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kathleen_dailey) wrote2016-09-14 10:41 am
kathleen_dailey) wrote2016-09-14 10:41 am
Are we celebrating?
Admittedly, I don't hang out online as much as I once did in the earlyish-adopter days of GEnie and CompuServe and whatnot, but in the few places I do still frequent I haven't seen very much discussion of the fiftieth anniversary of TOS.
I've found something to like in all of the TV incarnations of Star Trek (with the exception of Voyager, which set my teeth on edge in every possible respect right from the first ep and essentially spoiled all my fun with respect to Trek). The other day, for example, I rewatched "In the Pale Moonlight" (DS9) for the first time in many years, and I was reminded again how very good the writing was on that series.
Not much appeals to me about the film reboot, though I don't hate that universe. I just haven't connected much with the characters--except, oddly, with Chris Pine's version of Kirk, who is appealing.
Evidently we'll soon have a broadcast or streamed version, so the universe lives on and, mostly, prospers. I just wish I could feel strongly about it again.
ETA: I was as much in love with the precepts of the Trek universe as I was with the personalities of the Trek characters. The imaginary zeitgeist hit all the marks for me. The spirit embodied in Trek was the spirit embodied in Suzette Haden Elgin's filksongs: hope, altruism, integrity, curiosity, the ability to learn from mistakes. If only it were all true.
I've found something to like in all of the TV incarnations of Star Trek (with the exception of Voyager, which set my teeth on edge in every possible respect right from the first ep and essentially spoiled all my fun with respect to Trek). The other day, for example, I rewatched "In the Pale Moonlight" (DS9) for the first time in many years, and I was reminded again how very good the writing was on that series.
Not much appeals to me about the film reboot, though I don't hate that universe. I just haven't connected much with the characters--except, oddly, with Chris Pine's version of Kirk, who is appealing.
Evidently we'll soon have a broadcast or streamed version, so the universe lives on and, mostly, prospers. I just wish I could feel strongly about it again.
ETA: I was as much in love with the precepts of the Trek universe as I was with the personalities of the Trek characters. The imaginary zeitgeist hit all the marks for me. The spirit embodied in Trek was the spirit embodied in Suzette Haden Elgin's filksongs: hope, altruism, integrity, curiosity, the ability to learn from mistakes. If only it were all true.