I came a tad late to the Star Trek thing. I missed pretty much the whole first season, and this was the sixties, and my young adulthood, after all, so I wasn’t sitting watching lots of television. First there were drugs. Then Zen…
But I liked what I saw. According to Wikipedia, Gene Roddenberry pitched it as “wagon train to the stars” while telling his close associates it really would be Gulliver’s Travels with two levels of storyline. While that meta story was occasionally, okay regularly, heavy handed, it also conveyed a sense of dignity and worth that was a precious message at the time. And, truthfully, for anytime.
I very much liked the subsequent series and dipped into those that followed. Never developed a taste for the movies.
But, for whatever reason, Sunday, Jan and I decided to slip away and see the new retro version.
Liked it a lot.
A great show. Lacks the Roddenberry message, but you know, that’s okay.
Today a colleague pointed to a meta message in the new movie I have to admit I missed. Pretty cool. (And at no extra charge there appears to be good advice on knitting at the site…)
And now the UU blogger extraordinaire, Chalice Chick pointed her readers to this…
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Trekkies Bash New Star Trek Film As ‘Fun, Watchable’
Even suffering, as I am right now, with the piglet flu (not so bad as the big pig variety…), I’m finding life is good.
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