Captain's Log Stardate 28th May 2009

I had the honor and the privilege of viewing the new Star Trek movie at the 'not so local but more comfortable' cinema near me, on opening night. I had planned to write a journal about it... but not today.

First let me take you back a while. About a year ago.

Whilst watching heroes my dad wandered past and casually caught a glimpse of me grinning at Sylar as he decapitated some bloke for whatever reason he was doing it, I'm not sure, I was too busy imagining what Sylar would look like naked. Zachary Quinto was eventually the only thing that kept me watching Heroes... because I'd totally lost the plot. It was like 'Lost' where not even Sawyer could keep me watching it.

"He's playing Spock in the new Star Trek." My dad casually trilled.

Now before that sentence I had completely forgotten Star trek existed, so why? May I ask? Did that one sentence make me squeal like a five year old girl and start jumping up and down?

You might think it was the idea of seeing the Quinto with pointy ears in tight starfleet uniform. NO.

It was because when my dad joined the two words Star and Trek together in a single sentence, it triggered ten years of repressed memories to come back into existence.

I realised that, throughout my whole childhood...I had been a Trekkie. I had been introduced at an early age, where Star Wars and Star Trek kinda mingled into one epic programme and I was always looking out for Chewie or Han in Trek uniforms. (Anyone else notice that both Chewie and Worf wore those metal belt strap things across their chest? Coincidence much?)

I remembered watching Wrath of Karn and not understanding one thing that was said or who anybody was...but it had spaceships and aliens and I liked the bright colours (then again, I thought much the same thing about Alien when I first saw that...the bright colours were probably blood splatters.)

I remembered all my favorite characters from Next Generation like Data and Troy (I thought she was the most beautiful woman ever and I wanted to grow up to be like her!) and Worf (Klingons were by far my favourite species) and I even remember having a crush on Wesley Crusher (he was so adorable)! I had a few Star Trek books bought for me, you know, the Star Trek encyclopedia and annuals and stuff and me and my mate next door (he had ALL the toys) drew fanart of it all the time! How could I have forgotten about it?

"Dad?! Why did I stop watching it?" I was so confused, if I loved it so much why did I quit?

"Oh I let you watch First Contact when it came out." He said casually as some other dude on Heroes got diced. "The Borg Queen freaked you out so much you stopped watching it after that...you know when she took her head off and her spinal column came ou-"


"EW EW Fucking Borg Queen I hate her!!!! EW!" *runs away and hides*


I've spent the last year getting back into it... rewatched Next Generation again and loved it, watched Voyager and didn't love it, watched Deep Space Nine and loved Odo and Quark... watched the original and laughed cos Family Guy was spot on with its Bill Shatner jokes, watched Nemesis and found Tom Hardy was a sexy beast...

...but I still won't watch First Contact.