{"id":600,"date":"2008-11-18T17:24:38","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T23:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zephyrusanemoi.com\/blog\/?p=600"},"modified":"2020-02-06T20:22:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T02:22:10","slug":"what-will-you-be-doing-on-may-8th-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zepfhyr.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/what-will-you-be-doing-on-may-8th-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Excellent Frontier"},"content":{"rendered":"

What will you<\/em> be doing on May 8th, 2008?<\/span><\/p>\n

I know I’m going to be at the movie theater watching Star Trek<\/a>. I’ve been mildly excited for this movie since I first heard word of it. But I’ve been skeptical, too. Star Trek has always been such a hit and miss thing. The original series was something I watched quite often as a kid. I loved Star Wars<\/a> more than anything. I wanted to be a Jedi, and fly the Millennium Falcon, and blow up the Death Star, and have a lightsaber duel, and, and, and\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

But Star Trek was a different sort of beast for me. I didn’t get super-excited and bounce around the room like I did with Star Wars. I didn’t pretend to be Captain James T. Kirk or Mister Spock on an away mission to the surface of an unknown world. It just wasn’t my thing. But I enjoyed watching the show. I wouldn’t go so far as to say I loved it, but I certainly liked it.<\/p>\n

And then something changed. Star Trek became something for nerds (a moniker I was given in junior high)\u00c2\u00a0and losers, as I aged. Star Wars received the same punishment but to a lesser degree. Many of the “cool kids” liked Star Wars also, just not to the extent that I did. But none of them liked Star Trek. And none of them would tolerate a “Trekkie” in their midst.<\/p>\n

It was well enough then, that I stopped caring about the show before I entered junior high just because there were other things for me to focus on. And as a result, I gave Star Trek my own dash of vile and bile.\u00c2\u00a0Never mind\u00c2\u00a0the fact that my favorite “Choose-Your-Own-Adventure” book was a hand-me-down Star Trek-themed novella. Ignore the fact that I really enjoyed Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/a>. Everyone hated Star Trek. I had to hate it as well.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t until high school that I really started to like Star Trek again. A friend of mine named Larry started the process. In the beginning it was just him and I giving each other grief over which was better: Star Wars or Star Trek. Obviously, I had the Force on my side. His crummy show didn’t stand a chance. But it made me realize that there were other people that liked Star Trek, too. Popular people. Even semi-cool people. It was okay to like Star Trek again.<\/p>\n

And like that, the flood gates opened. I started watching Star Trek: TNG reruns in secret. I gave a few episodes of Deep Space Nine<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0my undivided attention (it didn’t stick). I even watched most of the first season of Voyager<\/a>. But for some reason, I could never get back behind the original series. It was just too hokey and easy to humiliate. My interest waned. I watched the movies on VHS and the later ones on DVD. But when Enterprise<\/a> came out, I didn’t even give it a shot. For whatever reason, Star Trek was over for me.<\/p>\n

Then I saw this<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The first trailer was nothing to sneeze at. Just a small teaser with a brief glimpse of the Enterprise being constructed. Big deal. But the new trailer. Oh, baby, the new<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0trailer.<\/p>\n

If even one Star Trek project after this is as awesome as this one looks to be, Star Trek could finally be what the Star Wars prequels failed to be: a saga from my adulthood that I want to imagine myself into.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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