My tv viewing and other anecdotal evidence led me to think that Star Wars was the favored brand for Gen X onward. After all, the last Trek tv show was kind of a fizzle, the last Trek movie wouldn’t even put the Enterprise in its poster. But yesterday I heard a boy and girl, both about 20, discussing the new Trek movie, and today I’ve seen a few posts about it popping up on blogs by people a lot younger than I am.
I suppose young people could prefer Star Wars but still take an interest in Star Trek. Anything is possible.
UPDATE: Looks like the new one’s getting good reviews. Yeah, Trek!
UPDATE 2: Ward Sutton has watched a lot of Star Trek.
UPDATE 3: Obama wants to see the movie. ( I hope Politico misquotes his reference to “lithium crystals.”) Nimoy talks about Obama and other topics.
UPDATE 4: I just took a look and confirmed it: the new movie’s name is simply Star Trek, as if it were named after the franchise. That seems kind of postmodern to me.
I could be wrong about this, but Star Wars seems to have lost some of its lustre after the somewhat-poorly-received prequels. Really, I think the brand young people are favoring here is JJ Abrams; people sure do seem to like Lost.
On a personal note, I’ve been kind of taken aback by my own nerdy pedantry, which results whenever I find myself almost inadvertently correcting my wife when she asks if I’m going to go see the new Star Wars movie.
What, she says Star Wars and you say, no, Star Trek? That’s not pedantic. It’s like North America and South America — there are some real differences involved.
Heard the young guns on the local sportstalk radio talking about Star Trek. But they were sure to delineate that they were going because of JJ Abrams and the “hot babes” in the cool trailer…Trying to disassociate selves from the nerdy old films. Of course, my concern is that it won’t be enough like said nerdy old films/TV shows.
Kate Beaton on same, sort of.