My Star Trek fandom
Yesterday, Samantha and I went with friends to see Quantum of Solace. We were fortunate enough to be in one of the theaters that showed the new Star Trek trailer. It will never be what the original series was, but I am still looking forward to it. The fact that Leonard Nimoy agreed to have anything to do with it does give me hope, despite some ( Read more... )
I like the original series a lot, but purely as a pulpy 60s sci-fi adventure show. It didn't really mean any more to me when I was a kid than any of the other shows I enjoyed at the time - The Six Million Dollar Man, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Starsky & Hutch, and so on.
I think it's grown in my affections over the years because the pulpy cheesiness of it has grown over the years. And of course, the Shat is fabulous. His Kirk, and the triangle between him and Spock and McCoy is really at the heart of what makes the show tick.
It's probably why none of the Next Gen shows have really done much for me. None of them have had actors or characters with anything like the same chemistry and charisma. The closest was probably Deep Space 9, but even that was burdened with the weirdly suffocating self-satisfied vibe that's plagued all of the Next Gen shows I've seen.
So I can't say I'm excited at the thought of more Trek, and I'm very dubious that anyone could step into the boots of Shatner, Nimoy and Kelley.
But I'm always prepared to be wrong! I haven't seen a trailer yet, but maybe I'll be sold? But even if the new guy is great, for me Captain Kirk will always be Wiliam Shatner.
Reply
See, and this just shows my age again, I was a wee one when Star Trek was first broadcast. It was cutting edge then in many ways. Roddenberry had a social message that he made sure was at the heart of the series. I do get the camp of the show, but back then none of us looked at it as camp.
Next Gen had that same message. The later shows lost that at their heart and were the worse for it. As much as I love DS9 as great drama, I'm not sure how close I'd say that it was to the original vision.
Reply
Leave a comment