Five words, really: the new Star Trek movie. It opens in theaters May 8, and Trekkie or not, the prequel is getting some serious momentum. I predict it’s going to the be biggest movie of the summer (besides maybe Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince).
Of course, I’M a Trekkie from way back. Watching the reruns of the original show as a kid, I got so into it. There was one episode (“The Man Trap”) in which McCoy finds an old flame living on this planet as a scientist or something. Except she really isn’t a human at all but a monster who can shape shift and suck the salt out of you until you die (they didn’t call it shape shifting back then, but that’s what we are talking about). I had nightmares for WEEKS, seeing that monster’s face in the corner of my room! Now, of course, it’s cool. You can actually watch the whole episode on CBS’s archive site.
Anyway, for me, making a movie about how Kirk, McCoy, Spock, Uhura, Sulu, Scottie and Chekov all meet and become the icons they are destined to be is just too good an idea to pass up, especially if it’s being directed by Lost, Alias and Fringe creator J.J. Abrams. No doubt he’ll be delivering some beam-me-up, set-phaser-on-kill action. I can’t WAIT.
And if you are someone with a sense of humor about your Trekkie geekdom-ness, then you’ll also appreciate this spoof from Will Ferrell and the folks at FunnyOrDie.com. Enjoy!