"In The Beginning...."

A guest post from my cousin The Journalist:

"OK, by now we've all heard about Matt Damon, Adrian Brody and Gary Sinise possiby being

cast as the big 3 in "Star Trek XI." It sounds like it might be pretty cool, but I'll believe it when I

see Matt Damon on Jay Leno talking about how he's playing Jim Kirk. Frankly this sounds like

something a bunch of Trek geeks - like us, let's face it - would come up with while we're sitting

around thinking, hmmm...who would WE cast as Kirk, Spock & McCoy?That being said, if it

actually happens....This talk among fans about possible damage to continuity and canon has got

to stop. We've got to let it go. Yes, like many fans, I would love to see the movie include

characters like Gary Mitchell, Carol Marcus, Finnegan & Ruth, Sam & Aurelyn Kirk, etc. But

these are pipe dreams on our part. There's no way these people who are new to the franchise

like J.J. Abrams are going to care about continuity and canon. Even longtime Trek heads who

ran "Star Trek Enterprise" made blatant cointiuity errors. For crying out loud, "Voyager" would
flat out contradict things that were going on in "Deep Space Nine" WHEN THE TWO SHOWS

WERE ON THE AIR AT THE SAME TIME! We just need to accept that this new movie will be a
new take on the franchise, and hope it's a good story, and not worry about whether it "fits in"

with what we know from past incarnations of Trek. It will make it much more enjoyable, and

that's the point, right?

Just my two cents..."