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I will pause here for the howls of protest.

OK. Now, I say that not because I believe the film, as a piece of creative art, is bad. It’s still the night before, so how do I know? Instead, I say it because I’m dismayed that Star Trek reached that point in its existence where it had to do a “backwards reset.”

Star Trek has been rebooting and resetting itself for awhile now, if you think about it. Since the Original Series ended:

• The show restarted in an animated half-hour format, with the freedoms of animation and the constraints of shorter stories.
• It restarted again as a series of movies, with the changes both that come from going from TV to film, and with jumping ahead in the show’s internal timeline.
• It reinvented itself on TV as Star Trek: The Next Generation, with more leaping ahead in the universe’s internal history, and the changes in producing television that came along in twenty years.
• TNG made its own TV to movie leap.
• Deep Space Nine did Star Trek in an entirely new format from “voyages of the Enterprise“.
• Voyager…well, it had a new cast. And ship.
• Enterprise did the prequel thing (which isn’t a backwards reset, since it doesn’t reset the internal continuity/timeline of this fictional universe).

So, that’s a lot of reinvention (successful and not so much). But now, apparently, it’s time for a hard reset. A real reboot. For whatever reasons, there is no longer a will to keep moving forward with the internal continuity, or the creativity to bring a fresh means to doing that to TV or film, or both, or neither. Whatever.

So, we come back around to dislike. I dislike it because I don’t know if I’m ready to give it up and watch it all restart again. Sure, the “original” will probably carry on in novels and the like. But clearly, the existing shows will not be back on TV or film again. A chapter is closed. A new one is opening.

I bring an open mind, and a whole lot of hope.

Next time, let’s see where I stand after actually seeing the film.

I’m content to wait and see how he does onscreen, worries about whether Smith is too young for the part aside. I love Steven Moffat’s writing so hopefully it’ll all work out well. Otherwise everyone will say ‘Russell Davies left and the show went to hell,’ I suppose.

And now we can move on to playing ‘Who will be the New Companion?’ Or wondering when Smith plans to quit, since that always seems to be the thing people do when a new Doctor starts.

So after a visit to Simpsonize Me, presto:

• New icon
• New fuller-size image

I realize I’m probably a day late and a dollar short with Simpsonize Me, since it appears to be a creation/promotion for The Simpsons Movie. And the Burger King stuff is annoying. And that saving the images didn’t work on my Mac and made me boot up Windows was really annoying.

But I still liked the final result.

1. Take equal parts of honey and water. Heat them up a little bit on the stove so you get a thin honey syrup.

2. In a mug or a thick glass, put in:

   • ½ ounce (or maybe an ounce) of the honey syrup
   • ½ ounce of dark rum
   • ½ ounce of bourbon
   • ½ ounce of fresh lemon juice
   • top it off with 3 ounces of hot water out of the kettle
3. Stir those around a little bit.
4. Spritz a lemon slice as a garnish.

Miriam swears by it.

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