Geekman's World: MAAAAAT DAAAMON

Ever since the middle of Voyager, Rick Berman and Brannon Braga have been trying to "fix" Star Trek: Make it hipper and more appealing to other audiences. Apparently they'd never heard of the phrase "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". Readers of Geekman's World are no stranger to my opinion that Enterprise singlehandedly ruined one of the biggest Sci-Fi franchises in history. I think most fans would agree that Trek needs some serious time to lie fallow and grow new grassroots fandom.

Instead, someone has chosen to haul the still fresh corpse out of the closet, slap a thin veneer of shiny new paint on it and try to whore it to audiences who just finished vomiting up their disgust for Enterprise. There's going to be another Star Trek movie. This will star a young Kirk and Spock just out of Starfleet Academy. James T. Kirk will be played by.... *sigh* Matt Damon.

Continually, I can't fathom why the people in control of Star Trek can't understand what they're doing wrong.

James T. Kirk: [stomping on Braga] I... have had... enough of you!
[Braga falls into the abyss]

email the good folks. tell them what appealed to you in the first place. It was the wonderful kookieness of the universe then. They took themselves far too seriously later.

I don't even particularly like Star Trek, and I still think that's fucking sacrilege. God. Matt Damon. What were they thinking?

The running gag on the Slashdot thread was that this almost certainly meant we'd see Ben Affleck playing the role of young Spock. After the initial vomiting, it was then considered that perhaps Affleck might make a good Vulcan, given his stymied, unemotional delivery.

ben won't be spock. they haven't done a movie together since DOGMA and that was kevin smiths idea, not theirs. there's the silver lining