May 28 2009
Prequels and Sequels of Star Trek
New Star Trek is a prequel to all other Star Treks made before. It turns out that Kirk and Spock knew each other before before they unite aboard the USS Enterprise to fight another villain Romulan Nero that returned from future through a black hole. The whole story with time traveling probably confused general audience but many special effects and family friendly film plot won hearts of the movie goers. And Trekkies and Non Trekkies dearly paid for it with over 301 million bucks.
Only one guy from the old cast was brought in – Leonard Nimoy, who played Spock from the future. Schatner was probably busy, doing other projects, like advertising website in commercials. Other guys are young, energetic and agile as they are supposed to bring more millions to Hollywood in future prequels or sequels. This one is the eleventh film based on the Star Trek franchise and its success shows that there will be no end to it in the near future.
Personally, I have nothing against Star Trek, it is nice to have it. I just wonder what happened to all these books from the Gold Age of sci-fi that no director wants to shoot. It is practically untouched by cinematographers who always complain that good scripts are hard to come by. Read the books, ladies and gentlemen, it is all in there.