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Thoughts on The New Star Trek Movie

If your're a child of the 60s, chances are you'll have grown up watching original runs of the original Star Trek episodes. In fact, Trek was the first program on TV I ever saw in color!

People seem to prefer the Star Trek series they grew up with. For those born in the 70s and 80s, it was Next Generation and/or Deep Space Nine. Those born a few years later favour Voyager. And Enterprise was favored by those born in the mid 80s and after.

Most people who watched the original airing of TOS (The Original Series) have fond memories of it and feel that even in today's world, some of its morality tales still have resonance. Those growing up on later series have a less favorable impresssion. On a side note, the original series was shot on film, an inherently high definition medium, and Star Trek can be released on Blu-Ray whereas Next Gen was shot on video and so no high-def copies will ever become available.

Enterprise is the only other Trek series incarnation that's likely to appear in high definition on Blu-Ray. This series received a lot of criticism by the Star Trek community for rewriting Trek history. Spock was supposed to have been the first Vulcan serving in Starfleet, yet T'Pol served as First Officer 150 years earlier in Enterprise. As she was a member of the Vulcam High Command rather than Starfleet, the apparent dichotomy was solved. Enterprise contained other Trek history rewrites too. Actually, this didn't bother me too much as Enterprise was much more in line with the spirit of TOS than the intervening efforts.

Star Trek: The Motion Picture, the first Trek movie, was released 30 years ago. The last movie, Star Trek: Nemesis, limped out of movie theaters in 2002. So here we are, seven years later, awaiting a reboot of the series that started it all. Star Trek XI lands on May 8th, 2009.

I've watched the trailers and hmmm...I have a lot of reservations about this movie. But that's down to me growing up with the old crew and I don't think Trek history should be messed with (despite not being put out by what Enterprise did). The problem for me is that Star Trek XI messes with the histories of the characters, takes liberties with their relationships and will fundamentally change the perception of of those characters for long-time fans.

I know that this has been designed for a new, younger audience, but (not having seen the movie), perhaps it would have been preferable to use a different crew and ship, even if still set in the pre-TOS years. I'm not enamoured with some of the casting choices either. Okay, I agree I'm something of an old fart on this.

Time will tell. There's only a couple of weeks more to wait till Star Trek XI hits the theaters. Naturally, I'll go to watch the movie. I really hope that I'll be applauding at the end of the movie and wanting more instead of holding my head in my hands as another icon is destroyed.

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