First Contact with my model NCC-1701

"All hands to battle stations! We are under attack by a giant, um, hand thing! This is not a drill! I mean, seriously, you can't make this stuff up!"

Got this from Dubai Mall. But wow, we actually have model shops in Dubai.

EDIT: South view

 

Star Trek

Rating:	★★★★
Category:	Movies
Genre:	Science Fiction & Fantasy

This is the first movie I watched after a month and some of busy-time. Not disappointed in the least, but a bit more surprised than I expected.

Positives:
- Verging on "hard scifi". Is perhaps to the Star Trek franchise what Batman Begins was to the Batman franchise. The setting was very ordinary, much of the time, yet futuristic. Off-duty humans wore jackets and jeans, rather than shiny tunics with oversize shoulder pads, for example. They lived in dorms or houses, and drove bikes with wheels. Bar fights.
- Great opening. Very emotional. Very powerful.
- Awesome graphics. Great use of moving camera and panorama.
- A good bit of ship redesign in line with modern technology and sensibilities, but still within range of the originals.
- Seeing how it all began. There were plenty of smirk-worthy moments, as we see the young characters exhibit their familiar traits, and mouth their familiar catchphrases.
Negatives:
- VERY non-canon. I wonder if any sequels will continue in this very different altered timeline, or reboot.

Awesome scenes from Star Trek II and III

Kirk vs Khan

 

Klingons vs Kirk