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mayugerobo_74

Last Bit Of Sluttery....

May 10, 2009 19:00

Ok well...it'll be the last bit of it for a while. After a nice phone call with the matriarchs of the clan, it just felt imperative to do some mean updates to the site. Once I walk away from the laptop, there tends to be a nagging feeling that so much could be done and right now, so with that I present the changes with...

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Comments 2

Damn Trekies yamztamz May 12 2009, 00:11:06 UTC

I cannot concur more fully if I tried. I am so not a star trek fan. My sister is the trekie of the family and I am the x-phile. Yet I had tears welling during that opening sequence. I may not be a fan but trust that I know these characters well. My dad loved the original series and my sister was all about the Picard years and my first boyfriend of 3-4 years was all about the Janeway years. Not only did they represent the characters beautifully but, they kept the story true to the feeling of trek. Everything had been done and the franchise was waning so someone came in with the balls to do something about it. If the fans can't appreciate that then they don't deserve the franchise to survive and proliferate in the coming years. This movie opened it up...not only to new possibilities but, to a new generation of prospective fans...who buy tickets and merchandise and pay the people to make it happen. It sadly takes money to create in Hollywood.

Re: Damn Trekies mayugerobo_74 May 12 2009, 00:36:58 UTC

Well, if the opening is any indicator, this film is opening doors that were never present in the past.(and this is a boy who grew up on Trek, and was even nicknamed Spock!) What is getting "lost" in the debate(I made a funny!), is that budgetary and cultural limitations led to the manner in which the early Trek unfolded. It took near 40 years to get to a point where the public at large was ready for many of the themes and ideas that were present in Rodenberry's opus, but one reason or another kept the whole thing locked in a forest of high idea, yet hopelessly hampered format which for the first time has been negated by the masses love for stimulating science fiction. Abrams' work on LOST is major proof of this - it's all come full circle. And while I do have minor quibbles with the new movie's internal logic, and ADD approach to the material, it is a bold step forward, and a brilliant way to recreate Trek as something more widely encompassing. The heart is still there, it is only better realized, and the mind is there, it's only the ( ... )