The Daily Mail film critic loves the new Star Trek film.
I found this part especially intriguing — I hope it’s accurate:
One of the most refreshing – and surprising – aspects is how elitist it is.
Throughout, there is great emphasis on the fact that the crew members are not everymen.
Each is a talented individual who has knuckled down to serious training and passing rigorous exams with the highest honours.
It is one of the few movies I have seen in recent years which has celebrated intellectual endeavour, the informed weighing up of risks, the taking of responsibility. It is, well nigh uniquely in modern Hollywood, grown-up.
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Well, Star Trek may be “elitist” that rewards “serious training and passing of rigorous exams” but it’s still fastist
Long live the Browncoats.
;-P
Oh, yeah!!! At least they know how to spell in the FASCIST Trek-verse.
I always appreciated the Klingon method of command promotion. Kill the idiot in charge and assume command. Never have, nor never will practice said procedure, but appreciate it never the less.
When I think of Obama and his world tour, my memories recall sitting at home on the couch, sick, through a marathon of “The Next Generation” and seeing the bald captain solve every problem with a treaty because, as you well know, all treaties are binding and EVERYONE follows them to the letter. It’s like Obama picked up his foreign policy expertise from watching said marathon.
Or being an avid student of Lord Chamberlain.
JohnFN
Good point. If Bush was TOS, then Obama is TNG. That’s not a compliment.
But I don’t think the “elite” comment is a bad thing. The Starfleet academy grads aren’t just physical heroes — but are brilliant to boot. I may be a bit biased given my profession, but there’s nothing wrong with celebrating intellectual and physical rigor. Such are the required of our Special Ops, pilots, etc.
If I misunderstood then apologies, but not every celebration of “intellectual rigor” is a stab at Bush.
Perhaps, the problem is that “elite” has come to mean those who made it through the “Ivy Leagues” consuming (not questioning) everything their professors, well, profess. You know, the Barak Obamas of the world. As, opposed to the truly elite graduating from, say, West Point – who choose to serve in the Rangers or Special Forces. Somehow, I doubt Starfleet Academy (in its’ current incarnation) is as rigorous – intellectually or physically.
I always got the idea from Star Trek — in all its incarnations that the Academy had very high ethical and academic standards. Kirk had a little of the John McCain or George Bush in him… smart enough to do well — and probably very well if not dedicated to raising hell also. Picard was the uptight one who need a “noogie” every so often to lighten up. Picard always stretched treaties in the beginning. The longer TNG was on the more insufferable it got in those areas.
I don’t think the reviewer was taking a swipe — but being a part of the media — he could totally be taking a swipe and I just missed it.
Floyd, did you get your thread title from that episode of “Frasier”? Noel Shemsky says it to Roz.
Busted.