Star Trek 2009, Deleted Scenes review

It arrived!

One day after I ordered it from Mightyape and 40 New Zealand dollars later, I ripped open the package to check out the deleted scenes from JJ Abrams 'Star Trek'.

My verdict. Good. Not great, but good.

I was kinda hoping for some really mean visual effects but the deleted scenes really only had examples of what might have been. I will say this, I can understand completely why they took these scenes out. The movie is much better without them.

Nero gets captured by Klingons is probably the most eagerly awaited scene for many a fan and it certainly fills in a few holes for the Nerada and crew. The set piece for the Rura Penthe scene is quite big. A large outdoors set with plenty of extras who probably are very pissed off that they never made it to the final cut. Nero is interrogated by a Klingon who has a rather 'soft' voice for a Klingon (I presume they would have Klingonified his voice in post) and soon breaks free after he beats the shit out of the guards and then runs to a cell where he releases 'Ayel' declaring that awesome line from the trailer 'The wait is over!'

I found it interesting that we never actually see the Klingons per se, they are always hidden behind a ridged helmet. I wonder why? Definitely another homage to Enterprise and the TOS.

We also see in more detail how Kirk was able to plant the subroutine into the Kobayashi Maru test by way of a little trick with Gaila, the Orion slave girl.

Winona Ryder gets much more screen time in the deleted scenes than the movie itself. She has a scene with her husband (Sarek) over the naming of their child 'Spock' and a very good confrontational scene with Sarek when young 'Spock' gets into the fight before Sarek talks to him about it.

There is a very funny scene where Kirk apologies to the green girl over using her. But realises after his speech that this is someone else. Its funny, but again I can see why they removed it.

Even after many many months, I still think that this re imagination of my favourite Sci Fi franchise has still been a massive success and I cannot thank JJ Abrams, the producers and writers enough for bringing it back to us.

By the way, am I the only one who noticed that Nero has part of his ear missing, a la 'Chopper Reid'...awesome.

Long live trek.

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