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A pretty lousy one actually.

So my wife and I went to see the new Star Trek movie last night, as a part of the whole Mother’s Day weekend extravaganza that you have when you’re trying to honor a woman who can manage to hold our kids in some semblence of order.  (Did I mention that she keeps me in line pretty well too? – Bygones)

So this was great for multiple reasons.

First, the last movie we saw in theaters was “The DaVinci Code” (Great movie but pedantic compared to the book) so an outing without the kids is kind of a rarity for us.

Second, we are both AVID Die-Hard Trekkies…  (She even went in her “Starfleet Acadamy Alumni” sweatshirt – which made her stand out here in Redneckville, Virginia as the *ONLY* one who dressed up for it)

I wanted to start a thread on the new movie and get opinions.  I think this movie did a wonderful job of pushing Trek into the 21st Century, as well as opening the door and hopefully encouraging a whole new series of TV and Theater productions.

In discussing the show, I would ask that you preface your comments with “SPOILER:” if you are going to give away anything pertinent to the plot, the plot was such a brain twister that I’m not really willing to give any of it away myself, but it’s hard to keep that a secret while discussing WHY this movie sort of changes things…

Oh – and one thing i can say without giving too much away.

The actor they got to play Kirk was good.  Got the whole attitude thing down to a T.

The actor they got to play Spock was better.  Looks, mannerisms, all right on mark.

But the guy who played Bones, in my opinion, stole the bloody movie.  He nailed it *SO* well that I really thought a few times I was looking at a much younger DeForest Kelly.

Anyway, like I said, a little diversion, because Dammit Jim this is a storage site not IMDB.com…