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For some time now Star Trek has been a ship lost at sea.  Fans have seen the franchise go from incredible heights in The Next Generation (TNG) and Deep Space Nine (DS9) to the gradual decline of Star Trek Voyager, to the missed opprotunity that was Star Trek: Enterprise.  It seemed that Star Trek: First Contact would keep the light alive, but the lackluster follow-up of Star Trek: Insurrection and the total disappointment of Star Trek: Nemesis looked like the end of Star Trek.  Indeed, at the end of Nemesis when Data dies in a sad, sad imitation of Spock’s much more meaningful death, I remember being more saddneed by what looked like the death of Star Trek as a whole than one iconic character.

Star Trek is like a phoenix, and its ashes are most certainly the dollars of longing fans, desperate to experience what Star Trek was again.  Hollywood knows this, and as long as fans are depserate enough to pay to see whatever has Star Trek plastered on it the franchise will survive.

Sadly, this phenomenom is not the ideal engine for creative vision.  Enter the pompously titled “Star Trek”.

Yep, that was Leonard Nemoy…what’s he doing there?  Good question.  The SciFi site IO9 has a scene-by-scene breakdown of the Star Trek trailer, if you’re interested in what the hell’s going on.

I found this trailer to be an ominous omen of what is to come for the Star Trek franchise.  The actors all look about right, but just about everything else looks wrong.  The Apple Store Enterprise Bridge, the goofy tentacle spaceships, and the Star Wars aliens all make me think that this, perhaps, will the the final nail.