Star Trek

There were many things on my mind all day to blog about. I thought about having a deep blog but my head is way too spaced out at the moment and I thought about blogging about work but that would just further the battle I am having that work is taking over my life and not giving me enough time to write but instead I will blog about Star Trek. Tonight I went over to my in laws for dinner. After dinner however is when the magic happened and my awesome father in law knowing that my wife had disappeared and I was feeling awkward as I usually am when alone with him because we have nothing to talk about put on star trek. I love star trek but had no idea that he too shared this passion. It was the new movie, and before anyone goes off on how horrible it was all I have to say is suck it. I thought it was great. It was really the only way to reboot the series without angering people about time lines and what not. J.J. Abrams fixed that by chucking the time line out the window. Eventually my wife and mother in law joined us and we shared little tid bits of information that we had learned through the years and relished in the wonderful music. I smiled and laughed at all of my favorite parts and we planned to see the next movie when it comes out at least six times. I saw this one six times I am hoping to match it or go better depending on how much I like it more than the first. Star Trek ranks third on my favorite movies of all time. The first being Stardust and the second being Mary Poppins. Yes I know these are rather odd movies and very different but that is how my tastes run. I love the new star trek movie passionately. When the bad robot first pops across the screen and the first note chimes I stop breathing and ignore everything else around me until Kirk steals the car and then the world once again exists. There are just certain parts of that movie that always suck me right in and I am there in that world of adventure and exploration and I never want to leave. Sure I loved the television series. I loved the original, TNG and Deep Space Nine. After that it doesn't exist to me. The genre grew tired and over done until JJ came along. Now it is reborn with fresh eyes. I am sure there are tons of fans out there that are angry and let them be. They want to cling to the dying creature that refused to grow up. I don't want to any longer. Star Trek Enterprise the series was just plain ridiculous. JJ managed to reboot the series by going backwards but that is hard to do. You can't always look backwards to see the future. JJ got lucky the creators of Enterprise didn't. I am saying it again and will always say it they should do a series about Star Fleet Academy. It will draw in the sci fi crowd and if you put sex and hot guys it will draw in the greys anatomy crowd and if the story is done right ( Yes I am totally volunteering to do the story the correct way ) then it will be a masterpiece. I guess we shall see what the future holds for star trek. Live Long and Prosper.