{"id":118,"date":"2013-05-31T08:58:45","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T13:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/newdean\/?p=118"},"modified":"2013-05-31T08:58:45","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T13:58:45","slug":"new-star-trek-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2013\/05\/31\/new-star-trek-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"New Star Trek Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Star Trek: Into Darkness<\/i> is the new <i>Star Trek<\/i> movie that is currently playing on thousands of multiplex cinema screens. I saw it last weekend with my 14 year-old niece and 11 year-old nephew. My niece really wanted to see <i>The Great Gatsby<\/i>, but deferred to her action-loving brother. I was interested in seeing <i>Star Trek: Into Darkness<\/i> after reading an article that argues that the progressive Star Trek franchise has one glaring omission: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/underwire\/2013\/05\/star-trek-lgbt-gay-characters\/\">it does not depict Lesbian-Bisexual-Gay-Transgender (LBGT) people and perspectives<\/a>. I wondered if the new movie would include these folks as crew members. The answer: no. In fact, <i>Star Trek: Into Darkness<\/i> was a pretty typical action movie with little else going on, and it was a much less interesting than the 2009 <i>Star Trek<\/i> reboot. Hopefully the next installment will present the social commentary that is a hallmark of the franchise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Trek: Into Darkness is the new Star Trek movie that is currently playing on thousands of multiplex cinema screens. I saw it last weekend with my 14 year-old niece and 11 year-old nephew. My niece really wanted to see The Great Gatsby, but deferred to her action-loving brother. I was interested in seeing Star [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[347,22214],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-identity","tag-media-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}