Wait, you haven't read Uhura's Song? Go, do, now! Seriously, it's up there with Best Destiny and Prime Directive, oh, and Enterprise! It confirmed me as a Spock/Uhura shipper as a little kid (I was probably about 9 the first time I read it) and when I feel crappy it's one of my favorite re-reads still.
I really felt like the movie was written by a fanboy who had read the early books at least (I haven't seen the animated version, so I can't comment on that) because I kept seeing things from them. The warp cores in the end were so from Kobayashi Maru, from Kirk's desperate second attempt, I think. Uhura was definitely the Uhura of Uhura's Song and Traitor Winds. Kirk had Best Destiny written all over him and echoes of a future Prime Directive. Though I'm terribly confused by the cadet to Captain thing, unless we find out the whole, real fleet got wiped out by the Klingons, an still.
Sexy!green babe was an Orion. An Orion who wasn't a slave girl. She was a Starfleet officer. That was more than enough to make me happy on that front.
(Also, sometimes I am really bad at figuring out ethnicity, but I sort of thought that the Kelvin's original captain was Middle Eastern?)
I also thought the shots of Engineering were wrong, wrong, wrong, but I sort of loved the bridge for the pretty.
I also wish they hadn't refrigerated Amanda, because Amanda was awesome. Not that Sarek isn't awesome too, but if was I writing it and I needed Spock to have a dead parent in this storyline, Sarek would've been the one to go, further distancing Spock from his endangered race.
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I really felt like the movie was written by a fanboy who had read the early books at least (I haven't seen the animated version, so I can't comment on that) because I kept seeing things from them. The warp cores in the end were so from Kobayashi Maru, from Kirk's desperate second attempt, I think. Uhura was definitely the Uhura of Uhura's Song and Traitor Winds. Kirk had Best Destiny written all over him and echoes of a future Prime Directive. Though I'm terribly confused by the cadet to Captain thing, unless we find out the whole, real fleet got wiped out by the Klingons, an still.
Sexy!green babe was an Orion. An Orion who wasn't a slave girl. She was a Starfleet officer. That was more than enough to make me happy on that front.
(Also, sometimes I am really bad at figuring out ethnicity, but I sort of thought that the Kelvin's original captain was Middle Eastern?)
I also thought the shots of Engineering were wrong, wrong, wrong, but I sort of loved the bridge for the pretty.
I also wish they hadn't refrigerated Amanda, because Amanda was awesome. Not that Sarek isn't awesome too, but if was I writing it and I needed Spock to have a dead parent in this storyline, Sarek would've been the one to go, further distancing Spock from his endangered race.