I really enjoy Star Trek, but I am by no means a Trekkie. I'd even hesitate to call myself a 'Star Trek fan' because that term seems to carry so much along with it, and I am sure most true fans would find me a disgrace to their kind.

That said, I am not too worried about this upcoming film. Back when Voyager had its finale, and Insurrection was the latest film, I feel ST had quite a bit of respectability left too it. Many people didn't like Voyager as a show nor Insurrection as a movie, but I still felt that it was a decently high point at the time. Then Enterprise and Nemesis came along. Enterprise was the ST equivalent of the SW prequels to me. Horrible show that reconned and destroyed so many things, while managing to suck and bore the crap out of anyone loyal enough to still be watching it after season one. Still can't believe they wasted a whole freaking season on the same stupid 9/11 based terror attack plot line.

Nemesis could have been a good movie... but it just wasn't... for soooo many reasons...

I really am not expecting anything worthwhile from this new movie and would actually rather be seeing a sequel to Nemesis, though I would not be expecting anything good from that either.

The people involved in this new movie have stated so many times that they are trying to reach out to a new audience and attract the average movie goer with no previous Star Trek experience. Oops. To me that spells trouble. Since Batman Begins and Casino Royal went over so well as reboots of their respective franchise, everyone has been trying the reboot, but they don't always work. I am afraid this new ST is not destined to be a Batman Begins, as I am pretty sure the makers are trying to make it to be. In the end I predict it will be a bit of a bastard child, with the true ST fans ignoring it for being crap that forsakes fans and caters to a new audience, and I think it will be ignored by the new audience, the average movie goer, simply because it is Star Trek.