Wait. I misunderstood. This whole “Star Trek” thing has aliens. I missed that part. I mean, the old series had those furry humans, but I didn’t know Klingons were aliens. This is not okay. Oh, sure, the new trailer might be totally awesome with explosions, but how does it start? With the wanton destruction of [...]
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Can Star Trek Be Cool Again?
This week’s Entertainment Weekly has some 75% human, 25% alien eye candy on the cover. I’m pretty impressed with how much Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto look like Shatner and Nimoy. But can they act? That will be the question. An even larger question is this: Can J.J. Abrams bring back Teh Cool?
Star Trek now [...]
Star Trek needs to spend a summer back at Camp Sci-Fi
Today at the office someone asked me if I was looking forward to seeing the new Star Trek movie. My answer was immediate and definite: No. Why? Because Star Trek stopped being fun a long time ago, when it got all serious and stopped being about searching the universe looking for more places to have [...]