First of all, congratulations to Leo Laporte of the TWIT podcasts for winning Podcast of the Year! It’s been my favorite podcast for a few years now and no one deserves it more!
The latest rumors of the new Star Trek film suggests that Romulans visit the City on the edge of Forever and use the Guardian portal to go back in time and kill James Kirk to bring down the Federation. This plot has been used in both Star Trek Episodes and in Star Trek: First Contact, and this time uses that plot to bring about changes in the timeline in an attempt to reboot the franchise. Sources say that even the design of the Enterprise is being changed, which worries me. Sure, start with new actors, but change the Enterprise? That means my vast DVD collection of every Trek Episode and Film will be alternate timelines? My models of the Enterprise and other Starships will disappear? Older Spock visits younger Spock to warn him about what is happening, even before he meets Kirk?
Don’t get me wrong, As a serious Trekker, I hope this film does great because the future of the franchise depends on it. If it flops, there will most likely be no more trek projects for years to come, if any. I hope JJ Abrams succeeds in this reboot because I need NEW TREK. Every once in a while, in the middle of the night, I pop in a Trek Episode, sometimes DS9, Voyager, TNG, TOS, even the animated series and Enterprise! I’m at the point where I’ve seen them all too many times. I even have the Star Trek New Voyages DVDs, which are quite entertaining! I’m hoping Of Gods And Men will come out this year. There are just not that many quality SciFi series out there now that Stargate SG1 has ended its 10 year run. I love Galactica, and Stargate Atlantis, but I’ve been a Trekker since the 60s. We owe a lot to Star Trek and many geeks don’t even know it. Spock would grab discs out of the main computer and use them all over the ship on the show, and now we can do the same, thanks to fans who made that happen in developing the modern data processing technology we use today. Every one carries a communicator/cell phone, there’s even a modern tricorder. Spock had a PC in his quarters, and because of that, so do I!
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