Kari and I went to see the new "Star Trek" movie this past week. Kari grew up watching the original TV show. I watched the first season or two several years ago, to see what all the fuss was about. I liked them, and can easily see why people (i.e. Trekkies, or Trekkers) are obsessed with the show.
Leonard Nimoy appears in this new movie, looking his age. At the end of the film, there's a shot of the USS Enterprise and he narrates the opening credits that were used in the original series. Here's a link to those credits: Star Trek 1966 opening .
After the movie, Kari was bummed out for awhile. She said she was really bothered by Nimoy's age and that it underscored for her the loss of her childhood. I haven't told her, and she wasn't aware of it at the time, but I had to hold back the tears when Nimoy's narration came on the screen. I felt the same way and may have been influenced by that rather sappy, but totally sad, Farrah Fawcett documentary the previous week. These things that were so much a part of my childhood, they're gone, or going, or being replaced by newer, younger models.
It's part of the cycle, but it still sucks.
I suppose every generation goes through this.
Posted by: The Village Carpenter | 22 May 2009 at 09:34 PM