Star Trek 90210

I've just seen the trailer for the new Star Trek movie, scheduled to be released in May 2009. I'm optimistic, but wary.

First of all, I'm reminded of Tiny Toons, the cartoon show featuring toddler versions of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, and so on. The movie will have twenty-something versions of Kirk, Bones, Spock, Sulu, Uhura, Chekov, and Scotty (actually, as all fans know, Vulcans age much slower than humans, so Spock may be older than that) running the ship and generally having a young-adult good time. (I wonder where young Nurse Chapel is?)

It occurs to me that Sulu and Chekov were pretty young in the original series. If this movie is a prequel, how far back is it? Do we have to see them deal with their voice changing while piloting a spaceship? Maybe Bones will actually deliver one of them in the first five minutes.

The trailer indicates that Kirk and Uhura have a love scene (no word on if Kirk's shirt gets ripped or torn off beforehand) and even shows Spock throwing a weird Vulcan punch at Kirk, which we've wanted to see for a long time. I wonder if at this young age Scotty has already acquired his taste for scotch, or if he thinks that Budweiser is the bomb.

(Somewhat off topic, I wonder what the future of beer is. I shudder to think that it might go the way that restaurants did in "Demolition Man" in which only Taco Bell survives. The acquisition of Anheuser-Busch by InBev may be a portent of things to come. Not that I drink any AB product; I only drink Guinness.)

I'm a fan, so of course I'm going to see it. I just hoping that in their quest to boldly appeal to the demographic that no Star Trek has appealed to before, they manage to remain more Star Trek and less Teen Trek.

And I'm hoping that they manage to squeeze in one of Bones' "Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor, not a ____" rejoinders.