You know, I like a lot of geeky things. Really geeky things. I'm not going to list them, because that would just be too pathetic.
However. It was a point of pride with me that of all the geeky things I'm into, at least Star Trek wasn't one of them.
It always seemed too campy for me, and usually all my geeky things have at least some hint of romance there -- and if you're thinking of Riker and Troi, well I'll have to say that Next Generation just wasn't really on my radar.
However, several other members of my family are into Star Trek, and pretty much made it clear that if I didn't see it, I might get post-emptively aborted.
(I kid. Ish.)
By the way, those people are never allowed to make fun of me for being in the Harry Potter fan club in high school ever again. (I was head of Slytherin House. Don't get me started.)
Long story long, I didn't understand a whole lot of it, but who cares? It was fun.
But something occurred to me while on a run this morning, and I think this is pretty genius:
I was thinking about what a spectacular failure the newer Star Wars were, and how part of what made them so stiff (beside some pretty mechanical writing) was that each of the movies had to push the narrative to a specific point. Since they were all prequels, they had to get to the part where the older movies started -- get Luke on Tattoine, get Leia on Alderaan, get Anakin deadish, get Padme really dead, etc.
Which, as a prequel, this new Star Trek would normally have to do as well.
However! JJ Abrahms, who I've never really been into, found a pretty fantastic loophole:
*Spoiler Alert*
At some point, Hot Spock talks about the fact that because the Nero and the Romulans have gone back in time and altered what happened, everyone is now in an alternate reality. Right?
So THAT means, that the rest of the new Star Trek's don't have to eventually lead to the older ones, ie, like the newer Star Wars all had to lead to the older ones, as prequels usually do.
WHICH MEANS!
This is anyone's ball game.
Also, Spock and Uhura don't necessarily have to break up.
Yes. This is what I think about when I run.
2 comments:
Ok, I have mixed feelings about the new Star Trek. The original series, was definitely 60s campy, but it was fun. The movies with that crew were even more enjoyable, at least the even numbered ones.
The Next Generation crew I liked more than the original. I probably liked Spock and Data quite a bit because they were odd people, and I identified with that. Definitely preferred Picard to Kirk. DS9 was station-bound and boring, and I saw only early Voyager stuff because I stopped watching TV series altogether about then, and haven't gone back to catch up yet. Never saw the short-lived Enterprise. Some of the books were pretty awesome, with my favorite being My Enemy, My Ally. Some of them, well, they stuck to the camp too much. I've probably read a larger percentage of the Star Wars books, and definitely more of Harry Potter.
If they were going to reboot the original crew, the way they did it with the loophole was pretty cool. Having said that, it was at the same time pretty frustrating. It was enjoyable seeing the familiar characters to some extent, and in some ways the new incarnations were better, but I really, really would have preferred a new set of characters. Set it back then, use the loophole, all good, but there is too much of what I really didn't like in it, and although I do like the new Spock a lot, I would have preferred some totally new people to get to know. It almost feels like three steps back instead of moving forward.
Yeah, as a fellow nerdy person, I was also always proud that not only didn't I like Star Trek, I had never ever even seen it.
This is because it's so incredibly stupid.
Sorry Hankses.
But this movie was awesome, much better than the new Star Wars-though I liked the last new one.
I think it helped that Abrahams is also not a Star Trek fan, so he was like "let's make this shit awesome."
And he did.
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