Now, after all the terrible reinventions of other sci-fi series and films in recent years, the best worse example being Keanu Reeves’s barf fest The Day The Earth Stood Still that showed how the Loony Left Coast will PC to death an excellent concept that done much better in CGI-less 1951.

So, heart in hand, I saw The new ‘Star Trek’ film last night and enjoyed it for the most part. I would give it a qualified A as a new slant on the Original Star Trek that will appeal to anyone not a Trekkie or Trekker. As for the majority of OTS Fans, I give it a B-.

As for hardcore Trek followers, a D+ for they will bemoan the loss of most of the series history as either treason or blasphemy. Yet in truth, these folks would only be happy with remaking the film with the original cast. And with the evolution of CGI, that may be very possible in the very near future à la mode the premise of Michael Crichton’s 1981 Looker and 2001’s Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.

In short, be happy with what you got, hardcore, it could have been a whole lot worse.

Gadzooks! Think James T. Kirk being played by Keanu or Seth Rogen!!!!

By using the ‘new’ timeline option (& not putting it all back at the end of the film!) this is truly not your father’s Star Trek.

There is a lot I could nitpick about the film such as Kirk being made Captain of the Enterprise before he even graduates Star Fleet Academy yet with Chekov being an already serving Ensign at 17, it just goes with the flow.

As to young Spock having trouble totally controlling his human emotions, that was touched on many times in the original series, even having Sock smile over some ringing, CD/DVD before there was CD/DVD, plants in the very first pilot “The Cage.”

As to his romance with Uhura, that I admit I did not see coming (Neither, I guess, will Nurse Chapel!) but I can see it in light of many hints from the original series episodes: “This Side of Paradise” (Spock & hot Leilani), “The Enterprise Incident” (Spock & hot Romulan Commander), “The Cloud Minders” (How did Droxine keep that dress on???) and of course, “All Our Yesterdays” (Spock and really hot Zarabeth!).

So, having seen it and enjoyed it, I shall look forward to seeing it on DVD with the special features and commentary. I will take my place in the arguments that will spring up over how justified it was for young Spock to fling Kirk off the Enterprise rather than putting him in the brig– Yet the fling, right or wrong in ethics or military decorum, was necessary to advance the plot.

As an old screenwriter way past his time, I’d have done it differently: Kirk is placed in the brig by Young Spock where he escapes to chase Nero with a stolen shuttle that has mechanical problems and crash lands on the ice planet where he meets Old Spock and the plot moves on!

And, I’ll give this free to JJ for the Director’s Cut DVD just for the credit!

So I close here, campers, awaiting your comments.

Live long and if you prosper, send cash! Lots of cash!