Sam (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} samgrrrl) wrote,@ 2009-05-13 14:25:00 |
|
Inevitable Trek Post
I'd do a review and stuff except that James Lileks has said it all better than I ever could. Except that I thought Simon Pegg was awesomesauce, but I likes me some Simon Pegg, so...
I'd do a review and stuff except that James Lileks has said it all better than I ever could. Except that I thought Simon Pegg was awesomesauce, but I likes me some Simon Pegg, so...
5. The fine Starfleet tradition of staffing their biggest, most modern ships with people who just graduated from school yesterday - or this morning, or not at all - appears to have started early on.
6. The script writers had the phrase “Kirk is choked” on a macro key.
...
Then the voice over; then the theme, and it’s like they emptied an entire can of Reddi-Whip on the entire cake. You’re ten again, and you can’t possibly be happier.
Except I’m not ten; I’m a middle-aged man, for heaven’s sake. But when I was a child I saw the first episode of Star Trek ever broadcast, at my Grandfather’s farm house, in living color, and I’ve loved it ever since. It would be pathetic to say this meant something to me, but I’m sorry: It would be a lie to say it didn’t.
