Jacey Bedford's Journal

Was desperate to see Trek before I accidentally tripped over any spoilers. Glad that I now have. Even though there are plot holes you can drive a bus through, it was hugely enjoyable. Definitely Spock's movie. Loved Urban as Bones. Probably need to see it again to appreciate all the tiny homages to the original, but Chris Pine's perfect take-off of Shatner/Kirk's mannerism when entering the bridge (near the end of the movie) was fleeting but priceless.

The Wolverine movie was also much better than anticipated. Another one well worth the trip to the cinema. I usually hate prequels but this ione worked for me.

RIP Mrs Troi
18th December 2008
www.accesshollywood.com/star-trek-creators-widow-passes-away_article_12706

I finally managed to catch the first ever episode of Star Trek Voyager on Virgin re-runs. Okay, okay, so it wasn't necessarily worth the wait in terms of science fictional goody-goodness. I mean, since then there's been Farscape, Battlestar Galactica, New Who and Firefly... dammit there's even been Buffy the Vampire Slayer though that's not in quite the same genre, but on a cool August Monday evening Voyager 1.1 was certainly better than a smack in the nose with a wet kipper.

Then immediately following it was an episode from somewhere in the middle of season two of Enterprise. Oh dear. More ploddy ploddingness. What ever made the Roddenberry empire think that prequels were a good idea? Oh wait a minute... Having had Enterprise die after struggling on for four seasons they're doing a movie prequel to The Original Series. Oh yeah, right. This is going to ge good...

Are there any more Trek fans out there holding their collective breaths?

They had a great opportunity after 'Insurrection' to explore the darker side of the Federation, but... possibly a road Uncle Gene would have disapproved of.