I finally got to see ‘Star Trek’ for the second time this past weekend, and I must admit, everybody is right, this is a really great movie. I can’t really say that I was able to fully enjoy and immerse myself in the movie on first viewing because I kept waiting for the shoe to drop and the movie to start sucking, as the taste of ‘Nemesis’ still lingers in the back of throat whenever I think of recent Trek endeavors.

I was a huge ‘Star Trek’ fan growing up. I loved TNG and DS9, and when Voyager premiered, I was so happy to be able to watch a ‘Star Trek’ show from its broadcast beginning, but then DS9 ended and Voyager started sucking and it came to the point where I just wasn’t enjoying the new ‘Star Trek’ stories anymore (mainly because they were poorly written, conceived, and imagined). It’s a sad moment when you realize that the franchise that you have loved since childhood is no longer the franchise that you fell in love with, but that’s what happened. The ‘Star Trek’ franchise, under the guidance of Rick Berman, developed into an elderly Alzheimer patient, one that tries to latch on, remember, and repeat the best memories of its prime, but just can’t get its mind straight enough to make happen.

But anyway, I couldn’t really enjoy the new ‘Star Trek’ movie on first viewing because I was so apprehensive that it was going to suck or not live up to my meager expectations that I kept waiting for any sign that it was going to fail, but it never did. On second viewing, with the first hand knowledge that the movie wouldn’t suck, I was finally able to relax and enjoy the movie for what it is, the return of ‘Star Trek’ (it does irk me though that technically ‘Enterprise’ is canon in the new Trek universe).

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