mindstalk | (Reply)

Uh, wasn't the green-skinned girl called Gaila? She had a name. They used it more than once in the movie. And she and Uhura had a conversation about Uhura's work. Admittedly it was to distract Uhura from the guy hiding under the bed, but fact that they were talking about Uhura's translations was pretty important to the story.

As for the lack of female characters in this movie, I'm willing to let them away with it in the reboot because all the major characters in the original Trek were written as male. Sure, they could have pulled a BSG and made Sulu a chick... but they're not BSG.

And I think they gauged their audience right when they gave us a non-realistic, not gritty, homage to the original. We've had our share of gritty franchise reboots (Batman Begins, Casino Royale) and we've seen our share of gritty sci-fi on screen. Most people remember Star Trek as being the opposite of serious sci-fi: technobabble invented to disguise the fact they couldn't film ships landing on a planet; Kirk bedding green-skinned babes; Spock and Kirk visiting the 30s Gangster planet. The reboot managed to pay homage to the original in a manner that straddled the fine line between tongue-in-cheek and seriousness.