New Star Trek Movie
I have been a fan of Star Trek for a long time.
I drew the above picture when I was a kid back in the seventies.
At the time one of my favorite toys was the Enterprise Bridge play set. This was prior to Star Wars and the "action figure" craze that it started. The Star Trek playset used large sized figures which had decended from GI Joe dolls so they had actual clothes and hair. As you can see, the color scheme on it didn't look very much like the show and had heavy seventies overtones. Nevertheless it was a favorite toy.
Fast forward through a bunch of different serieses and movies to 2009. On mothers day Haleigh and I went to see the new movie. I had completely avoided spoilers only knowing the basic premise for the movie. I did see a couple of spoiler free reviews of the movie that said that it was really good. I was a bit worried that this would get my expectations up too much.
The movie didn't just meet my expectations but exceeded them. They did a wonderful job portraying all the characters and the effects weren't overdone. The plot was well written and interesting making everything seem completely plausible.
The quality of this prequel really brought into sharp focus how lame the Star Wars prequels were. Trek had cameos and characters we recognized without them being forced like they seemed to be in Star Wars.
I am looking forward to seeing where they go with these new Trek movies. Hopefully there will be a long series of new ones in this new setting.