Is it cool? Really?

[eumelia]

A site I frequent linked this from Ain't It Cool.

I'm not sure how I feel about this.
I'm one of those strange people whose a, well hard-ish core Trek Fan. I'm a Trekker, not a Trekkie thank you very much.
This isn't something I advertise at the Cons, for a number of a reasons, but I have done the movie marathons, series marathons, helped write a Trek RPG, all that stuff.

I'm also in the sub-group of TOS(1) fans, yes, I prefer TOS to TNG(2), DS9(3), VOY(4) and certainly prefer it to the canon-shafting abomination of ENT(5).

So this... thing... that J.J. Abrams is planning.
I'm not sure.
One the one hand it looks absolutely cool, since to me TOS was the best and say what you want about it being old, camp, dated, etc. It was cutting edge at the time and the spirit of the show is still relevant.
Plus, ya know, Spock(6).

So I'll wait and I'll see.

If it's good, well, it will be another renaissance of Trek fandom, which could maybe cancel out the crappiness of ENT.
If it's crap, well...
Nothing new there.

Notes:
(1)Star Trek: The Original Series
(2)Star Trek: The Next Generation
(3)Star Trek: Deep Space 9
(4)Star Trek: Voyager
(5)Star Trek: Enterprise
(6)Well, duh, my first fictional character crush at the tender age of 7, no one can beat that! except Alan Rickman.


In addition, the genocide in Darfur must be stopped.

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