Trekking Again

We have not been to space in too long, so here goes...after 40 years and various incarnations, such as The Original Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space 9, Voyager and a spate of movies, there is a new movie coming out that has created a bit of controversy before it even gets to the big screen. It is pretty well known that William Shatner (Capt.James T. Kirk) and Leonard Nimoy (Spock) have had a mostly friendly rivalry for 40 years concerning who should get top billing (which sort of reminds me of a certain Bible story :-). Now, the new movie is going to go back to before "where no man has gone before," in a sense, to a time prior to TOS Enterprise's first five year mission. It will include all of the main original characters -- Kirk, Spock, Scotty, McCoy, Sulu, Uhura, et. al. played by new younger actors. (Unfortunately James Doohan "the original Scotty" and DeForest Kelley "the original McCoy" have passed on). Back to the movie, the kicker is that Nimoy will make a cameo appearance, but not Shatner. This has, well...not set too well. Part of the problem lies with the fact that Kirk was killed off in the movie ST Generations; still, nothing has ever stopped them from bringing back characters before (see Spock in ST movies II and III). So, the story continues...it will be interesting if we will indeed see the good Captain again. Stay tuned.