I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m going a little crazy right now.  I can’t wait until next week, when the new Star Trek movie opens.  I’ve been a Trek fan for forty years and I’m thrilled about the new film.  A new Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock?  Bring ‘em on!  After all this time, from the original series through the various big screen adventures of that same crew, they’re like family.  We’re not about television here at the Morlocks, but suffice it to say that Star Trek ran a meager three seasons — the first unusual and groundbreaking, the second colorful, exciting and near perfection, the third goofy, kind of slapdash, but sometimes charming — then went on to six movie versions, the first one ten years after the series left network TV in 1969.

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