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*Spoiler Alert* But if you couldn’t figure that one out…

Well, io9’s Charlie Jane Anders asks why the new kirk is a douchebag, which is pretty dead on. I mean, I liked the movie and I liked Chris Pine as (a young) Captain Kirk, however, had I been an in-universe character, I’d hate the guy.

Apparently there’s a backlash, which you wouldn’t hear through all of the praise, unless you were Uhura or something.

Danger Room’s Michael Peck does a rather amusing military analysis of the Star Trek. It’s a pretty great read but this is priceless:

“Vulcan must have relied on the Federation, whose main fleet happened to be cruising in a different part of the galaxy. Seems like the Federation is a little big to be covered by one fleet. Want to bet that the head of Federation strategic planning is named Rumsfeld?”

Hah.

The Volokh Conspiracy’s Ilya Somin was hoping the prequel would explain when (and why/how) the Federation became socialist. It didn’t. Somebody should though, it’d be well…fascinating.