Star Trekking Across the Universe

Went to see Star Trek this weekend.  As one who in my youth had a Starfleet Academy bumper sticker placed prominently on my car, who read scores and scores of fan fiction, who dissed the Next Generation when it first came out but then grew to love it too, I must say I was delighted with the reboot of the characters and at the same time completely dismayed by the storyline (don't look if you haven't seen the movie yet!)

The neat thing about fiction is that it's fiction, and really can go where no one has gone before, especially science fiction, which places itself in the future where new realms of physics and mathematics are discovered and things which just seem like movie gimmicks can be explained by vague, complicated formulas.

I've had a few days to think about it and come out of my funk, and I've decided that this new frontier the Star Trek franchise has taken us on is a good thing.  It means we can have more Trek in the years to come, with better actors playing the same lovable characters, and maybe, newer, longer, more practical uniforms for the female crew members.  It could happen.  It's Star Trek.  Anything can happen in Star Trek.