To Infinity... and Beyond

I've never been a Trekkie before. Even so, I've always known what stuff like "Live long and prosper," warp speed, the Vulcan mind-meld, the hand sign and dirty Klingon jokes meant. This is thanks in part to the divine JZ, who eats Star Trek for breakfast... and also because Star Trek is so much a part of our pop culture lexicon, everyone knows these things.

The generation I belong to thinks William Shatner is a rotund, singing carricature who moonlights in movies such as Miss Congeniality. The fact that he used to be a sexy space cowboy does not compute and is illogical.

Not after watching Star Trek. Those were clams well spent, indeed - spent most of it gripping the edge of my seat! I actually squealed when I recognized Eric Bana as the ruthless Romulan. And now I've developed a thing for Spock. Zachary Quinto's Spock, to be precise. At any rate, the whole 2 hours of my life was well spent indeedy and I would willingly shell out even more clams to watch the whole adventure again. Han Solo who? I'm on Team Spock!