New Trek trailer

I, like many peo­ple around the world, have now seen the trailer for J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek, which is sched­uled to be released in May 2009. Many peo­ple are up in arms about the trailer — the whole movie, in fact. That’s because it takes us back to the Original Series era with Kirk, Spock, McCoy and the gang. People are upset that J.J. Abrams is a pro­fessed Star Wars fan. People are upset because new actors have resumed the old roles. People are upset because William Shatner’s not mak­ing a cameo in the film. People are upset because the new Enterprise doesn’t appear to have enough space between the saucer sec­tion and the nacelles. Whatever.

Regardless of all that, the trailer is awe­some. You can read descrip­tions of it all over the Web. I’m not going to describe it for you. I’m sure you intre­pid souls who surf the wild ‘Net can find it on your own, or you can read a review of it. All I can say is that’s it’s got shades of Top Gun and other movies in it, and it just looks cool. There are some very large build­ings way off in the dis­tance behind Kirk as he rides along a rural high­way on his motor­bike that... intrigue me.