Obligatory warp factor headline
Posted 8 April 09 by Scott AndrewsSo last night a bunk of geeks in the US turned up for a screening of Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan, only to be ambushed by Lee-O-nard Knee-Moy and treated to the surprise first public screening of the new Star Trek film. Lucky sods.
The internet has, predictably, ‘sploded.
The verdict is in, and it’s a solid four or five stars from pretty much everbody. I won’t link to all the reviews, but SFX’s seems to pretty much nail it.
Of course there are already people rending their garments and saying that “Star Trek died for me today”, but as the Doctor Who revival amply demonstrated, we don’t need those people. They’re irrelevant and will now go off and lurk in some dark corner of the internet, spewing bile. Good riddance.
Doctor Who was triumphantly reclaimed by the mainstream, which is where it belongs. Now it looks like Trek has pulled off the same trick. And by doing so, Trek’s place in the larger cultural canon, alongside Bond, Holmes and Who is assured.
As the second of the great telly creations to achieve immortality, it now looks destined for periodic reinventions that will keep it vibrant and relevant to the times, never dying out.
Isn’t that marvellous?
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