On 04 Jul 17  17:16:32 Skip Thompson wrote...   
      
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   ST> DK> As a sci-fi movie, the JJ ones could be ok.. as Trek films... I   
   ST> DK> just can't.   
   ST> DK>    
   ST> DK> They're just too silly.  Scotty swirling around in the big water   
   ST> DK> tubes  just the tip of it for me.  Everything seemed to be way   
   ST> DK> over the top exagerated to the point of being silly.    
   ST>    
   ST> I agree. Didn't they "jump" from one ship to another (or possibly to   
   ST> a planets surface) in one of the recent ones? No equipment or special   
   ST> tractor beams or anything to explain it, they just jumped.   
   ST>    
   ST> I think a good story sets up the enviroment for the plot, than stays   
   ST> true to the environment. Otherwise the suspension of disbelief just   
   ST> doesn't work for me.   
      
   To which Drew Klenotic replies...   
      
   Yep... Pretty much.  Jumped onto the drilling rig suspended from the   
   massive totally un-utilitarian looking bad guy star ship.   
      
   First "JJ" Movie.   
      
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