this movie was slightly difficult to follow along with because the technology in this movie is so advanced compared to modern day's technology. Aside from the spacecrafts and holograms within the film, I was intrigued by the "red matter" and the ability to beam. One single dot of red matter is so technologically advanced that it could create a black hole that absorbed a whole planet. Beaming was also really cool to me because people could basically teleport from one place to another no matter the distance.

    All in all, I quite enjoyed this movie and I appreciate the creativity in the settings, technology, and overall cinematography seen within the film.


Star Trek Notes:

  • The captain of the USS Kelvin ship leaves to meet with the alien (Captain Nero) and tells Mr. Kirk (George) he is now captain 

  • Captain Nero kills the captain of the USS Kelvin and the aliens start attacking the USS Kelvin

    • They are attempting to evacuate 

  • The bad guys have holograms 

  • George stays back to fight them off and keep the shuttles full of his people and wife and newborn (Jim) safe

    • George dies saving everyone else 

  • Spock is not human or Vulcan (his father is Vulcan and his mom is human)

    • His father tells him to “control his feeling so they do not control him”

  • Spock rejects the ministers acceptance into the Vulcan school 

  • Jim meets Uhura and then gets into a bar fight with cadets— he lives in a world combined of humans and aliens (Iowa)

    • Jim is offered admission into Starfleet by Captain Pike 

    • He accepts and go to space and meets Leonard McCoy (fellow new cadet)

  • Jim beat Spock’s test that is basically impossible to beat 

  • Vulcan are bad 

  • Star Trek uses technologies such as space crafts, medicines, red matter, beams 

  • USS Enterprise federation ships are entering a trap created by Romulan Vulcan (Captain Nero); Jim realized this, but it was too late

    • This was the same thing that happened with Jim’s father on the USS Kelvin

  • History is repeating itself; Nero wants Captain Pike to come to his ship — Kirk is now first officer and Spock is captain

    • Kirk needs to disable the lightning beam created by the Romulans

  • Nero launches “red matter” into the Earth’s core, attempting to create a black hole in the center of Vulcan 

    • Vulcan was destroyed (the Romulans killed ~6 billion Vulcan); Spock saved his father and some of the ministers, but his mother was lost

  • Spock and Uhura are together 

  • Nero captures Captain Pike and puts a bug in him 

  • The Romulan may be from the future able to technological go back in time using space-time (Nero created an alternate reality by altering the space-time continuum)

  • Jim Kirk somehow teleported to the future and finds old Spock

    • Because Spock could not save the planet Romulus, Nero beamed Spock to Delta Vega (where Jim found him) so Spock could watch Vulcan be destroyed 

    • In the alternate world future Spock tells Jim about, Jim’s father lived to watch Jim become Captain of the USS Enterprise 

  • Jim needed to emotionally compromise Spock to make him no longer fit for duty

    • Vulcans are not supposed to have emotions; Spock feels an uncontrollable rage toward those that killed his mother, and to his surprise, his Vulcan father tells him he married Spock’s mother because he LOVED her

    • Jim is now the captain of the USS Enterprise 

  • Spock and Jim beam onto the Romulan ship that Nero controls

  • The Black Hole device that is going to be used to destroy Earth is in Captain Pike (Earth now has the lightning beam going into it)

    • They need to stop Nero before he destroys Earth too 

  • Spock flies the ship to destroy the Nero’s drill that would be used to destroy Earth

    • Nero releases the Red Matter in attempts to kill Spock; Spock warps, but so does Nero’s ship

    • Spock allows the red matter to be released on the Romulans as he, Jim, and Pike beam back to the USS Enterprise

  • Jim saves his crew and Earth

  • Spock meets future Spock

  • Jim relieves Captain Pike and becomes the official new captain of the USS Enterprise

Comments

  1. Hannah HollandOctober 21, 2022 at 8:21 AM

    Once again, well done on the character analysis!! You always bring up new points about characters that I never even noticed! I also loved watching the maturation of Kirk into an immature student, to a fearless captain. One of my favorite parts of the movie was watching the friendship between Kirk and Spock develop throughout the movie. They are an iconic duo and I had no idea that they both hated each other when they first met. I also agree that some of the technology was slightly confusing, but also very interesting seeing what might become reality in the future.

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