Star Trek review

         



        I'm very glad we've been able to watch Star Trek this semester, it changed my mind over the series! I think I was biased prior to watching the movie, due to the fact that I've always been (and always will be) a Star Wars fan (only for its first 6 movies and Clone Wars TV series). For some reason when I was young, I thought that Star Trek was boring and just about politics, oh boy, I was wrong. Look, even if the movie is a cheesy one at best (with a normal plot and not the greatest acting), when doing research about its origins and creation, I was taken aback by how fascinating and influential these series were and are in today's date, especially on the cultural and societal aspect around the world, and how illustrative was the showcasing of an optimistic diversity, followed by tolerance, and of course: technology! I was amazed to discover that most engineers and space operators at NASA were inspired by series, thus influencing their career paths! No wonder why NASA had a space orbiter named the Enterprise, just like the USS Enterprise! I can't imagine the sheer joy in their faces when naming a couple of their asteroids after the series' characters. Regardless, the fact that the great Isaac Asimov collaborated with the series due to being fascinated by the technology displayed on set is a great feat, and a great interesting fact I found when doing my research for the class's presentation. Lastly, Nichelle Nichols stole my heart in terms of what her contributions were to society in times of oppression, discrimination and segregation. The anecdote of having Martin Luther King Jr. as a "Trekkie" is an achievement itself, especially when it was thanks to his insistence that she had become a pioneer for an entire race who was represented by her at the time! She had also become a pioneer in getting a lot of African American women to space! And let's not forget, she also had one of the first interracial kisses on-screen, where NBC was worried about the South's reaction, thus having to change the scene during postproduction to appease the racist public!

        Something I looked forward to after our professor's brief explanation on what the series consisted of being (in terms of tolerance, human condition, space exploration, etc.) and how the series had become most of the origins of our modern technology, I was shocked. When learning about the communicators, replicators, PADDs, universal translators, etc, I was like: no way, of course Star Trek is always acclaimed no matter where I go. When I saw the warp drive and how it inspired hyperspace in Star Wars, I knew that Star Trek was a universe I needed to be acquainted with since the start. The exploration of space, colonialism, and the prime directive concept, really gives a lot of room to think about nearby future, especially when seeing the rapid process of our "conquest" of Mars. Hopefully we learn how to coexist between each other first before having to coexist with aliens...

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