Just came back from attending “Star Trek” with the DH and The Boy. Short and sweet: The audience applauded; some jumping up and cheering took place. Am I or any of mine ‘trekkies’? No. Did the DH and I grow up watching the original Gene Roddenberry shows – you betcha. We’ve also seen all the Trek films as well. To me, this is the film that has done the best job of concentrating down the essence of the original series. The script writers did a solid job of extracting the essence of what made that series work in terms of action, adventure, the characters and their interactions — the director did a great job putting the troop together as well. Simon Pegg is more Scotty than the original Scotty (funnier too – he has what I consider the best line of the entire film, “In the future, do they still have sandwiches?”); I’m hoping that they do more with him in the next film (though that would not be really true to the original series, where Scotty was really sort of a secondary character). Chekov’s character emerges as another really useful character that they will be able to let loose and show his stuff in another movie(he is portrayed here as a brilliant 17 year old Russian cadet – definitely more than Walter Koenig’s “Kiptin”-yammering guy from the series). Even for someone who’d been locked up in a closet for the last 40 years, who did not know anything about Star Trek or any of its progency, this would be a riviting, edge of the seat, engaging film.

Nice to hear. Mr. Votus loves Trek, so we may catch a matinee tomorrow. Today we went to 2 plant sales, and I shopped thriftily and got some neat plants, a tulip-shaped container and a wonderful seashell that I could not pass up.

Thanks for that preview, Toby; I think I’m going to ask for a matinee to see this with the family tomorrow as my Mother’s Day present.

What’s your present, Christ, or is the Peanut going to surprise you? Hope it’s a fun one!

(BTW, I got one of my presents early: the teenager cooked dinner tonight, made taco salad! w00t! and she did the dishes!! double-w00t!!)

LA LA LA LA-LA “I can’t hear you”
*plugs ears with fingers*

Will come back and read the review after I’ve seen it.