The Future of Star Trek?

Will the next Star Trek movie breath new life into the series?

I love Star Trek, and when something you love is in dire straights you feel for it.

The venerable T.V./movie/video game/comic book/ collector card series is suffering from a distinct lack of creativity.

The announcement this week that Lost, and Alias creator, and Mission Impossible 3 director J.J. Abrams is taking the helm for the next Star Trek movie has many breathing a sigh of relief, but being the skeptic that I am I have to reserve judgment.

I am afraid that the next film, which is rumored to be a prequel in which Spock and Kirk first meet at Starfleet Academy, may turn out to be a much hyped nothing. My theory on Lost is that Mr. Abrams has no idea what to do next and is just stringing people along until viewers discover that the emperor has no clothes which deeply concerns me.

The various series have veered wildly from fantastic (Deep Space Nine), to absolutely horrible (Voyager), with the most recent series (Enterprise), being yanked just when it was getting really good and the movies run the gamit too (for my take on the various movies please see this weeks article).

The sad truth is that Abrams is, for the most part a trendy and untested commodity, I just hope that he can be the breath of fresh air that Star Trek needs.