Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Star Trek: Renegades

Just watched Star Trek: Renegades. An 'independent' or 'web based' movie. The look was good, not bad special effects and it was nice seeing some familiar faces. Interesting story, neat 'villain' race. Although I am getting tired with every other alien race having the "I want the honor of the first kill" bit. I would have been satisfied with the 'honor of the last kill' which is what they said first and I thought was interesting.  I liked Chekov's office with the different Trek pictures. And the uniforms aren't bad, but almost a little plain. That being the good things said, let me count the ways it lacked, in my opinion.

This was like Star Trek: The Motion Picture. A lot going on and cramming it in one movie. Well maybe not in relation to the story, but definitely in relations to the characters. It was like a bad role play game; you had all the arch-types/stereo-types all together.

You had the Cardassian hating Bajoran. The token Cardassian. The reformed Borg.  A defective Betazoid. The disgraced doctor, who, I was surprised to see was Sean Young who had a love affair with the creator of the holographic doctor. Gary Graham is there too as.... something. and what looked like something from Star Wars. And the captain of these renegades is Kahn's daughter? Really?? Literally, they were a group of players who each wanted to 'play something different.'

I will say they did have a surprise or two, so the story isn't bad. But half way through it I cared more about Chekov's great grand-daughter that the crew of the Icarius. Maybe it was their acting abilities or lack of? I don't know Even now I half wish that the bad guys had killed them. But they couldn't or earth would have been destroyed.

And they set it up for sequels or a series. All in all it was ok. 6.5 out of 10.

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