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Will Star Trek XI Appeal To Old Fans?

If you're in your 40s, there's a good chance you'll have grown up watching original runs of the original Star Trek episodes. In fact, "The Devil in the Dark" episode was the very first program on TV I saw in color!

People seem to have the greatest allegience to the show they grew up with. It was Next Gen or DS9 for those born in the 70s and early 80s. Voayager appeals to those born a few years later. And Enterprise was favored by those born in the mid 80s and after.

Most people who watched the original run of The Original Series (TOS) have fond memories of it and feel its morality tales still have relevance in today's world. Those growing up on later series have a less favorable impresssion. It's interesting that because the original series was shot on film, Star Trek is being released on Blu-Ray in high definition whereas Next Gen was shot on video and so no high-def copies will ever become available.

Enterprise is the only other Trek series incarnation that's likely to appear in high definition on Blu-Ray. This series received a lot of criticism from Star Trek fans for palaying around with Trek history. Historically, Spock was the first Vulcan to serve in Starfleet, yet T'Pol served as First Officer 150 years earlier in Enterprise. As she was a member of the Vulcam High Command rather than Starfleet, that resolved the apparent dichotomy. Enterprise contained other rewrites of Trek history too. Actually, this didn't annoy me too much as Enterprise was much more in line with the spirit of The Original Series than the intervening efforts.

Star Trek: The Motion Picture, the first Trek movie, was released 30 years ago. The final movie, Star Trek: Nemesis, out in 2002, was a dismal effort and put paid to any future Next Gen movies being developed. So here we are, seven years later, awaiting a reboot of the series that started it all. Star Trek XI lands on May 8th, 2009.

I've watched the trailers and hmmm...I have a lot of reservations about this movie. But that's because I grew up with the old crew and I don't think it's a good idea to mess with Star Trek history (despite my being okay with what Enterprise did). The problem for me is that Star Trek XI plays around with the characters' own histories, takes liberties with their relationships and will fundamentally change the perception of of those characters for long-time fans.

I know that this has been designed for a new, younger audience, but (not having seen the movie), maybe it would have been a better idea to use a different crew and ship, even if still set in the pre-TOS years. I'm not enamoured with some of the casting choices either. Okay, I agree I'm something of an old fart on this.

Time will tell. There's only a couple of weeks more to wait till Star Trek XI hits the theaters. Naturally, I'll go to watch the movie. I really hope that I'll be applauding at the end of the movie and wanting more instead of holding my head in my hands dismayed at what may become Star Trek heresy.

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