Terry and I saw the new Star Trek movie yesterday. This is the one where the characters in the original series are seen in their Starfleet Academy days.
Early rumors suggested that the new movie would take a lot of liberties with the Star Trek story. This was not the case. The young actors did a great job of capturing the essence of the crew (Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Uhura, Scott, Sulu, and Chekov) as they might have been in their Starfleet Academy days. And they did so without imitation or parody. The script was well-written and had a lot of subtle (and some not-so-subtle) references to the original series that only an old-time Trekker would catch.
The script did play havoc with the space-time continuum, but that's not unusual for Star Trek.
One nice tribute: the computer voice, as throughout all the series and movies was done by Majel Barrett, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry's sometime wife. Barrett died just a couple of weeks after finishing her work on the movie.
Overall, an nice way to spend a Sunday afternoon.
