Re: New STAR TREK 3
Wow... I just noticed having a release date fills me with mild dread rather than anticipation. The more I see about how this current version of the franchise (hate thinking of it in that term, too), the more I lament the fact that we'll likely never see what my headcanon wants -- three or four films building up to the never-before-seen first year of Kirk's command of Enterprise, Billy Piper as Elizabeth Dehner and Benedict Cumberbatch as Gary Mitchell, and maybe find someone with better eyes to play Kirk. Then, after we've had a whole film for them to get used to each other and learn how to work together, we do a revamped "WNMHGB" where Kirk has to kill his best friend after he develops scenery-chewing godlike powers (and maybe even work Q into it, as the books have).
We have a chance to retell some of the best stories from TOS with better production values and more time to devote to them, and also to the stories we've wanted to seen told but never have, and it's being blown on, of all things, an alternate universe of bad science, bad storytelling, unmotivated characters, and general flash-over-substance film-making as has become too commonplace these days.
--Jonah