Trek v. Wars

I will come right out and say that I have always been a Star Wars fan, from seeing it for the first time in a tiny theater in the Citadel Mall up until seeing the Clone Wars movie in the theater with my sons and wife. I love everything about the Star Wars universe, even though I don't read the novels. It's such a rich universe and the stories are so cool to me.

And I have engaged in a couple of Forum wars over Star Wars versus Star Trek. Always taking the side of Star Wars. I grew up watching the original Star Trek series, liked the first couple of movies. Read and reread the novelization of the original series episodes. And I watched the Next Generation regularly at first.

Then my interest waned, and I have not regained it. The only movie I have liked recently was the first Next Generation movie. Other than that I have had no interest. My friends tried to convince me to watch DS:9 and Voyager, but I never liked them much.

So recently I started following Wil Wheaton, both on his web site and his Twitter feed. And both are very cool. Pretty much off the charts cool as far as his willingness to embrace his geekiness, claiming to play miniature games, playing RPG's (real role playing, not computer games) etc.

And his complete embrace of the new Star Trek movie has me thinking it might be time to give it another shot. Wheaton can be pretty brutal about the Next Generation, and for him to give an unflinching endorsement forces me to consider seeing the movie myself. And if I see it with James I might have to consider introducing him to the rest of Star Trek (or not, that's a lot of Star Trek for me to handle, maybe way too much).