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Amaris
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Hello everyone,
I wanted to talk about how everyone is feeling about this new movie.
I don't want any spoilers. Nothing beyond what we've seen in the trailers, please.
What I want to know is how you feel about this movie. Excitement? Curiosity? Eagerness? Impatience?
What drives you to see this movie? I'll start.
I have been a Star Trek fan since 1984. I was four years old. My mom was a casual fan, but she did hold a special place in her heart for Kirk, Spock and Bones. I started watching and she'd point out who was who, the big ship they were on, and who they were fighting ("those nasty Klingons! Ew!" she'd say). It began my love for Star Trek and while that love smoldered a bit in high school, it is powerfully strong today and grows stronger. Why? Star Trek XI.
Granted, I haven't seen it. I've seen a few short trailers and yet I am so filled with excitement and glee I can barely contain myself. I went out and bought three boxes of frosted mini wheats to get a couple of badges. I'm diabetic! Yet I had to have those badges, I had to hold them in my hands, and I had to see myself holding them. And it brought tears to my eyes, because it made me feel like a little kid again, running from the living room into the kitchen and yelling "Mommy! Mommy! Spock is on the TV! Hurry!" and she'd put the last dish in the rack and come into the living room and we'd watch Star Trek together, and I'd lay on my stomach, chin in my palms, and watch the adventures of the glorious Starship Enterprise and her intrepid crew.
Even now it brings tears as I type it, because I haven't felt this way in more than 25 years. I don't know why it affects me like it does, but it does, and regardless of the outcome of this movie, I have to thank whomever was in charge of advertising and publicity, for making me feel like a child again, waiting expectantly for that next episode.
I am so excited to see this movie, and the closer it gets, the more I feel like a kid again watching TOS with my mom, or a handful of years later, watching TNG in the kitchen at night, when I was supposed to be in bed asleep. I'd sneak up while they were in the living room, tiptoe into the kitchen, turn the volume almost all the way down, and watch it quiet as a mouse on a dinky little 5" black and white TV. I would later discover the joys of Deep Space 9, but it wouldn't come until years later, as I had entered high school, and wasn't as interested at the time.
However, now, I am excited, I am happy and I am waiting with expectation. Fittingly, my mom is going with me to see the new movie. I bought her an Original Series T-Shirt, as she represents the Old Guard, the Keepers of the Flame who loved it from the beginning and sparked an interest in her oldest son who would love it to this day.
So how does this movie make you feel? Please, share with me.
J.
I wanted to talk about how everyone is feeling about this new movie.
I don't want any spoilers. Nothing beyond what we've seen in the trailers, please.
What I want to know is how you feel about this movie. Excitement? Curiosity? Eagerness? Impatience?
What drives you to see this movie? I'll start.
I have been a Star Trek fan since 1984. I was four years old. My mom was a casual fan, but she did hold a special place in her heart for Kirk, Spock and Bones. I started watching and she'd point out who was who, the big ship they were on, and who they were fighting ("those nasty Klingons! Ew!" she'd say). It began my love for Star Trek and while that love smoldered a bit in high school, it is powerfully strong today and grows stronger. Why? Star Trek XI.
Granted, I haven't seen it. I've seen a few short trailers and yet I am so filled with excitement and glee I can barely contain myself. I went out and bought three boxes of frosted mini wheats to get a couple of badges. I'm diabetic! Yet I had to have those badges, I had to hold them in my hands, and I had to see myself holding them. And it brought tears to my eyes, because it made me feel like a little kid again, running from the living room into the kitchen and yelling "Mommy! Mommy! Spock is on the TV! Hurry!" and she'd put the last dish in the rack and come into the living room and we'd watch Star Trek together, and I'd lay on my stomach, chin in my palms, and watch the adventures of the glorious Starship Enterprise and her intrepid crew.
Even now it brings tears as I type it, because I haven't felt this way in more than 25 years. I don't know why it affects me like it does, but it does, and regardless of the outcome of this movie, I have to thank whomever was in charge of advertising and publicity, for making me feel like a child again, waiting expectantly for that next episode.
I am so excited to see this movie, and the closer it gets, the more I feel like a kid again watching TOS with my mom, or a handful of years later, watching TNG in the kitchen at night, when I was supposed to be in bed asleep. I'd sneak up while they were in the living room, tiptoe into the kitchen, turn the volume almost all the way down, and watch it quiet as a mouse on a dinky little 5" black and white TV. I would later discover the joys of Deep Space 9, but it wouldn't come until years later, as I had entered high school, and wasn't as interested at the time.
However, now, I am excited, I am happy and I am waiting with expectation. Fittingly, my mom is going with me to see the new movie. I bought her an Original Series T-Shirt, as she represents the Old Guard, the Keepers of the Flame who loved it from the beginning and sparked an interest in her oldest son who would love it to this day.
So how does this movie make you feel? Please, share with me.
J.
Gettin' old! 
" when i mention it.
