Is The New Star Trek Movie Boldly Going Where It Shouldn’t?
If your’re a child of the 60s, chances are you’ll have grown up watching Star Trek when it originally aired. In fact, Trek was the first program on TV I ever saw in color!
The Star Trek series you like the most seems to be the one you grew up with. For those born in the 70s and 80s, it was Next Generation and/or Deep Space Nine. Voayager appeals to those born a few years later. And Enterprise was favored by those born in the mid 80s and after.
Most people who watched the original airing of The Original Series (TOS) have fond memories of it and feel its morality tales still have relevance in today’s world. Those growing up on Next Generation and later series see TOS as being kitsch, dated and suffering low production values. It’s interesting that because the original series was shot on film, Star Trek is being released on Blu-Ray in high definition whereas Next Gen was shot on video and so it will never appear on Blu-Ray.
Enterprise is the only other Trek series incarnation that’s likely to appear in high definition on Blu-Ray. This series was much maligned from Star Trek fans for palaying around with Trek history. Historically, Spock was the first Vulcan to serve in Starfleet, yet T’Pol served as First Officer 150 years earlier in Enterprise. since she wasn’t a Starfleet officer, that resolved the apparent dichotomy. Enterprise saw other rewrites of Trek history too. Actually, this didn’t bother me that much as Enterprise was much closer to the spirit of TOS than the intervening efforts.
Star Trek: The Motion Picture, the first Trek movie, was released 30 years ago. The final 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 looked at the trailers and hmmm…I’m ambivalent about the movie. But that’s because I grew 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 plays around with the histories of the characters, alters their relationships and will fundamentally change the perception of of those characters for long-time fans.
I can see that this is being tailored for a new, younger audience, but (not having seen the movie), maybe it would have been better to use a different crew and ship, but set in the years leading up to the original 5-year mission. I’m not enamoured with some of the casting choices either. Okay, I agree I’m something of a curmudgeonly old fart on this.
Time will tell. Star Trek XI will be here in a acouple of weeks. Of course 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 dismayed at the sacrilege of a beloved icon.
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