Keith Palmer's Multi-Purpose Journal

My interest in Star Trek always seems to have been a dilettante's. I've seen the fourth through the eighth films at the movies and bits of all five series, but my greatest familiarity with the stories is only with "The Original Series" and The Next Generation, and that more or less through reading plot summaries. It may be, then, that the looking down on a "wheezing franchise" that seemed to start floating around here and there online in the latter part of the 1990s had a certain effect on me for once... but when the very first trailer for a "new beginning!" Star Trek movie came out, I was interested enough in it to go see Cloverfield, and the trailer seemed one of the best parts of the experience in retrospect.
( The funny thing, then... )