StarTrek

So there I am and we are standing in this circle just talking and picture this I am easily the only one there who has ever watched more than one episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation if you know what I mean but we start talking about movies and specifically the new Star Trek movie which is in theatres and making money like crazy. There are six or seven of us and apparently we are in bizarro world or maybe the elevator stopped on the 7 1/2 floor and everything is backwards and surreal because I am the only one who hasn't seen this movie in our little impromptu group. These are all people who have no business in a theatre showing anything Star Trek related I mean they are mostly young women with presumable lives somewhere else so what are they doing I don't get it. The obvious answer is "Spock" but come on that is not satisfying tell me it is because of the prime directive or because of Simon Pegg or something I need this to make sense. And the guy he is an elecrtician or something plus a major hotty with a girlfriend and big arms what is he doing there I am such a failure I can't even nerd it up properly. Just commit to something. Do one thing and do it really well, right?

This isn't a "star trek fan angry at mainstream success of beloved franchise" so much as it is "star trek fan angry at self for failure at being star fan," just to ef your why. Who do these people think they are showing me up, forcing me to stew in silence, what do you mean you don't want to talk about First Contact ugh do not tease a guy like that.

I was thinking how weird it was to have them recast the original crew but wouldn't it be ten times weirder to recast the TNG cast? In twenty or thirty years? The Next Next Generation? Maybe its because even Patrick Stewart isn't all that decrepit yet, i.e still able to probably pull off a decent Picard and not have any one call out his age as an issue, though to be fair he's had the silver fox thing going on for twenty plus years so it's not like we have a golden haired Stewart dancing around Ten-Forward to mentally compare to, like. The weirdness of recasting TNG feels, in my o, on like orders of magnitude greater than the weirdness of recasting TOS but once again its more likely its because the TOS cast could really only wave their rockers or whatever in protest while the TNGers could still put up a good fight.

Oh goodness this should not have been about Star Trek I'm sorry I can only throw myself on the mercy of the courts don't take any of this seriously that is the worst thing you can do.