Twists of Fate

OK. For those who don’t actually know me all that well, I am a Star Trek fan. I adore Trek.

I wanted to have Picard’s highly intellectual and terribly sexy babies for a while there when The Next Generation was in the full throes of it’s run, or at the very least find out if Data really was fully functional.

I got lost, for a while, and had to abandon Deep Space 9, but I came back to it later when I could rent the entire series from Netflix and was utterly enraptured for weeks. Best plotty series of the bunch by far, with the subplots and story arcs and uberthemes…seriously smashing tv.

I won a trip, once upon a time, to visit the set of Voyager, and got to sit in Janeway’s chair and ponder why such an amazing universe couldn’t write a female captain to save their lives. I have a tattoo that’s Trek related, and I did my part to support the Paramount juggernaut that was the Trek “enterprise”.

By the time Enterprise rolled around, even this die hard fan was “meh” about it all. And believe you me, my pre-teeny crush on Dr. Sam Beckett burned with a white hot intensity that I thought I’d never get over when they canceled Quantum Leap. If that couldn’t break through the ennui about Trek at that point, could anything?

Enter JJ Abrams. I adored Alias. For the first two seasons. After that, I think Lost started up and the show began drifting and there was this sense of…no one minding the helm? It was a show without direction, done in by it’s own cleverness (did no one learn from The X-Files?), and honestly, every ep I saw of Lost managed to cement that impression.

So you can, perhaps, understand why I am concerned that they turned the cash cow over to JJ to milk for a while. I have no doubt that the effects will be amazing. The action scorching and breathtaking. But JJ tends to, well, over-complicate his story lines. All his shows have had a trademark of seriously twisty plot turns and “never saw that coming” moments. He can’t do that in a two hour movie, so what can he really do?

Don’t talk to me about Mission Impossible 3, please.

So. Kirk. Spock. Going back to where it all began and doing it over again? I know we get a lot of those “reset” button eps throughout the various series, but…it’s Kirk. And Spock. And JJ Abrams.

*skeptical Vulcan eyebrow* I find this highly illogical.

What about you? Will your bum be warming a chair in the theater come May?