And yes, along with the still lovely Grace Lee Whitney ( Yeoman Rand ), I too still harbour an unrequited love for Anne Francis…

By the way, what did your wife think of your drooling at the time?

Yeah, whoever plays Captain Kirk ( IF that is going to be a character in the movie reboot…) should absolutely retain the original character and still have a glint in his eye for the ladies.

The original series was actually a very sexy show with crewmembers of BOTH sexes ogling at one another at various times. I say get rid of the later formal interaction and give us back the political incorrectness and fun of crewmembers eyeing each other up, down, and sideways once again. This movie should be about bringing the life and fun back of the classic series.

Let’s add more speculation.
There’s nothing out there to support this… just theorizing.
Just suppose that the studio likes the story-line well enough that they see the option of this being a 2 or 3 movie arc? Similar to “Pirates of the Caribbean” it could film all of them together, tie the cast’s contracts to do all the movies and make a grand sweeping 6 to 8 hour story line to be viewed over a 3 to 4 year period.
Let’s throw that ‘enterprise” out here and see what ya’ll think.

And regarding Shatner… Cameo or large part… at some point he needs to actually take a bow and hang up his space boots. Then he should pass the torch… before it’s too late. I’d rather his legacy was one that he played the part to the hilt and knew when it was time to let the next man become James T. Kirk.

My wife and I saw Forbidden Planet on the big screen last summer at Phoenixville, Pennsylvania’s annual “Blobfest”.

They projected Forbidden Planet, It Came from Outerspace (in 3D!!!), and The Blob (of course, with mandatory “flee the Colonial Theater” re-enactment”).

Let me tell you it was a fine looking film even as it was. Anne Francis… drool!

There is a part of me that wants J.J. Abrams to “re-boot” the entire Star Trek Universe and there is this part of me that won’t let go of forty years of history. There are times that i am amazed at how well that “universe’ holds together. Certainly. there are some inconsistencies, both glaring and subtle but overall, it is amazingly cohesive.

Then i think of all the story possibilties because one isn’t limited to KIrk did this or Janeway said that or Picard met so and so… well, you get the idea.

My feeling is… if Abrams had a really kick-ass story to tell… and that story had the potential to kick-start Trek for another forty years, I’d be happy to lose a place I’ve lived in for an hour or two a week.

Conversely, I’d be sad, too. Mainly ’cause the latter part of that second forty-year run, I’d be hittin’ that button to get the nurse in to give me a sponge bath. Christ, I hope the hospitals have better audio systems than they do now. I mean, by that time, what’s it gonna be Dolby 27.1 Surround?