Dan and I were up with the birds this morning, on our way to play golf with Tom and Renee' Dobyns.  While neither of us burned up the course, Renee' had her best round to date and it was great fun to see her chip in on the 9th hole (if memory serves).

I had some great drives worth remembering, but my short game (other than the sand, where for some peculiar reason I did very well, very often) was off.  No worries.  I only got grumpy on the 17th hole where I put 3 balls in the water for my maximum 9x.  Grrr.  And I knew better, but chose the route to the green based on my imaginary game rather than the game I brought.

Dan and I had lunch at the club and then decided to sneak off and watch the new Star Trek movie.  Overall, (and forgive my fan-boy slavering) I loved it.  They did a great job with updating the franchise for a new generation while also giving us longtime Trekkies the nods we wanted (and deserve!).  The guys behind me said it was the best one yet.  Dan and I still vote for The Wrath of Khan as number 1.

It was more of an action film than a sci-fi film...and I did note, with a bit of sadness, that the original series' idealism and vision of the future as an adventure in discovery and peace (rather than mostly a battle) was missing from this more rough and tumble Star Trek world.  But Roddenberry was speaking to another generation at another time, with a medium that was high tech for the time but seems dated to this younger band of merry travellers.  I found the film riveting.  I will buy the DVD.  I'm glad I lived to see it, even, in a way that feels frankly spiritual to me.

And I am also nostalgic for the Original Trek sense of the world.  I know there are idealists out there in this new generation.  I'm related to quite a few of them.  I hope the future looks more like we projected in the 60's than the one we saw today...but that's going to be up to these new idealists.

OTOH, I love Aliens and Terminator...so I'm all for a good, well-developed action flick that respects the lore of the world it wants to inhabit.  Go see it if you like sci-fi, Trek in any form, or even if you just like Spock/Syler (from Heroes)/Zachary Quinto.

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