Say what now? First Contact was bad? *shakes head* Generations was... ok. Insurrection and Nemesis were not so good, yeah.
Good point, I thought First Contact was pretty decent, once I stopped wincing that the faceless distributed network of consciousness actually had a face after all. (The Borg Queen was fun, even if it bent the concept of the Borg somewhat.)
I think this looks like a good brain-turn-off sort of film. I'd still prefer they were doing a new series or somesuch moving forward rather than more Kirk wankery, but oh well.
Thats' been my objection since the series Enterprise was announced and I'd still like it if they went forward. On the other hand, I think Trek has the same problem a lot of science fiction has right now, which is that no one can figure out what the future looks like anymore. There are good authors out there doing some very good work, but it seems to be a distance shy of emerging into pop culture enough for movies and TV series to be made using it.
To my utter horror, Jake 2.0 just popped into my head. Oh man, what I would have done with that concept.
To slide back towards my original point, even William Gibson is writing about the past now, I believe? And
Charles Stross is wringing his hands trying to delay the writing of his next novel as long as possible because it's set in the near future, and the last twelve months have been torturous for anyone trying to predict what America and the rest of the Western world will look like in twenty years.
As for the new Trek movie, my optimism surprises me. *
* I think I went in a circle in this post.
