My sister has seen the 9-minute excerpt of “Into Darkness” that was shown at the beginning of “The Hobbit” in IMAX theaters. From her husband’s Facebook post, he said he and the friend sitting next to my sister “could see the steam coming out of her ears”. My sister emphatically does NOT like the re-booted Trek. She says the old Trek “embodied the idea of what man was going to become”. She says this new version of Trek feels more like “bad boys in space with new toys”.
It could very well be that she’s a bit biased. At one point, she was “Captain” of the local Star Trek fan club chapter in our city. She’s three times the geek I am. I don’t believe she has any plans to see the next installment of the new Trek. I, on the other hand, intend to see it it within a week of its release. I LIKE the new Trek. I also like the old Trek in all its iterations (yes, even some of “Enterprise”).