NOT YOUR FATHER'S STAR TREK

Frank Collins offers us a great review of the Star Trek movie directed by J.J. Abrams, on his Cathode Ray Tube blog(http://cathoderaytube.blogspot.com/2009/05/star-trek-imax-manchester.html). A blog I absolutely adore and I would have a lot of difficulties to deny it as... Well, you'll see (thanks again for that, Frank).

Personally, I've been a little puzzled - to say the least - by some declarations of Abrams (http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/a155165/jj-abrams-trek-felt-camp-and-silly.html or http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/a147927/abrams-new-star-trek-not-for-trekkies.html) or by the "This is not your father's Star Trek". But as the man is responsible of what I consider one of the best action thrillers ever, Mission Impossible III (the most faithful to the 1966 television series), my vote will be of confidence - I've not seen the new Trek yet.

The choice to introduce the franchise to a new and younger audience with the highest respect to the original movies seems to pay at the box office, according to the analysis of Nikki Finke in Deadline Hollywood Daily (http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/weekend-prediction-star-trek-65m/) - read Nikki for the updates. Now we can imagine that rival studios will greenlight similar projects: a reboot of Lost In Space with a RSC actor as Doctor Smith, a Forbidden Planet remake with the cast of Chuck (tagline: "It's not your grandfather's Forbidden Planet"), Andromeda - The Movie, or 007 could go to space... er, no, already done. Someday a lemming will fly.

As I'm a father and as I appreciate Star Trek, please allow me to mention my 2005 interview of Mr Nicholas Meyer, author of the two best movies of the Trek franchise (http://tattard2.blogspot.com/2008/05/nicholas-meyer.html). But the only reboot my daughter can consider at the moment is the new Noddy series.