[Thermodyne]

Well it sounds like a good flick to me. I kind of like those dark looking space movies. Around here a ticket will be 9 bucks, but as a long time fan, I think it will be worth it. I was a kid when the original series aired, and never saw the first episode until it was well into the cheap rerun time slots. Then when ST1 came out, the state of the art had improved so much, that I was awed. Let’s face it, Star Trek never had a really good story line and the production was 1960’s TV cheesy. The first series was a collection of reworks that more often that not were pretty sorry. And while STNG had some really good episodes, they also had a lot of boring episodes. But that is the budget process at work. The Last couple of seasons, STNG did manage to develop a continuing story line. The next two series are not worth mention, one is ridiculous and the other is a trek Version of some classic literature. The new series has had some good shows and some that really suck. If they are going to do an origins series, I think we need to see the wars that we always heard about in the first series. But they seem to have skipped them. Star Trek has always tried to show the Federation as peaceful explorers, but at the same time the story line was always one about the wars that were fought in the past. And often revolved around neutral zones and such. I for one have grown tired of seeing the Enterprise have to get a whooping before it fights back. How many times have we seen them tricked by a weaker foe, and then forced to fight from a disadvantaged position. The only Enterprise that I ever saw kick butt from the get go was the one with the three nacelles, a G10 I think it was. In conclusion, Star Trek has been a good series of shows and movies. But there has been at least as much bad trek as there was good trek. Any Trek movie that is enjoyable to watch is fine by me, but I have had enough of the warm fuzzy ones. They need to keep the action and adventure level high. And forget about trying to make feel good movies.