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Kirk and Spock over the Enterprise

First off, if you haven’t yet, go see the trailer. This one is worth the HD download. It’s pretty.

Okay, back already? Good.

Looks pretty good, don’t it?

I’m not going to obsess over the details here. I’ll do that at other blogs. Just wanted to put my quick two cents in: I can already tell from the trailer… I’m gonna like this movie.

Apparently, I’m an easy sell, though. I also like Star Trek: Insurrection and Star Trek: Nemesis.

There will be fan-boys freaking out about this one. I think that’s inevitable. (”They’re building the ship on the planet?! Oh No! This movie will suck!”) But there’s no pleasing those people. I really do enjoy Star Trek, but if an inconsistency or two show up… oh well. It’s a movie/franchise. Continuity wasn’t even invented until Star Trek went off the air originally. I think it’ll be great.

Despite having said that, there is one thing that I’m going to bring up as a potential continuity issue, but only because Abrams brought it up himself (or someone did in the interview I read somewhere): the Federation knows of, but has never met a Romulan face-to-face before the time period of the original series. I’m not sure how Abrams is going to deal with this then…

Romulan looking down at Kirk during fight

Sure looks to me like Kirk and a Romulan in a fight.

Guess what. If they don’t explain it, I’ll be okay. A little disappointed, since they brought it up, but it won’t prevent me from liking the movie.

(Hmm… I haven’t even finished the 2008 movie list, yet, and it looks like I’ll need to start making my 2009 list.)

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Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Last Outpost - TV Squad

Wil Wheaton has taken to doing reviews of old Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes. He’s only done a few so far, all from the first season, but they are very funny. A ton of pop-culture references make it even more fun to read.

While speaking as someone who played arguably the most hated hero character in sci-fi until Jar-Jar, he manages to skewer some of the stupid writing that plagued the show, particularly in its premier season.

Data says Ferengi are like traders, and explains this with the most obvious contemporary reference: Yankee traders from 18th century America. This indicates that, in the 24th century, the traditional practice of using 400 year-old comparisons is still in vogue, like when you’re stuck in traffic on the freeway, and you say, “Man, this is just like Vasco de Gama trying to go around the Cape of Good Hope!”

The writing style is engaging, and I find myself agreeing completely with his take on the episodes. I hope he continues to post his thoughts.

Technorati Tags: Wil Wheaton, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Jar-Jar, Ferengi

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FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH | Bryce Zabel: Spaced Out: Hawking Colonies & Re-Booting Star Trek

Bryce Zabel (Dark Skies, Lois & Clark) and J. Michael Straczynski (Babylon 5, Crusade, Jeremiah) were sitting around in 2004 talking about the poor turnout in the Star Trek franchise and came up with an idea to reinvigorate it. And they wrote it down. And now, with J.J. Abrams named as the head of the next proposed Star Trek offering, their ideas will never be filmed—so they’ve released their treatment proposal to the public.

They wanted to “re-imagine” the Original Star Trek—the same Kirk, Spock, and McCoy, but with more up-to-date situations, motivations, and relationships, and a cohesive story arc. It’s the same kind of idea that has been accomplished so well with Battlestar Galactica.

I was one of the ones who hated the idea of re-imagining Battlestar Galactica, and I now think it’s one of the best shows on TV, so I’m not going to dismiss a “re-imagining” idea out of hand. That’s not to say that it would be easy to see this kind of thing happen, but I’d at least give it a chance (if it were to get one).

(I did find it funny that in their listing of Universe A, they left out Star Trek: Insurrection. Am I the only person who thought that was a worthwhile movie? Certainly not the best, but I’d put it above Generations, for sure.)

Interesting stuff, anyway. I’m glad they released it.

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