see it on the big screen don't wait for DVD

Rating: 9/10 (4 July 2009)

I am 40 years old. Which means I have been watching Star Trek since before I can remember. My Mom says I used to watch it during the last days of it's original run on NBC. I have to take her word for it because I was less than a year old,( she also tells me I watched first moon landing but of course I don't remember that either), but I do remember the early days of syndication in the early 70's. In my area it was only on Sun. night at 11:30p.m. past my bedtime,(we didn't have cable T.V. available in our neighborhood yet), so I only saw it during school breaks, summer vacation and such. I would sometimes catch it when visiting my brother's house, he had cable T.V. and you could see Star Trek more than once a week. I was hooked! It was a thing of wonderment for a 6 year old. It was before Star Wars. It looked like nothing else on T.V., or at the movies. I had the action figures and the Enterprise play set with the spinning transporter. I watched the same episodes over and over. Then in 1979 here came Star Trek: The motion Picture. The first ST movie,( my mom took me to see it ), was slow and long but I loved it, because it was new "Trek". Wrath of Khan breathed new life into the franchise and you know the rest of the story. The "Next Generation" came along and I have to admit I didn't like it at first, but quickly grew to love the characters as much as the old crew. The next 3 series and 8 movies were just as fantastic. However they didn't make me feel like I was 6 years old again. This new movie did! This new incarnation is so fresh and original, without losing the feel of the original show, that I am at a loss of words to describe it. If you haven't seen it GO SEE IT!! See it on the big screen. Get yourself a big popcorn and a big soda (you won't want to miss anything while you go for refills) and enjoy! I won't get into the technical or casting aspects of the film or parts of the plot that are a bit of a stretch as others on here have said enough about that, but this film is the best time to be had in a movie theater in along time.