I am a huge ST fan. My fave is TNG, and Picard is my captain, because TNG was the first series I had the opportunity to watch (Norway isn't very huge on ST). Well, I LIKED the film. I've seen it 3 times by now, and I believe I will have the opportunity to watch it again this week. I've seen it in both IMAX and regular movie theatre, and it's all good.

Although there are things in the movie I have problems with (letting a rookie become captain of the flag ship, time travel, the freakin' horrible shaking camera), I still believe it's one of the best movies in the franchise. It totally breaks the odds/evens bad/good film thing. To me this is the second best film of them all (I still prefer First Contact but I am biased). I thought the last scene in the film, when Kirk steps on to the bridge was SO good! It is as if you see Shatner in the early years. The same manerisms, tone of voice... I loved it!

I agree with a lot of what you are saying about him, but he is not Scottish. He is from Yorkshire, very far north in England. In the UK things like that are very important.

The plumbing reminded me of real ships engines. Yes, the big ones on water. I thought this ADDED to the realism of the film.

I must admit, I got a Wesley Crusher-flashback... BUT, I think the casting deserves an Oscar. I loved the fact that we get to know some of the back stories, although the time travel causes a paradox in my mind.

I found the film funny, I totally recognised the characters, it had scary moments (the monsters), loving moments, as well as sad. I liked it so much I have already seen it twice. And I am seeing it again this week... And I am a TNG fan! (There is no captain but Picard). In the final scene when Kirk walks on to the bridge, you can actually "see" Shatner in the early years. The mannerisms, the movements, the air of cheeky confidence... For that alone, it's worth it.

Where do you get Scottish from? Picard was French, Stewart is English (northern England, granted, but still south of the border).

Yeah, Norway doesn't join EU because we don't want to be told what to do. The ironic thing is, we're members of EEC, which gives us a lot of the freedoms they enjoy in EU, but there is a price to pay. We do end up paying an enormous amount of money to EU and we get their rules and regulations. We can of course veto them, but in the end, there are too many to consider vetoing.

Btw, Norway is a border-country to EU, due to being members of Schengen. Another irony is that the EU-country UK is not member of Schengen, so that is not a border country for EU... Go figure!

Not true. Norway, who's a socialist country by some standards (hey, Swedes called Norway the last socialist state, it must be true), is very close to sustainable levels. Both on resident growth and economic growth.

We worry about future social security all the same, but we have higher expectations than Americans.

I am biased here, as I have worked with SELinux for years now, but Red Hat actually have a 4-day training course on SELinux: https://www.redhat.com/courses/rhs429_red_hat_enterprise_selinux_policy_administration/

I am doubly biased as I wrote the first incarnation of the course. (Yes, I am a Red Hat employee. Over 9 years now.)