Star Trek: Time, money and a sense of humor does an idea good

I'd never understood the phenomenon. Stories of boys and girls glued to TVs to watch Cap. Kirk and his crew boldly going where no man has gone before. Pointy-eared first mates who subdued enemies by pinching nerves in their shoulders. Scotty beaming folks from point A to B. Hogwash! And that damn theme song. Jesum Petes! It got on my nerves. Gave me reason enough to make the trek across our living room to switch the channel. When I was a kid, watching the news or, lets say, blades of grass growing, was more interesting than watching any a new Star Trek movies or television show. Didn't matter if they added Kunta Kinte to the crew, Woopie Goldberg, or Iman in a major movie. Star Trek, in my estimation, was something I never ever wanted to experience. Ever. (I did, in the interim, see the In Living Color sketch with Jim Carrey. Seriously funny shit.)

Then I saw the trailer.

No cheese there. Familiar, somehow. Explosions like Star Wars. Action like Star Gate and Transformers. A killer cast that includes Zoe Saldana and Zachary Quinto (aka Syler).

The new Star Trek flick benefits from a big budget and the innovations of its successors. This time they got it right. This time they created assessable, entertaining fair. It was funny. It was dangerous. It was sexy in a way its predecessors were not.

The writers even paid homage to that In Living Color sketch. In one scene, Doc Whats-His-Face sounds just like Jim Carrey when he says: "Spock, are you out of your Volcan mind." Check out the scene BEFORE you see the movie (or right now if you've seen it already).