Star Trek

The Old and The New

Once again we've begun the season of the Summer Blockbusters when Hollywood traditionally releases it's best films; so once again I brave the gaunlet of incredulous comments from the cinema's gate-keepers. "Yes, I do know where the screen is"; "Yes, I do want that seat"; "Yes I do know that it's two rows from the screen"



So off I went to watch the new re-imagining of Star Trek, where the baddie, Nero slips back in time to prevent his home world of Romulus from getting blown up; here he meets the young team of Kirk, Spock, "Bones" McCoy, Scotty and Ohura who are of course there to stop him from destroying all the Federation home worlds.

This of course causes a split in the Space Time Continuium, and history from this moment on is on a different path thus enabling the Rodenberry family to further cash in on the franchise by producing more films based on this new time line. Clever that. An interesting aside is the blossoming romance between Spock and the bodylicious Ohura. Look out for that in the next few films. (What is the Universe coming to!!?!)

Anyway, back to the film. As one would expect for a modern, big budget film, the special effects are extremely good, lots of whizz bangs and explosions. Also watch out for the kick arse warp-speed effect.

A typical feel-good Star Trek movie. Once again allowing us to venture into plots where no Trekies have gone before.

Blake's Seven

Recently I've managed to download the first 2 seasons of the British Sci-Fi TV series Blake's Seven.
Like every British Sci-Fi TV series of the late seventies and early eighties, the effects are so bad that they are wonderful.

Below is a little ditty as tribute to Britian's answer to Star Trek.



Blake's Seven
Where in heaven
Did you find that, you freak
Once again you've proved that you're a geek!!!